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family at
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. No members of this
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appear in history, but many are known from inscriptions.


Origin

The nomen ''Romanius'' belongs to a large class of gentilicia formed from surnames ending in the suffix ''-anus'', typically derived from place-names. Here the name is derived from a cognomen, ''Romanus'', referring to a resident of Rome itself.


Praenomina

The Romanii used a wide variety of common
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 ...
, including ''
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 L ...
'', ''
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 Pol ...
'', '' Marcus'', '' Publius'', ''
Quintus Quintus is a male given name derived from '' Quintus'', a common Latin forename (''praenomen'') found in the culture of ancient Rome. Quintus derives from Latin word ''quintus'', meaning "fifth". Quintus is an English masculine given name and ...
'', ''
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 '' Gnaeus''. Other names are found occasionally, including ''
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 ...
'', '' Numerius'', '' Decimus'', ''
Servius Servius is the name of: * Servius (praenomen), the personal name * Maurus Servius Honoratus, a late fourth-century and early fifth-century grammarian * Servius Tullius, the Roman king * Servius Sulpicius Rufus, the 1st century BC Roman jurist See ...
'', and ''
Tiberius Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (; 16 November 42 BC – 16 March AD 37) was the second Roman emperor. He reigned from AD 14 until 37, succeeding his stepfather, the first Roman emperor Augustus. Tiberius was born in Rome in 42 BC. His father ...
''. The
Oscan Oscan is an extinct Indo-European language of southern Italy. The language is in the Osco-Umbrian or Sabellic branch of the Italic languages. Oscan is therefore a close relative of Umbrian. Oscan was spoken by a number of tribes, including th ...
praenomen ''Salvius'' occurs in a
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, suggesting that at least some of the Romanii were of Oscan descent.


Branches and cognomina

In imperial times, the Romanii used a number of surnames, but all appear to have been personal cognomina, and the Romanii do not appear to have been divided into distinct families.


