Otacilia
the wife of the elder M. Julius Philippus, and the mother of the boy who was put to death by the praetorians. after the battle of Verona, A. D. 249. She appears to have had a daughter also, since Zosimus speaks of a certain Severianus as the son-in-law of the emperor. No other circumstances are known regarding this princess, except that she was believed by many of the ancients to have been a Christain. The Alexandrian Chronicle makes a positive assertion to this effect, and Eusebius (Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 6.36) mentions a letter, said to have been addressed to her by Origen. (Tillemont, Notes sur l' Empereur Philippe, in his Histoire des Empereurs, vol. lii. p, 499; Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 332; Zosim. 1.19.)
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condemned in a judicium by the celebrated jurist C. Aquillius. (V. Max. 8.2.2.) In the MSS. of Valerius we have ab Otcilia Laterensi, for which we ought perhaps to read ab Otacilia Laterensis, that is, Otacilia, the wife of Laterensis.
sometimes written Octacilia, is first mentioned at the commencement of the first Punic war, when two brothers of this name obtained the consulship, M'. Otacilius Crassus in B. C. 263, and T. Otacilius Crassus in B. C. 261 ; but after this time the Otacilii rarely occur. The only cognomens in this gens are Crasus and Naso. One or two persons, who were accidentally omitted under Crassus, are given below.