Gutta

Gutta, ae, m.,

• a Roman surname, Cic. Clu. 26, 71; 36, 98.

2 Gutta, (13) æ, m. , surnom romain : [jeu de mots] conditor totius rei Guttam adspergit huic Bulbo Cic. Clu. 71, celui qui assaisonne (mijote) toute lʼaffaire asperge notre Bulbe [bulbus = oignon] de Goutte [gutta = une goutte dʼhuile], c.-à-d. adjoint Goutte à Bulbe = joint Gutta à Bulbus.

Gutta

1. A native of Capua, one of the commanders of the Italian allies, who came to the relief of the younger Marius in the civil war, B. C. 83. (App. BC 3.90.) Schweighaüser thinks he may be the same as the Albinus who perished with Telesinus shortly afterwards, and that consequently his full name was Albinus Gutta. (Schw. ad App. BC 1.93.)

Gutta

2. Tib. Gutta, a Roman senator, one of the judices on the trial of Statius Albius Oppianicus [Cluentius], whom the censors disgraced in the subsequent inquiries into the judicium Junianum. (Cic. Clu. 26, 36, 45.)

Gutta

3. Gutta, a competitor for the consulship in B. C. 53, with T. Annius Milo. Cn. Pompey supported Gutta, and promised him Caesar's influence. (Cic. ad Qu. fr. 3.8.) Asconius, however (in Milonian. p. 31, Orelli), omits the name of Gutta in his list of Milo's opponents. [W.B.D]