Vibia (gens)

Vibius was the nomen of the Roman gens Vibia (see Roman naming conventions). Various members of this family include:

Men of the Gens

• Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus - Politician of the Roman Republic^[1]
• Aulius Vibius Habitus - Suffect consul of 8
• Gaius Vibius Rufus - Suffect consul of 16
• Vibius Fronto - Cavalry Colonel serving in Cilicia in 19
• Gaius Vibius Serenus - With Gaius Fonteius Agrippa, one of the four accusers of Marcus Scribonius Libo in 16. In 23 as Governor in Hispania, Serenus was convicted of violence and being of bad character. He was later deported. Serenus had a son of the same name, who served as a Roman Senator in 24^[2]
• Vibius Postumus - Roman General
• Gnaeus Vibius Marcus - Roman Prefect 41-45 of Syria
• Lucius Vibius Sabinus - Suffect consul of 1st century and father of Empress Vibia Sabina
• Lucius Vibius Lentulus - A Rationibus to Traianus, the first known equestrian A Rationibus
• Lucius Junius Quintus Vibius Crispus - Roman Consul of the 1st century
• Quintus Vibius Secundus - Brother to the above, Roman Politician that lived in the 1st century and the 2nd century
• Gaius Vibius Maximus - Governor of Egypt 103-107
• Gaius Julius Lupus Titus Vibius Varus Laevillus - Quaestor in Asia in 132
• Titus Vibius Varus - Consul in 134
• Gaius Vibius Trebonianus Gallus - Roman Emperor 251-253
• Gaius Vibius Volusianus - Son to the above, Roman Emperor of the 3rd century
• Titus Clodius Vibius Varus - Consul in 160^[3]
• Vibius Passienus - Proconsul of the Africa Province in the 3rd century
• Vibius Sequester - Geographical author of the 4th or 5th century

Women of the Gens

• Vibia - Wife of consul Lucius Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus and mother to their son Lucius Arruntius Furius Scribonianus. In 52, Vibia was charged for inquiring from astrologers about the death of Emperor Claudius. She was expelled from Italy
• Vibia - Wife of Titus Sextius Cornelius Africanus who served as consul in 112
• Vibia Sabina (83-136/7) - Daughter of suffect consul Lucius Vibius Sabinus, Empress and wife of Emperor Hadrian
• Vibia Aurelia Sabina, daughter of Emperor Marcus Aurelius
• Vibia Perpetua (181-203) - Christian martyr from Carthage
• Vibia Galla - Daughter of Emperor Gaius Vibius Trebonianus Gallus

References

1. Syme, Ronald, The Roman Revolution, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1939
2. Tacitus, Annales, 2. 30
3. Emily Hemelrijk, Greg Woolf Women and the Roman City in the Latin West p.163