Laelia Gens or Laelia Sapiens
plebeian, appears in the Fasti for the first time in B. C. 190. Its only regular cognomen is Balbus [BALBUs], though Laelius who was the friend of the younger Scipio Africanus was sometimes surnamed Sapiens.
The following stemma exhibits the extinction of one branch of the Laelii in the male line after the fourth generation, and the marriages and descendants of the female line: --
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.