The gens Tutilia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. No members of this gens came to prominence until imperial times, but two of them attained the consulship under the Antonines.PIR, vol. III, pp. 346, 347 (T, Nos. 316–321a).
Origin The nomen Tutilius belongs to a large class of gentilicia originally formed from cognomina ending in the diminutive suffix . The root of the name may be either the Latin tutus, "safe", or perhaps the Oscan touto, a people.Chase, pp. 122, 123. The name may also be connected with that of the Roman goddess Tutilina.Cèbe, Varron, Satires Ménippées, vol. 6 (1983), p. 1011.
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Tutilius, an orator, and the father-in-law of Quintilian. He was respected as a scholar of rhetoric, but nothing of his work has survived.Pliny, Epistulae, vi. 32.Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, iii. 1. § 21.Martial, Epigrams, v. 56.William Smith, "Tutilius", in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 1194.PIR, vol. III, p. 346 (T, No. 316). Tutilia, the wife of Quintilian. Lucius Tutilius Lupercus Sulpicius Avitus, a relative of the consul Lupercus Pontianus, named on a sepulchral inscription from Falerii in Etruria, dating from the latter half of the first century..PIR, vol. III, p. 346 (T, No. 319). Lucius Tutilius Lupercus Pontianus, consul in AD 135, with Publius Calpurnius Atilianus., , ..PIR, vol. III, p. 346 (T, No. 318). Tutilius Pontianus, either the elder brother or the father of Tutilius Lupercus.PIR, vol. III, p. 346 (T, No. 320). Tutilius Lupercus, either the younger brother or son of Tutilius Pontianus.PIR, vol. III, p. 346 (T, No. 317). Lucius Tutilius Pontianus Gentianus, although guilty of adultery with the empress Faustina, his career was nonetheless advanced by Marcus Aurelius. He was consul suffectus under Commodus, early in AD 183..Capitolinus, "The Life of Marcus Aurelius", 29.Lampridius, "The Life of Commodus", 8.PIR, vol. III, pp. 346, 347 (T, No. 321). Tutilia L. f. Procula, probably a noblewoman, named on lead pipes from Rome., .PIR, vol. III, p. 347 (T, No. 321a).
See also List of Roman gentes
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Bibliography Ancient sources Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian), Institutio Oratoria (Institutes of Oratory). Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial), Epigrammata (Epigrams). Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger), Epistulae (Letters). Aelius Lampridius, Aelius Spartianus, Flavius Vopiscus, Julius Capitolinus, Trebellius Pollio, and Vulcatius Gallicanus, Historia Augusta (Lives of the Emperors).
Modern sources Jean-Pierre Cèbe, Varron, Satires Ménippées (Varro's Menippean Satires), École Française de Rome, (1972–1999). George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII, pp. 103–184 (1897). 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). Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR), Berlin (1898).