Cossutius

The gens Cossutia was a plebeian family of equestrian rank at Rome. It never attained any importance. It is conjectured by some from Cicero’s mention of the “Cossutianae tabulae”, near Caesena, in Gallia Cisalpina, that the Cossutii originally came from that place. Cossuzia (in Latin Cossutia) was a Roman woman who lived in the first century BC, of a wealthy family and belonging to the equestrian order. She was the promise of Gaius Julius Caesar when the future dictator still wore toga praetexta. Even the engagement was dissolved by Caesar himself when his appointment to flamine diale, as the office provided that his wife should be a patrician.