Rupilia gens

Praenomina

Branches and cognomina

Members

• Publius Rupilius P. f. P. n., a fierce opponent of the Gracchi, became consul in 132 BC, the year after the murder of Tiberius Gracchus, whose followers he persecuted. He brought the First Servile War to a close, then remained in Sicily to reorganize the province, receiving a triumph on his return. He was prosecuted and condemned during the tribunate of Gaius Gracchus in 123, and died soon afterward.
• Lucius Rupilius P. f. P. n., brother of Publius Rupilius, the consul, sought the aid of Scipio Aemilianus to obtain the consulship, but was not elected.
• Lucius Rupilius, an actor known to the young Cicero.
• Aulus Rupilius, a physician employed by Aulus Cluentius Habitus, whose mother, Sassia, bought a slave, Strato, from Rupilius, and had him tortured in the hope of obtaining evidence against her own son. The slave knew nothing of value, and Sassia's scheme came to naught.
• Publius Rupilius, a man of equestrian rank, was magister of the publicani of Bithynia.
• Gaius Rupilius, an argentarius, or silversmith, named in an inscription.
• Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius M. f. M. n. Frugi Bonus, consul suffectus, serving from May to August in AD 88. He was the great-grandfather of Marcus Aurelius. His descent from the Rupilii is unclear.
• Rupilia L. f. M. n. Faustina, the grandmother of Marcus Aurelius, married Marcus Annius Verus.
• Lucius Rupilius Appianus, one of the septemviri epulones at Brixia in Venetia and Histria.
• Decimus Rupilius Severus, legate in Lycia and Pamphylia in AD 151, perhaps the same Severus who was consul suffectus at the end of 155.
• Lucius Rupilius Au, legate of Sextius Lateranus, proconsul of Africa in AD 176.