Salonia gens

The gens Salonia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned as early as the fourth century BC, but few of them attained any of the higher offices of the Roman state, until the latter part of the first century AD, when they married into the imperial family.[1]

Origin

The nomen Salonius belongs to a large class of gentilicia formed from words ending in -o, using the suffix -onius. The root of the name is salo, a salt-dealer, from sal, salt, and indicates that an ancestor of the Salonii was probably a dealer in salt, one of the most important commodities of antiquity.[2]

Members

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

See also

References

  1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 700 ("Salonius").
  2. Chase, p. 119.
  3. Livy, vii. 41.
  4. Broughton, vol. I, p. 134.
  5. Livy, xxxiv. 45, xlii. 4.
  6. Broughton, vol. I, pp. 345, 410.
  7. Livy, xxxv. 10, 20.
  8. Plutarch, "The Life of Cato the Elder", 24.
  9. Gellius, xiii. 19.
  10. CIL V, 3117.
  11. CIL III, 1312.
  12. CIL IX, 2592.

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