Asinius

Asinius is the noun of the originally plebeian gens Asinia in the Roman Empire . Their representatives are from the 1st century BC. Chr. Attested. The family came from Teate Marrucinorum (today's Chieti ). The politician and historian Gaius Asinius Pollio, who lived in the late republic and early imperial times , was best known . Since the era of the emperor Augustus , the members of the gens belonged to the patricians . The Italian city ​​of Assignano derives its name from a bearer of the name Asinius .

Known from the Asinia gens are:

• Gaius Asinius Pollio , orator, poet, historian, consul 40 BC. Chr.
• Gaius Asinius Gallus , consul 8 BC. Chr.
• Asinius Pollio von Tralles , speaker, freedman of the consul 40 BC. Chr.
• Gaius Asinius Pollio (Consul 23) , son of Gaius Asinius Gallus, Consul 23
• Marcus Asinius Agrippa , Consul 25
• Marcus Asinius Marcellus (Consul 54) , Roman Consul 54
• Marcus Asinius Pollio Verrucosus , Consul 81
• Marcus Asinius Atratinus , Consul 89
• Marcus Asinius Marcellus (Consul 104) , Consul 104
• Gaius Asinius Lepidus Praetextatus , Consul 242
• Asinius Quadratus , 3rd century historian
• Quintus Asinius Acilianus , Roman officer (imperial era)

literature

• Elimar Klebs , Paul von Rohden and others: Asinius 1–46 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Sp. 1583-1605.
• Werner Eck and others: Asinius [I 1] - [II 20]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 81-84.