Lollia

1. The wife of A. Gabinius, debauched by Caesar (Suet. Cues. 50), was probably a daughter of M. Lollius Palicanus, tribune of the plebs B. C. 71. She may be the same as the Lollia whom Cicero (Cic. Fam. 9.22.4) speaks of as a woman of bad character.

2. Lollia Paullina, the granddaughter of M. Lollius [Lollius No. 5], and heiress of his immense wealth, the spoil of the provinces. (Plin. Nat. 9.35. s. 58.) Pliny describes the jewels which she wore in her hair, round her neck, arms and fingers, as worth forty millions of sesterces. She was married to C. Memmius Regulus; but on the report of her grandmother's beauty, the emperor Caligula sent for her, divorced her from her husband, and married her, but soon divorced her again. (Suet. Calig. 25; D. C. 59.12.) After Claudius had put to death his wife Messalina, Lollia was one of the candidates for the vacancy ; but her more successful rival, Agrippina, easily obtained from Claudius a sentence of banishment against her, and then sent a tribune to murder her. (Tac. Ann. 12.1; Suet. Cl. 26; Dion Cass. 60.32.) A sepulchre to her honour was not erected till the reign of the emperor Nero. (Tac. Ann. 14.12.) [W.I]

plebeian, which does not occur in Roman history till the last century of the republic. It would appear to have been either of Samnite or Sabine origin, for a Samnite of this name is mentioned in the war with Pyrrhus [Lollius, No. 1]; and M. Lollius Palicanus, who was tribune of the plebs B. C. 71, is described as a native of Picenum. [Palicanus.] The first member of the gens who obtained the consulship was M. Lollius, B. C. 21. The only cognomen of the Lollii in the time of the republic was Palicanus ; but under the empire we find a few more, which are given below under Lollius.