The gens Minidia was an obscure plebeian family at

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. Two are known to have been admitted to the

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. Otherwise, they are known chiefly from the writings of

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and

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, as well as a number of inscriptions.

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* Minidia, the name of two women named in an inscription from Vicetia in

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.Forlati Tamaro, ''La basilica dei santi Felice e Fortunato'', p. 370, 4. * Lucius Minidius, a merchant or banker at

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, married a woman named Oppia. In 46 BC, Cicero had some financial transactions with Minidius' heirs, including his brother, Marcus. * Marcus Minidius, a Roman merchant at Elis, with whom Cicero was involved in a lawsuit. * Publius Minidius, a soldier who served alongside Vitruvius in

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army. * Lucius Mindius Balbus, Roman Senator and governor of

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at some point between AD 43 and 47. * Lucius Mindius Pollio, Roman Senator and governor of Bithynia and Pontus at some point after AD 42. * Lucius Minidius, the master of Stolia, a slave named in an inscription from

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. * Lucius Minidius Proculi f., named in an inscription from Vicetia. * Gaius Minidius Primigenius, buried at Risinium in Dalmatia, aged forty years. * Gaius Minidius, the former master of Gaius Minidius Hieronymus.. * Gaius Minidius Hieronymus, a freedman named in an inscription from

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in Dalmatia. * Gaius Minidius, the former master of Minidia Homilia.. * Proculus Minidius, the father of Lucius Minidius, named in an inscription from Vicetia. * Minidius . . . alis, named in an inscription from Vicetia. * Minidia Homilia, a freedwoman, wife of Quintus Julius Hilarius, and mother of Minidia Merope, built a family sepulchre at

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in Latium. * Minidia Merope, daughter of Minidia Homilia, buried with her family at Ostia. * Minidia Quintina, buried at Lissus in Dalmatia, aged thirty.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the esta ...

, ''

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''. *

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Vitruvius (; c. 80–70 BC – after c. 15 BC) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work entitled ''De architectura''. He originated the idea that all buildings should have three attribute ...

, '' De Architectura'' (On Architecture). * ''

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'', William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849). * Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, ''

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'' (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated ''PIR''), Berlin (1898). * René Cagnat ''et alii'', ''

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'' (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated ''AE''), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present). * Bruna Forlati Tamaro, ''La basilica dei santi Felice e Fortunato in Vicenza'' (The Basilica of Saints Felix and Fortunatus in Vicenza), Band 2, Vicenza (1979). {{DEFAULTSORT:Minidia (gens) Roman gentes

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