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The gens Matinia was a minor plebeian family at Rome. Its most famous member may have been Publius Matinius, a money-broker in the time of Cicero.

Members

• Publius Matinius, a money-broker, was recommended to Cicero by Marcus Junius Brutus in 51 BC, when Cicero was proconsul in Cilicia. Together with Marcus Scaptius, a client of Brutus, Matinius had loaned a considerable amount to the people of Salamis.
• Titus Matinius T. f. Hymenaeus, named in an inscription found near the abbey of San Pietro at Ferentillo in Umbria.

See also

• List of Roman gentes

References

1. Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, v. 21, vi. 1, 3.
2. CIL XI 01, 4995CIL XIV, 2958

Footnotes

1. Or T. l. in one reading, a freedman.

Bibliography

• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum.
• Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).

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