Early Laelii • Gaius Laelius, grandfather of Gaius Laelius, consul in 190 BC. • Gaius Laelius C. f., the father of Gaius Laelius, consul in 190 BC. •
Gaius Laelius C. f. C. n., consul in 190 BC, was a friend of the elder
Scipio Africanus, to whom he acted as
legate throughout the
Second Punic War. After his consulship, he helped colonize the territory of the
Boii. He was appointed to several other commissions and embassies through 170. •
Gaius Laelius C. f. C. n. Sapiens, consul in BC 140, and a close friend of the younger Scipio Africanus. He initially favoured agrarian reform, but after meeting resistance abandoned the effort, and opposed the efforts of the Gracchi, leading his aristocratic contemporaries to call him
Sapiens, "the wise". He was erudite and refined, but a less persuasive speaker than some of his contemporaries. • Laelia C. f. C. n. Major, married Quintus Mucius Scaevola, the augur. Laelia was renowned for her graceful and eloquent speech, dignified and sincere, upon which
Cicero remarked, and which she passed down to her daughters, as well as her son-in-law, the orator
Lucius Licinius Crassus. • Laelia C. f. C. n. Minor, married
Gaius Fannius Strabo.
Laelii Balbi • Decimus Laelius, one of
Pompey's lieutenants during the
Sertorian War, who was slain in battle against
Lucius Hirtuleius near the town of Lauro in 76 BC. •
Decimus Laelius D. f., impeached Lucius Valerius Flaccus for
repetundae in his administration of
Asia, BC 59. During the
Civil War, Laelius was a loyal commander and emissary in the Pompeian forces. • Decimus Laelius D. f. D. n. Balbus, quaestor
pro praetore in Africa in 42 BC, took his own life following the defeat of Quintus Cornificius by Titus Sextius, who had been nominated proconsul by the
triumvirs. •
Decimus Laelius D. f. D. n. Balbus, one of the quindecimvirs who oversaw the
ludi saeculares in 17 BC; he was consul in 6 BC. •
Decimus Laelius D. f. D. n. Balbus, a
delator during the reign of
Tiberius, accused Acutia, formerly the wife of
Publius Vitellius, of
majestas; she was condemned, but the
tribune of the plebs Junius Otho prevented Balbus from receiving a reward. Shortly thereafter, Balbus was himself condemned and banished, as one of the lovers of
Albucilla. He seems to have been rehabilitated, as he was consul
suffectus in 46. • Laelia D. f. D. n., a
Vestal Virgin who died in AD 64, was the daughter of Balbus, the consul of 46.
Others • Decimus Laelius, mentioned in the Gracchan period, perhaps an ancestor of the Laelii Balbi. • Lucius Laelius, mentioned in an inscription dating from about 88 BC. • Publius Laelius L. f, mentioned in an inscription dating from about 88 BC. • Lucius Laelius, mentioned in an inscription from Pergamum, dating from the late Republic. • Lucius Laelius L. f., mentioned in an inscription from Pergamum, dating from the late Republic. • Laelia, wife of
Gaius Vibius Marsus. •
Laelius Felix, a jurist in the time of
Hadrian. • Lucius Laelius Fuscus, a second-century soldier. • Laelius Bassus, a proconsul or legate under
Septimius Severus. • Marcus Laelius Maximus Aemilianus, consul in 227 AD. ==See also==