Sotidia gens

The gens Sotidia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Hardly any members of this gens occur in history, but a few are known from inscriptions, dating to the first century of the Empire.

Members[]

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

• , governor of Galatia at the commencement of the reign of Tiberius. He was subsequently one of the curatores of the waters and banks of the Tiber.^[1][2][3]
• Sextus Sotidius Primus Augustalis, named in a first-century sepulchral inscription from Canusium in Apulia, along with Flavia Dutia and Tyrannus.^[4]
• Sotidia L. f. Maxima, buried in a first-century family sepulchre built by her father, Lucius Postumulenus Nicephorus, at Canusium, along with her mother, Nonia Verecunda.^[5]

See also[]

• List of Roman gentes

References[]

Bibliography[]

• 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).
• August Pauly, Georg Wissowa, et alii, Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Scientific Encyclopedia of the Knowledge of Classical Antiquities, abbreviated RE or PW), J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart (1894–1980).
• Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR), Berlin (1898).