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Ancient Roman family
The gens Oclatinia was an obscure
Roman family of
imperial times . It is best known from a single individual, Marcus Oclatinius Adventus,
consul for the second time
[i] in AD 218, together with the emperor
Macrinus . From various sources, we know that he was
procurator Augustorum under
Septimius Severus in AD 202,
[1] and governor of
Britain between 205 and 207.
[2]
[3]
[4]
Origin
The
nomen Oclatinius clearly shares a root with
Oclatius , borne by Tiberius Oclatius Severus, consul suffectus in AD 160, and is perhaps an orthographic variant of Ocratius , part of a class of gentilicia formed using the suffix -atius , derived from place-names ending in -as or -atis , or passive participles ending in -atus .
[5]
^ The date of his first consulate is not known.
See also
References
^
CIL
VII, 1003 ,
CIL
VII, 1346 .
^ Cassius Dio, lxxviii. 13, 14.
^ Herodian, iv. 12, 1; 14, 1.
^ PIR , vol. II, p. 424.
^ Chase, p. 127.
Bibliography
Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (
Cassius Dio ), Roman History .
Herodianus , History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus .
Theodor Mommsen et alii ,
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL ), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology , vol. VIII (1897).
Paul von Rohden ,
Elimar Klebs , &
Hermann Dessau ,
Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR ), Berlin (1898).