The gens Asinia was a

plebeian In ancient Rome, the plebeians or plebs were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words "commoners". Both classes were hereditary. Etymology The precise origins of the gro ...

family at

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, which rose to prominence during the first century BC. The first member of this

gens In ancient Rome, a gens ( or , ; : gentes ) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same ''nomen gentilicium'' and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens, sometimes identified by a distinct cognomen, was cal ...

mentioned in history is Herius Asinius, commander of the

Marrucini The Marrucini were an Italic tribe that occupied a small strip of territory around the ancient ''Teate'' (modern Chieti), on the east coast of Abruzzo, Italy, limited by the Aterno and Foro Rivers. Other Marrucinian centers included ''Ceio'' ( S ...

during the Social War. The Asinii probably obtained

Roman citizenship Citizenship in ancient Rome () was a privileged political and legal status afforded to free individuals with respect to laws, property, and governance. Citizenship in ancient Rome was complex and based upon many different laws, traditions, and cu ...

in the aftermath of this conflict, as they are mentioned at Rome within a generation, and

Gaius Asinius Pollio Gaius Asinius Pollio (75 BC – AD 4) was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic, and historian, whose lost contemporaneous history provided much of the material used by the historians Appian and Plutarch. Po ...

obtained the

consulship The consuls were the highest elected public officials of the Roman Republic ( to 27 BC). Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the ''cursus honorum''an ascending sequence of public offices to which politicians aspire ...

in 40 BC.''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', vol. I, p. 385 (" Asinia Gens").

Origin

The Asinii came from Teate, the chief town of the

, an

Oscan Oscan is an extinct Indo-European language of southern Italy. The language is in the Osco-Umbrian or Sabellic branch of the Italic languages. Oscan is therefore a close relative of Umbrian and South Picene. Oscan was spoken by a number of t ...

-speaking people related to the

Samnites The Samnites () were an ancient Italic peoples, Italic people who lived in Samnium, which is located in modern inland Abruzzo, Molise, and Campania in south-central Italy. An Oscan language, Oscan-speaking Osci, people, who originated as an offsh ...

Silius Italicus Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (, c. 26 – c. 101 AD) was a Roman senator, orator and epic poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature. His only surviving work is the 17-book '' Punica'', an epic poem about the Second Punic War and the ...

mentions a certain Herius who lived around the beginning of the

Second Punic War The Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) was the second of Punic Wars, three wars fought between Ancient Carthage, Carthage and Roman Republic, Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC. For ...

, who was said to have been an ancestor of the Asinii.Catullus, ''Carmina'', 12. The nomen ''Asinius'' is derived from the

cognomen A ''cognomen'' (; : ''cognomina''; from ''co-'' "together with" and ''(g)nomen'' "name") 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 hereditar ...

''Asina'', a she-ass, one of a large class of surnames derived from familiar objects and animals. A related but more familiar name was ''Asellus'', borne as a cognomen by the

Cornelii The gens Cornelia was one of the greatest patrician houses at ancient Rome. For more than seven hundred years, from the early decades of the Republic to the third century AD, the Cornelii produced more eminent statesmen and generals than any othe ...

and

Claudii The gens Claudia (), sometimes written Clodia, was one of the most prominent patrician houses at ancient Rome. The gens traced its origin to the earliest days of the Roman Republic. The first of the Claudii to obtain the consulship was Appius ...

Praenomina

The main

praenomina The praenomen (; plural: praenomina) was a first name chosen by the parents of a Ancient Rome, Roman child. It was first bestowed on the ''dies lustricus'' (day of lustration), the eighth day after the birth of a girl, or the ninth day after the ...

of the Asinii at Rome were ''

Gaius Gaius, sometimes spelled Caius, was a common Latin praenomen; see Gaius (praenomen). People * Gaius (biblical figure) (1st century AD) *Gaius (jurist) (), Roman jurist * Gaius Acilius * Gaius Antonius * Gaius Antonius Hybrida * Gaius Asinius Gal ...

