Ollia (gens)

The gens Ollia was a minor plebeian family at Rome. Few members of this gens achieved any prominence, and the best-known may have been Titus Ollius, the father of the empress Poppaea Sabina. Other Ollii are known from inscriptions.[1]

Origin

The nomen Ollius is probably another orthography of Aulius, a patronymic surname derived from the common praenomen Aulus.[2]

Members

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
  • Titus Ollius, a man of equestrian rank, was an intimate friend of Sejanus, and was put to death by Tiberius after his friend's downfall. He married Poppaea Sabina, and was the father of the future empress of that name.[3]
  • Lucius Ollius, named in an inscription from Velitrae in Latium.[4]
  • Quintus Ollius Felix, named in an inscription from Nuceria in Campania.[5]
  • Ollius Nicadas, husband of Milonia Apollonia, named in an inscription from Rome.[6]
  • Ollia C. f. Pothina, buried at Salona in Dalmatia, aged seventeen.[7]
  • Gaius Ollius Pothinus, dedicated a monument to his daughter, Pothina, at Salona.[7]
  • Gaius Ollius Primigenius, a soldier in the fourth legion, buried in Rusicade, aged thirty-five, having served nineteen years.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 21 ("Titus Ollius").
  2. ↑ Chase, pp. 129, 153.
  3. ↑ Tacitus, Annales, xiii. 45.
  4. ↑ SupIt, 2-V, 54.
  5. ↑ AE 1994, 406.
  6. ↑ CIL VI, 22933.
  7. 1 2 CIL III, 9287.
  8. ↑ CIL VIII, 7981.

Bibliography

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