Gens: TREBELLIUS
Created: 17th March 2014
Update:  13th March 2022
Status Republic: Patrician:     Pleb. Nobilis:       Senatorial: X    Eques Romanus: X    Local magistrate:  
Republican Family / Cognomen
Patrician n/a
Pleb. Nobilis n/a
Senatorial no cognomen, Fides
Equestrian no cognomen
Local magistrat. n/a
Uncertain Calca
Imperial Family / Cognomen
Imperators n/a
Consular Maximus
Senatorial no cognomen, Catulus
Equestrian no cognomen, Marinus, Rufus, Rufus Maximus
Equestrian (mil) Sextanus
Local magistrat. n/a
Uncertain Faust[…]
Republican Consuls, Tribunes with consular power, Dictators, Magister Equitum, Censors 0
Imperial Consuls and Emperors (Augusti and Caesars) 1 incl. 0 emperors
Notes: L. Trebellius, aed curul most likely in 44 BC and thus same man as T311.
Literature Alföldy: Legionslegaten Rheinarmeen (1967) p.6, 67 (§10 Q. Trebellius Catulus, leg leg XVI under Claudius)
Alvarez Melero: PFCR (2021) p.586-587 (§342 Gennia, full inscription of M. Trebellius Sextanus), p.912 (§359 Puprnia, full inscription of M. Trebellius Sextanus),
p.1187-1188 (§750, ignota wife of Q. Trebellius Rufus T316)
Birley: Roman Government of Britain (2005) p.52-56 (§7 M. Trebellius Maximus, cos suff 55, governor 63-69; undecided if same man as legatus of 36)
Burnand: Primores Galliarum (2010) p. 320-327 (§135 E111 Q. Trebellius Rufus, T316)
Camodeca, Giuseppe: "I consoli del 55-56 e un nuovo collega di Seneca nel consolato: P. Cornel ius Dolabella (TP.75 [=140] +135)", in  ZPE 63, 1986, p.201-215 (convincingly 
argues that Maximus' suffect consulate was 55 AD (and not 56) on the basis of the wax tablets from Herculaneum)
Cichorius: Römische Studien (1922) p.420-421 (identifies the legatus of 36 with the M. Trebellius mentioned by Columella V,1,2 and thinks him identical to the cos of 55)
Fine, John V.A.: "A note on the Compitalia ", in Classical Philology Vol. 27, 1932, p. 268-273 (discusses three scenarios of when L. Trebellius and Varro Murena were
aediles: after 67 BC, c. 44 BC and before 22 AD; he dismisses the 67 BC variant)
Fishwick, Duncan: "Our First High priest: a Gallic Knight at Athens", in Epigraphica 60, 1998, p.83-112 (Q. Trebellius Rufus) (NOT AVAILABLE TO ME)
cf AE1998-1267
Fishwick, Duncan: "The Imperial Cult in the Latin West", vol. III, 1, 2002, p.99-106 (Q. Trebellius Rufus, his flaminate of Narbonensis likely under Vespasian), 
Fishwick, Duncan: "The Imperial Cult in the Latin West", vol. III, 2, 2002, p.177-181 (Q. Trebellius Rufus), 
Franke: Legionslegaten (1991) p.262 (§111 Q. Trebellius Q.f. Catulus, leg leg XVI Gal 41/54), p.284 (§122 M. Trebellius, leg leg in Syria of 4000 men from 4 legions in 36)
Graindor: Archontes Atheniens (1922) p.100-101 (Q. Trebellius Rufus, archon between 85/86 and 94/95)
Hatzfeld: Italiens résidant à Délos (1912) p.86 (A. Trebellius, end 2nd century BC)
Houston: Roman Imperial Administrative Personnel (A.D. 69-81) (1971) p.503-505 (§468 M. Trebellius Maximus, cos suff 55 or 56)
Kirbihler, Francois: "Des grecs et des italiens à Éphèse. Histoire d’une intégration croisée (133 a.C.–48 p.C.)", Scripta Antiqua 88, Bordeaux 2016, p.338 (§220 Trebellii, 
P. Trebellius Faust[…])
Lacey: Equestrian officials of Trajan and Hadrian (1917) p.35 (§91 Trebellius Marinus, proc aquarum during reign of Hadrian)
Niccolini: Fasti dei Tribuni della Plebe (1934) p.253-255 (L. Trebellius, tr pl in 67 BC), p.338-341 (L. Trebellius, tr pl in 47 BC), p.456 (Q. Trebellius Catulus, tr pl under Claudius)
Oliver, James H.: "Greek Inscriptions", Hesperia: The American Excavations in the Athenian Agora: Twenty-First Report, 11 (1942), p. 80+83 (Q. Trebellius Rufus, archon)
Pflaum: Narbonnaise (1978) p.79, 91-92 (§1 Q. Trebellius Catulus,  q Narbonensis before 51), p.103-105 (§2 Q. Trebellius Rufus, T316)
Ritterling: Fasti Deutschland (1932) p.123 (§15 Q. Trebellius Catulus, leg leg under Claudius)
Salomies "Senatori oriundi del Lazio", in H. Solin: Studi storico-epigrafici sul Lazio antico, Roma 1996, p.113 (M. Trebellius C.f. Sextanus, from Fabrateria Nova)
Scheid: Freres Arvales 69-304 (1990) p.4-5, 318-320 (§59 M. Trebellius Maximus, attested magister 72 and as Arval 75; Scheid proposes he became Arval in 69 appointed by Vitellius)
Scheid, John and Cecere, Maria Grazia Granino: "Les Sacerdoces Publics Equestres", in Demougin, Devijver and Raepsaet-Charlier: L'Ordre Equestre (1999) p.151
(Q. Trebellius Rufus, sacerdos Caeniensis under the Flavians)
Syme: Arval Brethren (1980) p.13 (suggests that M. Maximus was appointed Arval by Galba)
Syme, Ronald: "More Narbonensian Senators", in  ZPE 65, 1986, p.9-10, also Roman Papers VI p.217-218,(M. Trebellius Maximus cos suff 56)
Wiseman: New Men (1971) p.267 (§443 L. Trebellius, tr pl 67)
Changes 2014.03.17 initial version
2022.03.13 New header, reference list plus many updates
RE6
M. Trebellius
ab Fregellae
officer 169
cf RE2
A. Trebellius
businessman on Delos
late 2nd century
RE3 RE7
L. Trebellius M. Trebellius
tr pl 67 ment 83 by Cicero
Cic.Quinct.21
?
 
