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Urbinia gens

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The gens Urbinia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Only a few members of this gens are mentioned by Roman writers, but others are known from inscriptions.

Origin

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The nomen Urbinius belongs to a class of gentilicia originally formed from cognomina ending in -inus.[1] The surname Urbinus probably referred to a native of Urbinum in Umbria.

Members

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  • Urbinia,[i] a vestal virgin buried alive for unchastity during the pestilence of 472 BC.[2][3]
  • Gaius Urbinius, quaestor in 74 BC, served under Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius in Hispania Ulterior.[4][5]
  • Urbinius Panopion,[ii] proscribed by the Second Triumvirate, was saved by one of his slaves, who exchanged clothes with him, and was slain in his place.[6][7]
  • Urbinia, a woman whose estate was contested by a certain Clusinius Figulus, who claimed to be her son, and retained the advocate Labienus to represent him against Urbinia's heirs, represented by Gaius Asinius Pollio. Quintilian describes a rhetorical trick of Asinius, who implied that Figulus' case was exceptionally weak by describing Labienus himself as the strongest point in the plaintiff's favour.[8][9][10]
  • Lucius Urbinius Quartinus, a native of Africa, was a soldier in the praetorian guard, where he served in the century of Faenius Justus. He was buried at Misenum in Campania, aged sixty, having served for twenty-five years, in a tomb built by Lucius Valerius Saturninus, dating from the second century, or the first half of the third.[11]
  • Marcus Urbinius Rufus, a native of Dacia, dedicated a tomb at Misenum, dating between the middle of the second century and the middle of the third, for his fellow-soldier, Cassius Albanus, a native of Corsica, aged thirty years, two months, and two days.[12]
  • Gaius Urbinius Victor, buried in a third-century tomb at Genua in Liguria.[13]

Undated Urbinii

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Some manuscripts give her name as Orbinia.
  2. ^ Called "Appion" by Appian.

References

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  1. ^ Chase, pp. 125, 126.
  2. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, ix. 40, 41.
  3. ^ Broughton, vol. I, p. 30.
  4. ^ Sallust, Historiae, ii. 70.
  5. ^ Broughton, vol. II, p. 103.
  6. ^ Valerius Maximus, xi. 8. § 6.
  7. ^ Appian, Bellum Civile, iv. 6. § 44.
  8. ^ Quintilian, iv. 1. § 11; vii. 2. § 7; 3. §§ 1, 26; 4. § 1.
  9. ^ Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus, 38.
  10. ^ PIR, vol. III, p. 490 (V, No. 682).
  11. ^ CIL X, 3389.
  12. ^ AE 1979, 166.
  13. ^ CIL V, 7769.
  14. ^ AE 1995, 1773.
  15. ^ Bakker and Galsterer-Kröll, Graffiti auf römischer Keramik im Rheinischen Landesmuseum Bonn, 547.

Bibliography

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