Matinia gens

The gens Matinia was a minor plebeian family at Rome. Its most famous member may have been Publius Matinius, a money-broker in the time of Cicero.

Members

  • Publius Matinius, a money-broker, was recommended to Cicero by Marcus Junius Brutus in 51 BC, when Cicero was proconsul in Cilicia. Together with Marcus Scaptius, a client of Brutus, Matinius had loaned a considerable amount to the people of Salamis.[1]
  • Titus Matinius T. f. Hymenaeus,[i] named in an inscription found near the abbey of San Pietro at Ferentillo in Umbria.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, v. 21, vi. 1, 3.
  2. ^ CIL XI2 01, 4995CIL XIV, 2958

Footnotes

  1. ^ Or T. l. in one reading, a freedman.

Bibliography

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum.
  • Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
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