Cosconia (gens)

Praenomina

Members

• Marcus Cosconius, military tribune in the army of the praetor Publius Quinctilius Varus, fell in the battle fought with Mago in the land of the Insubrian Gauls, 203 BC.
• Marcus Cosconius M. f., praetor in 135 BC, fought successfully with the Scordisci in Thrace. He is mentioned as a senator in 129.
• Lucius Cosconius M. f. M. n., triumvir monetalis in 118 BC.
• Gaius Cosconius, praetor during the Social War, where he had considerable success as a general. Probably the same Gaius Cosconius who later concluded the war in Illyricum as proconsul about 78 BC.
• Gaius Cosconius Calidianus, adopted from the Calidia gens, was an orator of little merit, distinguished for his vehement action and gesticulation.
• Gaius Cosconius, praetor in 63 BC, and subsequently granted the title of proconsul in Hispania Ulterior. Accused of extortion, but acquitted. Appointed in 59 by Caesar to a commission to divide the public lands in Campania, he died. Cicero declined Caesar's offer to replace him.
• Gaius Cosconius, tribune of the plebs in 59 BC, aedile in 57, and one of the judges of Publius Sextius in 56.
• Cosconius, a writer of epigrams during the time of Martial, whom he attacked on account of the length of his epigrams and their lascivious nature. He is severely handled in two epigrams of Martial.
• Cosconius, the author of a grammar and a work on "actiones."