Caedicia (gens)

Origin

Praenomina

Branches and cognomina

Members

• Lucius Caedicius, tribune of the plebs in 475 BC, charged Spurius Servilius Priscus Structus, the consul of the previous year, with mishandling the war against the Veientes, who had occupied the Janiculum. Servilius defended himself ably, and was acquitted.
• Marcus Caedicius, a commander of the Roman army after the Gallic sack of Rome in 390 BC, urged the senate to grant Marcus Furius Camillus the command against the Gauls.
• Gaius Caedicius, a legates of the consul Lucius Papirius Cursor in 293 BC. He led the cavalry in an important battle against the Samnites.
• Quintus Caedicius, father of Quintus Caedicius Noctua, the consul of 289 BC.
• Quintus Caedicius Q. f. Noctua, consul in 289 BC. He was censor in 283, but resigned, perhaps due to the death of his colleague, whose name has not been preserved.
• Quintus Caedicius Q. f. Q. n., consul in 256 BC, during the First Punic War. He died in his year of office, and was succeeded by Marcus Atilius Regulus, who won an important naval victory.