Cocceia gens explained
The gens Cocceia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. The gens is first mentioned towards the latter end of the Republic, and is best known as the family to which the emperor Nerva belonged.[1]
Origin of the gens
According to Syme, the Cocceii came from Umbria.[2]
Praenomina used by the gens
The Cocceii used the praenomina Marcus, Lucius, Sextus, and Gaius, of which Marcus was favored by the Cocceii Nervae.[1]
Branches and cognomina of the gens
The only family of the Cocceii known under the late Republic bore the cognomen Nerva. A number of personal cognomina were borne by other members of the gens, including Auctus, Balbus, Genialis, Justus, Nepos, Nigrinus, Proculus, Rufinus, and Verus.[3]
Members of the gens
Cocceii Nervae
- Lucius Cocceius Nerva, brought about the reconciliation of Marcus Antonius and Octavianus in 40 B.C.; possibly the same person as Marcus Cocceius Nerva, consul in 36 B.C.[4]
- Marcus Cocceius Nerva, consul in 36 B.C.
- Marcus Cocceius (M. f.) Nerva, a friend of Tiberius, learned in the law, on which he wrote several books, now lost. He was the grandfather of the emperor Nerva.
- Marcus Cocceius M. f. (M. n.) Nerva, otherwise known as Nerva filius, son of the jurist, in whose footsteps he followed, and father of the emperor.
- Marcus Cocceius M. f. M. n. Nerva, emperor from A.D. 96 to 98.
- Cocceia, the emperor's sister, married Lucius Salvius Otho Titianus.
Others
See also
Notes and References
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
- Syme, Ronald, The Roman Revolution (1939), pg. 200
- Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft.
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