Scribonius
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Scribonius or Scribonia is the nomen
of the gens
Scribonia of Ancient Roman, who lived during the Roman Republic
and Roman Empire
. They were of plebeian
status and members included:
Roman naming conventions
By the Republican era and throughout the Imperial era, a name in ancient Rome for a male citizen consisted of three parts : praenomen , nomen and cognomen...
of the 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...
Scribonia of Ancient Roman, who lived during the Roman Republic
Roman Republic
The Roman Republic was the period of the ancient Roman civilization where the government operated as a republic. It began with the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, traditionally dated around 508 BC, and its replacement by a government headed by two consuls, elected annually by the citizens and...
and Roman Empire
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
. They were of plebeian
Plebs
The plebs was the general body of free land-owning Roman citizens in Ancient Rome. They were distinct from the higher order of the patricians. A member of the plebs was known as a plebeian...
status and members included:
Men of the gens
- Gaius Scribonius CurioGaius Scribonius CurioGaius Scribonius Curio was the name of a father and son who lived in the late Roman Republic.-Father:Gaius Scribonius Curio was a Roman statesman and orator. He was nicknamed Burbulieus for the way he moved his body while speaking...
, consul 76 BC - Quintus or Gaius Scribonius CurioGaius Scribonius CurioGaius Scribonius Curio was the name of a father and son who lived in the late Roman Republic.-Father:Gaius Scribonius Curio was a Roman statesman and orator. He was nicknamed Burbulieus for the way he moved his body while speaking...
, a senator and son to the above, who married Fulvia as her husband - Lucius Scribonius LiboLucius Scribonius LiboSeveral men of plebeian status were named Lucius Scribonius Libo during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire; they were members of the gens Scribonia.-L. Scribonius Libo :...
, a man from a senatorial family - Lucius Scribonius LiboLucius Scribonius LiboSeveral men of plebeian status were named Lucius Scribonius Libo during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire; they were members of the gens Scribonia.-L. Scribonius Libo :...
, a son to the above, who was consul in 34 BC - Lucius Scribonius LiboLucius Scribonius LiboSeveral men of plebeian status were named Lucius Scribonius Libo during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire; they were members of the gens Scribonia.-L. Scribonius Libo :...
, a grandson to the above, who was consul in 16 - Scribonius, an usurper who about 16 BC almost seized the throne of the Bosporan KingdomBosporan KingdomThe Bosporan Kingdom or the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus was an ancient state, located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus...
- Marcus Scribonius LiboMarcus Scribonius LiboMarcus Scribonius Libo Drusus was a younger son of the consul Lucius Scribonius Libo by his wife who was a member of the gens Sulpicius, the family that the Roman Emperor Galba, had descended from his paternal side. Marcus was a fatuous man, who had tastes for absurdities.Along with his brother...
Drusus, grandson of consul in 34 BC, Lucius Scribonius Libo and brother to the above who was consul in 16. The brothers were charged with plotting against the Roman Emperor Tiberius, Germanicus, and Julius Caesar Drusus in 16. Marcus committed suicide to avoid facing trial - Scribonius LargusScribonius LargusScribonius Largus was the court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius.About 47 AD, at the request of Gaius Julius Callistus, the emperor's freedman, he drew up a list of 271 prescriptions , most of them his own, although he acknowledged his indebtedness to his tutors, to friends and to the...
, a physician to the Roman Emperor Claudius
Women of the gens
- ScriboniaScriboniaScribonia was the second wife of the Roman Emperor Augustus and the mother of his only natural child, Julia the Elder. She was the mother-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, great-grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, grandmother-in-law of the Emperor Claudius, and...
, the daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo and Cornelia Sulla who married as the second wife of future Roman Emperor Augustus - Scribonia, niece of the above, who was the daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo, consul in 34 BC. This Scribonia, married her great, great uncle Sextus PompeiusSextus PompeiusSextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, in English Sextus Pompey , was a Roman general from the late Republic . He was the last focus of opposition to the Second Triumvirate...
and bore him a daughter Pompeia Magna - Scribonia (daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo consul 16)Scribonia (daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo consul 16)Scribonia Magna , in the modern historical sources she is known as Scribonia Crassi was a Roman noblewoman that lived in the Roman Empire...