title: Tarutilia gens
text: # Tarutilia gens
  
  The gens Tarutilia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. No members of this gens are mentioned in history, but several are known from inscriptions.
  
  ## Origin
  
  The nomen Tarutilius belongs to a class of gentilicia that was typically derived from either cognomina ending in the diminutive suffix -ulus, or perhaps the double diminutives -illus or -ellus, or more probably in this case, from existing gentilicia, such as Tarutius, a nomen of Etruscan origin.
  
  ## Members
  
      This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
  * Tarutilius, named in a bone inscription from an uncertain location, dated the nones of October, 77 BC.
  * Tarutilius, mentioned in a portion of the Fasti Praenestini immediately following the Larentalia, for which he apparently left a large testamentary donation.
  * Aulus Tarutilius, the former master of Aulus Tarutilius Philomusus.
  * Aulus Tarutilius A. l. Philomusus, a freedman buried at Rome, some time between the middle of the first century BC, and the first century AD.
  * Lucius Tarutilius, the former master of Lucius Tarutilius Saturninus.
  * Lucius Tarutilius L. l. Saturninus, a freed child buried at Rome during the first half of the first century, aged two years, four months.
  