Ummidier

The Ummidians ( gens Ummidia ) were a Roman family from Casinum , who produced several leading senators during the first two centuries AD and were related by marriage to the Antonine imperial family. The gentile name of the male family members was Ummidius , that of the female members was Ummidia .

An early representative of the family ("a certain Ummidius") who probably lived before 33 BC. Died, calls Horace in his satires . Despite his enormous wealth, he was so stingy that he dressed like a slave and almost starved to death. Finally, a freedman killed him with an ax. Further early evidence for the name Ummidius is a dialogue by Varros and a letter by Cicero ; all three locations could be the same person. The dialogue is particularly important because Varro himself owned a villa in Casinum and therefore probably knew the upper class there.

Tribe list

The order in which siblings are named does not say anything about their time of birth.

Gaius Ummidius Durmius Quadratus , suffect consul around 40
1. Gaius Ummidius (Quadratus?) Sallustius
2. Gaius Ummidius Quadratus (possibly identical to Gaius Ummidius [Quadratus] Sallustius)
3. Ummidia quadratilla Asconia Secunda (possibly identical to Ummidia quadratilla)
4. Ummidia quadratilla
  1. Gaius Ummidius square [us], suffect consul probably 93
    1. NN (granddaughter of Ummidia quadratilla, not sure daughter of the suffect consul 93)
    2. Gaius Ummidius Quadratus Severus Sertorius , speaker and lawyer, suffect consul 118
      1. Ummidius Quadratus , suffect consul around 146, husband of Annia Cornificia Faustina and thus brother-in-law of Emperor Marcus Aurelius
        
        Ummidia Cornificia Faustina
        
        Marcus Ummidius Quadratus , consul in 167
        Marcus Claudius Ummidius Quadratus , presumably adopted, executed after a conspiracy against Commodus

literature

Friedrich Münzer , Mauriz Schuster : Ummidius. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX A, 1, Stuttgart 1961, Col. 597-603 (entries on the Ummidius mentioned in Horace, on the suffect consul of 118 and on Ummidia Quadratilla).
Rudolf Hanslik : Ummidius, supplements. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume IX, Stuttgart 1962, Sp. 1827–1833 (entries on the suffect consuls around 40, around 93 and around 146, on the consul of 167, the conspirator against Commodus and the Ummidia Cornificia Faustina; also family tree of the family).
Mario Bonaria: Ummidius, addendum. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplement volume X, Stuttgart 1965, Sp. 1113 (entry on C. Ummidius Actius Anicetus, a freedman of the family).
Werner Eck : Ummidius, addenda. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume XIV, Stuttgart 1974, Sp. 944 (entry on Gaius Ummidius Sallustius; additions to the suffect consul from 118 and the consul from 167).
Werner Eck: Ummidius, addendum. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume XV, Stuttgart 1978, column 934 (entry on Ummidius [...] pius, administrator in Egypt around 299).
Ronald Syme : The Ummidii. In: Historia. Ancient History Journal . Volume 17, Issue 1, Franz Steiner Verlag 1968, pp. 72-105.
Jo-Ann Shelton: The Women of Pliny's Letters. Routledge, Abingdon (Oxfordshire) 2013, p. XIV (family tree, online at Google Books ).

Individual evidence

^ Sigrid Mratschek-Halfmann : Divites et praepotentes. Wealth and social position in the literature of the Principate's time (= Historia individual writings. Volume 70). Steiner, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-515-05973-3 , p. 109 (also dissertation, University of Heidelberg 1990; online ).
↑ Horace, Satires 1, 1, 92-100.
↑ Varro, De re rustica 3,3,9.
^ Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares 16:14 ( English translation ).
↑ Jacqueline M. Carlon: Pliny's Women. Constructing Virtue and Creating Identity in the Roman World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, p. 190, note 6.

[1] Sigrid Mratschek-Halfmann : Divites et praepotentes. Wealth and social position in the literature of the Principate's time (= Historia individual writings. Volume 70). Steiner, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-515-05973-3 , p. 109 (also dissertation, University of Heidelberg 1990; online ).

[2] Horace, Satires 1, 1, 92-100.

[3] Varro, De re rustica 3,3,9.

[4] Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares 16:14 ( English translation ).

[5] Jacqueline M. Carlon: Pliny's Women. Constructing Virtue and Creating Identity in the Roman World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, p. 190, note 6.