Satriena gens
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.
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.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.Members
- Satriena C. f., buried at Narbo in Gallia Narbonensis, together with Gaius Aemilius Philonicus and his wife, Aemilia Secunda.
- Satriena P. f., buried at Rome.
- Satrienus, named in an inscription from Aquinum in Latium.
- Lucius Satrienus C. f., named in an inscription from Aquinum.
- 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.
- Quintus Satrienus Cosmus, named in an inscription from Rome.
- Satrienus Juvenalis, a military tribune in the eleventh legion, named in an inscription from the present site of Altenburg, formerly part of Germania Superior.
- Quintus Satrienus Pollio, named in a first-century inscription from Rome.
- Satriena P. l. Salvia, a freedwoman, and the wife of Quintus Pompeius Sosus, the freedman of Bithynicus, named in a funerary inscription from Rome.
- Satriena Q. l. Secunda, a freedwoman buried at Rome.