Elva

the name of a patrician family of the Aebutia gens.

1 T. Aebutius Elva, T. F., consul with P. Vetiurius Geminus Cicurinus in B. C. 499, in which year Fidenae was besieged and Crustumeria taken. In the following year, according to the date of most annalists, Elva was magister equitum to the dictator A. Postumius Albinus in the great battle fought at the Lake Regillus, where he commanded the left wing. The lays of that battle sung of his combat with Octavius Mamilius, by whom his arm was pierced through. (Liv. 2.19; Dionys. A. R. 5.58, 6.2, 4, 5, 11.)

2. L. Aebutius Elva, T. F. T. N., son of the preceding, consul with P. Servilius Priscus Structus in B. C. 463, was carried off in his consulship by the great plague which raged at Rome in that year. (Liv. iii.; Dionys. A. R. 9.67; Diod. 11.79; Oros. 2.12.)

3. Postumus Aebutius Elva Cornicen, consul with M. Fabius Vibulanus in B. C. 442, in which year a colony was founded at Ardea, and magister equitum to the dictator Q. Servilius Priscus Structus in B. C. 435. (Liv. 4.11, 21; Diod. 12.34.)

4. M. Aebutius Elva, one of the triumviri for founding the colony at Ardea in B. C. 442. (Liv. 4.11.)

5. M. Aebutius Elva, praetor in B. C. 168, when he obtained Sicily as his province. (Liv. 44.17.)