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Plinia gens

The gens Plinia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Few members of this gens are mentioned in history, and the Plinii are best known from the scholar and antiquarian, Gaius Plinius Secundus, author of the Historia Naturalis, who lived during the first century AD.

Origin
Several Plinii came from Comum and the surrounding region, and this may have been the family's origin. Cisalpine Gaul had received Latin rights in 89 BC, during the Social War, and then full Roman citizenship through the Lex Roscia in 49. Evidence of an element, '''', is found in proper names from the Lepontic area between the fourth and first centuries BC. In this region, fluidity between /l/ and /r/ is very frequent. ==Praenomina==
Praenomina
The main praenomina of the Plinii are Gaius, Lucius, and Publius, three of the most common names throughout Roman history. Other common names are occasionally found, including Gnaeus, Marcus, Titus, Quintus, and Sextus. ==Members==
Members
• Lucius Plinius L. f. Rufus, praetor designatus in 36 BC, served as legate of Sextus Pompeius, and given command of western Sicily. He surrendered after Pompeius' defeat. • Gaius Plinius Secundus, otherwise known as "Pliny the Elder", the first century scholar and antiquarian, devoted his life to compiling knowledge of the natural world. He was a friend of Vespasian, and in command of the Roman fleet at Misenum in AD 79, when he was suffocated by fumes from the eruption of Vesuvius. • Marcus Plinius Gallus, aedile in AD 46. • Gaius Plinius Valerianus, a physician who died at the age of twenty-two. A work on various diseases and their cures in five books has been attributed to him, under the title, Medicinae Plinianae, but there is little evidence linking him to it. The work seems to date to the fourth century. Plinii from inscriptions • Gaius Plinius, named in an inscription from Albanum in Latium. • Publius Plinius, named in an inscription from Mediolanum. • Publius Plinius M. f., named in an inscription from Casilinum in Campania. • Gaius Plinius Abscantus, buried at Rome, together with Gaius Plinius Phosphorus. • Gaius Plinius Aristonicus, dedicated a tomb at Rome for his daughter, Plinia Aristothemis, and wife, Atria Tertia. • Plinia C. f. Aristothemis, daughter of Gaius Plinius Aristonicus and Atria Tertia. • Gaius Plinius Calvus, one of the Sodales Augustales, buried at Comum in Gallia Transpadana. • Plinius Cerdo, mentioned in a funerary inscription from Comum. • Gaius Plinius Donatus, buried at Carthage in Africa Proconsularis, aged twenty-five. • Plinia Euphrosyne, wife of Gaius Plinius Soterichianus, buried at Rome, aged thirty-five. • Gaius Plinius M. f. Faustus, a priest of Augustus, and one of the municipal officials at Noviodunum in Helvetia, buried at Genava in Gallia Narbonensis. • Plinius Germanus, a freedman buried at Rome. • Gnaeus Plinius Homuncio, named in an inscription from Rome; perhaps the father of Lucius Plinius Latinus and Titus Plinius Priscus, named in an adjacent inscription. • Lucius Plinius Cn. f. Latinus, a soldier in the third urban cohort at Rome. He may have been the brother of Titus Plinius Priscus, named in the same inscription. • Lucius Plinius Nigrinus, one of the municipal duumvirs, and a priest of Jupiter Dolichenus at Ostia in AD 147. • Gaius Plinius Oppianus, a scout named in an inscription from Rome, dating to about AD 144. • Publius Plinius Paternus, named in an inscription from Gallia Transpadana, together with Publius Plinius Burrus. • Plinius Phaenomenus, mentioned in a funerary inscription from Comum. • Gaius Plinius Phosphorus, buried at Rome, together with Gaius Plinius Abscantus. • Plinius Restutus, husband of Domitia Augustiana, and father of Plinius Proculus, an infant buried at Corfinium. • Lucius Plinius C. f. Sabinus, the son of Gaius Plinius Faustus, buried at Genava. • Lucius Plinius Sex. f. Secundus, a soldier in the twentieth legion, buried at Municipium Montanensium in Moesia Inferior, by his will freed his slaves, Lucius Plinius and Publius Mestrius. • Marcus Caecilius Plinius, buried at Mediolanum. • Quintus Mursius Q. f. Plinius Minervianus, one of the municipal officials at Pola in Venetia and Histria in AD 227. ==See also==
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