The gens Pinnia was an obscure
plebeian family at
ancient Rome
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. Few members of this
gens are mentioned in history, and few of them attained any of the higher offices of the Roman state, although a few became local governors, and at least one, Lucius Pinnius Porphyrio, held the
quaestorship. Many others are known from inscriptions.
Praenomina
The main
praenomina
The ''praenomen'' (; plural: ''praenomina'') was a personal name chosen by the parents of a Roman child. It was first bestowed on the ''dies lustricus'' (day of lustration), the eighth day after the birth of a girl, or the ninth day after the birt ...
of the Pinnii were ''
Titus
Titus Caesar Vespasianus ( ; 30 December 39 – 13 September 81 AD) was Roman emperor from 79 to 81. A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his father Vespasian upon his death.
Before becoming emperor, Titus gained renown as a mili ...
'' and ''
Lucius
Lucius ( el, Λούκιος ''Loukios''; ett, Luvcie) is a male given name derived from '' Lucius'' (abbreviated ''L.''), one of the small group of common Latin forenames ('' praenomina'') found in the culture of ancient Rome. Lucius derives from ...
''. They occasionally used ''
Quintus'' and ''
Gaius
Gaius, sometimes spelled ''Gajus'', Kaius, Cajus, Caius, was a common Latin praenomen; see Gaius (praenomen).
People
* Gaius (jurist) (), Roman jurist
*Gaius Acilius
*Gaius Antonius
*Gaius Antonius Hybrida
*Gaius Asinius Gallus
*Gaius Asinius P ...
'', and there are instances of ''
Marcus'', ''
Aulus
Aulus (abbreviated A.) is one of the small group of common forenames found in the culture of ancient Rome.
The name was traditionally connected with Latin ''aula'', ''olla'', "palace", but this is most likely a false etymology. ''Aulus'' in fact p ...
'', and ''
Publius''.
Members
* Quintus Pinnius, a friend of
Marcus Terentius Varro
Marcus Terentius Varro (; 116–27 BC) was a Roman polymath and a prolific author. He is regarded as ancient Rome's greatest scholar, and was described by Petrarch as "the third great light of Rome" (after Vergil and Cicero). He is sometimes calle ...
, the antiquarian, who mentions him in ''Rerum Rusticarum'', his treatise on agriculture.
* Titus Pinnius, a friend of
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 ...
, who mentions him in one of his letters.
* Lucius Pinnius Celer, a soldier named in an inscription from Rome, dating to AD 70.
* Titus Pinnius Hilarus, made a contract with Publius Decimius Epagathus in March, AD 102.
* Titus Pinnius Primigenius, together with his wife, Fannia Sabina, dedicated a tomb at Rome for their house slave, Honorata, aged six years, seven months, and twenty-seven days, with an inscription dating to the second century AD, or the latter part of the first.
* Marcus Pinnius M. l. Surus, a freedman buried at Rome, in a tomb dating to the second century.
[.]
* Pinnia Restuta, a freedwoman buried at Rome, in the tomb of Marcus Pinnius Surus.
* Quintus Pinnius Onesimus, one of the priests at
Ostia in
Latium
Latium ( , ; ) is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.
Definition
Latium was originally a small triangle of fertile, volcanic soil ( Old Latium) on w ...
in AD 151.
* Pinnius Aurelius Venerius, buried at
Puteoli
Pozzuoli (; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' of the Metropolitan City of Naples, in the Italian region of Campania. It is the main city of the Phlegrean Peninsula.
History
Pozzuoli began as the Greek colony of ''Dicaearchia'' ( el, Δικα ...
in
Campania
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, aged about fifty, according to an inscription belonging to the late third or early fourth centuries AD>
Pinnii of uncertain era
* Lucius Pinnius, ''Praefectus Augustalis'', named in an inscription from
Gabii
Gabii was an ancient city of Latium, located due east of Rome along the Via Praenestina, which was in early times known as the ''Via Gabina''.
It was on the south-eastern perimeter of an extinct volcanic crater lake, approximately circular ...
in Latium.
