The gens Menia was a minor
Roman family. None of its members is known to have held any
magistracies, but a few are known from inscriptions and mentions in ancient writers.
Members
* Menius Rufus, generally supposed to have been a physician mentioned by
Asclepiades Pharmacion, and who must therefore have lived in or before the first century AD. He may be the same Rufus quoted by
Andromachus the Younger, according to
Galen, and perhaps also by
Servilius Damocrates.
* Publius Menius Luscus, a surveyor of grain, buried at
Salernum, in
Campania.
* Gaius Menius Sabinus, a soldier, who dedicated a statue to
Hercules Invictus at
Melta, in the province of
Moesia Inferior
Moesia (; Latin: ''Moesia''; el, Μοισία, Moisía) was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans south of the Danube River, which included most of the territory of modern eastern Serbia, Kosovo, north-eastern Alban ...
.
* Aulus Menius Amillus Nepos, buried at
Thugga in
Africa Proconsularis, aged two.
[''MAD'', 790.]
See also
*
List of Roman gentes
References
Bibliography
* Aelius Galenus (
Galen), ''De Antidotis'' (on Antidotes), ''De Compositione Medicamentorum Secundum Locos Conscriptorum'' (On the Composition of Medications According to the Place Prescribed).
* ''
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 ''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).
* M. Khanoussi, L. Maurin, ''Mourir à Dougga: Receuil des inscriptions funéraires'' (Dying in Dougga: a Compendium of Funerary Inscriptions, abbreviated ''MAD''), Bordeaux, Tunis (2002).
Roman gentes
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