Balbus, literally "
stammerer", was the name of several Roman families.Of the
Acilii Balbi, one Manius Acilius Balbus was consul in
150 BC, another in
114. To another family belonged T. Ampius Balbus, a supporter of
Pompey, but afterwards pardoned by
Julius Caesar (cf.
Cic. ad Fam. vi. 12 and xiii. 70). We know also of Q. Antonius Balbus,
praetor in
Sicily in
82 BC, and
Marcus Atius Balbus, who married
Julia, a sister of Caesar, and had a daughter
Atia, mother of
Augustus.
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