Canuleius
- the name of a Roman gens. Thus, C. Canuleius, a tribune of the people. Acc. to a law proposed by him (Canuleium plebiscitum, Cic. Rep. 2, 37, 63) A.U.C. 310, marriage between patricians and plebeians was allowed; cf. Liv. 4, 1, 1 sq.; Flor. 1, 25.
1. C. Canuleius, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 445, was the proposer of the law, establishing connubium between the patricians and plebs, which had been taken away by the laws of the twelve tables. He also proposed a law giving the people the option of choosing the consuls from either the patricians or the plebs; but to preserve the consulship in their order, and at the same time make some concessions to the plebs, the patricians resolved, that three military tribunes, with consular power, should be elected indifferently from either order in place of the consuls. (Liv. 4.1-6; Cic. de Rep. 2.37; Florus, 1.25 ; Dionys. A. R. 11.57, 58.)
2. M. Canuleius, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 420, accused C. Sempronius Atratinus, who had been consul in B. C. 423, on account of his misconduct in the Volscian war. [Atratinus, No. 5.] Canuleius and his colleagues introduced in the senate this year the subject of an assignment of the public land. (Liv. 4.44.)
3. L. Canuleius, one of the five Roman legates sent by the senate to the Aetolians, B. C. 174. (Liv. 41.25.)
4. Canuleius, a Roman senator, who had been one of the ambassadors sent into Egpyt previously to B. C. 160. (Plb. 31.18.)
5. C. Canuleius, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 100, accused P. Furius, who was so much detested by the people, that they tore him to pieces before he commenced his defence. (Appian, App. BC 1.33 ; comp. Cic. pro Rabir. 9; Dio Cass. Frag. 105, p. 43, ed. Reimar.)
6. L. Canuleius, one of the publicani, engaged in farming the duties paid on imported and exported goods at the harbour of Syracuse, when Verres was governor of Sicily, B. C. 73-71. (Cic. Ver. 2.70, 74.)
7. M. Canuleius, defended by Hortensius and Cotta, but on what occasion is unknown. (Cic. Brut. 92.)
8. Canuleius, mentioned in one of Cicero's letters in B. C. 49 (ad Att. 10.5), is otherwise unknown.
9. L. Canuleius, one of Caesar's legates in the war with Pompey, B. C. 48, was sent by Caesar into Epeirus in order to collect corn. (Caes. Civ. 3.42.)
Gaius. A Roman tribune of the people, who in B.C. 445 made a law permitting the marriage of patricians with plebeians, and also requiring that one of the two consuls should be chosen annually from among the plebeians. See Livy, iv. 3, etc.