Members

* Romania, buried at an uncertain location in Cisalpine Gaul, with a monument dedicated by a certain Prisca. * Romania, the wife of Titus Fabius Pulcher, with whom she made an offering to
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Aquileia Aquileia / / / / ;Bilingual name of ''Aquileja – Oglej'' in: vec, Aquiłeja / ; Slovenian: ''Oglej''), group=pron is an ancient Roman city in Italy, at the head of the Adriatic at the edge of the lagoons, about from the sea, on the river N ...
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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 ...
. * Romania, the wife of Lucius Julius Caper, one of the
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Nemausus Deus Nemausus is often said to have been the Celtic patron god of Nemausus (Nîmes). The god does not seem to have been worshipped outside this locality. The city certainly derives its name from Nemausus, which was perhaps the sacred wood in which ...
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Gallia Narbonensis Gallia Narbonensis (Latin for "Gaul of Narbonne", from its chief settlement) was a Roman province located in what is now Languedoc and Provence, in Southern France. It was also known as Provincia Nostra ("Our Province"), because it was the ...
. * Romania, the daughter of Salonia, buried in a family sepulchre at
Salona Salona ( grc, Σάλωνα) was an ancient city and the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia. Salona is located in the modern town of Solin, next to Split, in Croatia. Salona was founded in the 3rd century BC and was mostly destroyed in t ...
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, together with Romania Italia and Romanius, the son of Surio.. * Romania, the daughter of Prosostus, and granddaughter of Gaius Valerius Fuscus, a veteran of the second legion, with whom she was buried at Brigetio in
Pannonia Superior Pannonia Superior, lit. Upper Pannonia, was a province of the Roman Empire. Its capital was Carnuntum. It was one on the border provinces on the Danube. It was formed in the year 103 AD by Emperor Trajan who divided the former province of Pannon ...
, in the first half of the second century, aged twenty. * Romanius, the house slave of Quintus Cornelius Graptus and his wife, Sabina, with whom he was buried at Rome. * Romanius M. f., a priest named in a funerary inscription from Bantia in
Lucania Lucania was a historical region of Southern Italy. It was the land of the Lucani, an Oscan people. It extended from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Gulf of Taranto. It bordered with Samnium and Campania in the north, Apulia in the east, and Brutti ...
. * Romanius, the son of Surio, buried in a family sepulchre at Salona, together with Romania Italia, and Romania, the daughter of Salonia. * Gaius Romanius C. f., a native of
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, an officer serving in the century of Hordeonius at
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. * Gaius Romanius P. f., twice
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, named in an inscription from Rome, together with Publius Romanius.. * Numerius Romanius Sal. f., named in an inscription from Supinum Vicus in
Samnium Samnium ( it, Sannio) is a Latin exonym for a region of Southern Italy anciently inhabited by the Samnites. Their own endonyms were ''Safinim'' for the country (attested in one inscription and one coin legend) and ''Safineis'' for the The lan ...
. * Publius Romanius M. f., buried at Brixia in Venetia and Histria, together with his sister, Romania Tertia.. * Publius Romanius C. f., named in an inscription from Rome, together with Gaius Romanius, a military tribune. * Quintus Romanius, the son of Camburo, made an offering to
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at Brixia. * Titus Romanius, buried at Sextantio in Gallia Narbonensis. * Lucius Romanius N. l. Abscantus, a freedman buried at Heraclea in Lucania, with a tomb built by the local college of
sodales Augustales The Sodales or Sacerdotes Augustales (''singular'' Sodalis or Sacerdos Augustalis), or simply Augustales,Tacitus, ''Annales'' 1.54 were an order ('' sodalitas'') of Roman priests originally instituted by Tiberius to attend to the maintenance of t ...
, in the latter part of the first century, or the first half of the second. * Romania Cn. l. Ammia, a freedwoman, and the wife of the wine merchant Gnaeus Romanius Iaso.. * Gaius Romanius Ɔ. l. Anteros, a freedman named in an inscription from Rome, together with a freedwoman, Romania Theophila.. * Romanius Aristides, named in an inscription from Apulum in
Dacia Dacia (, ; ) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west. The Carpathian Mountains were located in the middle of Dacia. It thus r ...
. * Aulus Romanius A. l. Bassus, a freedman, built a tomb for himself and his son, Romanius Restitutus, at
Careiae Careiae ( it, Galera) was an ancient town of Etruria, on the Via Clodia, the first station beyond Veii. The town is mentioned by Frontinus and appears in the Tabula Peutingeriana. Its site is at the abandoned village of Galera, approximately 25&n ...
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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 ...
