Abronia gens

Ancient Roman family

The gens Abronia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. The only members of this gens mentioned by Roman writers are Abronius Silo, a Latin poet during the time of Augustus, and his son, who was the author of pantomimes.^[1][2] Epigraphic sources provide a few other instances of this nomen, but the readings are very uncertain, and it is possible that Abronius is merely an orthographic variation of Apronius.

Members

• Abronius Silo, the Latin poet, was one of the students of the rhetorician Marcus Porcius Latro. He flourished during the later years of the emperor Augustus.^[1][2]
• Abronius Silo, son of the poet Abronius Silo, was likewise a poet, but Seneca reports that he wrote for pantomimes, which were considered a form of low culture.^[1][2]
• Abronia Quinta, named in a first-century inscription from Dume in Hispania, along with Abronius Reburrus. In both instances, the nomen is uncertain.^[3]
• Abronius Reburrus, named in a first-century inscription from Dume, along with Abronia Quinta. In both instances, the nomen is uncertain.^[3]
• Gaius Abronius Car[...], a name of uncertain reading that occurs in two inscriptions from Vitudurum in Germania Superior, dating from around the reign of Claudius.^[4]

See also

• List of Roman gentes

References

1. Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae, ii. p. 21 (ed. Bipontina).
2.  Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Abronius Silo". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 3.
3. AE 1983, 582.
4. AE 2016, 1151, AE 2017, 1049.

Bibliography

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder), Suasoriae (Rhetorical Exercises).
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
• René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).