RE4 cf RE5 RE1 Nic351 RE10
L. Trebellius (Fides) A. Trebellius Trebellius Calca
tr pl 47 eques Romanus from Hasta in Baetica, fraudster claiming to be
aed cur 44 ? joined Caesar in 45 the deceased tr pl P. Clodius Pulcher (†52)
Antonian officer 43 not accepted
??
 
 
 
  REPUBLIC
            IMPERIAL                                          
Laet383
T311 RE5 cf RE4
L. Trebellius
aed cur ante 25 BC
with Varro Murena
? Likely = tr pl of 47
T338 RE9 Laet807 RE8 Laet806 cf Kirbihler
P. Trebellius M. Trebellius P. Trebellius Faust[…]
pr urb 30 leg in Syria 36 (or his son) attested at Ephesus c.23/30
actually P.Trebu[lanus] mention 41
friend of Columella,
 
Laet1136 LP14-7
T312 RE11 Laet1135 Stech374 T314 RE8 RE13 Stech15 Rüpke3277 Laet1136
Q. Trebellius Q.f. Catulus M. Trebellius Maximus
trib Ter. (from Arelate ?) leg in Syria 36 (RE8; or more likely his father)
q Narbo, tr pl, cos suff 55 III vir for census in Tres Galliae 61
leg leg XVI in Germania 54/80 or 41/54 leg Aug pro pr Brit 63-69
leg pro pr unknown provincia,, frat Arv 72 (magister) 75
T316 RE15 Rüpke3278
Q. Trebellius Q.f. Rufus
eques Romanus ab Tolosa in Narbo,
all local offices in Tolosa,
sacerdos Caeniensis,
flamen primus provincia Narbonensis,
became citizen of Athenian deme Lamptrai,
archon Athens between 85/6 and 94/5 (90/91, 91/92, 92/93) 84/85 and 94/95
flamen of Drusus the Elder, sacerdos perpetuus of Eukleiae et Eunomiae,
refused to become senator, relative of T314?
~ ignota, flaminica Romae at Tolosa,
 
T317  
Trebellius Rufus Maximus
T313 RE12 Pf p.1032
Trebellius Marinus
proc Aquarum
under Hadrian
UNCERTAIN DATE                                                    
T310 Pf p.1046 CIL-X-5593 ILS4063
[Tr]ebell[ius] Sex. Trebellius Sex.f. Sextanus Q. Trebellius Q.f. Maximus Roma
procur Aug Alpes Graiae from Fabrateria Nova, Latium tribus Fabia,
100/150 trecenarius incl. in IV praet coh,
~ Gennia M.f. centurio legio V Mac in Moesia Inf,
 
 
C. Trebellius Sex.f. Sextanus
from Fabrateria Nova, Latium
~ Purpurnia L.f.
 
Dem761 PME-T33
M. Trebellius C.f. Sextanus
from Fabrateria Nova, Latium
II vir, II vir quinq, 
tr mil, praef fabrum,
local augur, under Julio-Claudians