Numitorius
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Numitorium Proper-name adjective: neuter vocative singular, Proper-name adjective: masculine genitive plural, Proper-name adjective: masculine accusative singular, Proper-name adjective: neuter genitive plural, Proper-name adjective: neuter nominative singular, Proper-name adjective: neuter accusative singular of Numitorius
- the name of a Roman gens.
- 1 C. Numitorious, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 63, § 163.—
- 2 L. Numitorius, a tribune of the people, Liv. 2, 58.—
- 3 P. Numitorius, Liv. 3, 45; 54.—
- 4 Q. Numitorius Pullus, a leader of Fragellae in the contest of that city with the Romans, Cic. Inv. 2, 34, 105; id. Fin. 5, 22, 62.—His daughter was named Numitoria, Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 17.
1. L. Numtorius, is mentioned as one of the five tribunes who were first elected in the comitia tributa, B. C. 472 ( Liv. 2.58).
2. P. Numitorius, the maternal uncle of Virginia, attempted to resist the iniquitous sentence of the decemvir App. Claudius, and was elected tribune of the plebs upon the expulsion of the decemvir, B. C. 449. In his tribunate he accused Sp. Oppins, one of the late deceivirs. (Liv. 3.45, 54 Dionys. A. R. 11.28, 38, 46.)
3. Numitorius Puillus, of Fregellae, betrayed his native town to the Roman praetor L. Opimius, B. C. 125, when it rose in revolt to obtain the Roman franchise. The town was taken and destroyed by Opimius (Cic. de Invent. 2.34; comp. Cic. de Leg. Agr. 2.33; Liv. Epit. 60; Vell. 2.6). The daughter of this Numitorius married M. Antonius Creticus. [Numitoria, No. 2.]
4. C. Numitorius, was a distinguished man of the aristocratical party, who was put to death by Marius and Cinia, when they entered Rome at the close of B. C. 88. His body was afterwards dragged through the forum by the executioner's hook. (Appian, App. BC 1.72; Flor. 3.21.14.)
5. C. Numitorius, a Roman eques, who was a witness against Verres. (Cic. Ver. 5.63.)