Jucundia gens explained

The gens Jucundia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. No members of this gens are mentioned in ancient writers, but a number are known from inscriptions.

Origin

The nomen Jucundius is derived from the cognomen Jucundus, originally referring to someone pleasant or agreeable.^[1] It belongs to a class of surnames derived from the character of an individual.^[2]

Members

• Gaius Jucundius Verus, made an offering to Jupiter at Alburnus Major in Dacia, some time in the second century.^[3]
• Tiberius Jucundius Victorinus, made an offering to Mercury, recorded in an inscription found at Großkrotzenburg, dating between AD 101 and 260.^[4]
• Jucundius Juvenalis, a cornicularius, or adjutant, in an uncertain military unit, who made an offering to Jupiter Optimus Maximus at Potaissa in Dacia, roughly between AD 150 and 270.^[5]
• Gaius Jucundius Similis, a soldier in the Legio XXX Ulpia Victrix, who made an offering to Jupiter Optimus Maximus at Bonna in Germania Inferior in AD 182.^[6]
• Jucundia Rogata, buried at Ammaedara in Africa Proconsularis, aged thirty-five, with a monument from her husband, Nonius Saturninus.^[7]
• Jucundius, named in an inscription from Gallia Belgica.^[8]
• Jucundius, named in an inscription from Novaesium in Germania Inferior.^[9]
• Marcus Jucundius Primus Vocontius, buried at Lugdunum in Gallia Lugdunensis, with a monument from his friend, Marcus Sollius Epaphroditus.^[10]
• Gaius Jucundius C. f. Severianus, dedicated a monument at Vasio in Gallia Narbonensis for his father, Gaius Jucundius Severus.^[11]
• Gaius Jucundius Severus, buried at Vasio, aged twenty-nine years, eight months, and four days, with a monument dedicated by his son, Gaius Jucundius Severianus.^[11]
• Lucius Jucundius Titullus, made an offering commemorated in an inscription found at Nestier, formerly part of Gallia Aquitania.^[12]

See also

• List of Roman gentes
• Jucundus (disambiguation)

Bibliography

• Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
• René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
• George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII, pp. 103–184 (1897).
• John C. Traupman, The New College Latin & English Dictionary, Bantam Books, New York (1995).
• Jochen Kütter, Graffiti auf römischer Gefäßkeramik aus Neuss, Aachen (2008).

Notes and References

1. New College Latin & English Dictionary, s.v. jucundus.
2. Chase, pp. 110, 111.
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