The gens Salvidia was an obscure
plebeian family at
ancient Rome
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. No members of this
gens attained any of the higher offices of the Roman state, but several are known from inscriptions.
Origin
The
nomen ''Salvidius'' belongs to a large class of gentilicia formed using the suffix ''-idius''. This termination originally applied to surnames ending in ''-idus'', but over time it became so familiar that it came to be regarded as a regular gentile-forming suffix, and was applied even in cases where it was not orthographically justified. The root of the name is ''Salvius'', a common
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 ...
praenomen. The nomen ''
Salvidienus'' was formed from ''Salvidius'' using the suffix ''-enus''.
Members
* Salvidius, named in a fragmentary inscription from
Corfinium
Corfinium (Greek: ) was a city in ancient Italy, on the eastern side of the Apennines, due east of Rome, near modern Corfinio, in the province of L'Aquila (Abruzzo region).
History
Corfinium was the chief city of the Paeligni, situated in the ...
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 ...
.
* Gaius Salvidius, named in an inscription from Corfinium.
* Salvidia Ɔ. l. Acume, a freedwoman, and one of the heirs of her sister, Salvidia Amphiola.
[''Supplementa Italica'', iii. Co, 76.]
* Salvidia Sp. f. Amphiola, left a will at Corfinium, naming among her heirs her parents, Lucius Helvius Amphio and Salvidia Salvia, sister, Salvidia Acume, freedman, Theopropus, and Salvidia Decens.
* Salvidius Aper, built a tomb at
Aeclanum
Aeclanum (also spelled Aeculanum, it, Eclano, grc, Ἀικούλανον) was an ancient town of Samnium, Southern Italy, about 25 km east-southeast of Beneventum, on the Via Appia. It lies in Passo di Mirabella, near the modern Mirabell ...
in
Campania
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for his wife, Claudia Crescentina, dating to the third century.
* Salvidia Ɔ. l. Auge, a freedwoman, who together with Marcus Arferius Aphrodisius, made a donation of seven pots at Rome.
* Salvidia T. l. Charmosyne, a freedwoman, and the mother-in-law of Helvia Asterio, according to a second-century inscription from Rome.
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* Salvidia Decens, named among the heirs of Salvidia Amphiola. Their relationship is not preserved in the surviving inscription.
* Titus Salvidius T. l. Gallus, a freedman, and the brother of Helvia Asterio, according to a second-century inscription from Rome.
* Salvidia Macaria, together with her husband, Titus Flavius Abascantus, dedicated a monument at Rome to their son, Titus Flavius Mnester, aged twelve years, seven months, and seventeen days.
* Gaius Salvidius Hyacinthus, the husband of Vibia Prima, named in an inscription from Corfinium, dating between AD 30 and 70.
* Salvidia Ɔ. l. Salvia, a freedwoman, and one of the heirs of her daughter, Salvidia Amphiola.
* Salvidia T. f. Secunda, made an offering to
Venus
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at
Furfo
Barisciano ( Abruzzese: '; la, Furfo), is a comune and town in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of southern Italy. It is located in the Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park.
Main sights
* Castle
*Monastery of San Colombo. ...
in Samnium.
[.]
See also
*
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 ...
References
Bibliography
*
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 centu ...
''et alii'', ''
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'' (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated ''CIL''), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
* ''Supplementa Italica'' (Supplement for Italy), Unione Accademica Nazionale.
* ''Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità'' (News of Excavations from Antiquity, abbreviated ''NSA''), Accademia dei Lincei (1876–present).
* René Cagnat ''et alii'', ''
L'Année épigraphique
''L'Année épigraphique'' (''The Epigraphic Year'', standard abbreviation ''AE'') is a French publication on epigraphy (i.e the study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing). It was set up by René Cagnat, as holder of the chair of 'Epigraphy an ...
'' (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).
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