'' and '' Gnaeus'', to which they sometimes added other names, including '' Marcus'', ''

Lucius Lucius is a masculine given name derived from Lucius (Latin ; ), abbreviated L., one of the small group of common Latin forenames () found in the culture of ancient Rome. Lucius probably derives from Latin word ( gen. ), meaning "light" (<

'', ''

Servius Servius may refer to: * Servius (praenomen), a personal name during the Roman Republic * Servius the Grammarian (fl. 4th/5th century), Roman Latin grammarian * Servius Asinius Celer (died AD 46), Roman senator * Servius Cornelius Cethegus, Roma ...

'', and ''

Quintus Quintus is a male given name derived from ''Quintus (praenomen), Quintus'', a common Latin language, Latin forename (''praenomen'') found in the culture of ancient Rome. Quintus derives from Latin word ''quintus'', meaning "fifth". Quintus is ...

''. The earliest of the Asinii bore the Oscan praenomen ''Herius'', which was apparently of long standing amongst their ancestors.

Branches and cognomina

There were two main families of the Asinii at Rome. The earlier of these bore the cognomen ''Pollio'', a surname originally designating a polisher of armour. The sons of Gaius Asinius Pollio, consul in 40 BC, each bore different surnames, including ''Pollio'', ''Agrippa'', ''Saloninus'', ''Celer'', and ''Gallus'', some of which were passed on to their descendants. The Asinii Marcelli were descended from Marcus Asinius Agrippa. Of these names, ''Agrippa'' was an old praenomen that came to be a common surname in the later

Republic A republic, based on the Latin phrase ''res publica'' ('public affair' or 'people's affair'), is a State (polity), state in which Power (social and political), political power rests with the public (people), typically through their Representat ...

and under the

Empire An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outpost (military), outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a hegemony, dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the ...

. ''Saloninus'' was derived from the Salonia gens, an ancient but undistinguished family from which this branch of the Asinii may have been descended. ''Celer'', swift, belongs to a large class of surnames describing an individual's habits or physical characteristics. ''Gallus'', a cockerel, is the same type of cognomen as ''Asina''. The other ''stirps'' of the Asinii, with the cognomen ''Rufus'', originally indicating someone with red hair, appears in imperial times, and may well have been related to the Polliones. As with that family, the Asinii Rufi also bore a variety of other surnames, including ''Bassus'', stout, and ''Quadratus'', stocky, as well as names inherited from other gentes, such as ''Frugi'', an agnomen of the Calpurnii, and ''Nicomachus'', a surname of Greek origin. Other surnames of the Asinii include ''Dento'', indicating someone with prominent teeth, ''Lepidus'', agreeable, and ''Praetextatus'', probably a reference to the ''

toga The toga (, ), a distinctive garment of Ancient Rome, was a roughly semicircular cloth, between in length, draped over the shoulders and around the body. It was usually woven from white wool, and was worn over a tunic. In Roman historical tra ...

praetexta'', a purple-bordered toga worn by magistrates and Roman youths. ''Lepidus'' might allude to the bearer's descent from the

Aemilii The gens Aemilia, originally written Aimilia, was one of the greatest patrician families at ancient Rome. The gens was of great antiquity, and claimed descent from Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome. Its members held the highest offices ...

Lepidi, an illustrious family of the Republic. It is unclear how these Asinii might have been related to the two main families of the gens, as is the case with those Asinii who are mentioned without any surnames.

Members

Asinii Polliones, Galli, et Marcelli

* Herius Asinius, commander of the

during the

Marsic War Kappa Herculis (κ Herculis, abbreviated Kappa Her, κ Her) is an optical double star in the constellation of Hercules. The two components, Kappa Herculis A (Marsic , the traditional name of the system) and B, were 27.3 arc seconds apart ...

