Caesia

a surname of Minerva, a translation of the Greek γλαυκῶπις. (Terent. Heaut. 5.5, 18; Cic. de Nat. Deor. 1.30.) [L.S]

plebeian, does not occur till towards the end of the republic. [Caesius.]

On the following coin of this gens, the obverse represents the head of a youthful god brandishing an arrow or spear with three points, who is usually supposed from the following passage of A. Gellius (5.12) to be Apollo Veiovis : " Simulacrum dei Veiovis -- sagittas tenet, quae sunt videlicet paratae ad nocendum. Quapropter eum deum plerique Apollinem esse dixerunt." The two men on the reverse are Lares : between them stands a dog, and above them the head of Vulcan with a forceps. (Eckhel, v. p. 156, &c.)