Manius Rabuleius
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Manius Rabuleius was an Ancient Roman
politician and a member of the second decemvirate in 450 BC.
Dionysius
calls him a patrician, whereas he speaks of C. Rabuleius
as a plebeian. As no other persons of this name are mentioned by ancient writers, we have no means for determining whether the gens
was patrician or plebeian.
Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
politician and a member of the second decemvirate in 450 BC.
Dionysius
Dionysius
The Graeco-Roman name Dionysius, deriving from the name of the Thracian god Dionysus, was exceedingly common, and many ancient people, famous and otherwise, bore it. It remains a common name today in the form Dennis . The modern Greek form of the name is Dionysios or Dionysis. The Spanish form of...
calls him a patrician, whereas he speaks of C. Rabuleius
C. Rabuleius
C. Rabuleius was an Ancient Roman tribune of the plebs in 486 BC. He attempted to mediate between the consuls in their disputes about the agrarian law proposed by the consul Spurius Cassius Viscellinus in that year....
as a plebeian. As no other persons of this name are mentioned by ancient writers, we have no means for determining whether 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...
was patrician or plebeian.