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The gens Caecilia was a plebeian [i] family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are mentioned in history as early as the fifth century BC, but the first of the Caecilii who obtained the consulship was Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter , in 284 BC.
Caecilia Metella was daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer and Clodia. She was an infamous woman in Rome during the late Republic and a celebrity of sorts. She was an infamous woman in Rome during the late Republic and a celebrity of sorts.
Saint Cecilia (Latin: Sancta Caecilia), also spelled Cecelia, was a Roman Christian virgin martyr, who is venerated in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. [2]
Caecilia Metella was the daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus, consul in 123 BC. [2] [3] She was possibly married to Appius Claudius Pulcher, a politician of an old, somewhat impoverished, patrician family. As a member of an important family and married into another, Metella would be one of Rome's most esteemed matronas.
The name has been popularly used in Europe (particularly the United Kingdom and Italy, where in 2018 it was the 43rd most popular name for girls born that year), and the United States, where it has ranked among the top 500 names for girls for more than 100 years.
Marcus married Caecilia Metella, the daughter of Metellus Creticus. Her tomb commemorates their marriage. Her tomb commemorates their marriage. Their son, the Marcus Licinius Crassus who was consul in 30 BC , seemed in his ambition and ability to have resembled his uncle Publius more than his father, in the reckoning made of the evidence by ...
In Roman mythology, ... Caeculus was claimed as the eponymous ancestor of the Roman gens Caecilia, [2] [9] and also perhaps by the lesser known gens Caesia. [10]
Pomponia Caecilia Attica, usually called Caecilia Attica (born 51 BC), was the daughter of Titus Pomponius Atticus, the first wife of general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and mother of Vipsania Agrippina.