The gens Ofania was a minor plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens known almost entirely from inscriptions.

Origin

The nomen Ofanius belongs to a class of gentilicia apparently formed from cognomina ending in -anus, or place-names ending in -anum, although in this case neither a surname Ofanus nor a place called Ofanum is known.^[1]

Members

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

• Gaius Ofanius, named in an inscription from Nursia in Samnium.^[2]
• Lucius Ofanius L. l., a freedman named in an inscription from Rome.^[3]
• Titus Ofanius T. f., named in an inscription from the present site of Spilamberto, a village just south of Mutina in northern Italy.^[4]
• Ofania Sex. l. Alexandria, a freedwoman named in a dedicatory inscription from Rome.^[5]
• Marcus Ofanius Aristionis, built a funerary monument at Rome for himself and his son, Marcus Ofanius Primus.^[6]
• Sextus Ofanius Eros, perhaps the former master of Ofania Alexandria, named in an inscription from Rome.^[7]
• Ofanius Hyginus, dedicated a monument at Peltuinum in Samnium to his brother, Quintus Tattius Vestinus, and his wife, Alledia.^[8]
• Ofania Januaria, dedicated a monument at Misenum to her friend, the soldier Valerius Saturninus, who died aged twenty-eight.^[9]
• Marcus Ofanius M. f. Primus, buried at Rome with his father, Marcus Ofanius Aristonis.^[6]
• Ofania C. f. Quarta, the wife of Gaius Papirius Masso. Her husband served as military tribune, plebeian aedile, quaesitor judex and curator frumenti.^[10][11]
• Gaius Ofanius C. f. Valens Cyrro, a soldier in the fifteenth legion, buried at Carnuntum, aged thirty, having served eight years.^[12]