plebeian. Members of this gens are first mentioned in the second Punic war, but none ever obtained the honours of the consulship: the first who held a curule office was M. Cosconius, praetor in B. C. 135. [COSCONIUS.]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890