the plebs announce the death of Caligula, and by exhorting the emperor's German guards to lay down their weapons, averted a general massacre. Arruntius, a physician at Rome, who probably lived in the early or middle first century. Pliny the Elder related that he earned 250,000 sestertii per year. Lucius Arruntius L. f. L. n. Camillus Scribonianus, son of the elder Scribonianus, was an augur, and praefectus urbi during the reign of Claudius, but in AD 52 was exiled, along with his mother, Vibidia, after they were accused of consulting astrologers concerning the date of the emperor's death. When he died soon afterward, it was rumoured that he had been poisoned. Arruntia L. f. L. n. Camilla, daughter of the elder Scribonianus, is known from inscriptions. Arruntius, a legacy hunter mentioned by the younger Seneca. Arruntius Stella, appointed by Nero to oversee the production of the games that he held in AD 55. Marcus Arruntius M. f. Aquila, procurator of Pamphylia in AD 50, and consul suffectus ex Kal. Sept. in 66. Marcus Arruntius M. f. M. n. Aquila, consul suffectus in AD 77. Lucius Arruntius Maximus, procurator of Asturia and Gallaecia in AD 79. Lucius Arruntius Sempronianus Asclepiades, physician to the emperor Domitian, was perhaps related to the earlier physician Arruntius, but precisely how is uncertain. Marcus Arruntius Claudianus, a resident of Xanthus, was adlected into the senate under Domitian, becoming the first Lycian senator. Lucius Arruntius Stella, consul suffectus in AD 101, was an intimate friend of the poet Publius Papinius Statius, who wrote a poem commemorating the marriage of Arruntius and Violantilla, and dedicated the first book of his Silvae to Arruntius. Quintus Arruntius Q. f. Justus, had been aedile and quaestor, and was patron of a number of colonies and municipii, including Bovianum Undecimanorum, and several settlements the location of which are unknown. He must have lived in the early part of the second century. Arruntius Silo, mentioned in the Digest. Lucius Arruntius, consul in an uncertain year, toward the end of the second century AD. Arruntius Marcellus, a senator, mentioned by Porphyrius among the disciples of Plotinus. Arruntius Celsus, the author of a commentary on Terence. He probably lived in the latter part of the fourth century. Footnotes See also List of Roman gentes References Bibliography Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Compendium of Roman History. Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Naturalis Historia (Natural History). Lucius Annaeus