Tanicia gens

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The '''gens Tanicia''' was an obscure [[plebs|plebeian]] family at [[ancient Rome]]. No members of this [[gens]] are mentioned by ancient writers, but a few are known from inscriptions.

==Origin==
The [[Roman naming conventions#Nomen|nomen]] ''Tanicius'' seems to belong to a class of gentilicia formed from [[cognomen|cognomina]] ending in '''' or '''', but no corresponding surname is known.<ref>Chase, p. 126.</ref>

==Branches and cognomina==
The only regular surname associated with the Tanicii is ''Verus'', meaning "true" or "just".<ref>''New College Latin & English Dictionary'', ''s.v. verus''.</ref> It belongs to a class of surnames originally derived from the character or habits of an individual.<ref>Chase, pp. 110, 111.</ref> ''Zosimus'', borne by one of the Tanicii, is a Greek name, and would have been a personal surname, possibly the birth name of a freedman of one of the Tanicii, retained by him as a cognomen after his manumission.

==Members==


* Lucius Tanicius L. f. Verus, a native of [[Vienne, Isère|Vienna]] in [[Gallia Narbonensis]], was a [[centurion]] in the [[Legio III Cyrenaica]], stationed in [[Egypt (Roman province)|Egypt]] in AD 80 or 81.<ref>.</ref>
* Lucius Tanicius Verus, [[prefect]] of a Roman fort along the [[Antonine Wall]] in northern [[Roman Britain|Britain]], at the site of modern [[Cadder]], in the middle or later part of the second century. An inscription records his offering to [[Silvanus (mythology)|Silvanus]].<ref>.</ref>
* Lucius Tanicius Zosimus, made a cult offering to the Hero of Ithiostla in [[Moesia Inferior]], dating to the first half of the second century.<ref>.</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Roman gentes]]

==References==


==Bibliography==
* [[Theodor Mommsen]] ''et alii'', ''[[Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum]]'' (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated ''CIL''), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
* René Cagnat ''et alii'', ''[[L'Année épigraphique]]'' (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated ''AE''), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
* George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in ''Harvard Studies in Classical Philology'', vol. VIII, pp. 103–184 (1897).
* John C. Traupman, ''The New College Latin & English Dictionary'', Bantam Books, New York (1995).

[[Category:Roman gentes]]

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