, and perhaps the grandfather of

. * Gnaeus Asinius, only known as the father of

. * Gaius Asinius Cn. f. Pollio, a distinguished orator, poet and historian of the Augustan age,

consul Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states thro ...

in 40 BC. * Asinius Cn. f. Marrucinus, known for his practical jokes. * Asinia C. f. Cn. n., wife of

Marcus Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus Marcus Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus is a name used by several men of the ''gens Claudia'', including: *Marcus Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus is mentioned by Cicero as a young man at the trial of Verres (70 BC), on which occasion he appeared as a ...

. *

Asinius Pollio Gaius Asinius Pollio (75 BC – AD 4) was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic, and historian, whose lost contemporaneous history provided much of the material used by the historians Appian and Plutarch. Polli ...

, a sophist and philosopher, who succeeded

Timagenes Timagenes () was a Greek writer, historian and teacher of rhetoric. He came from Alexandria, was captured by Romans in 55 BC and taken to Rome, where he was purchased by Faustus Cornelius Sulla, son of Sulla. It is said that Timagenes had a fallin ...

in his school. * Lucius Asinius Gallus, celebrated a triumph in 26 BC. * Gaius Asinius C. f. Cn. n. Gallus Saloninus, consul in 8 BC, and second husband of

Vipsania Agrippina Vipsania Agrippina (; unknown – 20 AD) was the first wife of the Roman emperor, Emperor Tiberius. She was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Attica (wife of Agrippa), Attica, thus being a granddaughter of Titus Pomponius Atticus, t ...

. * Gaius Asinius C. f. C. n. Pollio, consul in AD 23. * Marcus Asinius C. f. C. n. Agrippa, consul in AD 25. * Gnaeus Asinius C. f. C. n. Saloninus. * Servius Asinius C. f. C. n. Celer, consul ''suffectus'' in AD 38, apparently put to death by the emperor

Claudius Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( ; ; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54), or Claudius, was a Roman emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudius was born to Nero Claudius Drusus, Drusus and Ant ...

. * Asinia Agrippina Ser. f. C. n. * Lucius Asinius C. f. C. n. Gallus, exiled for conspiring against Claudius. * Marcus Asinius M. f. C. n. Marcellus, son of Marcus Asinius Agrippa, consul in AD 54. * Lucius Asinius Gallus, consul in AD 62. * Asinius Pollio, the commander of a regiment of horse, serving under

Lucceius Albinus : ''For others with this cognomen, see Albinus (cognomen).'' Lucceius Albinus was the 6th Roman Procurator of Judea from 62 until 64 and the governor of Mauretania Tingitana from 64 until 69. Biography Appointed procurator by the Emperor Nero ...

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, was slain in AD 69, when the troops espoused the side of

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. * Lucius Asinius Pollio Verrucosus, consul in AD 81. * Quintus Asinius Marcellus, consul ''suffectus'' in an uncertain year after AD 97. * Marcus Asinius M. f. M. n. Marcellus, consul in AD 104.

Asinii Rufi et Quadrati

* Asinius Rufus, a friend of

Tacitus Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. Tacitus’ two major historical works, ''Annals'' ( ...

and the younger Pliny, the latter of whom recommends Asinius Bassus, the son of Rufus, to Fundanus.Pliny the Younger, ''Epistulae'', iv. 15. * Asinius Bassus, son of Asinius Rufus, recommended to Fundanus by

Gaius Plinius Secundus Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 79), known in English as Pliny the Elder ( ), was a Roman Empire, Roman author, Natural history, naturalist, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the Roman emperor, emperor Vesp ...

. *

Gaius Asinius Frugi Gaius Asinius Frugi (born c. 80), was a Roman moneyer who was officially permitted to mint money for use in Phrygia between 98 and 116. He was probably a descendant of Nicomachus (c. 30 BC - aft. 1 BC), a notable of Lydia in 1 BC. He married and p ...

, ''

triumvir monetalis The ''triumvir monetalis'' ( ''tresviri'' or ''triumviri monetales'', also called the , abbreviated IIIVIR A. A. A. F. F.) was a moneyer during the Roman Republic and the Empire, who oversaw the minting of coins. In that role, he would be respon ...

