The gens Appia was a plebeian family at Rome. Its nomen, Appius, is a patronymic surname based on the praenomen Appius.[1] The gens does not appear to have been very large, and few of its members achieved great importance.

Members

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Chase, pp. 151, 152.
  2. ^ CIL VI, 1348 = ILS 1003.
  3. ^ Kavanagh, "Cursus and Possible Origo of Sex. Appius Severus".
  4. ^ Cassius Dio, lxvii. 11, lxviii. 9, 30.
  5. ^ Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, x. 66.
  6. ^ Martial, ix. 85.
  7. ^ Aurelius Victor, Epitome, 11. § 10.
  8. ^ Smith 1849, p. 986.
  9. ^ PIR, vol. I, p. 117.
  10. ^ Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto", p. 312.

Bibliography

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  • Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial), Epigrammata (Epigrams).
  • Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger), Epistulae (Letters).
  • Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (Cassius Dio), Roman History.
  • Sextus Aurelius Victor (attributed), Epitome de Caesaribus.
  • Smith, William, ed. (1849). "Lucius Appius Maximus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. II. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
  • 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).
  • Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p" ("List of the Prefects of Egypt from 30 BC to AD 299"), in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, vol. 17 (1975).
  • Bernard Kavanagh, "The Cursus and Possible Origo of Sex. Appius Severus", in Epigraphica, vol. 77, pp. 259–269 (2015).