The gens Vetilia, also written Vecilia, was a minor plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens never attained much importance in the Roman state. ^[1]

Contents

• Origin
• Members
• See also
• References
• Bibliography

Origin

The Vetilii were probably of Etruscan origin, their nomen being Latinised from the Etruscan Vetlnei. ^[2]

Members

• Gaius Vetilius, praetor in 147 BC, was sent to Hispania, where after initial successes against the Lusitanians, he was defeated by Viriathus near Tribola, and slain. ^{[3] [4] [5]}
• Vetilius, a leno, or pandar, to whom a certain Juventius left a legacy. The praetor Quintus Metellus refused Vetilius' claim for the property on account of his unsavoury occupation. ^[6]
• Publius Vetilius, described by Cicero as a relative of Sextus Aebutius, was one of the witnesses in the trial of Aulus Caecina Severus. ^{[7] [8]}

See also

• List of Roman gentes

References

Bibliography

• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Caecina .
• Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac Dictorum Memorabilium (Memorable Facts and Sayings).
• Appianus Alexandrinus (Appian), Hispanica (The Spanish Wars).
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
• August Pauly, Georg Wissowa, et alii, Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Scientific Encyclopedia of the Knowledge of Classical Antiquities, abbreviated RE or PW), J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart (1894–1980).