75:. He said that he was sprung from the plebs, although he and several generations of his descendants held the consulship at a time when, according to the historians of the late Republic, it was open only to the patricians. This suggests that the Menenii had recently been made patricians, probably during the reign of one of the later
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Lucius
Menenius L. l. Stabilio, a freedman buried at Rome, along with several others, including the freedmen Lucius Menenius Antiochus and Lucius Menenius Demetrius.
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Lucius
Menenius Ɔ. l. Demetrius, a freedman buried at Rome, along with several others, including the freedmen Lucius Menenius Antiochus and Lucius Menenius Stabilio.
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Lucius
Menenius L. l. Antiochus, a freedman buried at Rome, along with several others, including the freedmen Lucius Menenius Demetrius and Lucius Menenius Stabilio.
994:
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Menenia Urbica, buried at Rome, aged thirty years, eight months, and twenty-two days, in a tomb built by her husband, Marcus
Aurelius Eutyches.
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Menenius Rufus, buried at Rome, was perhaps related to
Publius Clodius Rufus, named immediately before him in the same inscription.
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adjective, meaning "wooly", and perhaps originally referred to a person with particularly fine, curly, or abundant hair.
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Aulus
Menenius Hippolytus, dedicated a tomb at Rome for his wife, Nymphidia Margaris. The inscription may be a forgery.
47:
eventually drifted into obscurity, although a few
Menenii are still attested in the epigraphy of the late Republic and
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Titus
Menenius T. f. Agripp. n. Lanatus, father of Licinus Menenius Lanatus, the consular tribune of 387 BC.
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Agrippa
Menenius Agripp. f. C. n. Lanatus, father of Titus Menenius Lanatus, the consul of 452 BC.
990:(The Study of Etruscan and other Ancient Italian Languages), Stamperia Pagliarini, Rome (1789).
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in many families. For this reason, later sources erroneously refer to members of this gens as
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says this was his second consulship, which would make him identical to the consul of 452.
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Livy and
Cassiodorus give him the praenomen Lucius. Diodorus names him Titus, and the
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to the first half of the fourth century BC. The first of the family to obtain the
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Gaius Menenius Lanatus, father of Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, the consul of 503 BC.
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at Rome during the consulship of Rufinus and Quadratus, AD 142. He served in a
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in 493 BC, Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, the former consul, was despatched by the
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in 43 BC, but rescued from death by the self-devotion of one of his slaves.
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134:, the praenomen of one of the Menenii, was likewise a rare name, meaning
151:, which was probably derived from it, although perhaps connected to the
350:, according to an inscription from the first half of the third century.
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Lucius Menenius T. f. Agripp. n. Lanatus, possibly consul in 440 BC.
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George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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associated with the Menenii of the early Republic is
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264:Agrippa Menenius T. f. Agripp. n. Lanatus
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238:Titus Menenius Agripp. f. C. n. Lanatus
87:The Menenii are known to have used the
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1043:Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
1054:The Magistrates of the Roman Republic
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296:Gaius Menenius C. f., one of several
1056:. American Philological Association.
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277:Licinus Menenius T. f. T. n. Lanatus
192:. This surname is derived from the
23:was an ancient and very illustrious
707:Diodorus Siculus, xii. 37, xiii. 7.
548:Dionysius, v. 44–47, vi. 49–89, 96.
334:Menenius Adjutor, a soldier in the
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41:Agrippa Menenius Lanatus
1050:Broughton, T. Robert S.
952:Appianus Alexandrinus (
521:Lanzi, vol. II, p. 389.
180:Branches and cognomina
67:as an emissary to the
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557:Zonaras, vii. 13, 14.
539:Livy, ii. 16, 32, 33.
336:Legio XXII Primigenia
308:, dating from 100 BC.
246:Battle of the Cremera
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257:, consul in 452 BC.
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302:Samothrace
208:praenomina
113:gens Furia
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327:led by a
284:triumvirs
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148:Licinius
140:cognomen
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1009:et alii
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369:Numidia
325:century
317:Etruria
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200:Members
190:Lanatus
160:Licinus
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118:Agrippa
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440:Lucius
291:Others
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