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This is a list of Roman nomina. The nomen identified all free Roman citizens as members of individual gentes, originally families sharing a single nomen and claiming descent from a common ancestor. Over centuries, a gens could expand from a single family to a large clan, potentially including hundreds or even thousands of members.
The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. It was an important social and legal structure in early Roman history .
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Abronius Silo - latin poet [1] Abudius Ruso - aedile and legate [2] [3] Portrait of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa; Lucius Accius - tragic poet and literary scholar [4] [5] [6] Titus Accius - jurist and equestrian [7] Acerronia Polla - servant of Agrippina the Younger [8] Gnaeus Acerronius Proculus - consul [9] [10] Acilius Severus - consul and urban ...
Attributed by Livy to the sixth Roman king, Servius Tullius, [3] the urban tribes were named for districts of the city and were the largest and had the least political power. In the later Republic, poorer people living in the city of Rome itself typically belonged to one of these tribes. [ 4 ]
[1] In imperial times, other, less formal names were sometimes used to distinguish between women with similar names. [clarification needed] [citation needed] Still later, Roman women, like men, adopted signa, or alternative names, in place of their Roman names.
Ancient Roman family trees (1 C, 5 P) B. Family of Marcus Junius Brutus (1 C, 13 P) D. Roman imperial dynasties (12 C, 7 P) G. ... Pages in category "Ancient Roman ...
In the Severan dynasty, most women bore the first name of Julia, even if it was not the family's gentilical name, but the second name was different and hence distinguished them. In the Theodosian dynasty, the daughter of Theodosius I was not Theodosia but Galla Placidia, and named partly for her mother. A woman could be named for a grandparent.