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The gens Sempronia was one of the most ancient and noble houses of ancient Rome. Although the oldest branch of this gens was patrician , with Aulus Sempronius Atratinus obtaining the consulship in 497 BC, the thirteenth year of the Republic , but from the time of the Samnite Wars onward, most if not all of the Sempronii appearing in history ...
The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. It was an important social and legal structure in early Roman history. [1] [2] The distinguishing characteristic of a gens was the nomen gentilicium, or gentile name.
Sempronia was an Ancient Roman woman of the late Republic who was the wife of Decimus Junius Brutus, the consul of 77 B.C. and step-mother of his son Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus who became one of Julius Caesar's assassins.
Sempronius belonged to the patrician branch of the Sempronia gens. He was the son of Lucius Sempronius Atratinus, consul in 444 BC and one of the first censors of the Republic. Gaius Sempronius Atratinus, consul in 423 BC and a contemporary relative was probably a cousin (son of Aulus Sempronius Atratinus) or a younger brother. [2]
Sempronius belonged to the patrician Sempronia gens and the branch known as the Sempronii Atratini, one of the republic's oldest consular families, having reached the consulship in 497 BC. He is the first known Gaius among the Sempronia, but the praenomen would become increasingly common within the gens during the 3rd and 2nd century BC.
Tuditanus, descended from a prominent branch of the plebeian gens Sempronia, may have been a nephew or cousin of the censor Marcus Sempronius Tuditanus who had been consul in 240 BC with Gaius Claudius Centho and censor in 230 BC with Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus). His own father's name was Gaius according to lists of Roman consuls.
Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus was a member of the plebeian gens Sempronia.His father had the same name and was senator and in 146 BC member of a commission of ten men who had to reorganize the political conditions in Greece. [1]
Tiberius was of plebeian status and was a member of the well-connected gens Sempronia, a family of ancient Rome. [6] Tiberius may be the same person as the homonymous augur who served from 204 to 174 BC; [7] his grandfather, or possibly father, was the man of the same name who was consul in 215 and 213 BC.