Gens:

NINNIUS

Created:

11th April 2019

Update:

11th April 2019

Status Republic:

Patrician:

Pleb. Nobilis:

Senatorial:

Eques Romanus:

Local magistrate:

Republican Family / Cognomen

Patrician

n/a

Pleb. Nobilis

n/a

Senatorial

Quadratus

Equestrian

n/a

Local magistrat.

n/a

Uncertain

Rufus

Imperial Family / Cognomen

Imperators

n/a

Consular

Hasta, Hastianus

Senatorial

n/a

Equestrian

n/a

Equestrian (mil)

n/a

Local magistrat.

Pollio

Uncertain

n/a

Republican Consuls, Tribunes with consular power, Dictators, Magister Equitum, Censors

Imperial Consuls and Emperors (Augusti and Caesars)

excl. the governor of Dacia

Notes:

Family from Campania.

Note C. Lucilius Benignus Ninnianus, L380, aedilis cerialis under Augustus or Tiberius.

Literature

Alföldy: Konsulat (1977) p.175, 309 (Q. Ninnius Hastianus cos suff 160)

Eck: Senatoren von Vespasian bis Hadrian (1970) p.202 (Q. Ninnius Hasta, ? procos Africa 128/129)

Mouritsen: Pompeian Epigraphy (1988) p.105 (M. Ninnius Pollio, II vir 14 BC)

Piso: Fasti Daciae I (1993) p.144-145 (§29 C. C[---] Hasta, governor of three Dacias under Commodus (?185-?190)

Soldovieri, Umberto: "Una nuova dedica a Iuppiter da Pompei e l'origine di L. Ninnius Quadratus, tribunus plebis 58 a.C.", in Arctos Vol. 51, 2017 p.135-146

inscription of a L. Ninnius L.f. Rufus dedicating a temple to Jupiter at Pompei, 1st century BC.

Syme, Ronald: "Les proconsuls d'Afrique sous Hadrien", in Revue des Études Anciennes. Tome 67, 1965, p.344-345 (also Roman Papers Vol. II, p.631)

assigns proconsulate of Africa in 128/129 to Q. Ninnius Hasta.

Syme, Ronald: "Hadrianic Proconsuls of Africa", in ZPE Bd. 37, 1980, p.4, 16 (also in Roman Papers Vol. III, p.1305, 1313) Q. Ninnius Hasta as

procos Africa 128/129. Syme calls the Ninnii as "patently Campanian".

Thomasson: Fasti Africani (1996) p.56 (Q. Ninnius Hasta, cos 114, uncertain procos Africa c.128/129)

Wiseman: New Men (1971) p.244 (§272 L. Ninnius Quadratus tr pl 58, from Pompeii ?)

Wiseman, T.P.: "Some Republican Senators and Their Tribes", in The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 14, 1964 p.127 (L. Ninnius Quadratus, tr pl 58,

possibly from Pompeii, where he was in 49 BC)

Changes

RE1

Sthenius Ninnius Celer

Pacuvius Ninnius Celer

noble from Capua 218

RE3

cf article by Soldovieri

L. Ninnius Quadratus

L. Ninnius L.f. Rufus

possibly from Pompeii

dedicated temple at Pompeii

tr pl 58 as supporter of Cicero

1st century BC

last mention 49

REPUBLIC

IMPERIAL

ILS6389

M. Ninnius M.f. Pollio

aedil at Pompeii 14 BC

N100 RE4

Q. Ninnius Hasta

adiutor curator aquarum post 83

cos suff 88

N101

RE5 LP39-74

Q. Ninnius Hasta

cos ord 114

? procos Africa 128-129

(Q. Ninnius Hasta)

N102

Ninnius Hastianus

cos suff 160

AE1983-801 LP21-68

C. C[---] Hasta

consular governor of Trium Dacias under Commodus

uncertain if a Ninnius

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