Propertia gens
Roman gens
The gens Propertia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Few members of this gens are mentioned in history, and none of them ever obtained the consulship, but a few of them held other magistracies in imperial times. The most famous of the Propertii was Sextus Propertius, a celebrated poet of the Augustan age. Many other Propertii are known from inscriptions.
Origin
The poet Propertius wrote that he was born in Umbria, near the border with Etruria. The Propertii were homines novi, a family just beginning to make its mark in Roman society, and modern scholars suppose that they were probably of Umbrian extraction. An Umbrian inscription from Asisium mentions a certain Nerie Propartie, or "Nerius Propertius".
Members
This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
Nerius Propertius, named in an inscription from Asisium, dating to the end of the second century BC, or the beginning of the first.
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