Balbus, literally "stammer

Stammer

A stammer, or stammering, is a speech disorder typified by the involuntary repetition of a sound or sounds.Stammer, Stammers and Stammmering may also refer to:* Notker of St Gall "Notker the Stammerer" * Steven Stamkos A stammer, or stammering, is a speech disorder typified by the involuntary ...

er", was a cognomen

Cognomen

The cognomen nōmen "name") was the third name of a citizen of Ancient Rome, under Roman naming conventions. The cognomen started as a nickname, but lost that purpose when it became hereditary. Hereditary cognomina were used to augment the second name in order to identify a particular branch within...

 of several ancient Roman gentes

Gens

In ancient Rome, a gens , plural gentes, referred to a family, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a stirps . The gens was an important social structure at Rome and throughout Italy during the...

.

Of the Acilii Balbi

Balbi

Balbi may refer to:* Mount BalbiPeople of the Acilii Balbi* Giovanni Babli , Italian lexicographer* Francisco Balbi di Correggio , Italian arquebusier...

, one Manius Acilius Balbus was consul in 150 BC

150 BC

Year 150 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Flamininus and Balbus...

, another in 114

114 BC

Year 114 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Balbus and Cato...

. To another family belonged T. Ampius Balbus, a supporter of Pompey

Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey or Pompey the Great , was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic...

, but afterwards pardoned by Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

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 (cf. Cic.

Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...

 ad Fam. vi. 12 and xiii. 70). We know also of Q. Antonius Balbus, praetor

Praetor

Praetor was a title granted by the government of Ancient Rome to men acting in one of two official capacities: the commander of an army, usually in the field, or the named commander before mustering the army; and an elected magistratus assigned varied duties...

 in Sicily

Sicily

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 in 82 BC

82 BC

Year 82 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marius and Carbo...

, and Marcus Atius Balbus, who married Julia, a sister of Caesar, and had a daughter Atia

Atia

Atia Balba Caesonia , sometimes referred to as Atia Balba Secunda to differentiate her from her two sisters, was a Roman noblewoman...

, mother of Augustus

Augustus

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.

The most important of the name were the two Cornelii Balbi, natives of Gades (Cádiz

Cádiz

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):

• Lucius Cornelius Balbus (major)
• Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor)
  Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor)
  Lucius Cornelius Balbus , received Roman citizenship at the same time as his uncle....
  
  

Others with the cognomen include:

• Marcus Atius Balbus (105 BC-51 BC)
• Decius Laelius Balbus (c. 6 BC)
• Gaius Norbanus
  Gaius Norbanus
  Gaius Norbanus surnamed Bulbus was a Roman politician.In 103 BC, when tribune of the people, he accused Quintus Servilius Caepio the Elder of having brought about the defeat of his army by the Cimbri through rashness, and also of having plundered the temple of Tolosa...
  
   Balbus (died c. 81 BC), Roman consul
• Quintus Bruttius Balbus, of the gens
  Gens
  In ancient Rome, a gens , plural gentes, referred to a family, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a stirps . The gens was an important social structure at Rome and throughout Italy during the...
  
   Bruttia
• Manius Acilius Balbus, of the gens Acilia