The gens Lemonia was an ancient but obscure family at
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
. Hardly any members of this
gens
In ancient Rome, a gens ( or , ; plural: ''gentes'' ) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same Roman naming conventions#Nomen, nomen and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a ''stirps'' (p ...
are known, and the name might be entirely forgotten, were it not for the fact that the Lemonii gave their name to one of the
Servian tribes. This dates the family to at least the middle of the sixth century BC, when they may have been major landholders in the region later known as the ''pagus Lemonius'', but none of the Lemonii are known to have held any
magistracies over the history of the
Republic
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. A few Lemonii are known from inscriptions; a family of this name lived in
Venetia and Histria.
Members
* Lucius Lemonius, buried at
Aquileia
Aquileia / / / / ;Bilingual name of ''Aquileja – Oglej'' in: vec, Aquiłeja / ; Slovenian: ''Oglej''), group=pron is an ancient Roman city in Italy, at the head of the Adriatic at the edge of the lagoons, about from the sea, on the river N ...
in Venetia and Histria.
* Lucius Lemonius T. f., built a tomb near
Patavium in Venetia and Histria for a certain Pittiaca Primula.
* Quintus Lemonius Sex. f., named in an inscription from
Julia Concordia in Venetia and Histria.
* Gaius Lemonius C. f. Mollo, buried at Patavium.
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See also
*
List of Roman gentes
References
Bibliography
*
Theodor Mommsen
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th cent ...
''et alii'', ''
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
The ''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'' (''CIL'') is a comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions. It forms an authoritative source for documenting the surviving epigraphy of classical antiquity. Public and personal inscriptions throw ...
'' (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).
* Fulviomario Broilo, ''Iscrizioni Lapidarie Latine del Museo Nazionale Concordiese di Portogruaro (I a.C. – III d.C.)'' (Latin Lapidary Inscriptions from the National Museum of Concordia at Portogruaro, 1st century BC – 3rd century AD, abbreviated ''ILLConcordia''), Bretschneider, Rome (1980–1984).
* Giovanni Battista Brusin, ''Inscriptiones Aquileiae'' (Inscriptions of Aquileia, abbreviated ''InscrAqu''), Udine (1991–1993).
* Timothy J. Cornell, ''The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000–264 BC)'', Routledge, London (1995).
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Roman gentes