Burbuleia gens  The gens Burbuleia, occasionally written "Burboleia", was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are mentioned in the time of Cicero, but the only one who achieved any distinction in the Roman state was Lucius Burbuleius Optatus, consul in AD 135. The nomen "Burbuleius" belongs to a large class of gentilicia ending in "-eius", typically formed from Oscan names originally ending in "-as". However, as the number of such gentile names grew, "-eius" came to be regarded as a regular gentile-forming suffix, and was applied in cases where it had no morphological justification, so it cannot be determined whether the root of "Burbuleius" is Oscan, or perhaps a Latin cognomen, like "Burbulus". There was a family of this name from Minturnae, in southern Latium, which would be consistent with either a Latin or Oscan origin. Minturnae was originally a town of the Ausones, which received a Roman colony in 296 BC. The only distinct family of the Burbuleii bore the surname "Optatus", desired or welcome. The consul Optatus had the additional surname "Ligarianus", which in Republican times would normally have indicated adoption from the Ligarian gens, but by the second century such nomenclature usually indicates descent from a family through the female line. "Secunda", borne by Burbuleia, the wife of Cornelius Hilarus, was a personal or individualizing surname, derived from the old Latin praenomen "Secunda", originally given to a second daughter.