'' in

Phrygia In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; , ''Phrygía'') was a kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River. Stories of the heroic age of Greek mythology tell of several legendary Ph ...

between AD 98 and 116. *

Gaius Asinius Rufus Gaius Asinius Rufus (c. 110 – after 136) was a notable in Lydia in 134 and 135 who became a Roman Senator in 136. He was probably the son of Gaius Asinius Frugi (born c. 80), monet. of Phrygia between 98 and 116. He married Julia, daughter of A ...

, perhaps the son of Gaius Asinius Frugi, became a

senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or Legislative chamber, chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the Ancient Rome, ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior ...

in AD 136. * Gaius Asinius C. f. Nichomachus, b. ''circa'' AD 135. *

Gaius Asinius Protimus Quadratus Gaius Asinius Protimus Quadratus was a Roman senator, who was active during the Severan dynasty. He is known entirely from inscriptions. Quadratus was proconsular governor of Achaea between 192 and 211; while governing Achaea, Quadratus was design ...

proconsul A proconsul was an official of ancient Rome who acted on behalf of a Roman consul, consul. A proconsul was typically a former consul. The term is also used in recent history for officials with delegated authority. In the Roman Republic, military ...

Achaea Achaea () or Achaia (), sometimes transliterated from Greek language, Greek as Akhaia (, ''Akhaḯa'', ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the modern regions of Greece, region of Western Greece and is situated in the northwest ...

''circa'' AD 211, and consul designate. * Gaius Asinius Rufus, brother of the proconsul Quadratus. *

Gaius Asinius Nicomachus Julianus Gaius Asinius Nicomachus Julianus (c. 185 – aft. or c. 230) was the Proconsul of Asia (Roman province), Asia between c. 225 and c. 230. He was the son of Gaius Asinius Protimus Quadratus, Proconsul in Achaea (Roman province), Achaea in 220.Leunis ...

, proconsul of Asia ''circa'' AD 220. * Gaius Asinius C. f. C. n. Julius Quadratus. *

Gaius Asinius Quadratus Gaius Asinius Quadratus () (fl. AD 248) was a Greek historian of Rome and Parthia of the third century. He was a senator who wrote a 15-book history of Rome, '' Chilieteris'' ("The Millennium"), which, according to the Suda, covered the period from ...

, a historian of the third century. He may be the same person as the proconsul Protimus Quadratus.

Others

* Asinius Dento, a person whom Cicero calls ''nobilis sui generis'', was a

centurion In the Roman army during classical antiquity, a centurion (; , . ; , or ), was a commander, nominally of a century (), a military unit originally consisting of 100 legionaries. The size of the century changed over time; from the 1st century BC ...

primus pilus The ''primus pilus'' ( "first maniple of triarii") or ''primipilus'' was the senior centurion of the first cohort in a Roman legion, a formation of five double-strength centuries of 160 men each; he was a career soldier and advisor to the l ...

under

Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus ( – 48 BC) was a politician of the Roman Republic. He was a conservative and upholder of the established social order who served in several magisterial positions alongside Julius Caesar and conceived a lifelong e ...

in 51 BC, and was killed near Mount Amanus. * Asinius, a friend of

Marcus Antonius Marcus Antonius (14 January 1 August 30 BC), commonly known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from a constitutional republic into the ...

, who surreptitiously crept into the

senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

after the death of

Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (12 or 13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war. He ...

, 44 BC.Cicero, ''Philippicae'', xiii. 13. * Marcus Asinius Atratinus, consul in AD 89. *

Gaius Asinius Lepidus Praetextatus Gaius, sometimes spelled Caius, was a common Latin praenomen; see Gaius (praenomen). People * Gaius (biblical figure) (1st century AD) *Gaius (jurist) (), Roman jurist *Gaius Acilius *Gaius Antonius *Gaius Antonius Hybrida * Gaius Asinius Gallus ...

, consul in AD 242.

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''. * Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (

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Origin

Praenomina

Branches and cognomina

Members

Asinii Polliones, Galli, et Marcelli

Asinii Rufi et Quadrati

Others

See also

References

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