.. * Gaius Romanius Bassus, the brother of Lucius Romanius Brocchus, named in an inscription from Cisalpine Gaul.Camporini, ''Sculture a tutto tondo del Civico Museo Archeologico di Milano'', 40a. * Lucius Romanius Bello, built a tomb at Rome for himself and his family. * Lucius Romanius Brocchus, the brother of Gaius Romanius Bassus, named in an inscription from Cisalpine Gaul. * Romania Cale, a
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of Decimus Romanius Verulus, named in an inscription from Dea Augusta Vocontiorum in Gallia Narbonensis.. * Gaius Romanius Capito, a native of Celeia, was a soldier in the cavalry, buried at
Mogontiacum Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Mainz ...
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Germania Superior Germania Superior ("Upper Germania") was an imperial province of the Roman Empire. It comprised an area of today's western Switzerland, the French Jura and Alsace regions, and southwestern Germany. Important cities were Besançon ('' Vesontio' ...
, aged forty, having served for nineteen years, in a tomb dating to the latter half of the first century AD. * Romania Catullina, the wife of Julius Secundinus, buried in a family seupulcre at
Flavia Solva Flavia Solva was a municipium in the ancient Roman province of Noricum. It was situated on the western banks of the Mur river, close to the modern cities of Wagna and Leibnitz in the southern parts of the Austrian province of Styria. It is the only ...
in Noricum, aged twenty-five. * Marcia Romania Celsa, wife of the
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Flavius Januarius, was buried at
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in Gallia Narbonensis on the seventeenth day before the Kalends of April, aged thirty-seven years, two months, and ten days. * Romanius Crescentilianus, dedicated a tomb at Ostia in
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for his foster-daughter, Romania Stratonice.. * Romania Cypare, dedicated a second century tomb at
Venusia Venosa ( Lucano: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Potenza, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, in the Vulture area. It is bounded by the comuni of Barile, Ginestra, Lavello, Maschito, Montemilone, Palazzo San Gervasio, Ra ...
in Samnium to her husband, Titus Flavius Secundus, aged forty. * Marcus Romanius Encolpus, made an offering to
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, according to an inscription from Dacia. * Marcus Romanius Ser. f. Epulo, a
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at Cyrene, who made an offering to
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. * Romanius Epulonius Damas, built a tomb at Rome for himself, his wife, Papiria Tertia, and son, the younger Epulonius Damas, aged fourteen years, eleven months. * Titus Romanius Epictetus, together with Flavia Melitine, dedicated a tomb at
Lugdunum Lugdunum (also spelled Lugudunum, ; modern Lyon, France) was an important Roman city in Gaul, established on the current site of Lyon. The Roman city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus, but continued an existing Gallic settlem ...
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Gallia Lugdunensis Gallia Lugdunensis ( French: ''Gaule Lyonnaise'') was a province of the Roman Empire in what is now the modern country of France, part of the Celtic territory of Gaul formerly known as Celtica. It is named after its capital Lugdunum (today's Lyon ...
to their
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, Titus Flavius Hermes, one of the seviri Augustales at Lugdunum. * Lucius Romanius Euprepis, buried at the present site of Val-de-Fier, formerly in Gallia Narbonensis. * Lucius Romanius Felicissimus, buried at Ostia, aged twenty-one years, eleven months, with a monument from his sister, Flavia Claudiana. * Romania Ɔ. l. Fausta, a freedwoman named in an inscription from Rome. * Lucius Romanius Fortis, dedicated a tomb 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 cap ...
to Philomellus, the slave of Lucius Romanius Juvenalis.. * Lucius Romanius P. f. Gallus, made an offering to Diana on behalf of the emperor
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, at
Thuburbo Maius Thuburbo Majus (or Thuburbo Maius) is a large Roman site in northern Tunisia. It is located roughly 60 km southwest of Carthage on a major African thoroughfare. This thoroughfare connects Carthage to the Sahara. Other towns along the way inc ...
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. * Titus Romanius T. f. Hermeros, buried at Rome in a tomb dedicated by his father, Titus Romanius Hermes.. * Titus Romanius Hermes, dedicated a tomb at Rome to his son, Titus Romanius Hermeros. * Publius Romanius Heuresio, named in an inscription from Ostia, dating between AD 201 and 230. * Gnaeus Romanius Cn. l. Iaso, a freedman and wine merchant at Rome, and the husband of Romania Ammia. * Romanius Ingenuus, buried at Matucaium in Noricum, aged two. * Romania Italia, buried in a family sepulchre at Salona, together with Romanius, the son of Surio, and Romania, the daughter of Salonia. * Gaius Romanius C. f. Italicus, a native of
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at Rome, ''circa'' AD 173. * Marcus Romanius Jovinus, a rhetorician buried at Rome, leaving as his heirs Marcus Junius Severus and Romania Marcia., . * Lucius Romanius L. f. Justus Vercellis, a soldier in the tenth cohort of the
