The gens Autronia was a plebeian family at Rome.
Persons of this gens first came into notice in the last century of the Republic; the first member who obtained the consulship was Publius Autronius Paetus, in 65 BC.
[1] The only surname of the Autronii was Paetus, a cognomen in many other gentes.
It originally signified a person who had a slight cast in the eye, but it did not indicate such a complete distortion of vision as Strabo.
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.