The gens Satriena was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. No members of this gens obtained any of the higher offices of the Roman state, but a number are known from coins and inscriptions.^[1]

Origin

The nomen Satrienus belongs to a class of gentilicia formed from other nomina using the suffix -enus. The root of the name is Satrius, the nomen of a more prominent gens.^[2][1]

Praenomina

The praenomina used by the Satrieni include Publius, Quintus, Gaius, and Lucius, four of the most common names throughout Roman history.

Branches and cognomina

The Satrieni used a variety of common surnames, including Pollio, a polisher, belonging to a class of cognomina derived from occupations; Salvia and Secunda, old praenomina that came to be regarded as surnames; Juvenalis, youthful, and perhaps Celsa, originally given to one who was particularly tall.^[3][4]

Members

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

• Satriena C. f.,^[i] buried at Narbo in Gallia Narbonensis, together with Gaius Aemilius Philonicus and his wife, Aemilia Secunda.^[5]
• Satriena P. f., buried at Rome.^[6]
• Satrienus, named in an inscription from Aquinum in Latium.^[7]
• Lucius Satrienus C. f., named in an inscription from Aquinum.^[8]
• Publius Satrienus, as triumvir monetalis, minted coins bearing the head of Mars, or perhaps Pallas, on the obverse, and a she-wolf on the reverse.^[9]
• Quintus Satrienus Cosmus, named in an inscription from Rome.^[10]
• Satrienus Juvenalis, a military tribune in the eleventh legion, named in an inscription from the present site of Altenburg, formerly part of Germania Superior.^[11]
• Quintus Satrienus Pollio, named in a first-century inscription from Rome.^[12]
• Satriena P. l. Salvia, a freedwoman, and the wife of Quintus Pompeius Sosus, the freedman of Bithynicus, named in a funerary inscription from Rome.^[13]
• Satriena Q. l. Secunda, a freedwoman buried at Rome.^[14]