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The gens Accia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome during the late Republic. The gens is known primarily from two individuals, Lucius Accius, a tragic poet of the second century BC, and Titus Accius, best known for his prosecution of Aulus Cluentius Habitus in Cicero's oration Pro Cluentio. Other Accii are known from inscriptions.

Origin
The most famous members of this gens, Lucius and Titus Accius, were from the town of Pisaurum, although it is not known whether or how they were related. Pisaurum was founded as a Roman colonia in the Ager Gallicus in 184 BC. This region had been settled by the Senones during the fourth century BC, and was later divided between Umbria and Cisalpine Gaul, with Pisaurum being included in Umbria. Pisaurum itself is not mentioned as a city prior to its establishment as a Roman colony. Its earliest inhabitants were Romans, but early sources describe the natives of this area as Picentes, among whom there were probably also Umbrians, Etruscans, and Gauls. A large number of Accii are known from inscriptions of central Italy, from Umbria to Samnium, and adjoining regions, so nothing definite can be said of their ethnicity. ==Praenomina==
Praenomina
Most of the Accii bore very common praenomina, including Gaius, Lucius, Marcus, Titus, Publius, and Quintus. There are individual instances of Gnaeus, Numerius, and Spurius. ==Members==
Members
Lucius Accius, also found as Attius, was one of the earliest tragic poets at Rome. He was the son of a freedman, and modeled most of his tragedies on Aeschylus and other Greek examples, but he also wrote Praetextata, works on Roman subjects, an Annales, or history of Rome in verse, and some prose works, including a history of poetry. He was greatly admired for his language, but only fragments of his works are preserved. • Titus Accius, an eques from Pisaurum, who in 66 BC undertook the prosecution of Aulus Cluentius Habitus for the alleged murder of his stepfather, Statius Albius Oppianicus. Cluentius was famously defended by Cicero in his oration Pro Cluentio. Accius had studied rhetoric under Hermagoras, and Cicero praises him for his careful and deliberate style and command of Latin. Accii from inscriptions • Accia C. l., a freedwoman named in an inscription from Rome. • Accius, named in an inscription from Praeneste in Latium, dating between AD 14 and 16. • Accius, buried at Venusia in Samnium. • Accius Amoenitae l., a freedman buried at the present site of Segoyuela de los Cornejos, near Salmantica in Hispania Citerior, aged eighty. • Gaius Accius, the former master of Accius Antiochus and Accia, according to an inscription from Rome. • Lucius Accius, the father of Lucius Accius Calvius. • Marcus Accius, the father of Lucius Accius of Aquileia. • Marcus Accius C. f., buried at Reate in Samnium, probably the former master of Gaius Accius Dio. • Marcus Accius M. f., one of the quattuorviri jure dicundo at Volcei in Lucania, according to an inscription dating from the mid-first century BC. • Marcus Accius M. f., named in an inscription from Hatria in Venetia and Histria. • Numerius Accius, the former master of Numerius Accius Philonicus. • Spurius Accius, the father of Gaius Accius Tiro. • Quintus Accius P. f. Q. n. Aco(?) Auditus, named in an inscription from Hatria. • Accia Amabilis, named in a funerary inscription from Salona in Dalmatia. • Accius C. l. Antiochus, a freedman named in an inscription from Rome. • Lucius Accius Augurinus, a soldier buried at Rome. • Lucius Accius Caeno, buried at the present site of Hinojosa de Duero, formerly part of Lusitania, aged fifty. • Lucius Accius L. f. Calvius, buried at Altinum in Venetia and Histria. • Titus Accius T. l. Cerealis, a freedman named in a funerary inscription from Corfinium in Samnium. • Gaius Accius C. M. l. Dio, a freedman buried at Reate. • Gaius Accius C. f. Faber, named in an inscription from Hatria. • Marcus Accius Felix, one of the vigiles at Rome, named in an inscription dating to about AD 210. • Marcus Accius Florus, buried at Gades in Hispania Baetica, aged seventy-five, together with Accia Stratonice. • Accius Granius, died six days before the Kalends of September in AD 409, and buried at Altava in Mauretania Caesariensis, aged seventy-five. • Gaius Accius Hedychrus, made a libationary offering to Mithras at Emerita Augusta in Lusitania. • Accia Hel[...], named in a funerary inscription found at Campodipietra in Samnium. • Lucius Accius Lemnus, made an offering at Narbo in Gallia Narbonensis. • Gnaeus Accius Mahes, named in a dedicatory inscription from Rome. • Accius Marcianus, died eleven days before the Kalends of November in AD 444, and buried at Altava, aged fifty-two. • Titus Accius Marcus, buried at Virunum in Noricum with his wife, Saturnina, and son, Accius Maximus. • Lucius Accius Mascel, buried at Cirta in Numidia, aged fifty. • Quintus Accius Q. f. Masculus, buried at Corduba in Hispania Baetica. • Accius Maximus, Decurion of the colonia at Aquincum in Pannonia Inferior. • Accius T. f. Maximus, son of Titus Accius Marcus and Saturnina, buried with his parents at Virunum, aged twenty-two. He was a soldier in the Second Legion. • Accia Nais, a freedwoman, named in a funerary inscription from Corfinium. • Marcus Accius M. l. Primus, a vestiarius, or clothier, buried at Narbo. • Lucius Accius Reburrus Ter(mestinus?), buried at Salmantica in Lusitania, aged sixteen. • Quintus Accius Rogatianus Caecilianus, sacerdos maximus, a high-ranking priest, named in an inscription found at Choud el-Batel, formerly part of Africa Proconsularis, dating to the reign of Marcus Julius Philippus. • Gaius Accius P. f. Ruficanus, a veteran of the twelfth cohort of the Praetorian Guard at Rome. • Titus Accius T. l. Salvus, a freedman, son of Titus Accius Tiro and Accia Thabis, who dedicated a monument to him at Corfinium. • Titus Accius T. f. Secundus, named in a libationary inscription from Axima in the province of Alpes Poeninae. • Titus Accius Severus, gave a libationary offering to Jupiter Optimus Maximus, according to an inscription found at Krapina in Croatia. • Titus Accius T. l. Simplicius, a freedman named in a funerary inscription from Corfinium. • Accia Stratonice, buried at Gades, aged sixty-five, together with Marcus Accius Florus. • Gaius Accius Tertius, dedicated a monument to his brother, Gaius Julius Donatus, who was buried at Altava, aged about twenty. • Accia T. l. Thabis, a freedwoman, was the wife of Titus Accius Tiro and mother of Titus Accius Salvus. • Titus Accius T. l. Tiro, a freedman, was the husband of Accia Thabis, and father of Titus Accius Salvus. • Lucius Accius Vitalis, made an offering at Madaurus in Africa Proconsularis. • Titus Accius T. l. Vitalis, a freedman, and one of the seviri at Corfinium. ==See also==
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