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Satriena gens

The gens Satriena was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. No members of this gens obtained any of the higher offices of the Roman state, but a number are known from coins and inscriptions.[1]

Origin edit

The nomen Satrienus belongs to a class of gentilicia formed from other nomina using the suffix -enus. The root of the name is Satrius, the nomen of a more prominent gens.[2][1]

Praenomina edit

The praenomina used by the Satrieni include Publius, Quintus, Gaius, and Lucius, four of the most common names throughout Roman history.

Branches and cognomina edit

The Satrieni used a variety of common surnames, including Pollio, a polisher, belonging to a class of cognomina derived from occupations; Salvia and Secunda, old praenomina that came to be regarded as surnames; Juvenalis, youthful, and perhaps Celsa, originally given to one who was particularly tall.[3][4]

Members edit

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
  • Satriena C. f.,[i] buried at Narbo in Gallia Narbonensis, together with Gaius Aemilius Philonicus and his wife, Aemilia Secunda.[5]
  • Satriena P. f., buried at Rome.[6]
  • Satrienus, named in an inscription from Aquinum in Latium.[7]
  • Lucius Satrienus C. f., named in an inscription from Aquinum.[8]
  • Publius Satrienus, as triumvir monetalis, minted coins bearing the head of Mars, or perhaps Pallas, on the obverse, and a she-wolf on the reverse.[9]
  • Quintus Satrienus Cosmus, named in an inscription from Rome.[10]
  • Satrienus Juvenalis, a military tribune in the eleventh legion, named in an inscription from the present site of Altenburg, formerly part of Germania Superior.[11]
  • Quintus Satrienus Pollio, named in a first-century inscription from Rome.[12]
  • Satriena P. l. Salvia, a freedwoman, and the wife of Quintus Pompeius Sosus, the freedman of Bithynicus, named in a funerary inscription from Rome.[13]
  • Satriena Q. l. Secunda, a freedwoman buried at Rome.[14]

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ Or perhaps Satriena Celsa.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 722 ("Publius Satrienus").
  2. ^ Chase, p. 118.
  3. ^ Chase, pp. 111, 141, 150, 151, 172.
  4. ^ New College Latin & English Dictionary, s. v. juvenalis.
  5. ^ CIL XII, 4552, CIL XII, 5120.
  6. ^ CIL VI, 38865a.
  7. ^ CIL X, 5522.
  8. ^ AE 1988, 264.
  9. ^ Eckhel, vol. v, p. 300.
  10. ^ CIL VI, 21048.
  11. ^ Finke, "Neue Inschriften", p. 106.
  12. ^ CIL VI, 23548.
  13. ^ CIL VI, 33087.
  14. ^ CIL VI, 25875.

Bibliography edit

  • Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, Doctrina Numorum Veterum (The Study of Ancient Coins, 1792–1798).
  • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
  • 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).
  • George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII, pp. 103–184 (1897).
  • Hermann Finke, "Neue Inschriften" (New Inscriptions), in Berichte der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, vol. 17, pp. 1–107, 198–231 (1927).
  • John C. Traupman, The New College Latin & English Dictionary, Bantam Books, New York (1995).
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