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Bust of Emperor Otho from the 16th or 17th century.

The gens Salvia was a minor plebeian Roman family of the late Republic, which came to prominence under the early Empire. The first of the family known to have held public office at Rome was Publius Salvius Aper, praetorian prefect in 2 BC. About this time, the Salvii achieved equestrian rank, and thereafter held various positions in the Roman state for the next two centuries, before falling back into obscurity. Lucius Salvius Otho was raised to patrician rank by the emperor Claudius, but the most illustrious of the Salvii was his son, Marcus, who was proclaimed emperor in AD 69.[1][2]

Origin

The Salvii were doubtless of Sabellic origin, as their nomen is a patronymic surname derived from the common Oscan praenomen Salvius.[3] They probably spread throughout Italy long before obtaining Roman citizenship; the emperor Otho was descended from an ancient and noble family of Ferentinum, in Etruria.[1][2]

Members

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

Salvii Othones

Others

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Suetonius, "The Life of Otho", 1.
  2. ^ a b Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 700 ("Salvia Gens").
  3. ^ Chase, p. 141.
  4. ^ Prosopographia Imperii Romani, S 108.
  5. ^ Hobler, Francis (1860). Records of Roman History, from Cnaeus Pompeius to Tiberius Constantinus, as Exhibited on the Roman Coins. Vol. 1. Nichols. p. 34.
  6. ^ Prosopographia Imperii Romani, S 107.
  7. ^ Bowman, Alan K.; Champlin, Edward; Lintott, Andrew (1996). The Cambridge Ancient History. Cambridge University Press. p. 217. ISBN 9780521264303.
  8. ^ Prosopographia Imperii Romani, S 111.
  9. ^ Suetonius, "The Life of Otho", 3.
  10. ^ Suetonius, "The Life of Domitianus", 10.
  11. ^ de Neeve, P. W. (1984). Colonus: Private Farm-tenancy in Roman Italy During the Republic and the Early Principate. J.C. Gieben. p. 47. ISBN 9789070265151.
  12. ^ Broughton, Thomas Robert Shannon (1951). The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Vol. 3. American Philological Association. p. 185. ISBN 9780891308119.
  13. ^ Watson, Alan (1970). "The Development of the Praetor's Edict". The Journal of Roman Studies. 60: 105–119. doi:10.1017/S007543580004329X. JSTOR 299417. S2CID 161446036.
  14. ^ Kelly, J. M. (1966). "The Growth-Pattern of the Praetor's Edict". Irish Jurist (1966-). 1 (2): 341–355. JSTOR 44025973.
  15. ^ RE, vol. I A.2, col. 2022: Salvius 3.
  16. ^ Matz, David (2000). Famous Firsts in the Ancient Greek and Roman World. McFarland. p. 40. ISBN 9780786405992.
  17. ^ http://www.strachan.dk/family/salvius.htm
  18. ^ Barnes, Nathan John (2014). Reading 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 177. ISBN 9781725247987.
  19. ^ Sergius. Strachan stemma.
  20. ^ Prosopographia Imperii Romani, S 97.
  21. ^ Kugener, Marc Antoine; Herrmann, Léon (1972). Latomus. Vol. 31 (second ed.). Editions Latomus. p. 806.
  22. ^ Prosopographia Imperii Romani, S 99.
  23. ^ Prosopographia Imperii Romani, S 105.
  24. ^ Prosopographia Imperii Romani, S 117.
  25. ^ Jolowicz and Nicholas, pp. 384, 385.
  26. ^ Prosopographia Imperii Romani, S 104.
  27. ^ Prosopographia Imperii Romani, S 115.

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