Vistilia gens
The gens Vistilia or Vestilia was a minor
Drusus the Elder
.
Origin
The Vistilii likely came from Umbria, in northern Italy. In his study of Annals I through VI, Ronald Syme lists several inscriptions bearing the names of different Vistilii from that region.[1] Other Vistilii are mentioned in inscriptions from Latium and Campania.
Praenomina
All of the Vistilii known from history and epigraphy bore the
.Members
- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Sextus Vistilius, praetor, and a friend of Nero Claudius Drusus.
- Vistilia, the mother of Milonia Caesonia, the wife of Caligula, and Roman empress from AD 38 to 41.
- Vistilia Sex. f., a prostitute.
- Gaius Vistilius, named in a sepulchral inscription from Rome, dating from the latter half of the first century BC.[2]
- Gaius Vistilius C. l. Lep[...], a freedman buried in an
- Vistilia C. l. Ruf[...], a freedwoman buried in an Augustan era tomb at Interamna Nahars, along with the freedman Gaius Vistilius Lep[...] and the freedwoman Aerisina Prima.[3]
- Sextus Vistilius Sex. l. Zenae, a freedman named in a sepulchral inscription from Rome.[4]
- Sextus Vistilius Sex. l. Felix, a freedman buried in a first-century tomb at Rome.[5]
- Sextus Vistilius Helenus, a youth buried at Rome, in a tomb dating from the first half of the first century.[6]
- Gaius Vistilius C. f. Rufus, named in an inscription from Syracuse in Sicily, dating from the first half of the first century.[7]
- Vestilia Hostili[...], named in an inscription from Pompeii in Campania.[8]
- Gaius Vistilius Primigenius, dedicated a late first-century tomb at Rome for his daughter, Vistilia Fortunata.[9]
- Vistilia C. f. Fortunata, a young woman buried at Rome, aged thirteen years, nine months, and four days, in a tomb built by her father, Gaius Vistilius Primigenius, dating from the last quarter of the first century.[9]
- Gaius Vistilius Annaeus, buried in a first- or second-century tomb built by Gaius Vistilius Miles for himself and Annaeus at Ameria in Umbria.[10]
- Sextus Vistilius Sex. l. Bathyllus, a freedman, and one of the
- Sextus Vestilius D[...], along with Aulus Egrilius Eutychus, dedicated a tomb for Vestilia Ti[...] at Ostia in Latium, dating between the middle of the first century and the end of the second.[13]
- Vestilia Ti[...], buried at Ostia, in a tomb built by Aulus Egrilius Eutychus and Sextus Vestilius D[...], dating between the middle of the first century and the end of the second.[13]
- Sextus Vestilius Lycysus, buried at
- Vistilia Ɔ. f. Flora, a freedwoman buried at Ameria, in a second- or third-century tomb built by the freedman Sextus Roscius Gelos, perhaps her husband.[15]
- Vestilia Hieronica, a woman buried in a family sepulchre at Portus in Latium, dating from the latter half of the second century, or the first half of the third.[16]
See also
References
- ^ Syme, "Personal Names in Annals I-VI", pp. 16 ff.
- ^ AE 2016, 156.
- ^ a b CIL XI, 4317.
- ^ CIL VI, 29052.
- ^ CIL VI, 29051.
- ^ AE 2001, 268.
- ^ CIL X, 7135.
- ^ CIL IV, 9251.
- ^ a b Panciera, La collezione epigrafica dei musei Capitolini, 150.
- ^ CIL XI, 4539.
- ^ AE 1995, 482.
- ^ CIL XI, 5825.
- ^ a b CIL XIV, 1751.
- ^ CIL X, 628.
- ^ CIL XI, 4511.
- ^ CIL XIV, 1750.
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).
- Journal of Roman Studies, vol. 39 (1949).
- Silvio Panciera, La collezione epigrafica dei musei Capitolini (The Epigraphic Collection of the Capitoline Museum), Quasar Edizioni, Rome (1987).