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,[lower-roman 1] named in an inscription found near the abbey of San Pietro at Ferentillo in Umbria.[2]
See also
References
- Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, v. 21, vi. 1, 3.
- CIL XI2 01, 4995CIL XIV, 2958
Footnotes
- 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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