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Umbria gens

The gens Umbria, occasionally written Umbreia, was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Only a few members of this gens are mentioned by Roman writers, but a number are known from inscriptions. Marcus Umbrius Primus was the first to attain the consulship, in the time of Commodus.[1]

Origin

The nomen Umbrius is derived from the cognomen Umber, referring to an inhabitant of Umbria.[2] While this implies that the ancestors of the Umbrii came from Umbria, the largest number of inscriptions from this gens are from Samnium. Alongside Umbrius is found Umbreius. As a gentile-forming suffix, -eius was common among nomina of Oscan origin, and was regarded as equivalent to the Latin -ius, which in some cases replaced it.[3] Thus, Umbrius might have been assumed by someone whose ancestors came from Umbria, and settled in the Oscan-speaking parts of central and southern Italy.

Praenomina

The main praenomina of the Umbrii were Gaius, Marcus, Lucius, and Publius, four of the most common names at all periods of Roman history, which they sometimes supplemented with Titus or Gnaeus, also common names. A few of the Umbrii bear other names, including Quintus and Sextus. This gens also provides an instance of the feminine praenomen Maxima.

Branches and cognomina

The only distinctly hereditary cognomen of this gens is Primus, "first",[4] which appears as the surname of Umbrius Primus, a wealthy farmer in Samnium at the beginning of the second century.[5] He may have been an ancestor of Marcus Umbrius Primus, the first of this family to attain the consulship, around AD 185.[1] Several other members of this family can be glimpsed over the following century, including the consuls Marcus Nummius Umbrius Primus Senecio Albinus, in 206, and another Marcus Umbrius Primus in 289.[1]

A number of Umbrii settled in Roman North Africa, where they appear in inscriptions from the second century onward. Several of these bore the surname Felix, meaning "happy" or "fortunate";[4][6] some of this family used related cognomina, such as Felicitas, "happiness", or Fortunatus.[7]

