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Genucius

6. GENUCIUS, a priest of the Magna Mater, that is, a gallus. A legacy had been left him, and the had been pronounced the legitimate heir by the praetor Cn. Aufidius Orestes; but the consul Mam. Aemilius Lepidus (B. C. 77) declared that he could not take possession of the inheritance, being neither a man nor a woman, but an eunuch. (V. Max. 7.7.6.)

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.