The gens Caerellia was a minor plebeian family during the late Roman Republic and in imperial times. Few members of this gens occur in history. Caerellia was a learned and wealthy friend of Cicero.Leonhard Schmitz, "Caerellia", in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, pp. 535, 536. Various Caerellii are known from epigraphy, including Caerellius Priscus, governor of Roman Britain in the late second century.
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Caerellia, a wealthy contemporary of Cicero, whose philosophical writings she studied, and with whom she became intimately acquainted. Quintus Fufius Calenus accused them of having carried on an affair.Cicero, Ad Familiares, xiii. 72; Ad Atticum, xii. 51, xiii. 21, 22, xiv. 19, xv. 1, 26.Cassius Dio, Roman History, xlvi. 18.Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, vi. 3. § 112. Caerellius Priscus, governor of various provinces, including Britain, was consul suffectus around AD 172. Gaius Caerellius Sabinus, legate of the Legio XIII Gemina, according to an inscription from Apulum in Dacia, dating between AD 183 and 185..
See also List of Roman gentes
References
Bibliography Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, Epistulae ad Familiares. Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian), Institutio Oratoria (Institutes of Oratory). Lucius Cassius Dio, Roman History. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849). Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).