The gens Postumulena was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Few members of this gens are mentioned in history, but others are known from inscriptions.^[1]

Origin

The nomen Postumulenus belongs to a class of names formed primarily from other gentilicia, using the suffix -enus.^[2] In this case, the nomen is a lengthened form of Postumius, derived from the old Latin praenomen Postumus. This name is derived from the adjective postremus, "hindmost" or "last", and originally referred to a last-born child, although in later times it was confused with posthumus, "after burial", being applied to children born after their fathers' death.^[3]

Praenomina

The only praenomina associated with the Postumuleni are Lucius, Marcus, and Gaius, the three most common names throughout Roman history, and perhaps Publius, known from a filiation, and also very common.

Members

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

• Postumulenus, mentioned by Cicero as a friend of someone named Trebianus or Trebonius.^[4]
• Marcus Postumulenus, the freedman of Jucundus, buried at Carthage in Africa Proconsularis.^[5]
• Postumulena P. l. Agapema, buried at Trebula Mutusca in Sabinum.^[6]
• Postumulenus Atimetus, patron of Postumulena Symmone, who built a tomb for him at Ostia in Latium.^[7]
• Postumulena Chara, wife of Lucius Postumulenus Thalamus, who built a tomb for himself and his wife at Portus in Latium.^[8]
• Marcus Postumulenus Fidelis, built a tomb at Rome for his nephew, Marcus Memmius Rufus, aged five years, three months, and eleven days.^[9]
• Postumulena C. f. Ingenua, daughter of Gaius Postumulenus Ingenuus and Tuccia Trophime.^[10]
• Gaius Postumulenus Ingenuus, husband of Tuccia Trophime, and father of Postumulena Ingenua, buried with his wife at Rome.^[10]
• Lucius Postumulenus L. Ɔ. l. Mama, a freedman buried at Rome.^[11]
• Lucius Postumulenus Nicephorus, husband of Nonia Verecunda, and father of Sotidia Maxima, buried in a family sepulchre at Canusium in Apulia, dating to the first or second centuries AD.^[12]
• Gaius Postumulenus Paullus, named in an inscription from Narnia in Umbria.^[13]
• Lucius Postumulenus Primitivus, husband of Curtilia Glyconis, who dedicated a tomb for him at Rome.^[14]
• Postumulena Ɔ. l. Rufa, a freedwoman buried at Rome.^[15]
• Postumulena L. f. Sabina, buried at Ateste in Venetia and Histria.^[16]
• Marcus Postumulenus Secundus, a soldier serving in the century of Decimus Roetius Secundus at Rome in AD 70.^[17]
• Postumulena Symmone, client of Postumulenus Atimetus, for whom she built a tomb at Ostia.^[7]
• Lucius Postumulenus Thalamus, built a tomb at Portus for himself and his wife, Postumulena Chara.^[8]
• Postumulena Ɔ. l. Vitalis, buried at Ateste.^[18]