Venuleia gens

Patrician family of ancient Rome
Baths of Villa dei Venuleii (Massaciuccoli)

The gens Venuleia was a patrician family of ancient Rome[1] and of Pisa originally,[2] which flourished from the 1st to the end of the 2nd century AD.[3]

Known members were:

  • Lucius Venuleius Montanus was proconsul of Bithynia et Pontus in during the reign of Nero, and described by Juvenal in his fourth satire[4]
  • Lucius Venuleius Pataecius, a Roman eques who governed Thracia at some point between AD 69 and 79[5]
  • Lucius Venuleius Montanus Apronianus, son of the proconsul, consul in 92.[3]
  • Lucius Venuleius consul in 123, possibly son of the consul of 92[6]
  • Lucius Venuleius Apronianus Octavius Priscus, son of the consul of 123, consul suffectus around 145 and ordinarius in 168.

The Venuleii family owned the magnificent villa-estate at Massaciuccoli in the 1st and the 2nd century AD.

References

  1. ^ Syme, Some Arval Brethren (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), p. 57
  2. ^ CIL XI, 1432, CIL XI, 1433
  3. ^ a b Raepsaet-Charlier, Marie-Thérèse. “L’inscription ‘CIL’ XI 1735 Complétée et Les ‘Venulei.’” Latomus, 42 (1983), pp. 152–55. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41533804.
  4. ^ "Juvenal, Satires. (1918). Satire 4".
  5. ^ Thomas Elliott (2004). Epigraphic Evidence for Boundary Disputes in the Roman Empire (PhD). University of North Carolina. pp. 92f
  6. ^ Scheid, "Note sur les Venuleii Aproniani", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 52 (1983), pp. 225-228