Decia Gens
plebeian, but of high antiquity, became illustrious in Roman history by two members of it sacrificing themselves for the preservation of their country. The only cognomens that occur in this gens are MUS and SUBLO: for those who are mentioned without a surname see DECIUS.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.