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Arellia gens

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The gens Arellia was a plebeian family at Rome. Although of equestrian rank, this gens does not appear to have been particularly large or important, and is known primarily from three individuals.[1]

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  • Arellius, a talented painter at Rome in the latter part of the first century BC, who gained notoriety for depicted goddesses with the features of his own mistresses.[2]
  • Arellius Fuscus, a rhetorician in Greek and Latin at Rome, around the beginning of the first century. He was a tutor of Ovid and Fabianus, and a rival of Marcus Porcius Latro. His son, who had the same name, was also a rhetorician.[3][4][5]
  • Quintus Arellius Fuscus, either the father or the son, bore the praenomen Quintus, but it is not certain which.[5]

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  1. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 275 ("Arellius"), vol. II, p. 191 ("Arellius Fuscus").
  2. ^ Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis, xxxv. 37.
  3. ^ Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis, xxxiii. 12. § 152.
  4. ^ Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, x. p. 157, proëm. ii.; Suasoriae, iv. p. 29. (ed. Bipontina),
  5. ^ a b Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 191 ("Arellius Fuscus").

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