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The gens Saria was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. No members of this gens attained any of the higher offices of the Roman state, but several are known from inscriptions.

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In ancient Rome, a gens, plural gentes, was a family consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a stirps. The gens was an important social structure at Rome and throughout Italy during the period of the Roman Republic. Much of an individual's social standing depended on the gens to which he belonged. Certain gentes were considered patrician, others plebeian, while some had both patrician and plebeian branches. The importance of membership in a gens declined considerably in imperial times.

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Origin

The origin of the nomen Sarius is unclear, but seems to be the source of another gentilicium, Sariolenus , perhaps through a diminutive, Sariolus. The suffix -enus typically indicates nomina formed from other gentilicia. [1]

The gens Sariolena was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. They were of senatorial rank, and Lucius Sariolenus Naevius Fastus obtained the consulship in the time of Antoninus Pius.

Branches and cognomina

The only distinct family of the Sarii is known from an inscription at Corfinium in Samnium. Two of them, a father and son, bore the surname Felix, happy or fortunate, while a daughter bore a diminutive, Felicula, and a second son bore the cognomen Justinus. The latter is a derivative of Justus, just, and was apparently inherited from the mother of the family, Pontia Justina. Other surnames found among the Sarii include Celer, swift, Secundus, traditionally given to a second child, and Surus, a Syrian, perhaps indicating the origin of the freedman who bore it. [2] [3]

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Samnium

Samnium is a Latin exonym for a region of Southern Italy anciently inhabited by the Samnites. Their own endonyms were Safinim for the country and Safineis for the people. The language of these endonyms and of the population was the Oscan language. However, not all the Samnites spoke Oscan, and not all the Oscan-speakers lived in Samnium.

A cognomen was the third name of a citizen of ancient Rome, under Roman naming conventions. Initially, it was a nickname, but lost that purpose when it became hereditary. Hereditary cognomina were used to augment the second name in order to identify a particular branch within a family or family within a clan. The term has also taken on other contemporary meanings.

Members

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
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References

  1. ↑ Chase, p. 118.
  2. ↑ Chase, pp. 111, 114, 150, 151.
  3. ↑ New College Latin & English Dictionary, s. vv. felix, justus.
  4. ↑ AE 2012, 706.
  5. 1 2 3 4 AE 1984, 307.
  6. ↑ Pais, Supplementa Italica, 1182, 1183.
  7. ↑ CIL XV, 347,1.
  8. ↑ AE 1995, 594e.
  9. ↑ CAG, 66, p. 469.

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