Postumulena gens


The gens Postumulena was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Few members of this gens are mentioned in history, but others are known from inscriptions.

Origin

The nomen Postumulenus belongs to a class of names formed primarily from other gentilicia, using the suffix -enus. In this case, the nomen is a lengthened form of Postumius, derived from the old Latin praenomen Postumus. This name is derived from the adjective postremus, "hindmost" or "last", and originally referred to a last-born child, although in later times it was confused with posthumus, "after burial", being applied to children born after their fathers' death.

Praenomina

The only praenomina associated with the Postumuleni are Lucius, Marcus, and Gaius, the three most common names throughout Roman history, and perhaps Publius, known from a filiation, and also very common.

Members

  • Postumulenus, mentioned by Cicero as a friend of someone named Trebianus or Trebonius.
  • Marcus Postumulenus, the freedman of Jucundus, buried at Carthage in Africa Proconsularis.
  • Postumulena P. l. Agapema, buried at Trebula Mutusca in Sabinum.
  • Postumulenus Atimetus, patron of Postumulena Symmone, who built a tomb for him at Ostia in Latium.
  • Postumulena Chara, wife of Lucius Postumulenus Thalamus, who built a tomb for himself and his wife at Portus in Latium.
  • Marcus Postumulenus Fidelis, built a tomb at Rome for his nephew, Marcus Memmius Rufus, aged five years, three months, and eleven days.
  • Postumulena C. f. Ingenua, daughter of Gaius Postumulenus Ingenuus and Tuccia Trophime.
  • Gaius Postumulenus Ingenuus, husband of Tuccia Trophime, and father of Postumulena Ingenua, buried with his wife at Rome.
  • Lucius Postumulenus L. Ɔ. l. Mama, a freedman buried at Rome.
  • Lucius Postumulenus Nicephorus, husband of Nonia Verecunda, and father of Sotidia Maxima, buried in a family sepulchre at Canusium in Apulia, dating to the first or second centuries AD.
  • Gaius Postumulenus Paullus, named in an inscription from Narnia in Umbria.
  • Lucius Postumulenus Primitivus, husband of Curtilia Glyconis, who dedicated a tomb for him at Rome.
  • Postumulena Ɔ. l. Rufa, a freedwoman buried at Rome.
  • Postumulena L. f. Sabina, buried at Ateste in Venetia and Histria.
  • Marcus Postumulenus Secundus, a soldier serving in the century of Decimus Roetius Secundus at Rome in AD 70.
  • Postumulena Symmone, client of Postumulenus Atimetus, for whom she built a tomb at Ostia.
  • Lucius Postumulenus Thalamus, built a tomb at Portus for himself and his wife, Postumulena Chara.
  • Postumulena Ɔ. l. Vitalis, buried at Ateste.