Minicia (gens)
The gens Minicia was a plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned in the first century, achieving the consulate under the emperor Claudius. Owing to the similarity of their names, the Minicii are regularly confused with members of the ancient and far more prominent gens Minucia.[1]
Origin
The Minucii originally came from Brixia in Cisalpine Gaul. That city had received a Roman colony shortly before the Second Punic War, and its inhabitants received Roman citizenship at the time of the Social War.[1]
Members
- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Quintus Minicius Macer, mentioned in an inscription from Brixia.[2]
- Minicius Justus, an intimate friend of Pliny the Younger, was praefectus castrorum for the seventh legion in AD 69.[3][4][2]
- Aulus Minicius Rufus, proconsul of Crete and Cyrenaica, probably in AD 71.[5]
- Minicius Macrinus, an eques from Brixia, was enrolled among those of praetorian rank by the emperor Vespasian.[6][2]
- Gaius Minicius Italus, a cavalry commander honoured by Vespasian, he subsequently became a provincial governor, and Flamen of the Divine Claudius.[7]
- Aulus Minicius Rufus, proconsul of Creta et Cyrenaica in 71/72.[8]
- Minicius Acilianus, son of Minicius Macrinus and Acilia, is mentioned in the letters of Pliny the Younger. He was a little older than Pliny, and had been quaestor, tribune of the plebs, and praetor.[9][10]
- Lucius Minicius Rufus, consul in AD 88, during the reign of Domitian.[5]
- Gnaeus Minicius Faustinus, consul suffectus in AD 91.
- Lucius Minicius Natalis, consul suffectus in AD 106, and afterward proconsul of Africa.[11]
- Gaius Minicius Fundanus, consul suffectus in AD 107, and afterward proconsul of Asia.[12]
- Salvius Rufinus Minicius Opimianus, procurator of Asia during the reign of Trajan.[13]
- Gnaeus Minicius Faustinus, consul suffectus in AD 117.[7]
- Titus Salvius Rufinus Minicius Opimianus, consul suffectus in AD 123, and son of the procurator of Asia.[13]
- Lucius Minicius L. f. Natalis Quadronius Verus, consul suffectus in AD 139. Like his father before him, he subsequently became proconsul of Africa.[14]
- Minicius Opimianus, consul suffectus in AD 155, and son of the consul of 123.[13]
- Minicius Opimianus, proconsul of Africa at some point between AD 198 and 209, during the reign of the emperor Geta. He died in office.[15]
See also
References
- 1 2 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 1090 ("Minicia Gens").
- 1 2 3 PIR, vol. I, p. 378.
- ↑ Tacitus, Historiae, iii. 7.
- ↑ Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 7, 11, 4.
- 1 2 PIR, vol. I, p. 380.
- ↑ Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, i. 14, ii. 16.
- 1 2 PIR, vol. I, p. 377.
- ↑ Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), p. 290
- ↑ Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 1, 14, ii. 16.
- ↑ PIR, vol. I, p. 376.
- ↑ PIR, vol. I, pp. 378, 379.
- ↑ PIR, vol. I, p. 377.
- 1 2 3 Eck, "Ergänzungen zu den Fasti Consulares des 1. und 2. Jh.n.Chr.", Historia, 24 (1975), p. 327
- ↑ PIR, vol. I, p. 379.
- ↑ PIR, vol. I, pp. 379, 380.
Bibliography
- Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger), Epistulae (Letters).
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Historiae.
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
- Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR), Berlin (1898).
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