The gens Scoedia was an obscure

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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. Members 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 ...

are known entirely from inscriptions dating to the early

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 ...

. Gaius Scoedius Natta Pinarianus obtained the

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under

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Origin

The Scoedii may have been of

Umbri The Umbri were an Italic peoples, Italic people of ancient Italy. A region called Umbria still exists and is now occupied by Italian speakers. It is somewhat smaller than the Regio VI Umbria, ancient Umbria. Most ancient Umbrian cities were sett ...

an origin, as nearly all of the inscriptions of this family are from

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or neighboring parts of

Cisalpine Gaul Cisalpine Gaul (, also called ''Gallia Citerior'' or ''Gallia Togata'') was the name given, especially during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, to a region of land inhabited by Celts (Gauls), corresponding to what is now most of northern Italy. Afte ...

Branches and cognomina

The surname ''Natta'', referring to a fuller, was inherited from the ancient

Pinaria gens The gens Pinaria was one of the most ancient patrician (ancient Rome), patrician families at Ancient Rome, Rome. According to tradition, the gens originated long before the founding of the city. The Pinarii are mentioned under the King of Rome, k ...

, from whom the consul Scoedius must have been descended, based on his agnomen, ''Pinarianus''. Such connections may account for his rise to the consulship from an otherwise obscure family.

Members

* Lucius Scoedius L. f., buried at Suasa in

during the Augustan period, with a tomb dedicated by his wife, Magia Polla. * Gaius Scoedius Natta Pinarianus,

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 ...

''suffectus'' in AD 81, serving from the Kalends of July to the Kalends of August, during the brief reign of Titus. * Scoedia, named in an inscription from Forum Popilii in

.. * Scoedia Herois, dedicated a late first-century tomb at Rome to her husband, Marcus Spedius Magnus.. * Scoedia M. l. Prisca, a freedwoman named in an inscription from Forum Popilii. * Marcus Scoedius M. l. Rufio, a freedman named in an inscription from Forum Popilii.

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''et alii'', ''

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum The ''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'' (''CIL'') is a comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions. It forms an authoritative source for documenting the surviving epigraphy of classical antiquity. Public and personal inscriptions throw ...

'' (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated ''CIL''), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present). * René Cagnat ''et alii'', '' L'Année épigraphique'' (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated ''AE''), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present). * Paul A. Gallivan, "The ''Fasti'' for A.D. 70–96", in '' Classical Quarterly'', vol. 31, pp. 186–220 (1981). Roman gentes

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Branches and cognomina

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