The gens Auria was a Roman family at Larinum in southern Italy, known chiefly from Cicero's oration, Pro Cluentio.Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Cluentio.Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
Praenomina The Aurii are known to have used the praenomina Marcus, Numerius, Aulus, and Gaius.Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
Branches and cognomina of the gens The only cognomen associated with this family is Melinus.Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
Members of the gens
Marcus Aurius, taken prisoner at the Battle of Asculum during the Social War, in 89 B.C., and subsequently murdered by Statius Albius Oppianicus.Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Cluentio, 7, 8. Numerius Aurius, predeceased his brother, Marcus.Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Cluentio, 7. Auria, wife of Gaius Albius Oppianicus, murdered, together with her husband, by his brother, Statius.Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Cluentio, 11. Aulus Aurius Melinus, threatened to prosecute Oppianicus, but later proscribed and put to death by him.Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Cluentio, 5, 8, 9, 26. Gaius Aurius A. f., proscribed and put to death by Oppianicus.Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Cluentio, 8. Auria A. f., daughter-in-law of Oppianicus.Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Cluentio, 32.
See also List of Roman gentes
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