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    The gens Julia was one of the most prominent patrician families in ancient Rome. Members of the gens attained the highest dignities of the state in the...
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  • “kill, slaughter, overthrow, destroy, cut, break”. Caesar, name of the gens Iulia, commonly indicates Gaius Julius Caesar. The change from being a familial...
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    Bovillae are always spoken of as Albani Longani Bovillenses) and that of the gens Iulia. The existence of this hereditary worship led to an increase in its importance...
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    Medici family during the 20th century. The Amidei also claimed a Julia gens (Gens Iulia) ancestry, through the Cottius family, Patricians of Rome. The Amidei...
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    hilltop of the Quirinal in Rome, which involved a human sacrifice. The gens Iulia had gentilician cults at Bovillae where a dedicatory inscription to Vediove...
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  • found to this day. Virgil and his commentator Servius wrote that the gens Iulia had received their name Iulius from the family's common ancestor, Aeneas'...
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  • Pax Julia (redirect from Pax Iulia)
    Ptolemy.[citation needed]. In 48 BC, it was renamed Pax Iulia (referring to the "peace of the gens Julia") by Julius Caesar following the peace between Rome...
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    their identifying epigraphs of the original gens (families) who owned them, the gens Voconia and the gens Iulia. Recently, the area has been arranged as...
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    temple to Venus Victrix, the legendary progenitor of his own clan, the gens Iulia. This original dedication was done because she was Pompey's favourite...
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    adopted the name Julius in their surname, and became members of the gens Julia (gens Iulia), Patricians of Rome, such as Marcus Julius Cottius, Gaius Julius...
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