The gens Satriena was an obscure

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. No members of this

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obtained any of the higher offices of the Roman state, but a number are known from coins and inscriptions.''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', vol. III, p. 722 ("Publius Satrienus").

Origin

The nomen ''Satrienus'' belongs to a class of gentilicia formed from other nomina using the suffix ''-enus''. The root of the name is '' Satrius'', the nomen of a more prominent gens.

Praenomina

The praenomina used by the Satrieni include '' Publius'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Lucius'', four of the most common names throughout Roman history.

Branches and cognomina

The Satrieni used a variety of common surnames, including ''Pollio'', a polisher, belonging to a class of

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derived from occupations; ''Salvia'' and ''Secunda'', old praenomina that came to be regarded as surnames; ''Juvenalis'', youthful, and perhaps ''Celsa'', originally given to one who was particularly tall.

Members

* Satriena C. f., buried at

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, together with Gaius Aemilius Philonicus and his wife, Aemilia Secunda. * Satriena P. f., buried at Rome. * Satrienus, named in an inscription from Aquinum in

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. * Lucius Satrienus C. f., named in an inscription from Aquinum. * Publius Satrienus, as ''

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'', minted coins bearing the head of

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, or perhaps Pallas, on the obverse, and a she-wolf on the reverse. * Quintus Satrienus Cosmus, named in an inscription from Rome. * Satrienus Juvenalis, a military tribune in the eleventh legion, named in an inscription from the present site of

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. * Quintus Satrienus Pollio, named in a first-century inscription from Rome. * Satriena P. l. Salvia, a freedwoman, and the wife of Quintus Pompeius Sosus, the freedman of Bithynicus, named in a funerary inscription from Rome. * Satriena Q. l. Secunda, a freedwoman buried at Rome..

Footnotes

References

Bibliography

* Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, ''Doctrina Numorum Veterum'' (The Study of Ancient Coins, 1792–1798). * ''

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'', William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849). *

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''et alii'', ''

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'' (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated ''CIL''), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present). * 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). * Hermann Finke, "Neue Inschriften" (New Inscriptions), in ''Berichte der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission'', vol. 17, pp. 1–107, 198–231 (1927). * John C. Traupman, ''The New College Latin & English Dictionary'', Bantam Books, New York (1995). {{DEFAULTSORT:Satriena gens Roman gentes