Scribonius
Scribonius was the gentile name ( nomen gentile ) of a Roman plebeian family ( gens Scribonia ).
The family probably came from the Samnite Caudium and had been around since the late 3rd century BC. In Rome. The best-known branches in the late republic were the Scribonii Curiones and the Scribonii Libones, which still belonged to the senatorial ruling class in the early imperial period.
Well-known namesake
Scribonii Curiones
- Gaius Scribonius Curio (Praetor 183 BC) , Roman politician, Praetor 183 BC. Chr.
- Gaius Scribonius Curio (consul 76 BC) († 53 BC), Roman politician, consul 76 BC. Chr.
- Gaius Scribonius Curio (People's Tribune) (90-49 BC), Roman politician, People's Tribune 50 BC. Chr.
Scribonii Libones
- Lucius Scribonius Libo (tribune 216 BC) , Praetor peregrinus 204 BC Chr.
- Lucius Scribonius Libo (praetor 192 BC) , curular aedile 194 BC Chr.
- Lucius Scribonius Libo (Tribune of the People 149 BC)
- Lucius Scribonius Libo (consul 34 BC) (* around 90 BC), Roman politician and general
- Lucius Scribonius Libo (Consul 16) , Roman Senator
- Marcus Scribonius Libo Drusus († 16 AD), Roman senator
- Scribonia , wife of the later emperor Augustus
Further
- Scribonius Largus , Roman physician of the empirical-skeptical school in the 1st century AD at the time of Claudius
- Publius Sulpicius Scribonius Proculus († 67), Roman senator
- Scribonius (Bosporan king) , Bosporan king around 15 BC Chr.
Post-ancient namesake
- Wilhelm Adolf Scribonius (1550–1600), philosopher, physician and teacher; also witch theorists