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The '''gens Tadia''' was a minor [[plebs|plebeian]] family at [[ancient Rome]]. Members of this [[gens]] are first mentioned in the time of [[Cicero]], but few achieved any great distinction in the Roman state.<ref>''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', vol. III, p. 972 ("Tadius").</ref>

==Origin==
The [[Roman naming conventions#Nomen|nomen]] ''Tadius'' seems to be of [[Sabines|Sabine]] origin. Some of the Tadii known from inscriptions came from [[Sabinum]], and Chase classifies the name among those gentilicia that were evidently not [[Latin]], but came from Sabinum, [[Umbria]], or other parts of central and southern [[Roman Italy|Italy]].<ref>Chase, pp. 128, 129.</ref>

==Praenomina==
The Tadii seem to have used a variety of common [[praenomen|praenomina]], including ''[[Publius (praenomen)|Publius]]'', ''[[Quintus (praenomen)|Quintus]]'', ''[[Titus (praenomen)|Titus]]'', ''[[Sextus (praenomen)|Sextus]]'', and ''[[Marcus (praenomen)|Marcus]]''. One inscription shows that they also used the Sabine praenomen ''Attius''.

==Members==


* Titus Tadius At. f. Drusus, buried at [[Amiternum]] in [[Sabinum]], along with his wife, Rutilia Rufa.<ref>.</ref><ref>''PW'', Tadius 3.</ref>
* Tadius, sought the advice of [[Titus Pomponius Atticus]] with regard to some property that he held. The property was legally owned by an unmarried girl, for whom a [[legal guardian|guardian]] had been appointed; but Atticus informed Tadius that the property was his by virtue of [[usucaption|prescription]]. [[Cicero]] wrote to remind Atticus that no right of usucaption could exist in the case of such a ward, and was relieved to hear back that Atticus had settled the matter out of court, to Tadius' satisfaction.<ref>Cicero, ''Epistulae ad Atticum'', i. 5, 8.</ref>
* Publius Tadius, a ''negotiator'', or money-lender, at [[Athens]], who was employed as an agent of [[Verres]] in [[Sicilia (Roman province)|Sicily]]. Cicero contrasts his integrity with the low character of his employer. He may have been the brother of Quintus Tadius, whom Verres also employed.<ref>Cicero, ''In Verrem'', actio II, i. 39 s. 100; ii. 20 s. 49; v. 25.</ref><ref>''PW'', Tadius 1.</ref>
* Quintus Tadius, a maternal relative of Verres, who gave evidence of the latter's unabashed avarice, both through his testimony and his account-books, which Cicero planned to present in his second action against Verres. As Verres abandoned his defense and fled into exile, the speech was never delivered.<ref>Cicero, ''In Verrem'', actio II, i. 49, 50 s. 128–130; iv. 13 s. 31.</ref><ref>''PW'', Tadius 2.</ref>
* Publius Tadius Chilo, one of the first [[duumviri|duumvirs]] at [[Caesar]]'s [[colonia (Roman)|colony]] at [[ancient Corinth|Corinth]], together with Gaius Julius Nicephorus. He may have been the son, or perhaps less likely the freedman, of the ''negotiator'' Publius Tadius, who lived at Athens.<ref>''PW'', Tadius 4.</ref>
* Tadius M. f. Rufus, named in an inscription from a building in [[Hispania]].<ref>''PW'', Tadius 5.</ref>
* [[Spurius Tadius]], a painter of landscape murals during the time of [[Augustus]]. The reading of his name is uncertain; it may instead be ''Studius'', or even ''Ludius''.
* Sextus Tadius Sex. f. Lusius Nepos Paullinus, in a long and productive career under the [[Flavian dynasty|Flavians]] or the [[Antonine dynasty|Antonines]], was ''[[decemvir stlitibus judicandis]]'', a military tribune in the [[Legio IV Flavia Felix]], [[quaestor]] in [[Bithynia and Pontus]], [[aedile|curule aedile]], [[legatus Augusti pro praetore|governor]] of [[Macedonia (Roman province)|Macedonia]] and [[Asia (Roman province)|Asia]], ''praefectus frumenti dandi'',, and [[proconsul]] of [[Africa (Roman province)|Africa]] and [[Crete and Cyrenaica]]. His wife was Mulvia Placida, and they were buried at [[Trebula Mutusca]] in Sabinum.<ref>.</ref><ref>''PW'', Tadius 6.</ref><ref>''PIR'', T. 2.</ref>

==Notes==


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

==References==


==Bibliography==
* [[Cicero|Marcus Tullius Cicero]], ''[[Epistulae ad Atticum]]'', ''[[In Verrem]]''.
* ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'', [[William Smith (lexicographer)|William Smith]], ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
* [[Theodor Mommsen]] ''et alii'', ''[[Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum]]'' (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated ''CIL''), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
* [[August Pauly]], [[Georg Wissowa]], ''et alii'', ''[[Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft]]'' (''Scientific Encyclopedia of the Knowledge of Classical Antiquities'', abbreviated or ''PW''), J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart (1894–1980).
* George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in ''Harvard Studies in Classical Philology'', vol. VIII, pp. 103–184 (1897).
* [[Paul von Rohden]], [[Elimar Klebs]], & [[Hermann Dessau]], ''[[Prosopographia Imperii Romani]]'' (''The Prosopography of the Roman Empire'', abbreviated ''PIR''), Berlin (1898).

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