Picene Nobility Charts PDF
Picene Nobility Charts PDF
Picene Nobility Charts PDF
T.Nonius Vel.
(b.140s/30s)
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T.Nonius T.f.Vel. L.Nonius T.f.Vel. Ap.Claudius
(b.c.110) (b.c.110s) (Q.f.Pol.?)
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Seius Pom. Manlius Torquatus L.Nonius L.f.Asprenas = [Manlia] Ap.[Claudius] Vel.Asprenas
Licinus (b.c.90s/80s) cos.suff.36 (80s-35/31)| (b.80s) pr.40s
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plenary c.40s | testamento 35/31 |
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/ | / 30s | c.40
L.Nonius(Pom.)Asprenas (Manlianus) = Quinctilia Nonia Paulla = (1) L.Volusius Q.f.
amicus Augusti (b.c.65/60) | Sex.f.(maior) (b.c.60/55) | cos.suff.12 BC
| (b.c.50) | (c.60/55-AD 20)
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| Volusi Saturnini
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c.6BC | |
Calpurnia = L.Nonius L.f.L.n.Asprenas Sex.Nonius L.f.L.n.Quinctilianus = Sosia C.f.
L.Pisonis f.| cos.suff.AD 6 (b.c.30) cos.suff.AD 8 (b.c.27/6) |
(b.c.22) | |
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L.Nonius L.f.Pom. Asprenas Calpurnius Asprenas Calpurnius Sex.Nonius Quinctilianus
Asprenas (b.5 BC) Serranus Torquatus cos.suff.AD 38 (b.6 BC/AD 5)
cos.suff.AD 29
This stemma illustrates a theoretical explanation of the Torquate naming rights of the Noni Asprenates (absent from the
consular fasti, re the consuls 36 BC, AD 6, 8, 29 & 38, until the consul AD 93 L. Nonius Calpurnius Torquatus Asprenas),
and the switch of the tribe of the Asprenates from Velina (attested four times between 89 and 39 B.C.) to Pomptina (attested
for the cos.suff.AD 29 in the opening weeks of his quaestura by the S.C. de Cn. Pisone patre, Dec. AD 20).
The present solution focuses on the generation missing from consular office (and thus official record of his name): Nonius
Asprenas the amicus Augusti who held the notissimum convivium at which 130 guests perished sometime in the 20s B.C.
It is supposed that he was a Manlius Torquatus by birth (Fabia or Falerna tribe), adopted plenary by a family in the
Pomptina as a young man (e. g. the Seii Licini, see CIL I 1328 = VI 21363) to become something like Sex. Seius Pom.
Manlianus, around the same time as his friend and coeval Octavius became Caesar's heir. Then some time in the mid/late
30s, around the time of his marriage to Quinctilia Sex.f., he became the main testamentary heir with condicio nominis
ferendi of L. Nonius Asprenas (cos.suff.36), taking over the latter's name, but retaining the Pomptina tribe consequent upon
his plenary adoption.
II. Volusi Saturnini (of Cingulum?),
propinqui of the Claudi Nerones & Tiberius Caesar.
L.Volusius L.f.
Ti.Claudius Nero (b.c.110s) pr.70s
pr.60s (b.100s) | M.Lollius
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44 | | 60s | M.Messalla Corvinus |
Livia Drusilla(1) = Ti.Claudius Nero Claudia = Q.Volusius cos.31 (64-AD 8) |
(59-AD 28) | q.47, pr.42 (b.c.80) | (c.90-30s) | |
| (b.c.78) | | |
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| c.40 | c.13 | c.19 |
| Nonia Paulla = (1)L.Volusius Q.f.(2) = Cornelia Valeria = M.Lollius M.f.
____________| (b.60/55) | Saturninus cos.suff.12| L.f.Lent. (b.c.34)| pr.25, cos.21
| | | (c.60-AD 20) | | (c.65-AD 2)
Ti.Caesar Nero Drusus | | |
(43/2-AD 37) cos.9 (38-9) |____________ |_______ |
cos.13, 7 c.13 | | | c.AD 4 |
Cornelia = Q.Volusius L.Volusius L.f.Q.n. Volusia = M.Lollius filius
(Marcellina)| Saturninus Saturninus augur (b.c.12)| (b.c.18)
(b.c.27) | (b.30s) cos.suff.AD 3 |
| (39-AD 56) |
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c.5AD | | |
M.Crassus Frugi (2) = Volusia Q.f.Cornelia L.Volusius L.f. = [Manlia Lollia Paullina
(M.Piso Frugi natus)| (b.c.12) AE 1932, 68 (c.15-AD p.24) | or Iunia] (c.5-49)
cos.14 (b.c.47) | pontifex | m.1 P.Memmius Regulus
| | m.2 C.Caesar “Caligula”
| c.22 |
Licinia Cornelia M.f.Volusia = (2)L.Volusius Volusius L.f.Torquatus
Torquata (c.7-80s) | cos.suff.AD 3 (b.AD c.10)
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Q.Volusius Saturninus = Volusia Torquata
cos.56 (b.AD 24/25) | Q.Volusi (b.c.35)
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L.Volusius Q.f.Saturninus Q.Volusius Q.f.L.n.Saturninus
cos.87 (b.c.50/54) cos.92 (b.c.55/59) augur
(filiation & augurate: AE 1972, 176)
A very old family which did not rise above the praetura during the Republic, nor until the suffect consulate of 12 B.C.
(Tacitus Ann. III 30); so too the Senti Saturnini, Memmi, Caeli, Canini, Fufi Caleni & Gemini, Vibi, Peducaei, Cornifici,
Norbani, Autroni Paeti, Flavi, Fontei Capitones, Lucreti Vespillones, Antisti Veti, Appulei, Valgi, Sili, Licini Nervae, Plauti.
The dedication erected by L.Volusius cos.suff.12 at Cingulum in Picenum (CIL IX, 5680) suggests that this town was his
family's patria. Cf. also CIL VI 7376-7: Q. Volussius Q. f. Vel. Antigonus,
whom T. P. Wiseman (NMRS, 277, CQ 1964, 126) reasonably interprets as descended from a freedman of the family. This
was disputed by Syme (Papers II, 606) since he may just as well have become patron of Cingulum. But neither idea is
mutually exclusive; and since the towns of Picenum (other than Asculum and the ports) were hardly worth the effort of
cultivation by an outsider, it seems very likely that the family was Picene, and probably rose in the Caesarian Party along
with the Noni Asprenates of Picenum (with whom they also married).
M.K.P. Sept.'09