Octavena gens explained

The gens Octavena was an obscure plebeian family at Rome. The gens is known primarily from a single individual, the jurist Octavenus, cited by a number of later authorities, although several other Octaveni are known from inscriptions.^[1]

Members

• Octavenus, a jurist, who probably lived in the mid-first century AD. He is cited by a number of authorities, including Valens, Pomponius, Paulus, and Ulpian.^{[2] [1] [3]}
• Titus Octavenus Gratus, a freedman and manufacturer of roof tiles dating to AD 123, found at several towns in Italy.^[4]
• Quintus Octavenus Hymnus, named in an inscription from Hispania Citerior.^[5]
• Octavena Pia, named in an inscription from Ostia.^[6]
• Octavenus Pius, named in an inscription from Ostia.^[7]
• Caninia Octavena, buried at Cirta in Numidia, aged twenty-seven years, three months.^[8]

See also

• List of Roman gentes

Bibliography

• Digesta seu Pandectae (The Digest).
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
• Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
• Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR), Berlin (1898).
• Herbert Bloch, "Supplement to volume XV.1 of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum", Harvard University Press (1948).

Notes and References

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 3 ("Octavenus").
2. Digesta, 2 tit. 1. s. 9; 5 tit. 3. s. 16, 18; 36 tit. 1. s. 67; 40 tit. 5. s. 20.
3. PIR, vol. II, p. 424.
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6. Bloch, No. 349.
7. Bloch, No. 350.
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