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Cantia gens

The gens Cantia was an obscure plebeian family at Rome. The only member of this gens mentioned in history is Marcus Cantius, tribune of the plebs in 293 BC; however, some manuscripts of Livy give his nomen as Scantius. Other Cantii are known from inscriptions, particularly from Aquileia in Venetia and Histria.

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• Cantia, perhaps the wife of Lucius Cantius Fidus, who dedicated a first- or second-century family sepulchre at Labacum in Pannonia Superior for himself, Cantia, and Cantia Optata, probably his daughter. • Cantius T. f., made a sacrifice to Mercury and Rosmerta at Andematunum in Gallia Belgica. • Marcus Cantius, or perhaps Scantius, tribune of the plebs in 293 BC, brought an indictment against Lucius Postumius Megellus, one of the consuls of the preceding year. Postumius, however, was appointed legate to the consul Spurius Carvilius Maximus, whose popularity shielded him from a trial. • Lucius Cantius Apollonius, a freedman at Aquileia in the early part of the first century. His former master was surnamed Verus. • Cantia L. f. Boniata, daughter of Lucius Cantius Secundus and Cantia Bonia, buried in a family sepulchre dedicated by her father, and found at Graz, formerly in the province of Noricum, dating to the latter part of the first century. • Cantia Euhodia, together with Lucius Cantius Rufinus, made a donation to Aesculapius at Rome, dating to the first century, or the early part of the second. • Cantius Euhodus, mentioned in a funerary inscription from Hasta in Liguria, was perhaps the freedman of Lucius Cantius Martianus. • Cantius P. f. Felix, a young man buried at Rome, aged nineteen years, four days, in a tomb dating to the second century. • Lucius Cantius L. l. Fidus, a freedman who dedicated a first- or second-century tomb at Labacum for himself, Cantia (perhaps his wife), and Cantia Optata, probably their daughter. • Lucius Cantius L. l. Fructus, a freedman and businessman at Aquileia in the early part of the first century. • Lucius Cantius Ionicus, freedman of a woman named Spendusa, made an offering to Belenus, the tutelary god of Aquileia, in the early part of the first century. • Cantius Manlianus, made a sacrifice to Mithras at Aquileia, dating to the latter part of the second, or early part of the third century. • Lucius Cantius L. f. Martianus, an eques and decurion at Hasta and Aquileia, was buried at Hasta, aged twenty-seven. His tomb may have been dedicated by Cantius Euhodus. • Gaius Cantius C. f. Modestinus, dedicated a first-century tomb at Egitania to his father, and made donations out of his inheritance to the temples of Mars and Venus at Egitania, as well as to Victoria and a municipal deity in another part of the province. • Cantia Europae l. Optata, a girl buried in a first- or second-century family sepulchre at Labacum, dedicated by Lucius Cantius Fidus, perhaps her father, for himself, Cantia Optata, and another Cantia, perhaps the girl's mother. Optata was aged six, and seems to have been a slave freed by a woman named Europa. • Gaius Cantius C. f. C. n. Paternus, together with his brother, Gaius Cantius Secundus, dedicated a tomb found at Tresques to their father, Gaius Cantius Servatus. • Lucius Cantius L. l. Probatus, a freedman, was buried along with his wife, Cantia Cirrata, in a first-century sepulchre at Labacum, dedicated by their son, Lucius Cantius Proculus. • Lucius Cantius L. f. Proculus, dedicated a first-century sepulchre at Labacum for himself and his parents, Lucius Cantius Probatus and Cantia Cirrata. • Lucius Cantius Secundus, dedicated a tomb in Noricum, found at present-day Graz, and dating to the second half of the first century, for his family, including his wife, Cantia Bonia, and daughter, Cantia Boniata. • Lucius Cantius L. l. Septimianus, a freedman named in the funerary inscription of Lucius Cantius Secundus, perhaps his former master, at Parentium. ==See also==
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