Milonia gens
The gens Milonia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. The first member of this gens mentioned in history was Gaius Milonius, a Roman senator, and one of Cinna's allies. The empress Milonia Caesonia was presumably descended from this family. A few Milonii are known from inscriptions.
Members
- Gaius Milonius, a senator, and one of the allies of the consul Cinna, when the latter was expelled from Rome by his colleague, Gnaeus Octavius (consul [87 BC)|Gnaeus Octavius], in 87 BC. Milonius was probably one of the tribunes of the plebs that year. Cinna, Marius, and Milonius returned with an army, but Milonius was slain in the fighting at the Janiculum.
- Milonius, a person mentioned in one of Horace's Satires as dancing and joking in a state of drunken revelry.
- Milonia Apollonia, the wife of Ollius Nicadas, who built a family sepulchre at Rome, dating to the first half of the first century.
- Milonia Caesonia, the fourth and last wife of Caligula, was killed along with their daughter Julia Drusilla following the emperor's assassination in AD 41.
- Milonia M. f. Secunda, a woman buried at Thibilis in Numidia, aged 35.
- Marcus Milonius Verus Junianus, commander of the ala Gallorum et Thraecorum Antiana, one of the auxilia stationed in Moesia Inferior in AD 54.