Otacilia (gens)

Origin

Praenomina

Branches and cognomina

Members

• Numerius Otacilius Maleventanus, a wealthy native of Maleventum in the first half of the 5th century BC.
• Otacilia N. f., married Quintus Fabius Vibulanus.
• Gnaeus Otacilius Naso, recommended by Cicero to the notice and favor of Manius Acilius Glabro in 46 BC.
• Lucius Otacilius Pilitus, a freedman, who opened a school at Rome, where he taught rhetoric, in 81 BC. Amongst his pupils was Gnaeus Pompeius, and Otacilius wrote a history of his pupil, and of his father, Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo.
• Marcus Otacilius Catulus, consul suffectus in AD 88.
• Severus or Severianus, the father-in-law or brother-in-law of Marcus Julius Philippus, emperor from AD 244 to 249, by whom Severus was appointed Governor of Mesopotamia and Moesia.
• Marcia Otacilia Severa, wife of Marcus Julius Philippus, and Roman empress from AD 244 to 249.

  Otacilii Crassi

• Manius Otacilius Crassus, grandfather of the consuls of 263 and 261 BC.
• Gaius Otacilius M'. f. Crassus, father of the consuls of 263 and 261 BC.
• Manius Otacilius C. f. M'. n. Crassus, consul in 263 BC, during the First Punic War. He crossed into Sicily with a large army, and concluded a peace with Syracuse. He was consul a second time in 246.
• Titus Otacilius C. f. M'. n. Crassus, consul in 261 BC, continued the war against the Carthaginians in Sicily.
• Titus Otacilius Crassus, praetor in 217 and 214 BC.
• Otacilia, condemned in a judgment of the jurist Gaius Aquillius Gallus, who was praetor in 67 BC. She may have been the wife of Marcus Juventius Laterensis; the phrase ab Otacilia Laterensi occurs in Valerius Maximus.
• Otacilius Crassus, an officer in the army of Gnaeus Pompeius, he had the command of Lissus in Macedonia. He massacred two hundred and twenty of Caesar's soldiers, who had surrendered to him on the promise that they should be uninjured. Shortly afterward, he abandoned Lissus, and joined the main body of Pompeius' army.