Icilia (gens)

Branches and cognomina

Members

• Spurius Icilius, one of the plebeian envoys sent to negotiate with the Senate during the first secession of the plebeians, in 494 BC. He was elected tribune of the plebs for BC 493, plebeian aedile the following year, was probably tribune again in 481, and a third time in 470.
• Gaius Icilius Ruga, one of the first plebeian tribunes, in 493 BC.
• Lucius Icilius S. f., tribune of the plebs in 456 and 455, carried a law assigning the Aventine Hill to the plebeians, and attempted to pass an agrarian law, which was blocked. In 449, he played a key role in the deposition of the decemvirs, and was again elected tribune of the plebs.
• Icilius S. f., brother of the tribune of 456, informed Lucius Verginius of the plot against his daughter during the second decemvirate, BC 449.
• Lucius Icilius, tribune of the plebs in 412 BC. He was probably one of three brothers who held the tribuneship in 409, when his college succeeded in winning the election of the first plebeian quaestors.
• Icilius, one of three brothers who served as tribune of the plebs in BC 409.
• Icilius, last of the three brothers who were tribunes of the people in 409 BC.