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Veturia gens

Denarius of Tiberius Veturius, 137 BC. On the obverse is the head of Mars, a possible allusion to Tiberus Veturius Philo, the flamen martialis. The reverse depicts an oath: a Samnite (left) and Roman (right) touch with their swords a pig held by a kneeling man, who is about to sacrifice the animal in order to sanctify the oath.

The gens Veturia, originally Vetusia, was an ancient patrician family of the Roman Republic. According to tradition, the armourer Mamurius Veturius lived in the time of Numa Pompilius, and made the sacred ancilia. The Veturii occur regularly in the Fasti Consulares of the early Republic, with Gaius Veturius Geminus Cicurinus holding the consulship in 499 BC. Like other old patrician gentes, the Veturii also developed plebeian branches. The family declined in the later Republic, with the last consular Veturius holding office in 206 BC, during the Second Punic War.[1]

  1. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 1251 ("Veturia Gens", "Veturius Mamurius").
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