Venuleia gens
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The gens Venuleia was a patrician family of ancient Rome[1] and of Pisa originally,[2] which flourished from the 1st to the end of the 2nd century AD.[3]
Known members were:
- Lucius Venuleius Montanus was proconsul of Bithynia et Pontus in during the reign of Nero, and described by Juvenal in his fourth satire[4]
- Lucius Venuleius Pataecius, a Roman eques who governed Thracia at some point between AD 69 and 79[5]
- Lucius Venuleius Montanus Apronianus, son of the proconsul, consul in 92.[3]
- Lucius Venuleius consul in 123, possibly son of the consul of 92[6]
- Lucius Venuleius Apronianus Octavius Priscus, son of the consul of 123, consul suffectus around 145 and ordinarius in 168.
The Venuleii family owned the magnificent villa-estate at Massaciuccoli in the 1st and the 2nd century AD.
References
[edit]- ^ Syme, Some Arval Brethren (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), p. 57
- ^ CIL XI, 1432, CIL XI, 1433
- ^ a b Raepsaet-Charlier, Marie-Thérèse. “L’inscription ‘CIL’ XI 1735 Complétée et Les ‘Venulei.’” Latomus, 42 (1983), pp. 152–55. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41533804.
- ^ "Juvenal, Satires. (1918). Satire 4".
- ^ Thomas Elliott (2004). Epigraphic Evidence for Boundary Disputes in the Roman Empire (PhD). University of North Carolina. pp. 92f
- ^ Scheid, "Note sur les Venuleii Aproniani", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 52 (1983), pp. 225-228