Sabucia gens

The gens Sabucia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned in imperial times. The most illustrious of the family was Gaius Sabucius Major Caecilianus, who obtained the Roman consul, consulship in AD 186. Other Sabucii are known from inscriptions.Birley, ''The Fasti of Roman Britain'', pp. 216, 405, 459.

Origin

The historian Anthony Birley indicates that the Sabucii were of Etruscan civilization, Etruscan origin.

Branches and cognomina

The Sabucii used a variety of personal cognomen, cognomina. The only family surname known from inscriptions is ''Major'', typically given to the elder of two or more siblings; the cognomen ''Magnus'', great, borne by one of the other Sabucii, might suggest a connection to this family. ''Sabinus'' usually designated someone of Sabines, Sabine ancestry, but might also refer to one who resembled a Sabine in his manner or habits. ''Aper'', found in one inscription of the consul Gaius Sabucius Major, refers to a wild boar.

Members

* Sabucius Aspasius, probably the father of a little boy buried at Rome, aged three years, thirty-two days, and two hours.
* Sabucius Aurelianus, named in an inscription from Rome.
* Gnaeus Sabucius Botrius, dedicated a monument to Appius Claudius Sulpicius Julianus at Marino, Lazio, Castrimoenium in Latium.
* Sabucius Magnus, buried at Rome, aged sixty.
* Gaius Sabucius C. f. Major Caecilianus Aper, consul ''suffectus'' in AD 186, had been Tribune of the Plebs, tribune of the plebs, praetor, prefect of the ''aerarium militare'', judicial legatus, legate in Roman Britain, Britain, and governor of Gallia Belgica, Belgica and Achaea (Roman province), Achaia..
* Gaius Sabucius (C. f.) C. n. Major Plotinus Faustinus, grandson of Caecilianus, was a young man of Roman Senate, senatorial rank, who set up a monument commemorating his grandfather's achievements.
* Gaius Sabucius Murranus, buried at Bologna, Bononia in Etruria, together with Vibia Exorata, perhaps his wife.
* Gaius Sabucius Perpetuus, named in a second century inscription from San Cesareo, Tellenae in Latium.
* Sextus Sabucius Sabinus, a man of senatorial rank, named in a second or third century inscription from Florence, Florentia in Etruria..

See also

* List of Roman gentes

References

Bibliography

* Theodor Mommsen ''et alii'', ''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'' (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated ''CIL''), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
* Giovanni Battista de Rossi, ''Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romanae Septimo Saeculo Antiquiores'' (Christian Inscriptions from Rome of the First Seven Centuries, abbreviated ''ICUR''), Vatican Library, Rome (1857–1861, 1888).
* 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).
* 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, pp. 103–184 (1897).
* Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, ''Prosopographia Imperii Romani'' (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated ''PIR''), Berlin (1898).
* Giovanni Maria De Rossi, ''Bovillae'', Olschki, Florence (1979).
* Anthony Birley, Anthony R. Birley, ''The Fasti of Roman Britain'', Clarendon Press (1981).
* John C. Traupman, ''The New College Latin & English Dictionary'', Bantam Books, New York (1995).

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