Mu'cia Gens
was a very ancient patrician house, ascending to the earliest aera of the republic (
Dionys. A. R. 5.25;
Liv. 2.12).
It existed in later times, however, only as a plebeian house. Its only cognomens are CORDUS and SCAEVOLA, under which are given all persons of the name of Mucius.
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