Spurinnia gens
The gens Spurinnia was a minor
plebeian family of Etruscan descent at ancient Rome. No members of this gens are mentioned in ancient writers, but several are known from inscriptions.[1]
Origin
The
Caesar to that of Trajan, but the majority of epigraphic occurrences are as a nomen gentilicium.[1][3]
Praenomina
The inscriptions of the Spurinnae indicate that their favoured praenomina were Lucius, Publius, and Quintus, three of the most common names throughout Roman history. There is also an example of Velthur, a typical Etruscan praenomen.
Members
- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Publius Spurinna, named in a sepulchral inscription from
- Velthur Spurinna, named in a first-century inscription from Tarquinii.[5]
- Spurinnia P. l. Eleutheris, a freedwoman buried at Rome during the first century.[6]
- Spurinna Firmus, buried at Tarquinii, aged thirty.[7]
- Lucius Spurinna Florus, one of the quattuorviri at Volsinii in Etruria.[8]
- Lucius Spurinna Ɔ. l. Hilarus, a freedman buried at Rome.[9]
- Spurinnia Longa, buried at Tarquinii in Etruria, aged seventy-five, in a tomb dating from the third quarter of the first century BC.[10]
- Spurinnia Nice Torquatiana, the nurse of Titus Julius Antigonus, buried at Rome during the middle part of the first century, in a tomb dedicated by Antigonus and his brother-in-law, Primigenius, the slave of Lucius Volusius Saturninus, for Spurinnia and Charis, the wife of Primigenius.[11]
- Quintus Spurinna Q. f. Quintianus, an Arretium in Etruria during the reign of Severus Alexander, and held several other positions of trust during his public career.[12]
- Spurinnia L. f. Thannia, buried at Tarquinii, aged ninety-four, in a tomb dating from the third quarter of the first century BC.[13]
See also
References
- ^ a b PW, "Spurinna".
- ^ Chase, pp. 117, 118.
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, pp. 897, 898 ("Vestritius Spurinna").
- ^ AE 2010, 461.
- ^ Torelli, Elogia Tarquiniensia, 2a.
- ^ CIL VI, 26709.
- ^ CIL XI, 3514.
- ^ CIL XI, 7301.
- ^ CIL VI, 26708.
- ^ CIL XI, 3488.
- ^ CIL VI, 7290.
- ^ CIL XI, 1847
- ^ CIL XI, 3489.
Bibliography
- 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).
- Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft(Scientific Encyclopedia of the Knowledge of Classical Antiquities, abbreviated RE or PW), J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart (1894–1980).
- George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII, pp. 103–184 (1897).
- Mario Torelli, Elogia Tarquiniensia, Sansoni, Florence (1975).