- Aebutia gens
Aebutia was an ancient Roman
gens containing two families, the names of which are Carus and Elva. The former wasplebeian , tha latterpatrician ; but the gens was originally patrician. "Cornicen" does not seem to have been a family name, but only a surname given to Postumus Aebutius Elva, who was consul in442 BC . This gens was distinguished in the early ages, but from the time of the above mentioned Aebutius Elva, no patrician member of it held any curule office until the praetorship ofMarcus Aebutius Elva in176 BC . [Citation
last = Smith
first = William
author-link = William Smith (lexicographer)
contribution = Aebutia
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title =Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 1
pages = 23
publisher =
place = Boston
year = 1867
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0032.html ]It is doubtful to which of the family P. Aebutius belonged, who disclosed to the consul the existence of the
Bacchanalia at Rome and was rewarded by the senate in consequence in186 BC . [Livy , xxxix. 9, 11, 19]References
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