Asinius
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Asinius is the nomen
of the plebian Gens Asinia of ancient Rome. Local tradition holds that the Italian town of Assignano derives its name from the gens, as well as the French town of Assignan
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Roman naming conventions
By the Republican era and throughout the Imperial era, a name in ancient Rome for a male citizen consisted of three parts : praenomen , nomen and cognomen...
of the plebian Gens Asinia of ancient Rome. Local tradition holds that the Italian town of Assignano derives its name from the gens, as well as the French town of Assignan
Assignan
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- Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul 40 BC)Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul 40 BC)Gaius Asinius Pollio was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic and historian, whose lost contemporary history, provided much of the material for the historians Appian and Plutarch...
, orator, poet, historian, consul 40 BC - Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus, consul 8 BC, died 30, father of ... Asinius Celer
- Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul AD 23)Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul AD 23)Gaius Asinius Pollio, son of Gaius Asinius Gallus and Vipsania Agrippina, was a Roman politician.He was consul in AD 23 alongside Gaius Antistius Vetus. We know from his coins he was proconsul of Asia. Through his mother he was the half-brother of the younger Drusus...
, consul 23 - Marcus Asinius AgrippaMarcus Asinius AgrippaMarcus Asinius Agrippa was Roman consul in 25 AD, and died at the end of the following year, 26 AD. He was also the half-brother of Julius Caesar Drusus, the natural son of the Emperor Tiberius. According to Tacitus, he was descended from a family more illustrious than ancient, and did not...
, consul 25, died 26 - see also Vipsania Agrippina - Marcus Asinius MarcellusMarcus Asinius MarcellusMarcus Asinius Marcellus was Consul in 54 along with Marcus Acilius Aviola at the Emperor Claudius' death. He was the son of Marcus Asinius Agrippa, Consul in 25 who died in 26 and described by Tacitus as "not unworthy of his ancestors"...
, consul 54 - see Vipsania Agrippina - Lucius Asinius Pollio Verrucosus, consul 81
- Marcus Asinius Atratinus, consul 89
- Gaius Asinius FrugiGaius Asinius FrugiGaius Asinius Frugi , was the monet. of Phrygia between 98 and 116. He was probably a descendant of Nicomachus , a notable of Lydia in 1 BC....
, monet. of Phrygia between 98 and 116 - Marcus Asinius Marcellus, the Younger, consul 104 - son of Marcus Asinius Marcellus - See Vipsania Agrippina
- Gaius Asinius RufusGaius Asinius RufusGaius Asinius Rufus was a notable in Lydia in 134 and 135 who became a Roman Senator in 136. He was probably the son of Gaius Asinius Frugi , monet. of Phrygia between 98 and 116....
, notable in Lydia 134/135, senator 136 - probably the son of Gaius Asinius Frugi - Gaius Asinius Quadratus ProtimusGaius Asinius Quadratus ProtimusGaius Asinius Quadratus Protimus or Gaius Protimus Quadratus Asinius was the Proconsul of Achaea ca. 211 or in 220.He was the brother of Gaius Asinius Rufus, son of Gaius Asinius Nicomachus and wife and cousin Julia Quadratilla and paternal grandson of Gaius Asinius Rufus and wife...
, proconsul of Achaea ca. 211 or 220 - son of the above - Gaius Asinius Quadratus, historian of 3rd century - nephew of Gaius Asinius Quadratus Protimus