Ligaria (gens)

The gens Ligaria was a minor family at ancient Rome, best remembered for three brothers who conspired against Caesar, and were afterward proscribed and put to death by the triumvirs. According to Cicero, they were of Sabine origin.[1][2]

Members

See also

List of Roman gentes

References

  1. Cicero, Pro Ligario, 11.
  2. 1 2 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 786 ("Ligarius").
  3. Caesar, De Bello Africo, 64.
  4. Cicero, Pro Ligario, passim; Epistulae ad Familiares, vi. 13, 14; Epistulae ad Atticum, xiii. 12, 19, 20, 44.
  5. Caesar, De Bello Africo, 89.
  6. Plutarch, "The Life of Cicero", 39; "The Life of Brutus", 11.
  7. Appian, Bellum Civile, ii. 113, iv. 22, 23.
  8. 1 2 Cicero, Pro Ligario, 12.
  9. 1 2 Appian, Bellum Civile, iv. 22, 23.

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