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, serving in the century of Crispinus, named in an inscription from
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. * Romanius Juvenalis, named in a dedicatory inscription from Mogontiacum. * Lucius Romanius Juvenalis, the master of Philomellus, a slave buried at Ravenna. * Romanius Juvenis, built a tomb at Ivenna in
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for his daughter, Junilla, aged seventeen, together with his wife, Aquilina, and Junilla's grandparents, Secundinius Jucundianus and Mira. * Marcus Romanius Juventinus,
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in an uncertain year between AD 198 and 209. * Romania T. f. Laeta, named in an inscription from Rome, together with Gnaeus Aemilius Laetus. * Romanius Ligur, a member of the college of Manliensium, who made a donation to
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. * Gnaeus Romanius Cn. f. Longus, buried at
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, aged ninety. * Romania Lupa, the wife of Marcus Herennius Eucharistus, buried at
Comum Como (, ; lmo, Còmm, label= Comasco , or ; lat, Novum Comum; rm, Com; french: Côme) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy. It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como. Its proximity to Lake Como and to the Alps h ...
in Cisalpine Gaul, in the second or early third century. * Marcus Romanius M. f. Macrinus, a veteran named in an inscription from Brixia. * Marcus Romanius M. f. Marcellinus Decimius Rufinus, a native of
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in the third legion, according to an inscription from
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in Numidia. * Romania Marcia, together with Marcus Junius Severus, one of the heirs of the rhetorician Marcus Romanius Jovinus. * Titus Romanius Mercator, made an offering to the gods of the
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at Darantasia in Alpes Graiae, according to an inscription dating to the latter half of the second century. * Romania Moderata, the wife of Publius Quintius Pollio, and mother of Marcus Quintius Moderatus, buried at
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in Venetia and Histria. * Publius Romanius P. l. Modestus, a freedman buried at
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, aged sixteen. * Romanius Montanus, procurator of the emperor's household gladiators, according to an inscription from
Pergamum Pergamon or Pergamum ( or ; grc-gre, Πέργαμον), also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos (), was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Mysia. It is located from the modern coastline of the Aegean Sea on a promontory on th ...
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. * Romania Naevia, a woman belonging to a family of senatorial rank, buried at Siscia in Pannonia Superior. * Romania Novellia, the daughter of Novellia Atiliana, buried at
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in Cisalpine Gaul, aged thirty-two years, eight months, and twelve days. * Romania Sp. f. Optata, buried at Brixia. * Gaius Romanius Pedo, buried at the present site of
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, formerly in Gallia Narbonensis. * Lucius Romanius L. f. Peregrinus, built a monument to his father, Lucius Romanius Salvius, at Tridentum in Venetia and Histria.. * Lucius Romanius L. l. Philargurus, a freedman named in an inscription from Rome. * Romania Prima, buried at Simitthus in Africa Proconsularis, aged twenty-one. * Lucius Romanius Priscus, made a libationary offering to
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Gallia Belgica Gallia Belgica ("Belgic Gaul") was a province of the Roman Empire located in the north-eastern part of Roman Gaul, in what is today primarily northern France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, along with parts of the Netherlands and Germany. In 50 BC, af ...
. * Marcus Romanius M. f. Probus, the son of Marcus Romanius Suavis and Cincia Modesta.. * Quintus Romanius Probus, dedicated a tomb for his wife, Flavia Materna, at Juliacum in
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. * Romania Profutura, a matron buried at Comum in the second century. * Lucius Romanius Respectus, a decurion at Burbetomagus in Germania Superior, who made a libationary offering to
Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...
. * Romanius A. f. Restitutus, the son of Aulus Romanius Bassus, a freedman buried at Careiae. * Romania Romana, the sister of Romanus Severus and daughter of Julius Romanus, who made a libationary offering to Mercury on his children's behalf at
Augusta Treverorum Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate, whose history dates to the Roman Empire, is often claimed to be the oldest city in Germany. Traditionally it was known in English by its French name of Treves. Prehistory The first traces of human settlement in ...
in Gallia Belgica. * Romania T. l. Sabina, a freedwoman who built a tomb at Salona for her children, Firmio, Martia, and Quintio. * Romanius Sabinus, named in an inscription from Rome. * Lucius Romanius Salvius, buried Tridentum, with a monument from his son, Lucius Romanius Peregrinus. * Romania Secundilla, wife of the sailor Lucius Helvius Victorinus, for whom she built a tomb at Lugdunum. * Romanius Secundinus, a veteran soldier, who together with Cordia Verina, helped build a tomb at Rome for Cordia's son, Lucius Vitellius Fuscinus, a soldier in the third cohort of the
