Calvisia gens

"Calvisius" redirects here. For the German Renaissance music theorist, astronomer, and scholar, see Sethus Calvisius.

The gens Calvisia was a Roman family, which first rose to prominence during the final century of the Republic, and remained influential well into imperial times. The first of the gens to obtain the consulship was Gaius Calvisius Sabinus in 39 BC. During the later empire, the name Calvisius is sometimes found as a cognomen.[1][2]

Origin of the gens

The nomen Calvisius is probably based on the Latin adjective calvus, meaning "bald". Both Calvus and Calvinus were common Roman surnames.[1][3]

Branches and cognomina of the gens

The only family of the Calvisii during the Republic and early imperial times bore the surname Sabinus, referring to a Sabine, or the Sabine culture.[1][3]

Members of the gens

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

Calvisii Sabini

Calvisii Rusones

Others

See also

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
  2. 1 2 Suzanne Dixon, Childhood, Class and Kin in the Roman World (Routledge, 2001), p. 225 online.
  3. 1 2 D.P. Simpson, Cassell's Latin & English Dictionary (1963).
  4. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, 27.
  5. 1 2 Suzanne Dixon, Childhood, Class and Kin in the Roman World (Routledge, 2001), p. 225.
  6. Fasti Capitolini.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "article name needed". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 

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