Tullia Gens

patrician and plebeian. The patrician Tullii were one of the Alban families transplanted to Rome in the reign of Tullus Hostilius. The patrician branch of the gens appears to have become extinct at an early period, for after the early times of the Republic no one of the name occurs for some centuries, and the Tullii of a later age are not only plebeians, but, with the exception of their bearing the same name, cannot be regarded as having any connection with the ancient gens. The first plebeian Tullius who rose to the honours of the State was M. Tullius Decula, consul B.C. 81, and the next was the celebrated orator M. Tullius Cicero. See Cicero.