Submitted for award of PhD September 2006. - King's College London

Sulpicius Rufus to be built at public expense; his tomb became hereditaryash The
tombs in this necropolis included those of generals who had triumphed and other
public leaders. The situation at fondo Patturelli could have been similar: the tombs
linked to the sanctuary very likely belonged to local gentes who had achieved public
eminence in Capua.
The gens Clovatia is mentioned only in inscriptions. The three terracotta
stelae are among the oldest Capuan inscribed texts, probably from the late fourth to
early third centuries BC. 457 The name is definitely Oscan. Another member of the
gens, Pacius Clovatius son of Valaemia, appears several times on a curse tablet from
Capua 458 Heurgon, following the argument of Schulze, suggested that the gens
Clovatia could be a branch of the gens Cluvia, abundantly represented in Campania
in Latin inscriptions. 459
It is possible that the gens Cluvia originated from the town of
Cluviae of the Carracini.
The Magii appear both in inscriptions and in literary sources. Buck argues
that the names Maiios> Magis> Mahis> Mais refer to the same gens. 460 An early
terracotta inscription mentions the common iüvilas of all the Terentii Magii, who
might represent one branch of the Magius family in Capua. The cognomen Atellanus
of Cn. Magius, meddix tuticus in 214 BC, might distinguish this branch of the gens
from other branches in Capua such as the Terentif. 461 The image of this gens in
Roman sources is very positive: during the crisis of 216 BC, Decius Magius appears
as an unshakeable ally of the Romans, who tried to prevent the Capuans from joining
456
Cic. Phil. 9.7.17 mentioned by Coarelli.
457 ST Cp 10,11,12.
458 ST Cp 37.
459 Heurgon (1942) 110. CIL 10.3823 from S. Leucio claims the sacra Cluviana.
460 Buck (1975) 60.
461 This idea was put forward by Heurgon (1942) 110.
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