Nautia Gens
A patrician gens at Rome, claiming descent from Nautes, one of the companions of Aeneas,
who was said to have brought with him the Palladium from Troy, which was placed under the care
of the Nautii at Rome. All the Nautii had the surname Rutilus (
Verg.
Aen. v. 704;
Dionys. vi. 4).