Bucia gens

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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.

Undated Bucii

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
  • Aulus Bucius Lappius Maximus,[i] 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.[1][2][3][4][5]
  • Lucius Bucius Proculus, duumvir at Ostia in Latium in AD 32. Publius Manlius Bassus was his colleague.[6]
  • 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.[7]
  • 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.[8]
  • 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.[9]
  • Lucius Bucius Antiochus, named in an inscription from Ostia, along with Gaius Pomentinus Felix and the freedwoman Julia Apollonia.[10]
  • 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.[11]
  • Publius Bucius Celer, buried at Utica in Africa, aged seventy-one years, six months, and twenty-two days.[12][13]
  • Bucia C. f. Extricata, buried at Uchi Maius in Africa, aged seventy-five.[14]
  • Bucia Saturnina, dedicated a tomb at Lambaesis in Numidia for her husband, Quintus Sabinius Ingenuus, aged seventy-five.[15]
  • Marcus Bucius Victor Silicianus, built a tomb at Avedda in Africa for his wife, Albia Aurelia Fortunata, aged twenty-four.[16][17]

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