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Ofania gens

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The gens Ofania was a minor plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens known almost entirely from inscriptions.

Origin

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The nomen Ofanius belongs to a class of gentilicia apparently formed from cognomina ending in -anus, or place-names ending in -anum, although in this case neither a surname Ofanus nor a place called Ofanum is known.[1]

Members

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This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
  • Gaius Ofanius, named in an inscription from Nursia in Samnium.[2]
  • Lucius Ofanius L. l., a freedman named in an inscription from Rome.[3]
  • Titus Ofanius T. f., named in an inscription from the present site of Spilamberto, a village just south of Mutina in northern Italy.[4]
  • Ofania Sex. l. Alexandria, a freedwoman named in a dedicatory inscription from Rome.[5]
  • Marcus Ofanius Aristionis, built a funerary monument at Rome for himself and his son, Marcus Ofanius Primus.[6]
  • Sextus Ofanius Eros, perhaps the former master of Ofania Alexandria, named in an inscription from Rome.[7]
  • Ofanius Hyginus, dedicated a monument at Peltuinum in Samnium to his brother, Quintus Tattius Vestinus, and his wife, Alledia.[8]
  • Ofania Januaria, dedicated a monument at Misenum to her friend, the soldier Valerius Saturninus, who died aged twenty-eight.[9]
  • Marcus Ofanius M. f. Primus, buried at Rome with his father, Marcus Ofanius Aristonis.[6]
  • Ofania C. f. Quarta, the wife of Gaius Papirius Masso. Her husband served as military tribune, plebeian aedile, quaesitor judex and curator frumenti.[10][11]
  • Gaius Ofanius C. f. Valens Cyrro, a soldier in the fifteenth legion, buried at Carnuntum, aged thirty, having served eight years.[12]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Chase, p. 118.
  2. ^ AE 1988, 472.
  3. ^ CIL VI, 37454a.
  4. ^ CIL XI, 6674.
  5. ^ CIL VI, 4802.
  6. ^ a b CIL VI, 10147.
  7. ^ CIL VI, 4801.
  8. ^ CIL IX, 3494.
  9. ^ CIL X, 3655.
  10. ^ CIL VI, 1480.
  11. ^ PIR, vol. II, p. 431.
  12. ^ AEA, 2003, 2.

Bibliography

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