Members

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

Undated Umbrii

Notes

  1. ^ The Digest includes Ulpian's discussion of Papinian's resolution of several questions of ownership respecting the property that might or might not be attached to portions of an estate. Papinian concluded that the household furniture that Umbrius had placed in a warehouse for safekeeping during his governorship was included in his devise of the house, even though it had been removed from the premises for storage.[30]
  2. ^ The number is partly obscured, but must be at least thirty-five, and perhaps as much as thirty-nine.
  3. ^ The inscription gives her age as one hundred fifteen years: "v(ixit) a(nnos) CXV";[39] Hemelrijk states it as one hundred five.[40] One translation of her monument reads: "To the Spirits of the Dead, Umbria Matronica. That which for the other is maturity, for me was only prolonged service to the divinity I served for 80 years. Even barefoot, observing chastity and modesty, I went about earnestly to all the cities of the earth and for this my reward is that the earth receives me with benevolence. She lived 115 years. Here she lies; may she rest in peace."[41] Hemelrijk suggests that Matronica received visitors from all the cities of the earth, rather than having visited them herself: "For many years I have served with religious awe and devotion for the divine power of the deity whom I even served for eighty years with bare feet, pure and chaste; and I have constantly waited upon (visitors from?) the cities of the entire world and therefore I have obtained such merits from the goddess that the earth received me kindly."[42]
  4. ^ A freedman manumitted on the same occasion.
  5. ^ The inscription has the unusual spelling "Maxuma".
  6. ^ Their relationship is not stated in the inscription. As both Mansuetus and Eucarpia share the same nomen, both could be siblings of Gaius Umbrius Adjutor, but the portion mentioning them as parents implies that they were husband and wife. It would not be unusual for them to share a nomen if they or their parents were freedmen of the same family.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f PIR, vol. III, p. 468 (V, No. 596).
  2. ^ Chase, p. 114.
  3. ^ Chase, p. 120.
  4. ^ a b Chase, pp. 111.
  5. ^ a b CIL IX, 1455.
  6. ^ Cassell's Latin and English Dictionary, s.v. felix.
  7. ^ Cassell's Latin and English Dictionary, s.vv. felicitas, fortunatus.
  8. ^ CIL XI, 1389.
  9. ^ AE 2001, 240.
  10. ^ CIL VI, 4708.
  11. ^ AE 2007, 389.
  12. ^ CIL IX, 2799.
  13. ^ a b CIL IX, 1326.
  14. ^ CIL XI, 6834.
  15. ^ Sartori and Zoia, Pietre che vivono, 377.
  16. ^ CIL VI, 29412.
  17. ^ CIL V, 5167.
  18. ^ a b c AE 1998, 318.
  19. ^ CIL XI, 6184.
  20. ^ AE 2003, 2029.
  21. ^ CIL III, 180c.
  22. ^ CIL V, 1811.
  23. ^ CIL IX, 1497.
  24. ^ a b NSA, 2008/09, 354,18.
  25. ^ CIL IX, 2820.
  26. ^ CIL IX, 6078,176a–c, CIL XV, 7449a.
  27. ^ PIR, vol. III, p. 468 (V, No. 598).
  28. ^ CIL XIV, 1799.
  29. ^ a b CIL VIII, 27903.
  30. ^ Digesta, xxx. tit. 7. § 12. s. 40.
  31. ^ Leunissen, "Direct Promotions from Proconsul to Consul", p. 229.
  32. ^ a b Mennen, Power and Status in the Roman Empire, pp. 112–115.
  33. ^ CIL IX, 1211.
  34. ^ AE 2013, 360.
  35. ^ CIL IX, 1685.
  36. ^ CIL III, 1823.
  37. ^ CIL VIII, 61.
  38. ^ CIL IX, 838.
  39. ^ a b CIL VIII, 7604.
  40. ^ Hemelrijk, pp. 83, 382.
  41. ^ Lefkowitz and Fant, Women's Life in Greece and Rome, p. 306.
  42. ^ Hemelrijk, p. 95.
  43. ^ Hemelrijk, Hidden Lives, Public Personae, pp. 59 (note 82), 83 (and note 156), 87, 95, 99 (and note 207), 104 (and note 219), 382.
  44. ^ AE 1994, 1025.
  45. ^ a b AE 2005, 1197.
  46. ^ AE 1902, 9.
  47. ^ CIL III, 2154.
  48. ^ CIL V, 4347, CIL VI, 41192.
  49. ^ AE 1969/70, 169.
  50. ^ CIL VIII, 2564.
  51. ^ a b AE 1925, 115.
  52. ^ CIL IX, 1659.
  53. ^ Inscriptiones Latinae quae in Iugoslavia, iii. 1894.
  54. ^ a b c CIL VI, 3312.
  55. ^ a b c CIL XI, 5726.
  56. ^ CIL VI, 29426.
  57. ^ Fasti Cumani, CIL X, 3698; Fasti Caleni, CIL X, 4631.
  58. ^ AE 1904, 5, AE 1940, 18.
  59. ^ Inscriptiones Latinae quae in Iugoslavia, ii. 644.
  60. ^ Charisius, ii. p. 190, 192 (ed. Keil).
  61. ^ PIR, vol. III, p. 468 (V, No. 597).
  62. ^ CIL VIII, 21551.
  63. ^ Recherches archéologiques franco-tunisiennes à Mactar, v. 10, 28.
  64. ^ a b CIL IX, 2037.
  65. ^ Inscriptiones Africae Latinae, 375.
  66. ^ a b CIL IX, 6083,057.
  67. ^ Inscriptiones Italiae, x. 1, 651.
  68. ^ a b c CIL IX, 1628.
  69. ^ CIL XIV, 3864.
  70. ^ a b c CIL VIII, 684.
  71. ^ CIL VI, 29411.
  72. ^ CIL VIII, 8432.
  73. ^ a b CIL XIV, 256.
  74. ^ CIL IX, 980.
  75. ^ AE 2016, 1975.
  76. ^ a b CIL IX, 2038.
  77. ^ BCTH, 1954-169.
  78. ^ a b Recherches archéologiques en Algérie, p. 182.
  79. ^ CIL VIII, 4935.
  80. ^ CIL IX, 1822.
  81. ^ CIL VIII, 23536.
  82. ^ CIL III, 12071.
  83. ^ CIL VI, 15108.
  84. ^ BCTH, 1932/33-407.
  85. ^ CIL VIII, 3999.
  86. ^ CIL XIV, 3910.
  87. ^ a b CIL IX, 2123.
  88. ^ CIL IX, 2132.
  89. ^ a b CIL VI, 29424.
  90. ^ CIL VIII, 4168.
  91. ^ CIL VI, 29425.
  92. ^ CIL IX, 1968.
  93. ^ CIL VIII, 20792.
  94. ^ CIL VIII, 1613.
  95. ^ CIL IX, 4357.
  96. ^ CIL VIII, 12041.
  97. ^ Carte Archéologique de la Gaule, 83-3, p. 359.
  98. ^ CIL IX, 2133.
  99. ^ CIL VIII, 5134.
  100. ^ AE 1972, 753.
  101. ^ Inscriptions Latines de L'Algérie, ii. 2, 6025.
  102. ^ CIL IX, 2039.
  103. ^ CIL IX, 1686.
  104. ^ AE 1912, 145.

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