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The gens Strabonia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. No members of this gens are mentioned by ancient writers, but several are known from inscriptions.

Origin[edit]

The nomen Strabonius belongs to a class of gentilicia derived primarily from cognomina ending in -o. The surname Strabo was originally applied to a person known for squinting, part of a large group of cognomina deriving from the physical traits and characteristics of an individual.[1]

Praenomina[edit]

All of the Strabonii found in inscriptions bear common praenomina, including Gaius, Publius, Titus, and Quintus.

Members[edit]

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
  • Strabonia, probably the mother of [...]ennius, a person buried at Perusia in Etruria.[2]
  • Gaius Strabonius, dedicated a monument at Vazuanis in Numidia for his wife, Octavia Successa, aged seventy.[3]
  • Strabonius Datianus, a soldier in the first urban cohort at Rome, mentioned in a monument from Tunes in Africa Proconsularis, dating from AD 230.[4]
  • Strabonia Euphrosyne, dedicated a monument for her friend, Caesidia Ionis, at Vicohabentia in Cisalpine Gaul, dating to the late second or early third century.[5]
  • Strabonia C. l. Eutychia, a freedwoman buried at Julia Concordia in Venetia and Histria, in a late first- or early second-century tomb dedicated by Vettia Anthis.[6]
  • Publius Strabonius P. f. Eutychus, buried at Rome, along with his sisters, Vipsania Glypte and Munia Trophime, in a tomb built by their father, Publius Strabonius Primigenius.[7]
  • Quintus Strabonius Honoratianus, buried at Bulla Regia in Africa Proconsularis.[8]
  • Publius Strabonius Primigenius, dedicated a sepulchre at Rome for his children, Vipsania Glypte, Publius Strabonius Eutychus, and Munia Trophime.[7]
  • Titus Strabonius Primigenius, together with his wife, Quinta Laodamia, dedicated a second-century tomb at Rome for their daughter, Strabonia Venusta.[9]
  • Strabonia Prisca, the mistress of Clado, a slave named in an inscription from Alba Fucens in Sabinum.[10]
  • Strabonia Secundilla, along with her daughter, Trebius Rufilla, dedicated a tomb at Trasacco in Sabinum to her husband, Gaius Trebius Optatus.[11]
  • Gaius Strabonius C. l. Tremissus, a freedman named in an inscription from Ateste in Venetia and Histria.[12]
  • Strabonia Venusta, dedicated a tomb at Rome for Titus Statilius Clarus, her husband of fourteen years.[13]
  • Strabonia T. f. Venusta, buried at Rome, aged nine years, six months, in a second-century tomb dedicated by her parents, Titus Strabonius Primigenius and Quinta Laodamia.[9]
  • Strabonia Victorina, buried at the present site of Lendava, formerly part of Pannonia Superior, aged thirty-nine, with a monument from her husband, Gaius Julius Severinus, a veteran of the Legio I Adiutrix. In an adjoining tomb was their friend, Gaius Ulpius Licinius.[14]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Chase, pp. 109, 118, 119.
  2. ^ Supplementa Italica, xxx. 65.
  3. ^ CIL VIII, 17648.
  4. ^ AE 1984, 928.
  5. ^ AE 1985, 405.
  6. ^ CIL V, 8709.
  7. ^ a b CIL VI, 26880.
  8. ^ CIL VIII, 10585.
  9. ^ a b CIL VI, 26881.
  10. ^ CIL IX, 3984.
  11. ^ CIL IX, 3879.
  12. ^ AE 1997, 698.
  13. ^ CIL VI, 26757.
  14. ^ CIL III, 4148.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
  • Supplementa Italica (Supplement for Italy), Unione Accademica Nazionale.
  • 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).
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabonia_gens

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