page_title: Procilia gens
hierarchical_section_title: Procilia gens
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: revers d'un denier de a gens Procilia avec Junon Sospita / Juno Iuno Sospita
context_page_description: The gens Procilia, sometimes written Procillia, was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned during the final century of the Republic, but few of them obtained any position of importance in the Roman state, and they are best known as a result of the historian Procillius, a contemporary of Cicero, whose work has been lost, but who was cited as a source by the Roman antiquarians.
context_section_description: The gens Procilia, sometimes written Procillia, was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned during the final century of the Republic, but few of them obtained any position of importance in the Roman state, and they are best known as a result of the historian Procillius, a contemporary of Cicero, whose work has been lost, but who was cited as a source by the Roman antiquarians.
caption: Reverse of a denarius issued by Lucius Procilius in 80 BC, depicting Juno Sospita driving a chariot. The snake alludes to Lanuvium, where a serpent lived in a sacred grove.[1]
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