Gens: CALVISIUS
Created: 6th April 2008
Update:  13th August 2014
Status Republic: Patrician:     Pleb. Nobilis: X     Senatorial:      Eques Romanus:  
Republican Family / Cognomen
Patrician n/a
Pleb. Nobilis Sabinus
Senatorial n/a
Equestrian n/a
Imperial Family / Cognomen
Imperators n/a
Consular Ruso, Sabinus, Secundus
Senatorial n/a
Equestrian Faustianus, Patrophilus, Statianus
Republican Consuls, Tribunes with consular power, Dictators, Magister Equitum, Censors 1
Imperial Consuls and Emperors 6 (or 7) incl. 0 emperors
Notes: Groag in PIR proposes Calvisia Flacilla was sister to cos 39BC and her husband was M.Claudius Marcellus cos 51 BC.
Three alternative stemmata for Calvisius Ruso are presented below. The original stemma in PIR has problems.
But neither Syme's or Di Vita-Evrard's proposals are fully convincing, Syme invents an unknown consul of 84 and Di Vite-Evrard one in 102.
Articles Eric Birley: "The Enigma of Calvisius Ruso", in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 51 (1983), pp. 263-269
Ginette Di Vita-Évrard: "Des Calvisii Rusoles à Licinius Sura", in Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité T. 99, N°1. 1987. pp.281-338, with stemma
Bernard Remy: "La carrière de P. Calvisius Russo Iulius Frontinus, gouverneur de Cappadoce-Galatie [À propos de l'inscription Mama, VII, 193]", 
in Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité T. 95, N°1. 1983. pp. 163-182.
Ronald Syme: "P.Calvisius Ruso, One Person or Two", in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd.56, 1984, pp.173-192 (also in Roman Papers Vol 4, p. 397-417, stemma on p.417)
Changes 12.8.2014 New header section and major rework.
C.Calvisius
from Spoletium
RE13  C352
C.Calvisius C.f. Sabinus
cos 39 
procos Hisp 29/28
triumph 28, VIIvir Epulon, Curio Maximus
C353 RE14
C.Calvisius C.f. Sabinus
cos 4BC
C359 RE20 FOS185   C354 RE15 P755
Calvisia Flacilla           C.Calvisius C.f. Sabinus Calvisius Sabinus Pomponius Secundus
cos 26 39 suicide
~ M.Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus Pann adopted
pr 19 ~ Cornelia sister to
Cn.Lentulus Gaetulicus    
cos 26    
RE12 P754 P757 C351 RE11
(P.Calv)isius Sabinus Q.Pomponius Secundus Calvisius Sabinus
Pomponius Secundus cos suff 41 rich man, contemporary
cos suff 44 of Seneca
Ger Sup 49/50-54/55
Creta+Cyrene
C347 RE6 C355 RE16
Calvisius Patrophilus Q.Calvisius Sabinus
iuridicus Aegyp 147/148 clar vir
vir egreg unknown date
C356 RE17 C346
C.Calvisius C.f.Statianus Calvisius Faustianus
praef Aegyp 170-175 vir egreg
from Verona idiologus Aegypt 173
trib Pop.
supported Avidius Cassius'
revolt in 175 and was exiled
Scenario 1: Calvisius Ruso based on PIR
C344 RE2 FOS439 i322 RE243
P.Calvisius Ruso ~ (Iulia Frontina) Sex.Iulius Frontinus
cos suff 53 cos suff 73 98 100
C350 RE9 D14
P.Calvisius P.f.Ruso  1 ~ (Dasumia)   L.Dasumius Hadrianus  
Iulius Frontinus cos suff 93
cos suff 79, procos Asia 92/93
Cappadocia/Galatia c.103/4-107/8
adlectus inter patricios 73/74
XVvir sf, sodalis augustalis
2 ~ Eggia C.f.  Ambibula
C357 RE3 RE19
P.Calvisius Tullus Ruso  
cos I 109 cos II a inc (120/121 ?)
frater arvalis 87 (RE3)
Tullus by testament
~ Domitia Lucilla sister of Cn.Domitius Tullus
cos suff 98
D183 FOS329 RE105
Domitia Lucilla  
minor
~ M.Annius Verus
pr c.124/130 the
brother of M.Annius Libo
cos 128
A697 RE94
IMP MARCUS AURELIUS  
* 121 † 180
Scenario 2: Calvisius Ruso based on Syme
C344 FOS439 i322 RE243
Ignota ~  1 P.Calvisius Ruso ~ 2  (Iulia Frontina) Sex.Iulius Frontinus
cos suff 53 cos suff 73 98 100
1 2
Syme's theory   C350 RE10 D14
P.Calvisius Ruso    P.Calvisius P.f.Ruso  1 ~ (Dasumia)   L.Dasumius Hadrianus  
cos suff 79 Iulius Frontinus cos suff 93
cos suff 84 ?, procos Asia
Cappadocia/Galatia c.103/4-107/8
adlectus inter patricios 73/74
XVvir sf, sodalis augustalis
2 ~ Eggia C.f.  Ambibula
dt of C.Eggius Ambibulus
C357 RE3 RE19
P.Calvisius P.f.Tullus Ruso
cos I 109 cos II a inc (120/121 ?)
frater arvalis 87 (RE3)
Tullus by testament
~ Domitia Lucilla sister of
Cn.Domitius Tullus cos suff 98
D183 FOS329 RE105
Domitia Lucilla  
minor
~ M.Annius Verus
pr c.124/130
brother of M.Annius Libo
cos 128
A697 RE94
IMP MARCUS AURELIUS  
* 121 † 180
Scenario 3: Calvisius Ruso based on Vita-Evrard
C344 i322 RE243
P.Calvisius Ruso Sex.Iulius Frontinus
cos suff 53 cos suff 73 98 100
D167 RE84 D182 FOS328 RE104 C350 RE9 RE19 FOS439
Cn.Domitius Tullus   Domitia Lucilla ~ 2 P.Calvisius P.f.Ruso Tullus 1 ~  (Iulia Frontina)
cos suff 98 maior cos suff 79
cos 109 (as Tullus)
procos Asia 92-93
Tullus by testament
D183 FOS329 RE105 C350 RE3 RE10
Domitia Lucilla   P.Calvisius P.f.Ruso   
minor Iulius Frontinus
~ M.Annius Verus cos suff 102
pr c.124/130 the Cappadocia/Galatia c.103/4-107/8
brother of M.Annius Libo adlectus inter patricios, Frat Arv 87 (RE3)
cos 128 XVvir sf, sodalis augustalis
~ Eggia C.f.  Ambibula
A697 RE94
IMP MARCUS AURELIUS
* 121 † 180