The gens Sabidia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Few members of this gens are mentioned in ancient writers, but a number are known from inscriptions.[1]

Origin

The nomen Sabidius belongs to a large class of gentilicia formed using the suffix -idius. These typically formed from cognomina ending in -idus, but the suffix was one of a number which came to be regarded as a regular gentile-forming suffix, and was applied even in cases where there was no morphological justification. There is no evidence of a surname Sabidus, but the name might be etymologically related to Safini, an Oscan name for the Sabines and their descendants.[2]

Members

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

Footnotes

  1. ^ Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare; hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te. "I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee." This epigram is the source of the English rhyme, Doctor Fell.
  2. ^ The manuscript has Safidius, which Schryver amends to Sabidius.

See also

References

  1. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 686 ("Sabidius").
  2. ^ Chase, pp. 121, 122.
  3. ^ NSA, 1900, 97.
  4. ^ Quintus Tullius Cicero, De Petitione Consulatus, 2. § 8.
  5. ^ Fasti Ostienses, CIL XIV, 244.
  6. ^ PIR, vol. III, p. 151.
  7. ^ Martial, Epigrammata, i. 32.
  8. ^ "Dissertation upon the Epistles of Euripides", p. 555.
  9. ^ CIL X, 774, CIL X, 1233.
  10. ^ Appuleius, Florida, iv. 18.

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