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The gens Postumulena was an obscure
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family at
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. Few members of this
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are mentioned in history, but others are known from inscriptions.


Origin

The nomen ''Postumulenus'' belongs to a class of names formed primarily from other gentilicia, using the suffix ''-enus''. In this case, the nomen is a lengthened form of '' Postumius'', derived from the old
Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
praenomen 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 bi ...
Postumus. This name is derived from the adjective ''postremus'', "hindmost" or "last", and originally referred to a last-born child, although in later times it was confused with ''posthumus'', "after burial", being applied to children born after their fathers' death.


Praenomina

The only praenomina associated with the Postumuleni are '' Lucius'', ''
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'', and ''
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'', the three most common names throughout Roman history, and perhaps '' Publius'', known from a filiation, and also very common.


Members

* Postumulenus, mentioned by
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as a friend of someone named ''Trebianus'' or ''Trebonius''. * Marcus Postumulenus, the freedman of Jucundus, buried at
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in Africa Proconsularis. * Postumulena P. l. Agapema, buried at
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in
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. * Postumulenus Atimetus, patron of Postumulena Symmone, who built a tomb for him at
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in
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.. * Postumulena Chara, wife of Lucius Postumulenus Thalamus, who built a tomb for himself and his wife at
Portus Portus was a large artificial harbour of Ancient Rome. Sited on the north bank of the north mouth of the Tiber, on the Tyrrhenian coast, it was established by Claudius and enlarged by Trajan to supplement the nearby port of Ostia. The archae ...
in Latium.. * Marcus Postumulenus Fidelis, built a tomb at Rome for his nephew, Marcus Memmius Rufus, aged five years, three months, and eleven days. * Postumulena C. f. Ingenua, daughter of Gaius Postumulenus Ingenuus and Tuccia Trophime.. * Gaius Postumulenus Ingenuus, husband of Tuccia Trophime, and father of Postumulena Ingenua, buried with his wife at Rome. * Lucius Postumulenus L. Ɔ. l. Mama, a freedman buried at Rome. * Lucius Postumulenus Nicephorus, husband of Nonia Verecunda, and father of Sotidia Maxima, buried in a family sepulchre at Canusium in
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, dating to the first or second centuries AD. * Gaius Postumulenus Paullus, named in an inscription from Narnia in
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. * Lucius Postumulenus Primitivus, husband of Curtilia Glyconis, who dedicated a tomb for him at Rome. * Postumulena Ɔ. l. Rufa, a freedwoman buried at Rome. * Postumulena L. f. Sabina, buried at
Ateste Ateste (modern Este, Veneto, Este, Italy) was an ancient town of Venetia (region), Venetia, at the southern foot of the Euganean hills, 43 feet above sea-level and 22 miles southwest of Patavium (modern Padua). The site was occupied in very early ti ...
in Venetia and Histria. * Marcus Postumulenus Secundus, a soldier serving in the century of Decimus Roetius Secundus at Rome in AD 70. * Postumulena Symmone, client of Postumulenus Atimetus, for whom she built a tomb at Ostia. * Lucius Postumulenus Thalamus, built a tomb at Portus for himself and his wife, Postumulena Chara. * Postumulena Ɔ. l. Vitalis, buried at Ateste..


See also

* List of Roman gentes


References

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, '' Epistulae ad Familiares''. * ''
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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 ...
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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). * ''Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità'' (News of Excavations from Antiquity, abbreviated ''NSA''), Accademia dei Lincei (1876–present). * ''Bulletin Archéologique du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques'' (Archaeological Bulletin of the Committee on Historic and Scientific Works, abbreviated ''BCTH''), Imprimerie Nationale, Paris (1885–1973). * René Cagnat ''et alii'', '' L'Année épigraphique'' (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated ''AE''), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present). * George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in ''Harvard Studies in Classical Philology'', vol. VIII (1897). Roman gentes