Ancient Roman family
The gens Jucundia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. No members of this gens are mentioned in ancient writers, but a number are known from inscriptions.
Origin
The nomen Jucundius is derived from the cognomen Jucundus, originally referring to someone pleasant or agreeable.[1] It belongs to a class of surnames derived from the character of an individual.[2]
Members
- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Gaius Jucundius Verus, made an offering to Jupiter at Alburnus Major in Dacia, some time in the second century.[3]
- Tiberius Jucundius Victorinus, made an offering to Mercury, recorded in an inscription found at Großkrotzenburg, dating between AD 101 and 260.[4]
- Jucundius Juvenalis, a cornicularius, or adjutant, in an uncertain military unit, who made an offering to Jupiter Optimus Maximus at Potaissa in Dacia, roughly between AD 150 and 270.[5]
- Gaius Jucundius Similis, a soldier in the Legio XXX Ulpia Victrix, who made an offering to Jupiter Optimus Maximus at Bonna in Germania Inferior in AD 182.[6]
- Jucundia Rogata, buried at Ammaedara in Africa Proconsularis, aged thirty-five, with a monument from her husband, Nonius Saturninus.[7]
- Jucundius, named in an inscription from Gallia Belgica.[8]
- Jucundius, named in an inscription from Novaesium in Germania Inferior.[9]
- Marcus Jucundius Primus Vocontius, buried at Lugdunum in Gallia Lugdunensis, with a monument from his friend, Marcus Sollius Epaphroditus.[10]
- Gaius Jucundius C. f. Severianus, dedicated a monument at Vasio in Gallia Narbonensis for his father, Gaius Jucundius Severus.[11]
- Gaius Jucundius Severus, buried at Vasio, aged twenty-nine years, eight months, and four days, with a monument dedicated by his son, Gaius Jucundius Severianus.[11]
- Lucius Jucundius Titullus, made an offering commemorated in an inscription found at Nestier, formerly part of Gallia Aquitania.[12]
See also
References
- ^ New College Latin & English Dictionary, s.v. jucundus.
- ^ Chase, pp. 110, 111.
- ^ AE 1990, 837.
- ^ CIL XIII, 7413.
- ^ CIL III, 887.
- ^ CIL XIII, 7997.
- ^ AE 2013, 243.
- ^ CIL XIII, 4219.
- ^ Kütter, Graffiti auf römischer Gefäßkeramik aus Neuss, 362.
- ^ AE 1973, 332.
- ^ a b CIL XII, 1413.
- ^ CIL XIII, 185.
Bibliography
- Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
- René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
- George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII, pp. 103–184 (1897).
- John C. Traupman, The New College Latin & English Dictionary, Bantam Books, New York (1995).
- Jochen Kütter, Graffiti auf römischer Gefäßkeramik aus Neuss, Aachen (2008).
