The gens Tifernia 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
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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 nomen and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a ''stirps'' (plural: ''stirpes''). The ''gen ...
appear in history, but several are known from inscriptions.
Origin
All of the Tifernii known from inscriptions from outside of Rome came from
Umbria
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, including at least three from the town of
Tifernum Tiberinum, Tifernum on the
Tiber
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. Unless the town was named after the Tifernia gens, the Tifernii must have obtained their
nomen from their town of origin.
Members
* Gaius Tifernius C. f. Sabinus, a youth buried at
Tifernum Tiberinum in Umbria, aged fifteen, in a tomb dating from the early first century.
* Gaius Tifernius Alcibiades, a soldier serving in the fifth
cohort
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* Cohort (educational group), a group of students working together through the same academic curriculum
* Cohort (floating point), a set of different encodings of the same numerical value
* Cohort (military unit) ...
of the
vigiles
The ''Vigiles'' or more properly the ''Vigiles Urbani'' ("watchmen of the City") or ''Cohortes Vigilum'' (" cohorts of the watchmen") were the firefighters and police of ancient Rome.
History
The ''Triumviri Nocturni'' (meaning ''three men of ...
at Rome in AD 210.
* Lucius Tifernius L. f. Verus, a native of
Fanum Fortunae
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in
Umbria
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, was a soldier in the twelfth
urban cohort
The ''cohortes urbanae'' (Latin meaning ''urban cohorts'') of ancient Rome were created by Augustus to counterbalance the enormous power of the Praetorian Guard in the city of Rome and serve as a police service. They were led by the urban prefect ...
at Rome in AD 218.
Undated Tifernii
* Tifernius Prudens, the father of Tifernia Sabina, a woman buried at Tifernum Tiberinum.
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* Tifernia Sabina, daughter of Tifernius Prudens, buried at Tifernum Tiberinum, in a tomb dedicated by Venia and Aruntia Ampiana.
* Tifernius Severus, dedicated a tomb at Rome for his mother, Satellia Severa.
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See also
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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 earl ...
References
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Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classics, classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19 ...
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Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
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 thr ...
'' (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated ''CIL''), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
The ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography'' is the last in a series of classical dictionaries edited by the English scholar William Smith (1813–1893), following ''A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities'' and the ''Dictionary of G ...
'',
William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1854).
Roman gentes