The gens Reginia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Few members of this gens are mentioned in history, but several are known from inscriptions.[1]
Origin edit
The nomen Reginius belongs to a class of gentilicia formed from cognomina ending in -inus.[2] Reginus, the surname and probable root of this nomen, belongs to a type of cognomen derived from the names of places, in this case the ancient city of Rhegium in Bruttium, presumable the place where the ancestors of the Reginii lived.[3][4]
Members edit
- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Gaius Reginius, a soldier in the eighth cohort of the praetorian guard, who placed a monument at Rome in memory of his colleague, Gaius Julius Verus.[5]
- Gaius Reginius December, built a monument for his wife, Cintusmina, the daughter of Magionus, at Durocortorum in Gallia Belgica.[6]
- Marcus Reginius M. f. Eutyches, a native of Lycia, was a soldier in the twelfth urban cohort at Rome in AD 197, serving the century of Romanus.[7]
- Reginia Grata, built a tomb at Cortona in Etruria for her husband, Aulus Gellius Etruscus.[8]
- Reginius Justinus, a probably a military tribune, named in a libationary inscription dedicated to Neptune, found at Banna in Britain.[9]
- Reginia Maxima, buried at Rome with her husband, Publius Vibius Marianus, a decorated soldier, formerly centurion primus pilus of the third legion, in a tomb dedicated by their daughters, Julia Dertona and Vibia Maria Maxima.[10][1]
- Reginia Paterna, made an offering to Semele at Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium in Germania Inferior.[11]
- Quintus Reginius Silvanus, buried at Lactora in Gallia Aquitania, together with his wife, Julia Comenua.[12]
- Reginia Titula, a native of Arabia Petraea, buried at Rome, aged twenty-nine, with a monument from her husband, Aurelius Septimius.[13]
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References edit
Bibliography edit
- Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
- René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
- Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR), Berlin (1898).
- John C. Traupman, The New College Latin & English Dictionary, Bantam Books, New York (1995).