The gens Laelia was a plebeian family at Rome.
The first of the gens to obtain the consulship was Gaius Laelius in 190 BC.
[1] The only family name of the Laelii was Balbus, a common cognomen, referring to one who stammers.
A few of the Laelii used personal surnames, such as Sapiens ("wise"), by which the Laelius who was a friend of the younger Scipio Africanus was sometimes known.
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