Denarius of Publius Sepullius Macer, 44 BC, with the head of
Julius Caesar on the obverse and
Venus on the reverse. The legend on the obverse refers to Caesar's title of Dictator perpetuo.[1]
The gens Sepullia was a minor
plebeian family at
ancient Rome. Hardly any members of this
gens are mentioned in ancient writers, of whom the most famous was Sepullius Bassus, a
rhetorician known to
Seneca the Elder.[2]
Origin
The nomen Sepullius belongs to a class of
gentilicia apparently formed from
cognomina ending in the diminutive suffix -ulus.[3] In this case, the nomen would have derived from Sepulus or a similar name, presumably a diminutive of the old Latin
praenomenSeptimus, originally given to a seventh son or seventh child, or Seppius, its
Oscan equivalent. Sepullius would thus be derived from the same root as the more common Septimius.[4]
The Sepullii were perhaps from
Patavium in
Venetia and Histria, as several of the inscriptions bearing this name are from that area.[5]
Members
This list includes abbreviated
praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see
filiation.
Marcus Sepullius, one of the municipal officials at
Pompeii in
Campania in 46 BC.[6]
Publius Sepullius Macer, a
moneyer in 44 BC, the year of
Caesar's assassination, depicted
the great comet of that year upon his coins, along with the wreathed head of Caesar, and the goddess
Venus, from whom the
Julii claimed descent.[7][8][9][10]
Gaius Sepullius C. l. Abdaeus, a freedman buried at Rome in the late first century BC, or early first century AD.[11]
Sepullius Bassus, an
orator mentioned in several passages of
Seneca's Controversiae.[12][8]
Robert A. Gurval, "Caesar's Comet: the Politics and Poetics of an Augustan Myth", in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, vol. 42, pp. 39–71 (1997).
Denarius of Publius Sepullius Macer, 44 BC, with the head of
Julius Caesar on the obverse and
Venus on the reverse. The legend on the obverse refers to Caesar's title of Dictator perpetuo.[1]
The gens Sepullia was a minor
plebeian family at
ancient Rome. Hardly any members of this
gens are mentioned in ancient writers, of whom the most famous was Sepullius Bassus, a
rhetorician known to
Seneca the Elder.[2]
Origin
The nomen Sepullius belongs to a class of
gentilicia apparently formed from
cognomina ending in the diminutive suffix -ulus.[3] In this case, the nomen would have derived from Sepulus or a similar name, presumably a diminutive of the old Latin
praenomenSeptimus, originally given to a seventh son or seventh child, or Seppius, its
Oscan equivalent. Sepullius would thus be derived from the same root as the more common Septimius.[4]
The Sepullii were perhaps from
Patavium in
Venetia and Histria, as several of the inscriptions bearing this name are from that area.[5]
Members
This list includes abbreviated
praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see
filiation.
Marcus Sepullius, one of the municipal officials at
Pompeii in
Campania in 46 BC.[6]
Publius Sepullius Macer, a
moneyer in 44 BC, the year of
Caesar's assassination, depicted
the great comet of that year upon his coins, along with the wreathed head of Caesar, and the goddess
Venus, from whom the
Julii claimed descent.[7][8][9][10]
Gaius Sepullius C. l. Abdaeus, a freedman buried at Rome in the late first century BC, or early first century AD.[11]
Sepullius Bassus, an
orator mentioned in several passages of
Seneca's Controversiae.[12][8]
Robert A. Gurval, "Caesar's Comet: the Politics and Poetics of an Augustan Myth", in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, vol. 42, pp. 39–71 (1997).