Seria gens

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The gens Seria was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens rose to prominence during the second century, attaining the consulship twice, and holding various other offices under the Nerva-Antonine dynasty.

Branches and cognomina[]

The only distinct family of the Serii bore the cognomen Augurinus, borne by the consular family of the second century. This was one of a large class of surnames derived from occupations, and probably indicating that the first member of the family to acquire the name was an augur.[1]

Members[]

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
  • Seria Maximilla, the former mistress of Titus Serius Alexander, for whom she dedicated a tomb at Pitinum in Umbria, dating between AD 50 and 200.[2]
  • Titus Serius Ɔ. l. Alexander, the freedman of Seria Maximilla, who dedicated a tomb at Pitinum, dating between AD 50 and 200.[2]
  • Gaius Junius Serius Augurinus, consul in AD 132, in office from the Kalends of January to the end of April.[3][4]
  • Gaius Serius Augurinus, one of the duumviri quinquennales at Rome in AD 132, he fourth year of the twenty-eighth lustrum.[5]
  • Gaius Serius C. f. Augurinus, consul in AD 156, probably serving for the first two months of the year. He was proconsul of Africa in 170.[6]
  • Gnaeus Serius C. f. C. n. Oppianicus Augurinus, one of the Salii Palatini in AD 181.[7][8]
  • Lucius Serius Niger, made an offering to Isis at Telesia in Samnium, recorded in a second-century inscription.[9]
  • Seria Expectata, buried in a second-century tomb at Reate in Samnium, with a monument from her husband, Gaius Spellius Fudidianus.[10]
  • Serius Callistus, dedicated a second- or third-century monument at Rome to his stepson, Serius Eutyches.[11]
  • Serius Eutyches, buried at Rome in the second or third century, with a monument from his father, Serius Callistus.[11]
  • Seria Corinthias, buried in a third-century tomb at Rome, aged twenty-one years, six months, and twenty days, with a monument from her husband, Petronius Severianus.[12]
  • Valerius Serius Serus, dedicated a monument at Rome for his wife, Flavia Pontia Januaria, dating to the end of the third century, or the first quarter of the fourth.[13]

Undated Serii[]

  • Serius, named along with Lucia, perhaps his wife, in a fragmentary inscription from Venetia and Histria.[14]
  • Serius, a little boy buried at Augusta Treverorum in Gallia Belgica, aged two years and three months, with a monument from his parents.[15]
  • Quintus Serius C. f., named in an inscription from Bononia in Cisalpine Gaul, along with Publius Serius Celer, possibly his son.[16]
  • Serius Augurinus, the son of Aelia Caecilia Philippa.[17]
  • Publius Serius Q. f. Celer, named in an inscription from Bononia, along with Quintus Serius, perhaps his father.[16]
  • Seria Fausta, named in an inscription from Mevania in Umbria.[18]
  • Seria Tigris, buried at Rome, with a monument from her husband.[19]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Chase, pp. 111, 112.
  2. ^ a b CIL XI, 5980.
  3. ^ AE 1933, 58.
  4. ^ PIR, S. 386.
  5. ^ CIL VI, 10299.
  6. ^ PIR, S. 387.
  7. ^ CIL VI, 1979.
  8. ^ PIR, S. 388.
  9. ^ CIL IX, 2196.
  10. ^ CIL IX, 4737.
  11. ^ a b NSA, 1920–232.
  12. ^ CIL VI, 26348.
  13. ^ ICUR, ix. 24686.
  14. ^ AE 1977, 295.
  15. ^ Recueil des Inscriptions Chrétiennes de la Gaule, i. 155.
  16. ^ a b CIL XI, 781.
  17. ^ PIR, S. 385.
  18. ^ AE 1989, 277.
  19. ^ CIL VI, 26349.

Bibliography[]

  • Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
  • Giovanni Battista de Rossi, Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romanae Septimo Saeculo Antiquiores (Christian Inscriptions from Rome of the First Seven Centuries, abbreviated ICUR), Vatican Library, Rome (1857–1861, 1888).
  • Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (News of Excavations from Antiquity, abbreviated NSA), Accademia dei Lincei (1876–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).
  • Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR), Berlin (1898).
  • Recueil des Inscriptions Chrétiennes de la Gaule (Record of Christian Inscriptions from Gaul), Paris (1975–present).
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