title: Vetilia gens
text: # Vetilia gens
  
  The gens Vetilia, also written Vecilia, was a minor plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens never attained much importance in the Roman state.
  
  ## Origin
  
  The Vetilii were probably of Etruscan origin, their nomen being Latinised from the Etruscan Vetlnei.
  
  ## Members
  
  * Gaius Vetilius, praetor in 147 BC, was sent to Spain, where after initial successes against the Lusitanians, he was defeated by Viriathus near Tribola, and slain.
  * Vetilius, a leno, or pandar, to whom a certain Juventius left a legacy. The praetor Quintus Metellus refused Vetilius' claim for the property on account of his unsavoury occupation.
  * Publius Vetilius, described by Cicero as a relative of Sextus Aebutius, was one of the witnesses in the trial of Aulus Caecina Severus.
  