Gens:

MEVUS (MAEVIUS)

Created:

18th September 2019

Update:

18th September 2019

Status Republic:

Patrician:

Pleb. Nobilis:

Senatorial:

Eques Romanus:

Local magistrate:

Republican Family / Cognomen

Patrician

n/a

Pleb. Nobilis

n/a

Senatorial

no cognomen,

Equestrian

no cognomen,

Local magistrat.

no cognomen,

Uncertain

n/a

Imperial Family / Cognomen

Imperators

n/a

Consular

Donatus Iunianus, Surus,

Senatorial

Fortunatianus, Honoratianus

Equestrian

Fortunatianus, Honoratianus, Romanus

Equestrian (mil)

Capriolus

Local magistrat.

Celsus, Romanus,

Uncertain

Pudens

Republican Consuls, Tribunes with consular power, Dictators, Magister Equitum, Censors

Imperial Consuls and Emperors (Augusti and Caesars)

incl. 0 emperors

Notes:

Literature

Bastianini, G: "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", in ZPE Bd. 17 (1975), pp. 310-311 (Mevius Honoratianus, praef Aegypti 232-237)

Bastianini, G: "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p: aggiunte e correzioni"", in ZPE Bd. 38 (1980), p.87 (Mevius Honoratianus, praef Aegypti 232-237)

Christol: Carrieres Senatoriales (1986) p.128, 229 (C. Mevius Donatus Iunianus, his career, dates him to time of Septimius Severus)

Crook: Consilium Principis (1955) p.173 (§221 M. Maevius Romanus, comes of an emperor)

Dietz: Senatus (1980) p.294 (Mevius Honoratianus, praef Aegypti 232-237)

Hächler: Kontinuität und Wandel (2019) p.508 (§190 C. Mevius Donatus Iunianus, dates him to before 250)

Jacques: Curateurs (1983) p.213-215 (§105 C. Mevius Donatus Iunianus, curator of Sicilian (?) cities)

Klein: Sicilien und Sardinien (1878) p.123-124 (§116 C. Mevius Donatus Iunianus, procos Sicilia probably under Alexander Severus)

Leunissen: Konsuln (1989) p.153, 238, 280, 365 (Mevius Surus, cos suff after 195)

Mouritsen: Pompeian Epigraphy (1988) p.79, 84, 200, note 316 (L. Mevius L.f. II vir at Pompeii)

Piso: Fasti Daciae I (1993) p.156-159 (§32 Mevius Surus, dates his governorship to ?198-?199, rather than 105)

Raepsaet-Charlier, Marie-Therese: "Matronae Equestres", in Demougin, Devijver and Raepsaet-Charlier: L'Ordre Equestre (1999) p.227-228 and stemma p.231

(Maevia Agothoclia and possible descent)

Reinmuth: Prefects of Egypt (1967) p.114 (Mevius Honoratianus, praef Aegypti 232-238)

Remy: Carrieres Senatoriales Anatolie (1989) p.354 (§316 C. Mevius Donatus Iunianus, legatus of Cilicia, however newer information points to Noricum)

Salomies: Nomenclature (1992) p.49 note 67 (C. Mevius Silius Crescens Fortunatianus, not necessarily an adoption)

Scheid, John and Cecere, Maria Grazia Granino: "Les Sacerdoces Publics Equestres", in Demougin, Devijver and Raepsaet-Charlier: L'Ordre Equestre (1999) p.133

(§19 T. Mevius Celsus Ael, lupercus)

Stein: Dazien (1944) p.59-60 (P. Mevius Surus, governor c.205)

Stein: Präfekten von Ägypten (1950) p.131-134 (Mevius Honoratianus, praef Aegypti 231/2-236)

Suolahti, Jaakko: Junior Officers (1955) p.370 (§138 M. Maevius, tr mil 203 BC)

Changes

RE Maevius4

M. Maevius

tr mil 203

† 203 killed in battle

RE Maevius1

Maevius (Mevius)

tr pl (or pr) before 175

lex Maevia

RE5

M'. Mevius M.f.

Roman domänenpächter on Euboia

late 2nd century BC

RE4

Cn. Mevius Cn.f.

aedil at Formiae

before social war

RE Maevius2 Nic212

Maevius

scribe of Verres 73-71

eques

RE Maevius3

RE Maevius5

CIL I-2539

CIL I-1634

Maevius

Meavia Galla

L. Maevius

L. Mevius L.f.

centurion of Octavian 30

married woman,

aedil Formiae

II vir at Pompeii

mistress of

under the republic

late Republic or early Augustan

L. Munatius Plancus cos 42

REPUBLIC

IMPERIAL

M577 RE8

M(a)evius Pudens

friend of Ofonius Tigellinus 69

supporter of Otho 69

cf M578 cf RE9

M. Mevius Romanus

flamen perpetuus

at Naraggara in Africa

CIL VIII-16813

AE2004-369

M580 RE12 Bar800 Okon726

M582 RE11 Bar373 Okon729 LP21-48

cf M578

AE1966-495

C. Mevius Q.f. Donatus Iunianus

P. M(a)evius Saturninus Honoratianus

(P.?) Mevius Surus

Mevius Romanus

patron of 12 tribus at Lilybaeum

from Africa, proc Aug Numidia c.200

from Africa?, leg Aug pro pr Raetia c.195

centurio VI Fer in Palaestina,

? father of M575

clar vir (adlectus senator)

cos suff c.195/196

c.193

~ Aelia Menecratilla (A302), dt of centurion

leg Aug pro pr trium Daciarum ?198-?199

P. Aelius Menecratianus

rather than 205

M575

RE6 Bar2059 Okon1479 LP1-34 LP31-33

M579

cf RE12 Bar801 Okon727

M576 RE7 LP37-102

M578 RE9

PLRE Romanus10

C. Mevius C.f. Donatus Iunianus

P. Mevius Saturninus Honoratianus

Mevius Honoratianus

M. Mevius Romanus

q Sicilia, aedil, pr, procos Sicilia,

clar iuvenis,

praef classis 226 (AE1988-598)

comes Augusti, vir egreg,

curator civitatium universarum [Sicili?]ae,

tr laticlav XI Claudia in Moesia Inf 202/205

praef Aegypti 232-237/8

inscription at Naraggara,

leg Aug pro pr Noricum (not Cilicia),

? ~ (Agothoclia), possible dt of

related to M580 and M579

3rd century

cos suff c. sub Alexander Severus or later

Claudius Agothocles, archireus Aegypti (C773)

AE2004-369, inscription Lanuvium

J749

RE73 Bar1620

M584

RE14

C. Iunius Donatus

Maevia [Aga]thoclia

cos suff an inc,

from Africa, 3rd century

PUR 257 cos II ord 260

~ Pompeius Faustinus Severianus

cos suff

M584

Barb1697a

Pompeius Faustinus

senator

AE1977-851

UNCERTAIN DATE

J319 RE242

CIL III-1868

PME-M53

C. Iulius Fortunatianus

T. Mevius Celsus Ael[---]

M. Mevius M.f. [C]apriolus

egreg vir,

lupercus at Narona in Dalmatia

trib. Fabia,

praef coh in Germ Sup,

2nd century

M581

RE10 Bar802 Okon728

C. Mevius Silius Crescens Fortunatianus

adopted by a Mevius ? clar puer, from Africa

patron of Mididi

beginning 3rd century