Pomponius
Pomponius is the family name (nomen gentile) of the Roman gens of Pomponii (feminine form: Pomponia ). The name probably goes back to an old Italian first name Pompo . The Pomponii led him back to a son of the mythical king of Rome, Numa Pompilius .
The plebeian sex first appeared historically in the middle republic in the 3rd century BC BC with the branch of Pomponii Mathones . During the imperial era, several branches of the family repeatedly provided consuls . There were also some literary people in the gens ; best known is Marcus Tullius Cicero's friend Titus Pomponius Atticus .
Known bearers of the name (in chronological order):
- Marcus Pomponius Matho (Consul 231 BC)
- Marcus Pomponius Matho (Praetor 217 BC)
- Titus Pomponius , knight and officer in the Second Punic War
- Marcus Pomponius Matho (Praetor 204 BC)
- Marcus Pomponius (Praetor 161 BC)
- Marcus Pomponius (friend of Gaius Gracchus) , knight in the 2nd century BC Chr.
- Lucius Pomponius ( Pomponius Bononiensis ), author of comedies at the beginning of the 1st century BC. Chr.
- Pomponius (poet) , pupil of Pacuvius, probably epigrammatist in the late 2nd century BC. Chr.
- Gnaeus Pomponius , tribune of the people 90 BC Chr.
- Titus Pomponius Atticus (110 BC – 32 BC), Roman knight
- Marcus Pomponius Dionysius , freedman of Atticus
- Pomponius Bassulus , poet of comedies in the 1st or 2nd century
- Marcus Pomponius Porcellus , grammarian of the early imperial era
- Gaius Pomponius Graecinus († 38), suffect consul 16 AD.
- Lucius Pomponius Flaccus , Consul 17
- Pomponius Labeo († 34), senator, legate in Moesia
- Quintus Pomponius Secundus , Consul 41
- Publius Pomponius Secundus , senator, general and poet, suffect consul 44
- Pomponius Mela , geographical writer of the 1st century AD
- Pomponia Graecina († after 83), accused of foreign superstition
- Titus Pomponius Bassus , suffect consul 94
- Quintus Pomponius Rufus , suffect consul 95
- Quintus Pomponius Rufus (Eques) , Roman officer (imperial era)
- Lucius Pomponius Maternus , suffect consul 97
- Titus Pomponius Mamilianus Rufus Antistianus Funisulanus Vettonianus , suffect consul 100
- Lucius Pomponius Bassus , suffect consul 118
- Lucius Pomponius Silvanus , Roman suffect consul 121
- Gaius Pomponius Alkastus , Spartan and Roman citizen in the time of Hadrian
- Titus Pomponius Antistianus Funisulanus Vettonianus , suffect consul 121
- Titus Pomponius Mamilianus Rufus Antistianus Funisulanus Vettonianus , Roman suffect consul 100
- Quintus Pomponius Rufus Marcellus , Roman suffect consul 121
- Gaius Pomponius Camerinus , Roman consul 138
- Lucius Pomponius Bassus Cascus Scribonianus , suffect consul at the time of Hadrian or Antoninus Pius
- Sextus Pomponius , lawyer in the middle of the 2nd century
- Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio , suffect consul 151, ordinary consul 176
- Quintus Pomponius Musa , suffect consul 158
- Gaius Pomponius Bassus Terentianus , governor of Lycia and Pamphylia under Commodus
- Pomponius Bassus (Consul 211)
- Gaius Pomponius Cordius , knight, governor of Cyrene in the 230s
- Quintus Pomponius Munatius Clodianus , senator, governor of Baetica, middle of the 3rd century
- Pomponius Bassus (Consul 271)
- Aulus Pomponius Augurinus Titus Prifernius Paetus , Roman officer (imperial period)
- Julius Pomponius Laetus (Italian Giulio Pomponio Leto ; 1428–1498), Italian humanist
- Pomponius Gauricus (1481 / 1482– ~ 1530), Italian humanist and art theorist