Urbinia gens

The gens Urbinia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Only a few members of this gens are mentioned by Roman writers, but others are known from inscriptions.

Origin

The nomen Urbinius belongs to a class of gentilicia originally formed from cognomina ending in -inus.[1] The surname Urbinus probably referred to a native of Urbinum in Umbria.

Members

  • Gaius Urbinius, quaestor in 74 BC, served under Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius in Hispania Ulterior.[2][3]
  • Urbinius Panopion,[lower-roman 1] proscribed by the Second Triumvirate, was saved by one of his slaves, who exchanged clothes with him, and was slain in his place.[4][5]
  • Urbinia, a woman whose estate was contested by a certain Clusinius Figulus, who claimed to be her son, and retained the advocate Labienus to represent him against Urbinia's heirs, represented by Gaius Asinius Pollio. Quintilian describes a rhetorical trick of Asinius, who implied that Figulus' case was exceptionally weak by describing Labienus himself as the strongest point in the plaintiff's favour.[6][7][8]
  • Lucius Urbinius Quartinus, a native of Africa, was a soldier in the praetorian guard, where he served in the century of Faenius Justus. He was buried at Misenum in Campania, aged sixty, having served for twenty-five years, in a tomb built by Lucius Valerius Saturninus, dating from the second century, or the first half of the third.[9]
  • Marcus Urbinius Rufus, a native of Dacia, dedicated a tomb at Misenum, dating between the middle of the second century and the middle of the third, for his fellow-soldier, Cassius Albanus, a native of Corsica, aged thirty years, two months, and two days.[10]
  • Gaius Urbinius Victor, buried in a third-century tomb at Genua in Liguria.[11]

Undated Urbinii

See also

Notes

  1. Called "Appion" by Appian.

References

  1. Chase, pp. 125, 126.
  2. Sallust, Historiae, ii. 70.
  3. Broughton, vol. II, p. 103.
  4. Valerius Maximus, xi. 8. § 6.
  5. Appian, Bellum Civile, iv. 6. § 44.
  6. Quintilian, iv. 1. § 11; vii. 2. § 7; 3. §§ 1, 26; 4. § 1.
  7. Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus, 38.
  8. PIR, vol. III, p. 490 (V, No. 682).
  9. CIL X, 3389.
  10. AE 1979, 166.
  11. CIL V, 7769.
  12. AE 1995, 1773.
  13. Bakker and Galsterer-Kröll, Graffiti auf römischer Keramik im Rheinischen Landesmuseum Bonn, 547.

Bibliography

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