Genucius

1. T. Genucius, was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 476; and in conjunction with his colleague, Q. Considius, he brought forward an agrarian law, and also accused T. Menenius Lanatus, who was charged with being the cause of the destruction of the Fabii on the Cremera. (Liv. 2.52; Dionys. A. R. 9.26; comp. [Considius, No. 1.])

2. Cn. Genucius, was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 473, and used the most vehement exertions to carry into effect the agrarian law, for the evasion of which he brought a charge against L. Furius and C. Manlius, the consuls of the preceding year. The patricians were greatly alarmed, and assassinated Genucius in his bled on the night before the accasation was to be brought before the people. (Liv. 2.54; Dionys. A. R. 9.37, &c., 10.38; Zonar. 7.17; comp. Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. p. 208, &c.)

3. Genucius, a tribune of the people, who was insulted by the Faliscans, against whom, in consequence, the Romans declared war. (Plut. C. Gracch. 3.) To what time this event belongs is not quite certain, though it may refer to the last war against the Faliscans. which broke out in B. C. 241.

4. L. Genucius, was sent in B. C. 210 as ambassador to Syphax, king of Numidia. (Liv. 27.4.)

5. M. Genucius, tribune of the soldiers in B. C. 193, under the consul L. Cornelius Merula, fell in battle against the Boians. (Liv. 35.5.)

6. Genucius, a priest of the Magna Mater, that is, a gallus. A legacy had been left him, and the had been pronounced the legitimate heir by the praetor Cn. Aufidius Orestes; but the consul Mam. Aemilius Lepidus (B. C. 77) declared that he could not take possession of the inheritance, being neither a man nor a woman, but an eunuch. (V. Max. 7.7.6.) [L.S]