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Potitii in this cult was superior to that of the Pinarii, who were excluded from partaking of the entrails of the sacrifice, supposedly because they had arrived late to the sacrificial banquet given by Hercules. The two families are said to have carried out their religious
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or other important
Potitii are mentioned in surviving records, this has led some historians to suspect that they were not in fact a distinct gens, but instead a branch of another patrician family that became extinct around the period of the Samnite Wars, such as the
66:, and was received by the families of the Potitii and the Pinarii. He instructed them in a form of worship by which they honoured him for generations. The priesthood of this cult was carried out exclusively by members of these two families, as a
50:, and for a catastrophic plague that was said to have killed all of its members within a single month, at the end of the fourth century BC. However, a few Potitii of later times are known from literary sources and inscriptions.
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For their impiety, Hercules sent a plague that carried off the entire gens in the span of thirty days; twelve families and thirty grown men perished, and
Claudius himself was struck blind, which is how he obtained his
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102:, attempted to persuade the Potitii and the Pinarii to instruct the public slaves in these rites. The Pinarii refused, but the Potitii accepted Claudius' offer of 50,000 pounds of copper.
382:. The C. D. Yonge translation (1903) calls him "Publius Potitius"; the William Peterson Edition (Latin, 1916) gives his name as "Publius Titius", but notes the other possible readings.
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162:. However, the ancient historians unanimously describe the Potitii as a gens. There are also a few indications that some Potitii survived the destruction of the gens.
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Potitius
Romulus, an artisan and silversmith buried at Lugdunum, aged twenty years, five months, with a monument dedicated by his wife, Martinia Lea.
130:. There is some uncertainty as to the chronology of this legend; Claudius could hardly have been blinded during his censorship, as he went on to be
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855:(History of the Roman State from the Founding of the City to the Death of Caesar), Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, Halle (1840).
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in 292 and 285. Niebuhr suggests that the
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Potitius, one of the guardians of the son of Publius Junius, custodian of the temple of
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Potitius Bulicus, husband of Potitia Secundina and father of Potitia Paterna, buried at
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suggests that the worship overseen by these families was originally introduced to Italy by the
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Seia
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could be appointed for a foreign god, it was necessary to entrust the rites to slaves.
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Geschichte der Römischen
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obligations for centuries, as hereditary priests of Hercules, until the period of the
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Potitia Secundina, wife of Lucius Potitius Bulicus and mother of Potitia Paterna.
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Potitia L. f. Paterna, daughter of Lucius Potitius Bulicus and Potitia Secundina.
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rank, erected a monument to his mother, Seia Potitia Consortiana, at
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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in 307, and again in 296 BC, and was then nominated
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300:Roscius Potitius Memmianus, a man of
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433:Dionysius, i. 38–40.
322:List of Roman gentes
275:Africa Proconsularis
27:Ancient Roman family
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277:, aged eighty-five.
242:Venetia and Histria
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543:Macrobius, iii. 6.
442:Macrobius, iii. 6.
286:Gallia Narbonensis
264:Gallia Lugdunensis
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495:Göttling,
390:References
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302:senatorial
210:praenomina
100:censorship
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552:Hartung,
530:Servius,
499:, p. 178.
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333:Footnotes
214:filiation
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