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The gens Rasinia was an obscure
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family at
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. Hardly any members of this
gens In ancient Rome, a gens ( or , ; plural: ''gentes'' ) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same Roman naming conventions#Nomen, nomen and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a ''stirps'' (p ...
are mentioned in history, but a number are known from inscriptions. In imperial times a Gaius Rasinius Silo was governor of
Noricum Noricum () is the Latin name for the Celts, Celtic kingdom or federation of tribes that included most of modern Austria and part of Slovenia. In the first century AD, it became a Roman province, province of the Roman Empire. Its borders were th ...
.''PIR'', vol. III, p. 125.


Origin

From the large number of inscriptions mentioning the Rasinii in and around
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, and especially from Arretium and
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e, as well as the surnames ''Pisanus'' and ''Pisaurensis'', referring to members who were natives of Pisae and of the Etruscan colony at
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, it seems beyond doubt that the Rasinii were
Etruscans The Etruscan civilization () was developed by a people of Etruria in ancient Italy with a common language and culture who formed a federation of city-states. After conquering adjacent lands, its territory covered, at its greatest extent, rou ...
, and that their nomen, ''Rasinius'', must be derived from the
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''Rasenna'', the Etruscan name for their own culture.


Praenomina

The chief praenomina of the Rasinii were '' Lucius'', ''
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'', and ''
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'', with '' Decimus'' and ''
Sextus Sextus is an ancient Roman '' praenomen'' or "first name". Its standard abbreviation is Sex., and the feminine form would be Sexta. It is one of the numeral ''praenomina'', like Quintus ("fifth") and Decimus ("tenth"), and means "sixth". Althoug ...
'' being used to a lesser extent. ''Lucius'', ''Gaius'', and ''Marcus'' were the three most common names throughout Roman history, while ''Sextus'' was fairly common, and ''Decimus'' somewhat more distinctive. Other names occur infrequently among the Rasinii, although examples of '' Publius'', ''
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'', and ''
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'' are known.


