MarketSertoria gens
Company Profile

Sertoria gens

The gens Sertoria was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Few members of this gens appear in history, the most illustrious of whom was the Roman general Quintus Sertorius, who defied the dictator Sulla and his allies for a decade after the populares were driven from power in Rome.

Origin
The nomen Sertorius is a patronymic surname, derived from the rare praenomen Sertor. Chase suggests that it was the equivalent of servator, meaning "one who protects" or "preserves". ==Praenomina==
Praenomina
The Sertorii used a variety of common praenomina, including Gaius, Gnaeus, Lucius, Publius, Quintus, and Titus. ==Branches and cognomina==
Branches and cognomina
The Sertorii of the Republic were not divided into distinct families. The general Sertorius was born at Nursia, in Sabinum, where his family had lived for several generations. In imperial times there was a family bearing the cognomen Brocchus, originally referring to someone with prominent teeth. ==Members==
Members
Quintus Sertorius, a celebrated general in the last decades of the Republic. He fought alongside Marius and Cinna, and later established an independent state in Hispania during the dictatorship of Sulla, but was finally murdered by one of his officers. • Lucius Sertorius L. f. Sisenna, buried at Verona in Venetia and Histria, along with his wife, Terentia Maxima, with an altar dedicated by their sons, Lucius Sertorius Firmus and Quintus Sertorius Festus. • Lucius Sertorius L. f. L. n. Firmus, the son of Lucius Sertorius Sisenna and Terentia Maxima, brother of Quintus Sertorius Festus, and husband of Domitia Prisca, was Aquilifer in the Legio XI Claudia, with whom he was buried at Verona in a tomb dating from the second half of the first century. • Quintus Sertorius L. f. L. n. Festus, the son of Lucius Sertorius Sisenna and Terentia Maxima, and brother of Lucius Sertorius Firmus, was a centurion in the Legio XI Claudia. He was buried alongside his parents and brother at Verona, with a monument dating from the second half of the first century. • Sertorius, the husband of Bibula, mentioned by Juvenal. Sertorii Brocchi • Gaius Sertorius Brocchus, proconsul of an uncertain province during the reign of Claudius. • Gaius Sertorius Brocchus Quintus Servaeus Innocens, consul suffectus in AD 101. • Gnaeus Sertorius C. f. Brocchus Aquilius Agricola Pedanius Fuscus Salinator Julius Servianus, named in an inscription from Doclea in Dalmatia. ==See also==
tickerdossier.comtickerdossier.substack.com