Travia gens explained

The gens Travia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Few members of this gens are mentioned by Roman writers, but a number are known from inscriptions.

Praenomina

The main praenomina of the Travii were Titus and Marcus, among the most common names at all periods of Roman history. A few members of this gens bore other common names, including Gaius, Lucius, Publius, and Quintus.

Members

• Titus Travius, buried at Ameria in Umbria in the latter half of the first century BC.^[1]
• Travius, the name by which Pomponius Porphyrion describes a man whose excessive wealth was criticized by Horace in one of his Satires. Horace calls the man Trausius, an equally obscure nomen.^{[2] [3] [4]}
• Marcus Travius, named in a sepulchral inscription from Aquincum in Pannonia Inferior, dating from the late first century.^[5]
• Travius, a soldier in the Legio V, buried in a first- or second-century tomb at Ameria.^[6]
• Travia Prima, buried in a first- or second-century tomb at Pisaurum in Umbria, along with Marcus Attius Repens, a local official, and Titus Marius Capito.^[7]

Undated Travii

• Gaius Travius Ɔ. l., a freedman buried at Pola in Venetia and Histria.^[8]
• Marcus Travius L. f. Saufeius Sabinus, buried at Rome.^[9]
• Marcus Travius M. f. Saufeius Sabinus, named in an inscription from Verona in Venetia and Histria.^[10]
• Titus Travius T. l. Acutus, a freedman, was an aurifex, or goldsmith, according to an inscription from Ameria, along with the freedman Titus Travius Argentillus.^[11]
• Titus Travius T. l. Argentillus, a freedman, was an aurifex, according to an inscription from Ameria, along with the freedman Titus Travius Acutus. He was also an octovir, in this case perhaps a member of the town council at Ameria.^[11]
• Titus Travius Felix, a brickmaker whose wares have been found at various sites throughout Italy.^[12]
• Titus Travius Fortunatus, a potter whose maker's mark was found at Rome and Ostia in Latium.^{[13] [14]}
• Travia P. f. Secci, buried at Brixia in Venetia and Histria, along with Lucius Popillius Senex.^[15]
• Travia Q. f. Tertia, buried at Aquinum in Latium.^[16]
• Marcus Travius Thallus, built a tomb at Verona for himself and Livia Psyche.^[17]

See also

• List of Roman gentes

Bibliography

• Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Satirae (Satires).
• Pomponius Porphyrion, Commentarii in Q. Horatium Flaccum (Commentaries on Horace).
• Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
• Ettore Pais, Corporis Inscriptionum Latinarum Supplementa Italica (Italian Supplement to the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum), Rome (1884).
• René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
• Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR), Berlin (1898).
• Scavi di Ostia, 1953–present.

Notes and References

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2. Horace, Satirae, ii. 2, 99.
3. Pomponius Porphyrion, Commentaries on Horace, "Satirae", ii. 2, 99.
4. PIR, vol. III, p. 332 (T, No. 224).
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