Pinarians

The Pinarians were a Roman patrician family . In addition to the Latin form of the gentile name Pinarius , the name form Peinarius is also documented in inscriptions. The gens Pinaria was considered particularly old in Rome because, together with the Potitiers, it paid homage to its own private cult, the cult of Hercules at the Ara Maxima at the Forum Boarium . This cult, supposedly founded by Hercules himself in pre-Roman times, remained until 312 BC. Private and was only then nationalized by the Roman censor Appius Claudius Caecus , because the gens Potitia, which looked after the cult, had died out. This ancient origin and the age of this cult was still virulent at the end of the Roman Republic , because Marcus Tullius Cicero mentions it explicitly.

The gens Pinaria flourished especially in the 5th century BC. In which, according to the (unreliable) tradition , she is said to have provided the republic with two consuls . But then the importance of the sex waned more and more, 312 when the state took over the Hercules cult it was not yet extinct, but it had almost completely disappeared from the fasts in the following centuries. Nevertheless, the family continued to flourish into the imperial era , when they regained consular honors. The main cognomina of the sex were Rufus , Natta and Scarpus .

Well-known namesake

• Publius Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus , consul 489 BC Chr.
• Lucius Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus , Consul 472 BC Chr.
• Lucius Pinarius Mamercus , consular tribune 432 BC Chr.
• Publius Pinarius , censor 430 BC Chr.
• Lucius Pinarius Natta (Magister equitum) , Magister equitum 363 BC Chr.
• Marcus Pinarius Rusca , Praetor 181 BC Chr.
• Lucius Pinarius Natta (Pontifex) , brother-in-law of Publius Clodius Pulcher
• Titus Pinarius , served in 54 BC. Under Gaius Julius Caesar in Gaul
• Lucius Pinarius Scarpus , nephew and co-heir of Caesar
• Publius Pinarius Natta , a client of the Seian, indicted Aulus Cremutius Cordus in AD 25
• Gnaeus Pinarius Cornelius Clemens , suffect consul around 72 AD.
• Gnaeue Pinarius Aemilius Cicatricula , probably suffect consul Nov / Dec. 79 AD
• Gnaeus Pinarius Aemilius Cicatricula Pompeius Longinus , suffect consul 90 AD
• Gnaeus Pinarius Cornelius Severus , suffect consul 112 AD and rex sacrorum

Another member of the sex, the son of the client of Seian P. Pinarius Natta, was adopted into the gens Scoedia and was accordingly named Gaius Scoedius Natta Pinarianus. According to an inscription, C. Scoedio T. Tettieno Sereno cos', he became a suffect consul with Titus Tettienus Serenus in July 81.

literature

• Christian Müller among others: Pinarius. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , Sp. 1026-1028.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Virgil , Aeneis 8, 268 ff.
2. ↑ Titus Livy 7:12 ; for the year 312: Livy 9, 20, 10.
3. ↑ Cicero, de domo 134.
4. ↑ Pinarius. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XX, 2, Stuttgart 1950, column 1395.
5. ↑ CIL VI, 163
6. ↑ Paulys Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswwissenschaften, second row, 3rd half volume, article Scoedius, columns 829/30, Stuttgart 1921