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Accoleia gens
The gens Accoleia, also spelled Acculeia, Acoleia, or Aculeia was a minor plebeian family at Rome during the first century BC. Most of what is known of the family comes from various coins and inscriptions.〔''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', William Smith, Editor〕
==Origin and meaning==
The origin of the nomen is obscure, but the gens apparently shared its name with one of the thirty curiae, or wards, which formed divisions of the three Romulean tribes, suggesting that the family might have been of great antiquity, although if so it was exceedingly obscure. One tradition states that the curiae were named after the Sabine women carried off in the time of Romulus. Of the few whose names are known, several correspond with particular neighborhoods of Rome, although this does not establish whether the wards were originally named after historical or mythological personages.〔''Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities'', Second Edition, Harry Thurston Peck, Editor (1897)〕
One such person, Acca Larentia, was the foster-mother of Romulus and Remus, suggesting that perhaps ''Acculeia'' was a nomen derived from ''Acca''. This might account for the fact that the curia Acculeia carried out a sacrifice in honor of Angerona, the tutelary goddess of Rome itself, during the Angeronalia.〔Marcus Terentius Varro, ''De Lingua Latina libri XXV''.〕 A denarius issued by Publius Accoleius Lariscolus, pictured above, may represent the worship of Acca Larentia, although the figure has also been identified as that of Diana Nemorensis, depicted as a triple goddess.〔
Perhaps less romantically, the nomen could be derived from the noun ''aculeus'', meaning a ''thorn'' or ''needle'', or the corresponding adjective, with the additional meaning of ''sharp''.〔John C. Traupman, ''The New College Latin & English Dictionary'' (Bantam, 1995).〕〔D.P. Simpson, ''Cassell's Latin & English Dictionary'' (1963).〕
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