Roscia Gens
plebeian, was of considerable antiquity, as we read of a L. Roscius as early as B. C. 438 [see ROSCIUS, No. 1]; but the name does not occur again till the last century of the republic. None of its members obtained the consulship during the republic; but in the imperial period three persons of this name received this honour. The only surnames of the Roman Roscii under the republic are FABATUS and OTHO: the Roscii at Ameria are distinguished by one or two other surnames, which are given below. [ROSCIUS, No. 2.]
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.