Abronia gens
Introduction The '''gens Abronia''' was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. The only members of this gens mentioned by Roman writers are Abronius Silo, a Latin poet during the time of Augustus, and his son, who was the author of pantomimes. Epigraphic sources provide a few other instances of this nomen, but the readings are very uncertain, and it is possible that ''Abronius'' is merely an orthographic variation of ''Apronius''.
Members * Abronius Silo, the Latin poet, was one of the students of the rhetorician Marcus Porcius Latro. He flourished during the later years of the emperor Augustus. * Abronius Silo, son of the poet Abronius Silo, was likewise a poet, but Seneca reports that he wrote for pantomimes, which were considered a form of low culture. * Abronia Quinta, named in a first-century inscription from Dume in Hispania, along with Abronius Reburrus. In both instances, the nomen is uncertain. * Abronius Reburrus, named in a first-century inscription from Dume, along with Abronia Quinta. In both instances, the nomen is uncertain. * Gaius Abronius Car..., a name of uncertain reading that occurs in two inscriptions from Vitudurum in Germania Superior, dating from around the reign of Claudius.
See also * List of Roman gentes
References
Bibliography * Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder), ''Suasoriae'' (Rhetorical Exercises). * ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849). * René Cagnat ''et alii'', ''L'Année épigraphique'' (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated ''AE''), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).