The gens Matinia was a minor
plebeian
In ancient Rome, the plebeians (also called plebs) were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words " commoners". Both classes were hereditary.
Etymology
The precise origins of ...
family at
Rome. Its most famous member may have been Publius Matinius, a money-broker in the time of
Cicero.
Members
* Publius Matinius, a money-broker, was recommended to Cicero by
Marcus Junius Brutus
Marcus Junius Brutus (; ; 85 BC – 23 October 42 BC), often referred to simply as Brutus, was a Roman politician, orator, and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar. After being adopted by a relative, he used the name Quintus Serv ...
in 51 BC, when Cicero was
proconsul in Cilicia. Together with Marcus Scaptius, a
client of Brutus, Matinius had loaned a considerable amount to the people of
Salamis.
* Titus Matinius T. f. Hymenaeus, named in an inscription found near the abbey of San Pietro at
Ferentillo
Ferentillo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about 60 km southeast of Perugia and about 12 km northeast of Terni. The ''comune'', located in the valley of the Nera, is divided b ...
in
Umbria.
See also
*
List of Roman gentes
References
Footnotes
Bibliography
*
Marcus Tullius Cicero, ''
Epistulae ad Atticum''.
*
Theodor Mommsen ''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).
Roman gentes
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