Caerellia gens

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.^[1] Various Caerellii are known from epigraphy, including Caerellius Priscus, governor of Roman Britain in the late second century.

Members

• 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.^[2][3][4][1]
• 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.^[5]

See also

• List of Roman gentes