The gens Saria was an obscure
plebeian
In ancient Rome, the plebeians (also called plebs) were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words " commoners". Both classes were hereditary.
Etymology
The precise origins of ...
family at
ancient Rome
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. No 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 ...
attained any of the higher offices of the Roman state, but several are known from inscriptions.
Origin
The origin of the
nomen ''Sarius'' is unclear, but seems to be the source of another gentilicium, ''
Sariolenus'', perhaps through a diminutive, ''Sariolus''. The suffix ''-enus'' typically indicates nomina formed from other gentilicia.
Branches and cognomina
The only distinct family of the Sarii is known from an inscription at
Corfinium 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 ...
. Two of them, a father and son, bore the surname ''Felix'', happy or fortunate, while a daughter bore a diminutive, ''Felicula'', and a second son bore the
cognomen ''Justinus''. The latter is a derivative of ''Justus'', just, and was apparently inherited from the mother of the family, Pontia Justina. Other surnames found among the Sarii include ''Celer'', swift, ''Secundus'', traditionally given to a second child, and ''Surus'', a Syrian, perhaps indicating the origin of the freedman who bore it.
Members
* Lucius Sarius Celer, buried at
Turgalium in
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 forty.
* Saria L. f. Felicula, the daughter of Lucius Sarius Felix and Pontia Justina.
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* Lucius Sarius Felix, the husband of Pontia Justina, and father of Lucius Sarius Felix, Lucius Sarius Justinus, and Saria Felicula.
* Lucius Sarius L. f. Felix, a
decurion buried at
Corfinium 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 ...
, aged thirty years, six months, and ten days, with a monument from his parents, Lucius Sarius Felix and Pontia Justina, brother, Lucius Sarius Justinus, and sister, Saria Felicula.
* Lucius Sarius L. f. Justinus, the son of Lucius Sarius Felix and Pontia Justina.
* Lucius Sarius L. l. Philinus, buried at
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 ...
in
Venetia and Histria.
* Titus Sarius Secundus, a potter from
Narni
Narni (in Latin, Narnia) is an ancient hilltown and ''comune'' of Umbria, in central Italy, with 19,252 inhabitants (2017). At an altitude of 240 m (787 ft), it overhangs a narrow gorge of the Nera River in the province of Terni. ...
a, whose name is stamped on various works.
* Lucius Sarius L. l. Surus, a freedman named in inscriptions from
Sacis ad Padum in Venetia and Histria, and the present site of
Perpignan
Perpignan (, , ; ca, Perpinyà ; es, Perpiñán ; it, Perpignano ) is the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France, in the heart of the plain of Roussillon, at the foot of the Pyrenees a few kilometres from the ...
, formerly part of
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 ...
.
[''CAG'', 66, p. 469.]
See also
*
List of Roman gentes
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 cent ...
''et alii'', ''
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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).
* Ettore Pais, ''Corporis Inscriptionum Latinarum Supplementa Italica'' (Italian Supplement to the ''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum''), Rome (1884).
* 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).
* La Carte Archéologique de la Gaule (Archaeological Map of Gaul, abbreviated ''CAG''), Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1931–present).
* John C. Traupman, ''The New College Latin & English Dictionary'', Bantam Books, New York (1995).
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