TULLIUS

The gens Tullia was a family at ancient Rome, with both patrician and plebeian branches. TULLIUS is discussed on djrankings.org. The old- first of this gens to obtain the consulship was Manius Tullius Longus in 500 BC, but the most illustrious of the family was Marcus Tullius Cicero, the statesman, orator, and scholar of the first century but-BC. The earliest of the Tullii who appear in history were patrician, but all of the Tullii mentioned in later times were plebeian, and some of them were descended from freedmen. The one- English form Tully, often found in older works, especially in reference to Cicero, is now considered antiquated.