The gens Aburia was a plebeian family at Rome

Ancient Rome

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 during the latter centuries of the Republic

Roman Republic

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, and the 1st century of the Empire

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. The first member of this gens

Gens

In ancient Rome, a gens , plural gentes, referred to 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...

to achieve prominence was Marcus Aburius, praetor peregrinus

Praetor

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in 176 BC.

Praenomina used by the gens

The Aburii are known to have used the praenomina Marcus

Marcus (praenomen)

Marcus is a Latin praenomen, or personal name, which was one of the most common names throughout Roman history. The feminine form is Marca or Marcia. The praenomen was used by both patrician and plebeian families, and gave rise to the patronymic gens Marcia, as well as the cognomen Marcellus...

, Gaius

Gaius (praenomen)

Gaius is a Latin praenomen, or personal name, which was one of the most common names throughout Roman history. The feminine form is Gaia. The praenomen was used by both patrician and plebeian families, and gave rise to the patronymic gens Gavia...

, and Decimus

Decimus (praenomen)

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Branches and cognomina of the gens

The earliest Aburii are found without a cognomen. Coins issued by this family bear the abbreviation Gem., probably for Geminus. In the 1st century, the surname Bassus is found.

Members of the gens

• Marcus Aburius, tribunus plebis
  Tribune
  Tribune was a title shared by elected officials in the Roman Republic. Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the right to propose legislation before it. They were sacrosanct, in the sense that any assault on their person was...
  
  in 187 and praetor peregrinus
  Praetor
  Praetor was a title granted by the government of Ancient Rome to men acting in one of two official capacities: the commander of an army, usually in the field, or the named commander before mustering the army; and an elected magistratus assigned varied duties...
  
  in 176 BC.
• Gaius Aburius, one of the ambassadors sent to Masinissa and the Carthaginians in 171 BC.
• Gaius Aburius M. f. Geminus, triumvir monetalis
  Moneyer
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  in 134 BC.
• Marcus Aburius M. f. Geminus, triumvir monetalis in 132 BC.
• Decimus Aburius Bassus, consul suffectus
  Roman consul
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  in AD 85.