Lucius Ennius

Lucius Ennius was a Roman Eques who lived in the second half of the 1st century BC and first half of the 1st century.

Little is known about the origins of Ennius, however he may have been originally from the Roman province of Creta et Cyrenaica. Ennius was a member of the gens Ennia, hence he may have been a relative of the poet Ennius and Manius Ennius, a Roman soldier who served with Germanicus in 14 AD on the Rhine River frontier.

In 22, Ennius was accused of treason by the Roman Senate, for having converted a statue of the Roman emperor Tiberius to the common use of silver plate. although the Roman Senate did not approve of the actions of the emperor. while Aka was a princess from the Kingdom of Commagene. His brother-in-law was Tiberius Claudius Balbilus.

Ennius had a daughter named Ennia Thrasylla who married the Praetorian prefect of the Praetorian Guard, Naevius Sutorius Macro.