Sepullia gens


The gens Sepullia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Hardly any members of this gens are mentioned in ancient writers, of whom the most famous was Sepullius Bassus, a rhetorician known to Seneca the Elder.

Origin

The nomen Sepullius belongs to a class of gentilicia apparently formed from cognomina ending in the diminutive suffix . In this case, the nomen would have derived from Sepulus or a similar name, presumably a diminutive of the old Latin praenomen Septimus, originally given to a seventh son or seventh child, or Seppius, its Oscan equivalent. Sepullius would thus be derived from the same root as the more common Septimius.

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