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The Sempronae name for this branch of the family holds its roots in the distant past when Etruria was still an indipendant nation. Originally the family were the dominant gens of the Etruscan city state of Velathri(Volterra). In the fourth century BCE the family seems to have cemented an alliance with Rome. This alliance is as much due to marriage as to political reasons for the Roman "Sempronai" and the Etruscan "Licini Sempronae" have always been closely linked and both in commerce and friendship even before there was a Republic.


The first of the "Licini Sempronae" to gain fame was Caius Licinius Sempronius "Etruscas". In 298 BCE Scipio defeated a large Etruscan force at Volterra and this brave young man was decorated for his valour on the field of battle.




Grandfather:
Caius Licinius Sempronius Niger.
155-88 BCE.
Military Tribune 134-132 BCE
Tribune in 122 BCE
Praetor in 103 BCE. Came late into the praetorship.
Served alongside Caius Marius as a military Tribune in Spain under the command of Scipio Aemilianus.
The first to rise to the rank of praetor on the cursus honorum in the Licini branch of the Sempronae. A Marian to the bone he was rewarded with the Praetorship in Caius Marius third consulship.

Grandmother:
Livia Fufia
149-84 BCE
A strong woman who lived for her husband.

Father:
Marcus Licinius Sempronius
131-77 BCE.
Tribune in 99 BCE
A Sulla partisan when Sulla marched on Rome he was overjoyed. He was not allowed to hold a Praetorship under Sulla however, and fell into alcoholism. He sent his young son to be raised in the ancient family lands of Volterra and arranged for him to serve as a military Tribune in Illyricum and died in 77 BCE a debt riddled old man.

Mother:
Domitia Dulia
123-97
Died a young woman