Anicia gens
The gens Anicia (or the Anicii) was a
A noble family bore this name in the imperial era, and may have been descended from the Anicii of the Republic.[1]
Origin
The Anicii may have been from the
Praenomina
The Anicii are known to have used the praenomina Lucius, Quintus, Marcus, Gnaeus, Titus, and Gaius.[1]
Branches and cognomina
The only major branch of the family during the Republic used the
During the imperial age, in the fourth century, a Roman family bearing the nomen Anicius rose to great prominence. The historian Edward Gibbon writes:
From the reign of
Constantine.Their ample patrimony was increased by the industry of Probus, the chief of the Anician family; who shared with Gratian the honors of the consulship, and exercised, four times, the high office of Praetorian praefect. His immense estates were scattered over the wide extent of the Roman world; and though the public might suspect or disapprove the methods by which they had been acquired, the generosity and magnificence of that fortunate statesman deserved the gratitude of his clients, and the admiration of strangers. Such was the respect entertained for his memory, that the two sons of Probus, in their earliest youth, and at the request of the senate, were associated in the consular dignity; a memorable distinction, without example, in the annals of Rome.
"The marbles of the Anician palace," were used as a proverbial expression of opulence and splendor; but the nobles and senators of Rome aspired, in due gradation, to imitate that illustrious family.[3]
A branch of the family transferred to the
Members
- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
Anicii of the Republic
- Quintus Anicius Praenestinus, curule aedile in 304 BC.[5]
- Marcus or Lucius Anicius Gallus, grandfather of Lucius Anicius Gallus, consul in 160 BC.[6][7]
- Lucius Anicius (L.? n.) Gallus, father of Lucius, the consul of 160.[6][7]
- Lucius Anicius L. f. L.? n. Gallus, as praetor peregrinus in 168 BC, during the Macedonian War, triumphed over Gentius, king of Illyria. He was consul in 160.[6][7][8]
- Gnaeus Anicius, a Lucius Aemilius Paullus in 168 BC, during the Third Macedonian War.[9]
- Titus Anicius, commissioned by Cicero to purchase a house in the suburbs for him.[10]
- Gaius Anicius, a senator, and a friend and neighbor of Cicero, who gave him a letter of introduction to Quintus Cornificius in Africa.[11]
Imperial Anicii
- Publius Anicius P.f. Maximus, prefect under Domitius Ahenobarbus in Antioch.[12][13]
- Gaius Anicius Cerialis, consul in AD 65.[14]
- Anicius Maximus, proconsul of Bithynia c. 110.[15]
- Quintus Anicius Faustus, consul in AD 198.
- Anicius Faustus Paulinus, legate of Moesia Inferior in 230.[16]
- Sextus Cocceius Anicius Faustus Paulinus, proconsul of Africa under Gallienus.[17]
- Anicius Sex.f. Faustus, consul II in AD 298, and praefectus urbi of Rome in 299–300.
- Amnius Anicius Julianus, consul in AD 322, and praefectus urbi of Rome in 326–329.
- Sextus Anicius Paulinus, consul in AD 325, and praefectus urbi of Rome in 331–333.
- Amnius Manius Caesonius Nicomachus Anicius Paulinus signo Honorius, consul in AD 334 and praefectus urbi of Rome in 334–335.
- Anicius Auchenius Bassus, praefectus urbi of Rome in AD 382 and 383.
- Tyrrenia Anicia Juliana, the daughter of Auchenius Bassus, married Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius, consul in AD 379.
- Anicia Faltonia Proba, a poet, who married Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus, consul in AD 371.[1]
- Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus, poet, governor and senator, was consul in AD 377.
- Anicius Hermogenianus Olybrius, consul in AD 395.[1]
- Anicius Probinus, consul with his brother Hermogenianus Olybrius in AD 395.
- Anicius Petronius Probus, consul in AD 406.[1]
- Anicia Proba, daughter of Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus.
- Demetrias, daughter of Hermogenianus.
- Anicius Auchenius Bassus, consul in AD 408.[1]
- Aurelius Anicius Symmachus, praefectus urbi of Rome, AD 418–420.
- Anicius Auchenius Bassus, consul in AD 431.
- Petronius Maximus, consul in AD 433 and 443, was proclaimed emperor in 455.
- Anicius Probus, mentioned as a vir illustris in AD 459.
- Anicius Olybrius, proclaimed emperor in AD 472.
- Anicia Juliana, the daughter of Olybrius.
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, consul in AD 510, an eminent scholar and philosopher.
- Symmachus, son of Boëthius, was consul in AD 522, with his brother, the younger Boëthius.[1]
- Boëthius, son of the elder Boëthius, was consul with his brother, Symmachus, in AD 522.[1]
- Anicius Maximus, consul in AD 523.
- Anicius Olybrius, consul in AD 526.
- Anicius Faustus Albinus Basilius, consul in AD 541, was the last person other than the Byzantine emperor to hold this title.
- Germanus, cousin and general of Justinian I, died in AD 550.
- Anicius Gregorius, later Pope Gregory I, praefectus urbi of Rome circa AD 573, served as Pope from 590 to 604.
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- ^ Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1952).
- ^ Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 31 [1]
- ISBN 88-16-43504-6, pp. 18-19.
- ^ T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1952).
- ^ a b c Fasti Capitolini.
- ^ a b c Fasti Triumphales.
- ^ Broughton, vol. I, pp. 428, 444.
- Ab Urbe Conditaxliv. 46.
- ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem iii. 1. § 7.
- ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem ii. 19, Epistulae ad Familiares vii. 26, xii. 21.
- ^ CIL III, 6809
- ^ PIR2 A 604
- ^ PIR2 A 594
- ^ PIR2 A 603
- ^ PIR2 A 595
- ^ CIL VIII, 1437
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help)
