Obultronia gens explained

The gens Obultronia was an obscure plebeian family at Rome. Most members of this gens are known only from inscriptions, especially a group from Casinum in Latium, and another from Salona in Dalmatia.

Members

• Obultronia, erected a monument to Obultronius Lyrasus.
• Aulus Obultronius Beryllus, named in an inscription from Salona in Dalmatia.^[1]
• Obultronia Concordia, buried in Dalmatia, aged seven.
• Obultronia Corinthia, the foster-mother of Publius Coelius Quintianus, a child buried at Salona, aged three years and nine months.^[2]
• Marcus Obultronius Cultellus, praefectus fabrum, named in a dedicatory inscription from Casinum, addressed to the divine Claudius.^[3]
• Marcus Obultronius M. f. Cultellus, possibly the same as the prefect, was one of the duumvirs at Casinum.^[4]
• Obultronius Eucarpus, erected a monument to his daughter, Concordia.^[5]
• Obultronia Fortunata, the sister of Clodius Zoillus, buried at Salona, aged thirty-two.^[6]
• Aulus Obultronius Gratus, one of the severi Mercuriales at Narona in Dalmatia.^[7]
• Aulus Obultronius Hermias, erected a monument to his son at Salona.^[8]
• Obultronius A. f. Hermias, buried at Salona.^[8]
• Obultronius Lyrasus, buried at Rome, aged eighteen.^[9]
• Obultronia Nicia, named in an inscription from Salona.^[10]
• Obultronia Prisca, the mother of Lucius Staldius Priscus, one of the duumvirs of Casinum.^[11]
• Obultronia M. l. Romana, a freedwoman named in an inscription from Salona.^[12]
• Obultronius Sabinus, quaestor aerarii in AD 56. Helvidius Priscus, One of the tribunes of the plebs, carried on a private feud with Sabinus, accusing him of misappropriating treasury funds, resulting in the emperor Nero giving this traditional responsibility of the quaestors to a group of prefects. In AD 68, Sabinus was unjustly put to death by Galba in Spain.^{[13] [14] [15]}

See also

• List of Roman gentes

Bibliography

• Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, Historiae.
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
• Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR), Berlin (1898).

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13. Tacitus, Annales, xiii. 28, Historiae, i. 37.
14. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 2 ("Obultronius Sabinus").
15. PIR, vol. II, p. 423.