The gens Sabinia, occasionally written Sabineia, was a minor
plebeian family at
ancient Rome. Only a few members of this
gens are mentioned in history, but others are known from inscriptions. Titus Sabinius Barbarus attained the
consulship in the reign of
Hadrian.[1]
Origin
The
nomenSabinius belongs to a large class of gentilicia formed from surnames ending in -inus. Sabinus was a common surname, originally designating someone of
Sabine descent.[2]
Members
This list includes abbreviated
praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see
filiation.
Sabineius, an orator whose style
Martial describes as boring.[3]
Titus Sabinius Barbarus,
legate of the
Legio III Augusta under
Trajan, was appointed consul suffectus in AD 118, early in the reign of Hadrian.[4][5]
Titus Sabinius Mercurialis, a freedman buried at Rome, in a tomb built by Titus Sabinius Pinna.[6]
Sabinia Olympias, a freedwoman buried at Rome, in a tomb built by Titus Sabinius Pinna.[6]
Titus Sabinius Pinna, a freedman, perhaps of the consul Titus Sabinius Barbarus, who built a tomb at Rome for himself and his conliberti, Titus Sabinius Mercurialis, and Sabinia Olympias.[6][1]
Quintus Sabinius Veranus, a tax collector in
Noricum, probably during the reign of
Antoninus Pius. His wife may have been Sabinia Sabinilla. He is probably the same Quintus Sabinius Veranus named as
duumvir in
Moesia Inferior in AD 159 or 160.[7][8][9]
Sabinia Sabinilla, probably the wife of Quintus Sabinius Veranus.[8]
Sabinius Xanthippus, a freedman of Quintus Sabinius Veranus and Sabinia Sabinilla, buried at Rome between AD 130 and 170.[8]
Sabinia Celsina, a woman of a
senatorial family, was the daughter of Naevia Marciana, and wife of Geminius Modestus, a man of
praetorian rank at
Cirta in
Numidia.[10][11]
Sabinius Dignus, the master of Optatus, a slave buried at Rome, aged forty.[12]
Sabinia Digna, the mistress of Saecularis, a slave buried at the present site of Pyrat in
Austria, formerly part of
Noricum.[13]
Sabinius Modestus,
governor of Moesia Inferior from about AD 241 to 242 or 243.
Sabinia Felicitas, the wife of Lucius Percennius Lascivus, a third century
eques buried at Rome.[14][15]