[.]
* Quintus Pinnius, one of the
septemviri epulones at
Ravenna
Ravenna ( , , also ; rgn, Ravèna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 408 until its collapse in 476. It then served as the ca ...
in
Venetia and Histria
Venetia et Histria (Latin: ''Regio X Venetia et Histria'') was an administrative subdivision in the northeast of Roman Italy. It was originally created by Augustus as the tenth ''regio'' in 7 AD alongside the nine other ''regiones''. The region h ...
.
* Pinnia L. l., a freedwoman buried at
Tibur
Tivoli ( , ; la, Tibur) is a town and in Lazio, central Italy, north-east of Rome, at the falls of the Aniene river where it issues from the Sabine hills. The city offers a wide view over the Roman Campagna.
History
Gaius Julius Solinu ...
in Latium.
[''EE'', ix. 904.]
* Quintus Pinnius Q. l, buried at Atri, Abruzzo, Adria in Venetia and Histria.
* Lucius Pinnius L. l. Acastus, a freedman buried at Tibur.
* Gaius Pinnius C. f. Agrippa, buried in Achaea (Roman province), Achaia, aged twenty-two.
* Titus Pinnius T. l. Anteros, a freedman named in an inscription from Rome.
[.]
* Titus Pinnius T. l. Cavarius, a freedman, and the brother of Pinnia Plecte and Pinnius Januarius, buried at Budva, Bouthoe in Dalmatia (Roman province), Dalmatia.
[.]
* Lucius Pinnius S. f. Celsus, buried at Rome, aged eighteen years, four days.
* Lucius Pinnius L. l. Cerdo, buried at Rome.
* Gaius Pinnius Chrysanthus, father of Gaius Pinnius Natalis and Pinnia Natalia, who died in childhood.
[.]
* Titus Pinnius Corinthus, husband of Livia Poppaea, and father of two daughters named Pinnia Poppaea, who died in childhood.
[, .]
* Pinnia Didyma, wife of Titus Pinnius Hermes, who built a tomb for her at Rome.
[.]
* Titus Pinnius Epaphroditus, buried at the present site of Castel Gandolfo in Latium, aged eighteen years, five months.
* Quintus Pinnius Felix, one of the priests as Portus in Latium.
* Titus Pinnius Festus, named in an inscription from Rome as one of the donors of a pot.
* Titus Pinnius T. f. Firmus, named in an inscription from Ateste in Venetia and Histria.
* Lucius Pinnius L. f. Fortis, son of Lucius Pinnius Valens and Pinnia Procula, buried in a family sepulchre at Ostia.
[.]
* Titus Pinnius Fortis, heir under the will of Lucius Birronius Quartonius.
* Pinnius Graptus, named in an inscription from Rome.
* Pinnius Hermeros, husband of Claudia, named in an inscription from Treviso, Tarvisium in Venetia and Histria.
* Titus Pinnius Hermes, husband of Pinnia Didyma, for whom he built a tomb at Rome.
* Pinnia T. l. Hilara, a freedwoman named in an inscription from Rome.
* Titus Pinnius Hilarus, buried at Rome.
* Pinnius Januarius, brother of Titus Pinnius Cavario.
* Titus Pinnius Januarius, husband of Papiria Musa, buried at Salona in Dalmatia, aged thirty.
* Pinnia Joconio, a freedwoman, buried at Rome with Titus Pinnius Tilles.
[.]
* Aulus Pinnius Maximus, a Roman Senate, senator named in a will from Palermo, Panormus in Sicilia (Roman province), Sicily.
* Titus Pinnius T. (f.?) Modestus, named in a funerary inscription for his freedwoman, Pinnia Primigenia.
[Avetta, ''Via Imperiale'', 7.]
* Pinnia C. f. Natalia, daughter of Gaius Pinnius Chrysanthus, buried at Brindisi, Brundisium in Calabria, aged six.
* Gaius C. f. Pinnius Natalis, son of Gaius Pinnius Chrysanthus, buried at Brundisium, aged six.
