Cossutia gens

The gens Cossutia was a plebeian family of equestrian rank at ancient Rome. It never attained any importance.^[1]

Origin

It is conjectured by some from Cicero's mention of the Cossutianae tabulae, near Caesena, in Gallia Cisalpina, that the Cossutii originally came from that place.^[1][2]

Branches and cognomina

On coins of this gens, we find the cognomens Maridianus and Sabula, but none occur in history.^[1]

Members

• Decimus Cossutius, a Roman architect, rebuilt the temple of the Olympian Zeus at Athens, in the most magnificent Corinthian style, in 168 BC.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}
• Marcus Cossutius, an eques, and a man of the greatest respectability and integrity, who lived in Sicily during the administration of Verres, and defended Xeno before the latter.^[9]
• Cossutia, fiancée and perhaps the first wife of Caesar, belonged to a very wealthy equestrian family. She was betrothed to him by his parents, while he was very young, but was rejected by him in his seventeenth year, that he might marry Cornelia.^[10]
• Gaius Cossutius Maridianus, triumvir monetalis under Caesar in 44 BC.^[11]

See also

• List of Roman gentes
• Cossutianus Capito

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
2. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, xvi. 27.
3. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Praef., vii.
4. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, xli. 20.
5. Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Compendium of Roman History, i. 10.
6. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, v. p. 594, a.
7. Strabo, Geographica, ix. p. 396.
8. Gaius Plinius Secundus, Historia Naturalis, xxxvi. 5.
9. Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Verrem, iii. 22, 80.
10. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum, Caesar, 1.
11. Sear, David R. (1998). The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators 49-27 BC. Spink. p. 76. ISBN 9780907605980.