Gegania (gens)

Origin

Praenomina

Branches and cognomina

Members

• Gegania, one of the first Vestal Virgins, selected by Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome.
• Gegania, according to one tradition, the wife of Servius Tullius, the sixth King of Rome. Dionysius makes Gegania the wife of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, the fifth king of Rome. However, according to most traditions, Tarquin's wife, Tanaquil, survived him and ensured the succession of Servius Tullius.
• Gegania, the mother of Pinarius, lived during the time of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh and last king of Rome; her quarrel with her daughter-in-law Thalaea was cited by Plutarch as a rare example of domestic disharmony at early Rome.
• Titus Geganius Macerinus, consul in 492 BC, faced a severe famine, which was blamed on the first secession of the plebeians. He dispatched his brother, Lucius, to Sicily in order to acquire grain.
• Lucius Geganius Macerinus, brother of Titus Geganius Macerinus, the consul of 492 BC, sent to Sicily in hopes of obtaining grain.
• Marcus Geganius M. f. Macerinus, consul in 447, 443, and 437 BC, and censor in 435. During his second consulship, he defeated the Volscians, and was awarded a triumph.
• Proculus Geganius Macerinus, consul in 440 BC.
• Lucius Geganius Macerinus, consular tribune in 378 BC.
• Marcus Geganius Macerinus, consular tribune in 367 BC, the year that the lex Licinia Sextia was passed into law, admitting plebeians to the consulship, and abolishing the consular tribunate.
• Lucius Geganius, together with Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, was killed in the unrest instigated by Lucius Appuleius Saturninus in 100 BC.