Lollia gens

The Lollii appear to have been either of SamniteorSabine origin, for a Samnite of this name is mentioned in the war with Pyrrhus and Marcus Lollius Palicanus, who was tribune of the plebs in 71 BC, is described as a native of Picenum.^[1]

The praenomina used by the Lollii included Quintus, Marcus, Lucius and Gnaeus.^[1]

The only cognomen of the Lollii in the time of the Republic was Palicanus, but others appear under the Empire.^[1]

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

• Lollius, a Samnite hostage during the war with Pyrrhus, afterward headed a band of outlaws.^[2][3]
• Quintus Lollius, an elderly equesinSicilia, mistreated during the administration of Verres, from 73 to 71 BC.^[4]
• Marcus Lollius Q. f., appeared on behalf of his father at the trial of Verres.^[4]
• Quintus Lollius Q. f., murdered while traveling to Sicilia in order to gather evidence against Verres.^[4]
• Lucius Lollius, a legateofGnaeus Pompeius during the Mithridatic War.^[5]
• Gnaeus Lollius, triumvir nocturnus, condemned together with his colleagues, for arriving too late to extinguish a fire in the Via Sacra.^[6]
• Marcus Lollius Palicanus, tribune of the plebs in 71 BC, was a prominent reformer, and an opponent of tyranny and the abuse of power. He was a supporter of Pompeius, as well as the victims of Verres. He had reached the Praetorship in 69 BC, but was foiled of the consulship by Gaius Piso.^[7]
• Lollia, the wife of Aulus Gabinius, and mother of Aulus Gabinius Sisenna. She may have been a daughter of the tribune Palicanus. She was mistress of Caesar.^[8]
• Marcus Lollius, father of the consul of 21 BC.
• Marcus Lollius M. f., was consul in 21 BC, and guardian of Gaius Julius Caesar, one the grandsons of Augustus.^[9]
• Lollius M. f. M. n, a Roman soldier who served in Hispania against the Cantabri.^[10]
• Marcus Lollius M. f. M. n., son of the consul of 21 BC.^[11]
• Lollius Bassus, a native of Smyrna and the author of ten epigrams in the Greek Anthology, the last of which, on the death of Germanicus, places it about AD 19.^[12][13]
• Lollia M. f. M. n. Saturnina, the wife of Decimus Valerius Asiaticus, and a mistress of Caligula. She became the mother of Marcus Lollius Paulinus Decimus Valerius Asiaticus Saturninus, consul suffectus in AD 93.^[1]
• Lollia M. f. M. n. Paulina, the wife of Publius Memmius Regulus, and later of Caligula, whom she married in AD 38.
• Quintus Lollius Alcamenes, decurio and duumvir of an unknown municipium.^[14]
• Marcus Lollius Senecio, a probable Numidian landowner and father of Quintus Lollius Urbicus.^[15]
• Quintus Lollius Urbicus, appointed governor of BritanniabyAntoninus Pius in AD 138.
• Marcus Lollius Alexander, an engraver of gems, and husband of Flavia Sabina, built a sepulchre at Rome for himself and his family.^[16]

• List of Roman gentes

  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)