The gens Tutia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Only a few members of this gens are mentioned by Roman writers, but a number of others are known from inscriptions.
Origin
The earliest known Tutii came from the ancient city of Praeneste in Latium. Their nomen is probably derived from the cognomen Tutus, meaning "safe", and belonging to a class of surnames originally derived from the supposed character of the bearer. A less likely source is the Oscan word touto, referring to a people, since the Praenestini were Latins, although Chase lists both Toutius and Tutius as gentilicia of apparently Oscan origin, based on touto.
Praenomina
The Tutii used a variety of common praenomina, including Gaius, Lucius, Marcus, Publius, Quintus, Sextus, and Titus. From a filiation, we know that they also used the less-common Manius. Two of the early inscriptions of this gens provide examples of the feminine praenomina Maio and Mino, perhaps belonging to a pair of sisters at Praeneste.
Members
Maio Tutia Q. f., named in an inscription from Praeneste in Latium, dating between the middle of the third century BC, and the end of the second. Mino Tutia, named in a late third-century BC inscription from Praeneste. Tutia, the widow of Quintus Lepanius and mother of Gaius Lepanius Tidus, was granted a pension by the senate of Cora in Latium, at some point in the early or middle first century BC. Tutia, the wife of one of the Othones, whom she divorced with the intention of marrying the younger Quintus Tullius Cicero. It is unknown whether they were married before young Cicero, his father and uncle perished in the proscriptions of the Second Triumvirate. Tutia Ɔ. l. Licentia, a freedwoman named in a sepulchral inscription from Pompeii in Campania, dating from the first half of the first century. Gaius Tutius M'. f. Dansala, an eques in the Cohors IV Thracum, a regiment of cavalry auxilia. He was buried at Mogontiacum in Germania Superior, aged thirty-five, in a tomb dating from the reign of Tiberius, with a monument from Bitus, the son of Stacus. Tutius, a centurion in the seventh cohort of the praetorian guard at some point in the first or second century. Lucius Tutius Cerealis, supposedly consul in AD 106, is evidently a misreading for Vettulenus Cerealis, perhaps influenced by the appearance of Tutius Cerealis, a man of consular rank, in the letters of Pliny the Younger, although this presented its own difficulty, as the letter was written in AD 99. Tutia Marcia, the wife of Verecundus, a freedman of the emperor, who built a tomb for her at Praeneste, dating between the late first century and the end of the second. Gaius Tutius, dedicated a second-century tomb at Sulci in Sardinia for his father, whose name has not been preserved. Tutia P. f. Vitalis, buried in a late second-century tomb at Ausafa in Africa Proconsularis, aged sixty-seven. Marcus Tutius, one of the aediles, according to an inscription from Ostia in Latium, dating between AD 222 and 229. Tutia Eutychia, buried at Cirta in Numidia, along with Lucilla, aged forty, in a tomb dating from the middle part of the third century.
