Triaria, the sister-in-law of Vitellius, armed with a bident, in an illustration from Boccaccio's On Famous Women.

The gens Triaria was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Only a few members of this gens are mentioned by Roman writers,[1] but two of them attained the consulship in imperial times. Other Triarii are known from inscriptions.

Origin

The nomen Triarius is based on the Latin number tres, three. A triarius was a veteran soldier who stood in the third rank of an infantry formation.[2]

Members

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

Undated Triarii

  • Quintus Triarius Q. f. Dexter, buried at Rome, aged forty, in a tomb dedicated by his friend, Sergia Thais.[18]

Notes

  1. His name has not been preserved in the inscription, but his praenomen and nomen were probably the same as his son's.
  2. The only source for this surname is the Historia Augusta, which may have assigned it derisively; but it was the surname of other Romans, and could have belonged to Maternus.

See also

References

  1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 1172 ("Triaria", "Triarius").
  2. Cassell's Latin and English Dictionary, s.v. triarius.
  3. Seneca, Controversiae, ii. 3, 19; Suasoriae, 2, 5, 6.
  4. PIR, vol. III, p. 336 (T, No. 249).
  5. CIL X, 3021.
  6. Tacitus, Historiae, ii. 63, 64.
  7. Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, vi. 23.
  8. PIR, vol. III, p. 336 (T, No. 250).
  9. AE 1938, 177.
  10. CIL II, 2415.
  11. Capitolinus, "The Life of Pertinax", 6.
  12. Champlin, "Heirs of Commodus", pp. 289, 297, 298.
  13. PIR, vol. III, p. 336 (T, Nos. 251, 252).
  14. CIL VI, 864, CIL VI, 1984, CIL VI, 31128, CIL XIV, 4562.
  15. Roxan, Roman Military Diplomas, iii. 191.
  16. Champlin, "Heirs of Commodus", pp. 298, 299.
  17. PIR, vol. III, p. 337 (T, No. 253).
  18. CIL VI, 36649.

Bibliography

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