Rusonia gens
The gens Rusonia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Hardly any members of this gens are mentioned in history, but several are known from inscriptions.
Origin
[edit]The nomen Rusonius belongs to a class of gentilicia formed primarily from cognomina ending in -o, in this case Ruso, of uncertain meaning.[1]
Members
[edit]- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Lucius Rusonius, named in an inscription from Nicopolis ad Istrum in Moesia Inferior.[2]
- Gaius Rusonius Adjutor, a soldier serving in the fifth cohort of the vigiles, in the century of Publius Aelius Septimius Romulus, at the beginning of the third century.[3]
- Gaius Rusonius P. l. Chrestus, a freedman named in an inscription from Hispellum in Umbria.[4]
- Rusonius Epictetus, buried at Lugdunum in Gallia Lugdunensis, in a tomb dedicated by his foster-father.[5]
- Rusonius Hylas, a freedman, and one of the Seviri Augustales at Lugdunum, where he was buried in a tomb dedicated by his colleague, Gaius Rusonius Mercurialis.[6]
- Gaius Rusonius Mercurialis, a freedman, and one of the Seviri Augustales at Lugdunum, where he dedicated a tomb for his colleague, Rusonius Hylas.[6]
- Gaius Rusonius Myron, a freedman, and one of the Seviri Augustales at Lugdunum, where he dedicated a tomb for his colleague, Gaius Rusonius Secundus.[7]
- Rusonia Nonna, buried at Durocortorum in Gallia Belgica, with a tomb dedicated by her husband, Maianus Primus, a cassidarius, or helmet-maker.[8]
- Rusonius Patrophilus, a freedman buried at Lugdunum, with a tomb dedicated by Rusonius Senator.[9]
- Gaius Rusonius Secundus, a freedman, and one of the Seviri Augustales at Lugdunum, where he was buried in a tomb dedicated by his colleague, Gaius Rusonius Myron.[7]
- Rusonius Senator, a freedman, who dedicated a tomb at Lugdunum for Rusonius Patrophilus.[9]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
- René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
- George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII, pp. 103–184 (1897).