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TULLIA GENS. TULLIUS. 1183
a divorce had taken place by mutual consent. At to the hoilours of the state was M. Tullius Decula,
the beginning of the following year (B. C. 45) consul B. C. 81, and the next was the celebrated
Tullia was delivered of a son. As soon as she orator M. Tullius Cicero. [DECULA; CICERO.]
was sufficiently recovered to bear the fatigues of a The other surnames of the Tullii under the rejourney, she accompanied her father to Tusculum, public belong chiefly to freedmen, and are given
but she died there in February.* It appears from below. On coins we find no'cognomen. The folCicero's correspondence that she had long been lowing coin, which bears on the obverse the head
unwell, and the birth of her child hastened her of Pallas and on the reverse Victory driving a
death. Her loss was a severe blow to Cicero: quadriga, with the legend of M. TVLLI, is suphe had recently divorced his wife Terentia, and posed by some writers to belong to M. Tullins
married a young wife Publilia, without however Cicero, the orator, but the coin is probably of an
adding to his domestic happiness; and thus he earlier date. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 327.)
had clung to Tullia more than ever. His friends
hastened to console him; and among the many
consolatory letters which he received on the occasion is the well-known one from the celebrated jurist Serv. Sulpicius (ad Fam. iv. 5). To
dissipate his grief, Cicero drew up a treatise on
consolation, in which he chiefly imitated Crantor
the Academician [CICERo, p. 733, b.]; and to L
show his love to the deceased, he resolved to build
a splendid monument to her honour, which was to
be consecrated as a temple, in which she might COIN OF THE TULLIA GENS.
receive the worship both of himself and of others.
This project he frequently mentions in his letters TULLINUS, VOLCA'TIUS, accused in A. D.
to Atticus, but the death of Caesar in the follow- 65, as privy to the crimes of L. Torquatus Silanus,
ing year, and the active part which Cicero then escaped punishment (Tac. Ann. xvi. 8), and is
took in public affairs, prevented him from carrying conjectured by Lipsius to be the same person as
his design into effect. Tullia's child survived his Volcatius Tertullinus, who is mentioned as tribune
mother. He is called Lentulus by Cicero (ad of the plebs in A. D. 69. (Tac. Hist. iv. 9.)
Att. xii. 28), a name which was also borne by his TU'LLIUS. 1. M. TULLIUS, or M. Atilius,
father by adoption; and as Dolabella was absent as he is called by Dionysius, one of the decemviri
in Spain, and was moreover unable from his extra- who had the charge of the Sibylline books in the
vagance to make any provision for his child, Cicero reign of Tarquinius Superbus, was bribed by Petook charge of him, and while he was in the coun- tronius Sabinus to allow him to take a copy of
try wrote to Atticus, to beg him to take care that these books, and was in consequence punished by the
the child was properly attended to. (Cic. ad Att. king by being sewed up in a sack and thrown into
xii. 28.) The boy probably died in infancy, as the sea, a punishment subsequently inflicted upon
no further mention is made of him. The numerous parricides. (Val. Max. i. 1. ~ 13; Dionys. iv. 62.)
passages in Cicero's correspondence in which Tullia 2. SEX. TULLIUS, served for the seventh time
is spoken of, are collected in Orelli's Onomasticon as centurio primi pili in B. c. 358 under the dicTullianume (vol. ii. pp. 596, 597), and her life is tator C. Sulpicius Peticus, when he besought the
written at length by Drumann (Geschicltde Roms, dictator on behalf of his comrades to let them fight
vol. vi. p. 696, foll.). against the Gauls, and distinguished himself in
TU'LLIA GENS, patrician and plebeian. This the battle which ensued. He also fought with
gens was of great antiquity, for even leaving out great bravery in the following year under the conof question Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome, sul C. Marcius Rutilus against the Privernates.
whom Cicero claims as his qentilis (Tusc. i. 16), we (Liv. vii. 13-16.)
are told that the Tullii were one of the Alban 3. L. TULLIUS, a Roman eques, was magister
houses, which were transplanted to Rome in the of the company:which farmed the Scriptura (see
reign of Tullus Hostilius. (Liv. i. 30.) According Dict. of Antiq. s. v.) in Sicily. (Verr. iii. 71.)
to this statement the Tullii belonged to the minores 4. M. TULLIUS, on whose behalf Cicero spoke
gentes. We find mention of a'lullius in the reign in B. c. 71. It is quite uncertain who this M. Tulof the last king of Rome [TULLIUS, No. 1], and hius wnas. He was not a freedman, as appears from
of a M'. Tullius Longus, who was consul in the Cicero's speech, but it is equally clear that he was
tenth year of the republic, B. c. 500. [LONGUS.] a different person both from M. Tullius Decula,
The patrician branch of the gens appears to have consul B. C. 81, and from M. Tullius Albinovanus.
become extinct at an early period; for after the The fragments of Cicero's speech for Tullius were
early times of the republic no one of the name published for the first time from a palimpsest manuoccurs for some centuries, and the Tullii of a later script by Angelo Mai. An analysis of it is given
age are not only plebeians, but, with the excep- by Drumann. (Geschichte Roms, vol. v. p. 258,
tion of their bearing the same name, cannot be foll.)
regarded as having any connection with, the 5. L. TULLIUS, a legate of Cicero in Cilicia,
ancient gens. The first plebeian Tullius who rose owed his appointment to the influence of Q. Titinius, and probably also of Atticus, whose friend he
* It is stated by Middleton (Life of Cicero, was. His conduct, however, did not give satisvol. ii. p. 365), on the authority of Plutarch (Cic. faction to Cicero. (Cic. ad Att. v. 4, 11, 14, 21.)
41), that Tulligdied at Dolabella's house at Rome; In one of Cicero's letters (ad Fair. xv. 14. ~ 8)
but Plutarch does not say so; and Drumann has we read of his legate L. Tulleius, which is proshown clearly from passages in Cicero's letters, bably a false reading for L. Tullius.
that she died at her father's Tusculan villa. 6. TIB. TULLITJS, fought on the side of the