The gens Bucia was an obscure plebeian family of ancient Rome. The only member of this gens to achieve prominence was Aulus Bucius Lappius Maximus, who held the consulship twice under the emperor Domitian. Several others are known from inscriptions.
Members
Aulus Bucius Lappius Maximus, consul from September to December in AD 86, and a second time from May to August 95. He was governor of Bithynia and Pontus, Germania Inferior, and Syria.Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, x. 58.Aurelius Victor, Epitome de Caesaribus, xi. 10..Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", pp. 307 ff., 314, 316–319.Gallivan, "The Fasti for A.D. 70–96", pp. 190, 192, 216, 218. Lucius Bucius Proculus, duumvir at Ostia in Latium in AD 32. Publius Manlius Bassus was his colleague.Fasti Ostienses, , . Bucia, buried in a second-century tomb at Gens Bacchuiana in Africa, aged twenty-seven years, nine months, along with her mother, Aeburia Matidia Victoris.Antiquités Africaines, 2022–65. Aulus Bucius Aptus, dedicated a second-century tomb at Rome for his verna, or home-born slave Selene, aged four years, three months, and fifteen days.Thomasson, "Iscrizioni del Sepolcreto di via Ostiense", 129. Bucia Tyche, buried at Rome, in a tomb built by her husband, Lucius Paccius Amarantus, ostensibly dating between the second half of the second century, and the early part of the third. The inscription is thought to be modern..
Undated Bucii Lucius Bucius Antiochus, named in an inscription from Ostia, along with Gaius Pomentinus Felix and the freedwoman Julia Apollonia.. Bucia Calvina, dedicated a tomb at Salernum in Campania for her husband, Servius Julius Vitellius, a cornicularius, or bugler, in the Legio VII Claudia, aged sixty-seven years, eleven months, and eleven days. The inscription is thought to be modern.. Publius Bucius Celer, buried at Utica in Africa, aged seventy-one years, six months, and twenty-two days.Inscriptiones Africae Latinae, 430, 1.BCTH, 1917–238. Bucia C. f. Extricata, buried at Uchi Maius in Africa, aged seventy-five.. Bucia Saturnina, dedicated a tomb at Lambaesis in Numidia for her husband, Quintus Sabinius Ingenuus, aged seventy-five.. Marcus Bucius Victor Silicianus, built a tomb at Avedda in Africa for his wife, Albia Aurelia Fortunata, aged twenty-four.Inscriptions Latines de La Tunisie, i. 1. 1213a.BCTH, 1932/33–499.
See also List of Roman gentes
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References
Bibliography Ancient sources Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger), Epistulae (Letters). Sextus Aurelius Victor (attributed), Epitome de Caesaribus.
Modern sources Antiquités Africaines, CNRS Éditions, Paris (1967–present). Bulletin Archéologique du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (Archaeological Bulletin of the Committee on Historic and Scientific Works, abbreviated BCTH), Imprimerie Nationale, Paris (1885–1973). René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present). Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139" (Annual and Provincial Fasti of the Senatorial Goverors from AD 69/70 to 138/139), in Chiron, vol. 12 (1982). Paul A. Gallivan, "The Fasti for A.D. 70–96", in Classical Quarterly, vol. 31, pp. 186–220 (1981). Alfred Merlin, Inscriptions Latines de La Tunisie (Latin Inscriptions from Tunisia), Fondation Dourlans, Paris (1944). Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present). Bengt E. Thomasson, "Iscrizioni del Sepolcreto di via Ostiense" (Inscriptions from Selpulchres of the Via Ostiensis), in Opuscula Romana, vol. I (1954), pp. 125–145. Gustav Wilmanns, Inscriptiones Africae Latinae (Latin Inscriptions from Africa), Georg Reimer, Berlin (1881).