Caerellia gens
The gens Caerellia was a minor plebeian family during the late Roman Republic and in imperial times. Few members of this gens occur in history. Caerellia was a learned and wealthy friend of Cicero. Various Caerellii are known from epigraphy, including Caerellius Priscus, governor of Roman Britain in the late second century.
Members
- Caerellia, a wealthy contemporary of Cicero, whose philosophical writings she studied, and with whom she became intimately acquainted. Quintus Fufius Calenus accused them of having carried on an affair.
- Caerellius Priscus, governor of various provinces, including Britain, was consul suffectus around AD 172.
- Gaius Caerellius Sabinus, legate of the Legio XIII Gemina, according to an inscription from Apulum in Dacia, dating between AD 183 and 185.