Mugillanus

• a Roman surname; as, e. g. Papirius Mugillanus, Liv. 4, 30.

the name of a family of the Gens Papiria at Rome. The Mugillani were a Latin family from Mugilla. (Dionys. A. R. 8.36.)

1. L. Papirius Mugillanus, L. F., was consul for the first time in B. C. 444, and for the second in B. C. 427. No remarkable event signalised either of his consulates, but Mugillanus was one of the original pair of Censors. (Liv. 4.7, 8, 30; Dionys. A. R. 11.62; Fasti.)

2. L. Papirius Mugillanus, L. F. L. N. son probably of the preceding, was consular tribune in B. C. 422. As interrex for holding the plebeians comitia in the following year, Mugillanus was the author of a law directing the quaestors to be chosen indifferently from the patricians and the plebeians (Liv. 4.44). He was censor in B. C. 418 (Fasti).

3. M. Papirius Mugillanus, L. F. was con sular tribune in B. C. 418, and again in 416, and consul in 411 (Liv. 4.45, 47; Fasti). Livy, however, in 411 gives Atratinus, not Mugillanus, as the cognomen of the Papirius consul in that year. (Ib. 52.)

4. L. Papirius Mugillanus was consul in B. C. 326 (Liv. 8.23; Fasti). It is doubtful, however, whether for Mugillanus should not be read Cursor, as the surname of the consul. [W.B.D]