patrician and plebeian. On coins and inscriptions the name is almost always written Aquillius, but in manuscripts generally with a single l. This gens was of great antiquity. Two of the Aquillii are mentioned among the Roman
nobles who conspired to bring back the Tarquins (CORVUS, CRASSUS, FLORUS, GALLUS, TUSCUS: for those
who bear no surname, see AQUILLIUS.