* Lucius Pinnius Nedymus, ''Praefectus Augustalis'', named in an inscription from Gabii.
* Pinnia Plecte, sister of Titus Pinnius Cavarius, for whom she built a monument at Bouthoe.
* Pinnia T. f. Poppaea, infant daughter of Titus Pinnius Corinthus and Livia Poppaea, buried at Rome, aged one year, six months, and five days.
* Pinnia T. f. Poppaea, daughter of Titus Pinnius Corinthus and Livia Poppaea, buried at Rome, aged five years, two months, and twenty days.
* Lucius Pinnius Porphyrio, a
quaestor, named in an inscription from Gabii.
* Lucius Pinnius Pri[...], named in an inscription from Tarvisium.
[.]
* Pinnia T. l. Primigenia, the freedwoman of Titus Pinnius Modestus, buried at Rome.
* Pinnius Probus, heir of Gaius Aemilius Severus, a centurion buried at Ravenna.
* Pinnia L. l. Procula, the freedwoman and wife of Lucius Pinnius Valens, and mother of Lucius Pinnius Fortis, built a sepulchre at Ostia for her family.
* Gaius Pinnius Provincialis, buried at Aquileia in Venetia and Histria.
* Publius Pinnius Saturninus, buried at Castellum Celtianum in Numidia, aged thirty-one.
* Lucius Pinnius L. l. Sopilus, a freedman, named in a dedicatory inscription from Aquileia.
* Titus Pinnius T. l. Suntrophus, a freedman, who became a vestiarius, or clothier, at Rome.
* Titus Pinnius Tilles, a freedman buried at Rome, together with Pinnia Joconio.
* Lucius Pinnius Valens, the husband and former master of Pinnia Procula, and father of Lucius Pinnius Fortis, buried in the family sepulchre built by his wife at Ostia.
* Marcus Pinnius Valens, a soldier in the praetorian guard, buried at Rome, aged forty-five, having served twenty-four years.
* Lucius Pinnius Zabda, named in an inscription from Tarvisium.
* Tiberius Claudius Pinnius, buried at Ostia, aged fourteen years, three months.
[.]
See also
* List of Roman gentes
References
Bibliography
* Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, ''Epistulae ad Familiares''.
*
Marcus Terentius Varro
Marcus Terentius Varro (; 116–27 BC) was a Roman polymath and a prolific author. He is regarded as ancient Rome's greatest scholar, and was described by Petrarch as "the third great light of Rome" (after Vergil and Cicero). He is sometimes calle ...
, ''Rerum Rusticarum'' (Rural Matters).
* ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', William Smith (lexicographer), William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
* Theodor Mommsen ''et alii'', ''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'' (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated ''CIL''), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
* Wilhelm Henzen, ''Ephemeris Epigraphica: Corporis Inscriptionum Latinarum Supplementum'' (Journal of Inscriptions: Supplement to the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, abbreviated ''EE''), Institute of Roman Archaeology, Rome (1872–1913).
* ''Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità'' (News of Excavations from Antiquity, abbreviated ''NSA''), Accademia dei Lincei (1876–present).
* Ettore Pais, ''Corporis Inscriptionum Latinarum Supplementa Italica'' (Italian Supplement to the ''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum''), Rome (1884).
* René Cagnat ''et alii'', ''L'Année épigraphique'' (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated ''AE''), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
* Alfredo Marinucci, ''Diseicta Membra. Iscrizioni Latine da Ostia e Porto, 1981–2009'' (Scattered Limbs: Latin Inscriptions from Ostia and Portus, 1981–2009, abbreviated ''ILOP''), Rome (2012).
* Lucia Avetta, ''Roma—Via Imperiale. Scavi e Scoperte (1937-1950) nella Costruzione di Via delle Terme di Caracalla e di Via Cristoforo Colombo'' (Rome—The Imperial Road: Excavationa and Discoveries during the construction of the road to the Baths of Caracalla and Christopher Columbus Street), Rome (1985).
* Giuseppe Camodeca, ''Puteoli''. Istituzioni e società, Naples (2017).
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