Members

* Rasinia, buried at Rome, in a tomb built by Publius Julius Trophimus, together with Marcus Rasinius Hermadio, Javolena Capitolina, and Javolena Sempronia.. * Rasinia, built a sepulchre at Rome for herself, her husband, Decimus Rasinius Celadus, her son, Decimus Rasinius Memor, Rasinia Aucta, a house slave, and Decimus Rasinius, a freedman.. * Rasinia, a freedwoman named in an inscription from Aquinum in
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, together with Rufa Rasinia.. * Decimus Rasinius, a freedman buried in the family sepulchre built by Rasinia at Rome. * Gaius Rasinius, a potter at Arretium in
Etruria Etruria () was a region of Central Italy, located in an area that covered part of what are now most of Tuscany, northern Lazio, and northern and western Umbria. Etruscan Etruria The ancient people of Etruria are identified as Etruscan civiliza ...
, whose works have been found all over the Roman world. * Rufa Rasinia, named in an inscription from Aquinum, together with a freedwoman named Rasinia. * Sextus Rasinius M. f., son of Marcus Rasinius Martialis, was buried at
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in Africa Proconsularis, aged two years, four months.. * Rasinius Amerimnus, built a tomb at Rome for himself and his daughter. * Lucius Rasinius Antiochus, buried at Rome, together with Lucius Rasinius Daphnus, and two others.. * Rasinia Attica, daughter of Vesia Secunda, who built a tomb for her at Clusium in Etruria. * Rasinia Aucta, a house-slave belonging to Rasinia, the wife of Decimus Rasinius Celadus, was buried in the family sepulchre at Rome, aged twenty-three. * Publius Rasinius L. f. Bassus, named in two inscriptions from
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e in Etruria, dating between AD 4 and 14. * Rasinia Beronice, dedicated a monument at Rome to her daughter, Juventia Beronice, aged one year, eleven months, and four days. * Rasinia Bithynia, buried at Rome, in a tomb built by Paccius Onesimus. * Rasinia D. l. C .. a freedwoman buried at Rome, together with another freedwoman of the same family.. * Sextus Rasinius Can .. named in an inscription from Arretium. * Lucius Rasinius Castus, buried at
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in
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, aged eighty-three years, five months. * Decimus Rasinius Celadus, the husband of Rasinia, and father of Decimus Rasinius Memor, buried in the family sepulchre built by his wife at Rome. * Lucius Rasinius Celer, buried at Masclianae in Africa Proconsularis, aged eighty-five, with a tomb built by his son, Quintus Rasinius Saturninus.. * Lucius Rasinius Cirus, named in inscriptions found at
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in Etruria, and at
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, formerly part of
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. * Lucius Rasinius Daphnus, buried at Rome, together with Lucius Rasinius Antiochus and two others. * Lucius Rasinius Draucus, named in an inscription from Emporiae in Hispania Tarraconensis, and Caesaria in
Mauretania Caesariensis Mauretania Caesariensis (Latin for "Caesarean Mauretania") was a Roman province located in what is now Algeria in the Maghreb. The full name refers to its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell). The province had been part of the Kingd ...
. * Lucius Rasinius Epicurus, buried at Rome, aged thirty. * Lucius Rasinius Ger anus? known from inscriptions at
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in Africa Proconsularis, and Caesaria in Mauretania Caesariensis. * Titus Rasinius Ger anus? known from an inscription from
Volsinii Volsinii or Vulsinii (Etruscan: Velzna or Velusna; Greek: Ouolsinioi, ; ), is the name of two ancient cities of Etruria, one situated on the shore of Lacus Volsiniensis (modern Lago di Bolsena), and the other on the Via Clodia, between Clusium (C ...
in Etruria. * Rasinia Glypte, built a monument at Rome for a slave, Pholoe, aged sixteen years, seven days. * Rasinia D. l. H .. a freedwoman buried at Rome, together with another freedwoman of the same family. * Marcus Rasinius Hermadio, buried at Rome, in a tomb built by Publius Julius Trophimus, together with Rasinia, Javolena Capitolina, and Javolena Sempronia. * Rasinia Hilaritas, named in an inscription from Volsinii. * Gaius Rasinius Januarius, a ''cornicularius'', or hornblower, in the century of Marcus Mummius Verinus, part of the fifth cohort of the vigiles, at the beginning of the third century. * Rasinia Leda, the wife of Lucius Faenius Successus, buried at Rome in the second century AD. * Rasinia Lucifera, the wife of Marcus Acutius Valentinus, with whom she dedicated a monument at Rome to their son, Marcus Acutius Valentinus, aged eleven years, one month, and eighteen days, and a slave, Eutychianus, aged six years, five months, and fifteen days, dating between AD 71 and 130. * Marcus Rasinius Martialis, the father of Sextus Rasinius, a child buried at Thysdrus. * Decimus Rasinius D. f. Memor, son of Decimus Rasinius Celado and Rasinia, buried in the family sepulchre built by his mother at Rome, aged eleven months. * Rasinia Mustice, built a monument at Rome for her slave, Appta, aged seventeen years, thirty days. * Rasinia Pietas, nursemaid to the daughters of Lucius Burbuleius Optatus Ligarianus, consul in AD 135. * Lucius Rasinius Pisanus, a potter at Arretium during the Augustan period, whose name appears on pottery found all over the Roman world, along with the names of the various slaves who worked under him. * Lucius Rasinius Pisaurensis, known from a number of inscriptions from Hispania Tarraconensis. * Marcus Rasinius Postumus, a soldier at Lambaesis, perhaps the same Rasinius Postumus who buried his wife, Maria Caecina, at Lambaesis. * Rasinia Prim ? named in a funerary inscription from Rome. * Lucius Rasinius Primigenius, named in an inscription from Pisae. * Lucius Rasinius Saturninus, named in an inscription from Rome, * Lucius Rasinius L. f. Saturninus Maximianus, aedile and duumvir at Sufetula in Africa Proconsularis. * Quintus Rasinius L. f. Saturninus, built a tomb for his father, Lucius Rasinius Celer, at Masclianae. Probably the same Quintus Rasinius Saturninus who was a member of the fullers' guild, named in an inscription from Mactaris. * Rasinia Secunda, named in an inscription from Tipasa in Mauretania Caesariensis, commemorating her return on the sixteenth day before the Kalends of November, in AD 238. * Rasinia Secundina, built a monument to Saturninus, one of the duumvirs at Cupra Montana in
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, perhaps her father. * Lucius Rasinius Severus, named in an inscription from
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in Etruria. * Gaius Rasinius Silo, procurator of
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in an uncertain year, known from a libationary inscription dedicated to Jupiter Optimus Maximus. * Gaius Rasinius C. f. Tettianus,
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of the engineers stationed at Asisium in
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, in the early or middle first century AD. * Gaius Rasinius Valens, named in an inscription from
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in
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, dedicated to
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and the Dioscuri..


See also

* List of Roman gentes


References


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