praetorian guard The Praetorian Guard (Latin: ''cohortēs praetōriae'') was a unit of the Imperial Roman army that served as personal bodyguards and intelligence agents for the Roman emperors. During the Roman Republic, the Praetorian Guard were an escort fo ...
, aged forty, and his sister, Paccia Materna, aged twelve. * Romanius Secundus, a soldier named in an inscription from Vindonissa, dating to the middle or later first century. * Romania Q. f. Secura, buried at
Thibilis Thibilis (a.k.a. Tibilis) was a Roman and Byzantine era town in what was Numidia but is today northeast Algeria. The site has extensive Roman and Byzantine ruins. History The numerous Latin inscriptions discovered on the site of Thibilis provided i ...
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Numidia Numidia ( Berber: ''Inumiden''; 202–40 BC) was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians located in northwest Africa, initially comprising the territory that now makes up modern-day Algeria, but later expanding across what is today known as Tunis ...
. * Romania M. f. Severa, buried at Brixia, in the family sepulchre of Marcus Licinius Receptus. * Decimus Romanius Silvester, heir of Valeria, the daughter or Valentinus, a woman buried at Dea Augusta Vocontiorum. * Publius Romanius Socrates, made a libationary offering to Victoria at the present site of
Volx Volx (; oc, Vòus) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Population See also * Coteaux de Pierrevert AOC * Luberon The Luberon ( or ; Provençal: ''Lebe ...
, formerly part of Gallia Narbonensis. * Romania Stratonice, buried at Ostia, aged eleven years, three months, with a tomb built by her foster father, Romanius Crescentilianus. * Marcus Romanius M. l. Suavis, a freedman, and one of the
sodales Augustales The Sodales or Sacerdotes Augustales (''singular'' Sodalis or Sacerdos Augustalis), or simply Augustales,Tacitus, ''Annales'' 1.54 were an order ('' sodalitas'') of Roman priests originally instituted by Tiberius to attend to the maintenance of t ...
at Brixia, built a tomb for himself, his wife, Cincia Modesta, and their son, Marcus Romanius Probus. * Gaius Romanius Summus, a decurion at Germisara in Dacia, who made a libationary offering to Jupiter Optimus Maximus. * Romania M. f. Tertia, buried at Brixia with her brother, Publius Romanius. * Romania C. l. Theophila, a freedwoman named in an inscription from Rome, together with a freedman, Gaius Romanius Anteros. * Romania C. l. Tryphera, a freedwoman buried at
Canusium Canosa di Puglia, generally known simply as Canosa ( nap, label= Canosino, Canaus), is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, Apulia, southern Italy. It is located between Bari and Foggia, on the northwestern edge of the ...
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. * Quintus Romanius Q. f. Tuscus, buried at the present site of Bencatel, formerly part of
Lusitania Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and a portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusita ...
, aged seventeen, with a monument from his mother, Baebia Boutia. * Romania Urbana, named in a funerary inscription from Rome, together with Quintus Mucius Urbanus, and Mucia Ingenua, perhaps their daughter, aged twenty. * Romania Ɔ. l. Urbana, a freedwoman buried at Rome. * Romania Ti. l. Urbana, a freedwoman named in an inscription from
Iguvium Gubbio () is an Italy, Italian town and ''comune'' in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria). It is located on the lowest slope of Mt. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennine Mountains, Apennines. History The city's ...
in Umbria. * Romania Valentina, the wife of Publicius Basilides, and foster mother of Publicius Valentinus, a boy buried at Ravenna, aged twelve years, nine months, and ten days. * Romania Veratia, the wife of Aurelius Domitianus, buried at the present site of Rumilly, formerly in Gallia Narbonensis, aged forty years, three months, and five days. * Romanius Verecundus, named in an inscription from Albanum in Latium. * Quintus Romanius Verecundus, together with Lucius Ennius Secundus, one of the heirs of Marcus Magius Maccaus, a native of Verona, and a soldier in the eleventh legion, serving in the century of Marcius Modestus, buried at
Vindonissa Vindonissa (from a Gaulish toponym in *''windo-'' "white") was a Roman legion camp, vicus and later a bishop's seat at modern Windisch, Switzerland. The remains of the camp are listed as a heritage site of national significance. The city of Br ...
in Germania Superior, aged thirty-three. * Decimus Romanius Verulus, the patron of Romania Cale, according to an inscription from Dea Augusta Vocontiorum. * Romania Vitalis, the daughter of Philetus, and wife of Caesonius Probus, who built a monument for her at Rome..


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List of Roman gentes The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same '' nomen'' and claimed descent from a common ancestor. It was an important social and legal structure in early ...


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