Travia gens
The gens Travia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Few members of this gens are mentioned by Roman writers, but a number are known from inscriptions.
Praenomina
[edit]The main praenomina of the Travii were Titus and Marcus, among the most common names at all periods of Roman history. A few members of this gens bore other common names, including Gaius, Lucius, Publius, and Quintus.
Members
[edit]- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Titus Travius, buried at Ameria in Umbria in the latter half of the first century BC.[1]
- Travius, the name by which Pomponius Porphyrion describes a man whose excessive wealth was criticized by Horace in one of his Satires. Horace calls the man Trausius, an equally obscure nomen.[2][3][4]
- Marcus Travius, named in a sepulchral inscription from Aquincum in Pannonia Inferior, dating from the late first century.[5]
- Travius, a soldier in the Legio V,[i] buried in a first- or second-century tomb at Ameria.[6]
- Travia Prima, buried in a first- or second-century tomb at Pisaurum in Umbria, along with Marcus Attius Repens, a local official, and Titus Marius Capito.[7]
Undated Travii
[edit]- Gaius Travius Ɔ. l., a freedman buried at Pola in Venetia and Histria.[8]
- Marcus Travius L. f. Saufeius Sabinus, buried at Rome.[9]
- Marcus Travius M. f. Saufeius Sabinus, named in an inscription from Verona in Venetia and Histria.[10]
- Titus Travius T. l. Acutus, a freedman, was an aurifex, or goldsmith, according to an inscription from Ameria, along with the freedman Titus Travius Argentillus.[11]
- Titus Travius T. l. Argentillus, a freedman, was an aurifex, according to an inscription from Ameria, along with the freedman Titus Travius Acutus. He was also an octovir, in this case perhaps a member of the town council at Ameria.[11]
- Titus Travius Felix, a brickmaker whose wares have been found at various sites throughout Italy.[12]
- Titus Travius Fortunatus, a potter whose maker's mark was found at Rome and Ostia in Latium.[13][14]
- Travia P. f. Secci, buried at Brixia in Venetia and Histria, along with Lucius Popillius Senex.[15]
- Travia Q. f. Tertia, buried at Aquinum in Latium.[16]
- Marcus Travius Thallus, built a tomb at Verona for himself and Livia Psyche.[17]
Notes
[edit]- ^ It's unclear from the inscription whether the Legio V Macedonica or the Legio V Alaudae is meant.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ AE 1996, 608.
- ^ Horace, Satirae, ii. 2, 99.
- ^ Pomponius Porphyrion, Commentaries on Horace, "Satirae", ii. 2, 99.
- ^ PIR, vol. III, p. 332 (T, No. 224).
- ^ CIL III, 14349,04.
- ^ CIL XI, 4374.
- ^ CIL XI, 6359.
- ^ Pais, Supplementa Italica, 17.
- ^ CIL VI, 27567.
- ^ CIL V, 3779.
- ^ a b CIL XI, 4402.
- ^ CIL X, 8043,013, CIL XV, 235,10, CIL XV, 235,13, CIL XV, 235,19, CIL XV, 338,11, CIL XV, 383,09, CIL XV, 383,13, CIL XV, 383,14.
- ^ CIL XV, 297a, CIL XV, 297b.
- ^ Scavi di Ostia, xi. D, 186.
- ^ CIL V, 4679.
- ^ CIL X, 5527.
- ^ CIL V, 3780.
Bibliography
[edit]- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Satirae (Satires).
- Pomponius Porphyrion, Commentarii in Q. Horatium Flaccum (Commentaries on Horace).
- Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (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).
- Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR), Berlin (1898).
- Scavi di Ostia, 1953–present.