Neratia (gens)

The gens Neratia was a plebeian family at Rome, some of whom subsequently became patricians. The first of the gens to appear in history occur in the time of Augustus, but they did not rise to prominence until the time of Vespasian, when Marcus Neratius Pansa became the first to obtain the consulship.

Origin

The nomen Neratius is classified by Chase with a group of names, ending in -atius, either because they were derived from cognomina ending in -as or -atis, indicating cognomina derived from place names, or from passive participles ending in -atus.[1]

Members

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

Neratii Pansae et Prisci

  • Marcus Hirrius Fronto Neratius Pansa, probably the adoptive father of Marcellus, was consul suffectus about AD 75. He had been governor of Lycia, and was probably made a patrician in 73 or 74; he passed this status to Marcellus.[2]
  • Lucius Neratius Priscus, probably the father of the jurist Priscus, and the natural father of Marcellus, was consul suffectus in AD 87.[3][4]
  • (Marcus Hirrius) Lucius Neratius M. f. Marcellus, consul suffectus in AD 95, and afterward governor of Britain, was an influential man in the court of Trajan. He was consul ordinarius in 129.[5][6][7]
  • Lucius Neratius L. f. Priscus, a jurist who flourished during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian. He wrote several books on the law, from which a number of excerpts are found in the Digest. He was consul suffectus in AD 97. Trajan is said to have considered him a possible successor.[8][9][10][11][12][13][3][14]
  • Lucius Neratius L. f. M. n. Corellius Pansa, consul in AD 122, was the son of Marcellus and his first wife, Corellia Hispulla.[15]
  • Lucius Neratius L. f. L. n. Priscus, son of the jurist Priscus, was consul suffectus in an uncertain year.[16]
  • Neratia L. f. L. n. Marullina, daughter of the jurist Priscus, married Gaius Fufidius Atticus, and was the mother of Gaius Neratius Fufidius Annianus, Atticus, and Priscus.[16]
  • Gaius Neratius Fufidius C. f. Annianus.[3]
  • Gaius Neratius Fufidius C. f. Atticus.[3]
  • Gaius Neratius Fufidius C. f. Priscus.[3]
  • Neratia L. f. L. n. Anteia Rufina, granddaughter of the jurist Priscus.[16]

Neratii Proculi

Others

  • Neratia, the wife of Marcus Antistius Labeo, a jurist in the time of Augustus.[16]
  • Quintus Neratius Proxsimus, a colonist at Lindum Colonia in Britain. His rare nomen suggests that he may have received Roman citizenship from Lucius Neratius Marcellus, the governor of Britain at the end of the first century.[18]
  • Neratia Aemiliana.[19]
  • Neratius Gallus.[19]
  • Neratius Scopius.[19]
  • Neratius Cerealis, consul in AD 358.[19]

Footnotes

  1. His nephew's name features an unusual four-generation filiation, telling us that Proculus' great-grandfather was also named Gaius.

See also

References

  1. Chase, p. 127.
  2. Birley, pp. 107, 108.
  3. PIR, vol. I, p. 402.
  4. Birley, p. 107.
  5. Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, iii. 8.
  6. Fasti.
  7. Birley, pp. 104–112.
  8. Spartianus, "The Life of Hadrian", 4, 18.
  9. Digesta, 8 tit. 3. s. 5. § 1; 33. tit. 7. s. 12. § 35.
  10. Gellius, iv. 4.
  11. Grotius, De Vitae Jurisconsultorum.
  12. Zimmern, Geschichte des Römischen Privatrechts bis Justinian, vol. i, p. 324.
  13. Puchta, Cursus der Institutionen, vol. i, p. 444 (1st edition).
  14. Birley, pp. 107, 108, 110.
  15. Birley, pp. 106, 111.
  16. PIR, vol. I, p. 403.
  17. Birley, p. 111 (note 46).
  18. Birley, p. 110.
  19. Birley, p. 111 (note 47).

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