Attia gens

The gens Attia was a plebeian family at Rome, which may be identical with the gens Atia, also sometimes spelled with a double t. This gens is known primarily from two individuals: Publius Attius Atimetus, a physician to Augustus, and another physician of the same name, who probably lived later during the first century AD, and may have been a son of the first.^[1] A member of this family rose to the consulship in the early second century, but his career is known entirely from inscriptions.

Members

• Publius Attius Atimetus, physician to Augustus, perhaps the same person as the freedman of the physician Cassius, who lived in the time of Scribonius Largus, physician to Claudius, and who was quoted by Galen, who gives his name as Atimetrus.^[2]
• Publius Attius Atimetus, another physician, probably later during the first century AD.^[3][4]
• Publius Attius Varus, governor of Africa and supporter of Pompey, active during Caesar's civil war.^[5]
• Attius Labeo, a Roman poet who translated the works of Homer. His translation has been lost.^[6]
• Lucius Attius Macro, consul suffectus from the Kalends of September to the end of the year in AD 134. He had previously served as praetor, legate of the first legion at Brigetio, and the seventh legion in Hispania Tarraconensis, and was governor of Pannonia Inferior from 130 to 134.^{[7][8][9][10]}
• Sextus Attius Suburanus, consul suffectus in AD 101, consul in 104.^[11][12]

See also

• Atia (gens)
• List of Roman gentes