Lucius

Lucius ( Lucius ) was a Roman first name ( praenomen ), which was rarely used as a family name ( nomen gentile ) and surname ( cognomen ). He was mostly reproduced only with the abbreviation L..

The name is probably derived from Latin lux " light " here and originally referred to an infant in daylight or dawn. Lucius could therefore also be brought into connection with lucens, the present participle of "light " from the Latin lucere and would therefore mean: bright, shiny, iridescent. Therefore, the adjective lucius is in the Binomenklatur biological species names often used, such as Esox lucius, the dazzling pike, the European pike. Was called to the Romans the pike Lucius. A derivation of the name Lucius from the Etruscan lucumo "King " is not completely excluded. Rather absurd is the connection of the name with Lucina, the Roman goddess of childbirth and midwifery ( Lucina " small light " refers to her attribute as goddess of the moon ). LUCIUS is the blank check for the name of the judge in the Roman form process.

Name-day

  • March 4, Lucius I.
  • December 2, St. Lucius of Chur

Well-known bearers of the name

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The following list contains only the better-known bearers of the name, but not people, for example, are thereby have appeared that they were consul for a year (see List of Roman consuls ). In order to find all known bearers of the name, a full text search is recommended.

  • Lucius Accius ( 170 BC to 90 BC ), Roman tragic poet
  • Lucius Cassius Longinus, name of several people from the time of the Roman Republic to the imperial period
  • Lucius Opimius, v. in 121 BC the Roman consul
  • Lucius Licinius Crassus (140 BC to 91 BC ), Roman politician of the late Republic, was famous mainly as a speaker
  • Lucius Saturninus Appuleius ( 138 BC to 100 BC ), Roman Popular
  • Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (c. 138/134 BC to 78 BC ), Roman statesman
  • Lucius Cornelius Cinna ( about 130 BC to 84 BC ), Roman politician
  • Lucius Licinius Lucullus (117 BC to 56 BC), Roman general and gourmet
  • Lucius Vettius († 59 BC ), Roman knights and notorious informer in the 1st century BC
  • Lucius Sergius Catilina (approx. 108 BC to 62 BC ), Roman politician
  • Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, the name of at least four leading persons of Roman history, including Emperor Nero
  • Lucius Vorenus, Roman centurion in the drawn up by Caesar eleventh legion, character in the television series Rome
  • Lucius Munatius Plancus ( 87 BC to 15 BC ), Roman general, consul and censor
  • Lucius Tillius Cimber ( 44 BC ), Roman senator and co-conspirators against Julius Caesar
  • Marcus Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 54 BC to 39 AD ), Roman rhetorician and writer
  • Lucius Aelius Sejanus ( about 20 BC to 31 AD ), praetorian prefect of the Roman Empire
  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( 1-65 ), Roman philosopher, dramatist, scientist and statesman
  • Lucius Verginius Rufus ( 14-97 ), politician and general of the Roman Empire
  • Lucius Flavius ​​Arrian (c. 87-148 ), Roman historian, politician and philosopher, also known as Arrian
  • Lucius Aelius Caesar († 138), adopted son of the Roman Emperor Hadrian
  • Lucius Apuleius (c. 125 to 170 ), Roman priest, philosopher and writer
  • Lucius Aurelius Verus, 161-169 Roman Emperor ( with Marcus Aurelius )
  • Lucius Septimius Severus ( 146-211 ), Roman emperor ( 193-211 )
  • Lucius Artorius Castus ( 180 ), Roman officer, possibly a model for King Arthur
  • Lucius Domitius Aurelianus ( 214-275 ), Roman emperor ( 270-275 )

Popes

First name

  • Lucius D. Clay (1897-1978), General of the U.S. Army and military governor of the U.S. zone of occupation in Germany
  • Lucius of Cyrene, one of the seventy disciples ( in the Acts mentioned as one of the " prophets and teachers " at Antioch, Acts 13:1)
  • Lucius Shepard (1947-2014), American writer
  • Lucius Wildhaber ( b. 1937 ), Swiss lawyer, President of the European Court of Human Rights ( 1998-2007 )

Family name

  • Lucius, Thuringian nobility; see Lucius ( noble ) Lucius of Ballhausen; see Lucius ( noble )
  • Lucius of Stoedten; see Lucius ( noble )
  • Joh Anton Lucius, Thuringian textile company, named after Johann Anton Lucius ( 1742-1810 ).

Fictitious names carrier

  • Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, Roman consul 509 BC
  • Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, according to legend, the fifth King of the Romans
  • Lucius Tarquinius Superbus († ~ 495 BC), according to legend, the seventh King of the Romans
  • Lucius Junius Brutus, according to legend, first consul of the Roman Republic after the fall of the last Etruscan king
  • Lucius Tiberius, fictional Roman procurator in the Arthurian legend, Geoffrey of Monmouth
  • Lucius Malfoy, figure of the Harry Potter series of novels
  • Lucius Flavius ​​, main character of the homonymous historical novel by Joseph Spillmann
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