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Turrania gens

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The gens Turrania, occasionally written Turania or Tyrannia, was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned in the time of Varro, but none of them ever rose any higher than the praetorship.[1][2]

Origin

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The nomen Turranius belongs to a class of gentilicia formed from the names of places ending in -as, and cognomina ending in -anus, usually also derived from place-names.[3]

Members

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

Notes

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  1. ^ Rufinus, called variously Tyrannius, Turranius, or Toranus, was born at Julia Concordia, a Roman town in Venetia and Histria, and is best known for translating Greek literature into Latin. The name Tyrannius is Greek, and rarely found in Latin epigraphy—never as a gentilicium—while Turannius is a relatively common gentilicium. Greek upsilon is the equivalent of the Latin 'U', so in Greek Turranius would be rendered ΤΥΡΡΑΝΙΟΣ, easily transmuted to the more familiar ΤΥΡΑΝΝΙΟΣ. Toranus does not appear in Latin epigraphy.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 1193 ("Turranius or Turanius").
  2. ^ PIR, vol. III, pp. 344, 345 (T, Nos. 295–300).
  3. ^ Chase, p. 118.
  4. ^ Varro, Rerum Rusticarum, ii. praefatio.
  5. ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, i. 6, iv. 9, vii. 1.
  6. ^ a b Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 1193 ("Turranius", No. 1).
  7. ^ Cicero, Philippicae, iii. 10.
  8. ^ Broughton, vol. II, p. 322.
  9. ^ Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto, iv. 16.
  10. ^ PIR, vol. III, p. 344 (T, No. 295).
  11. ^ Tacitus, Annales, i. 7, xi. 31.
  12. ^ PIR, vol. III, p. 344 (T, Nos. 296, 297).
  13. ^ d'Escurac, La préfecture de l'annone, service administratif impérial d'Auguste à Constantin.
  14. ^ CIL X, 797, CIL XIV, 4176.
  15. ^ PIR, vol. III, pp. 344, 345 (T, No. 300).
  16. ^ Pliny, Historia Naturalis, iii. 1.
  17. ^ PIR, vol. III, p. 344 (T, No. 298).
  18. ^ Josephus, Bellum Judaïcum, ii. 19.
  19. ^ PIR, vol. III, p. 344 (T, No. 299).

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