Precia gens

Praenomina

Members

• Precia, the mistress of Publius Cornelius Cethegus. Lucius Licinius Lucullus used her influence to obtain a command in the Third Mithridatic War.
• Lucius Precius, an eques and merchant at Panormus during the governorship of Verres in Sicily. He may be the same Precius who left some property to Cicero.
• Precius, named Cicero as one of his heirs.
• Precianus, one of the Precii who was adopted into another gens, was a jurist, and friend of Cicero and his protégé, Gaius Trebatius Testa. He was known and respected by Caesar.
• Quintus Precius, the father of Quintus Precius Proculus, named in an inscription from Septempeda in Picenum.
• Precius Cadus, named in an inscription from Aquileia in Venetia and Histria.
• Gaius Precius Felix Neapolitanus, named in an inscription from Pola in Venetia and Histria, dating from the proconsular command of Sextus Palpellius Hister, the consul of AD 43.
• Quintus Precius Q. f. Q. n. Hermes, the son of Quintus Precius Proculus and Graecina Paetina, named in an inscription from Ostra in Umbria.
• Quintus Precius Q. f. Proculus, a municipal official at Ostra in Umbria, was the husband of Graecina Paetina, for whom he built a tomb in Ostra, and the father of Quintus Precius Hermes.
• Precia Veneria, the wife of Valerius Zoticus and mother of Valeria Vitalis, whom Precia and Zoticus buried at Rome, aged seventeen years, nine months, and eighteen days.