The gens Oclatia was an obscure
plebeian family at
ancient Rome. The only member known to have held any
magistracy is Gaius Oclatius Modestus,
quaestor in the first half of the second century, but many Oclatii are known from inscriptions.
Origin
The nomen Oclatius belongs to a class of gentilicia formed using the suffix -atius, based on place-named ending in -as or -atis, and passive participles ending in -atus. It appears to share a common root with the nomen Oclatinius, and both might be an orthographic variant of Ocratius.[1]
Members
This list includes abbreviated
praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see
filiation.
Gaius Oclatius Modestus, a soldier who served under
Trajan and
Hadrian, and later became an
augur,
quaestor, and a judicial magistrate at Beneventum.[26]
Lucius Oclatius Primus, named in an inscription from Rome.[27]
Lucius Oclatius L. f. Rocianus, son of Tertius and brother of Florentinus, to whom he dedicated a monument at Feltre.[20]
Oclatia Sabina, named in an inscription from Ravenna, dating to AD 299.[17]
Giovanni Battista de Rossi, Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romanae Septimo Saeculo Antiquiores (Christian Inscriptions from Rome of the First Seven Centuries, abbreviated ICUR), Vatican Library, Rome (1857–1861, 1888).
René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII (1897).
B. M. Apollonji-Ghetti & Antonia Ferrua, Esplorazioni sotto la Confessione di San Pietro in Vaticano esetuite negli anni 1940–1949 (Explorations beneath St. Peter’s, abbreviated Esplorazioni), Vatican City (1951).
Liborio Hernández Guerra, Epigrafía de época romana de la provincia de Salamanca (Epigraphy of the Roman Era from the Province of Salamanca, abbreviated ERPSalamanca), Universidad de Valladolid (2001).
Cédric Brélaz, Corpus des inscriptions greques et latines de Philippes Band 2, Teil 1 (Body of Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Philippi, vol. 2, part 1, abbreviated CIPh-2-1), Athens (2014).
The gens Oclatia was an obscure
plebeian family at
ancient Rome. The only member known to have held any
magistracy is Gaius Oclatius Modestus,
quaestor in the first half of the second century, but many Oclatii are known from inscriptions.
Origin
The nomen Oclatius belongs to a class of gentilicia formed using the suffix -atius, based on place-named ending in -as or -atis, and passive participles ending in -atus. It appears to share a common root with the nomen Oclatinius, and both might be an orthographic variant of Ocratius.[1]
Members
This list includes abbreviated
praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see
filiation.
Gaius Oclatius Modestus, a soldier who served under
Trajan and
Hadrian, and later became an
augur,
quaestor, and a judicial magistrate at Beneventum.[26]
Lucius Oclatius Primus, named in an inscription from Rome.[27]
Lucius Oclatius L. f. Rocianus, son of Tertius and brother of Florentinus, to whom he dedicated a monument at Feltre.[20]
Oclatia Sabina, named in an inscription from Ravenna, dating to AD 299.[17]
Giovanni Battista de Rossi, Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romanae Septimo Saeculo Antiquiores (Christian Inscriptions from Rome of the First Seven Centuries, abbreviated ICUR), Vatican Library, Rome (1857–1861, 1888).
René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII (1897).
B. M. Apollonji-Ghetti & Antonia Ferrua, Esplorazioni sotto la Confessione di San Pietro in Vaticano esetuite negli anni 1940–1949 (Explorations beneath St. Peter’s, abbreviated Esplorazioni), Vatican City (1951).
Liborio Hernández Guerra, Epigrafía de época romana de la provincia de Salamanca (Epigraphy of the Roman Era from the Province of Salamanca, abbreviated ERPSalamanca), Universidad de Valladolid (2001).
Cédric Brélaz, Corpus des inscriptions greques et latines de Philippes Band 2, Teil 1 (Body of Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Philippi, vol. 2, part 1, abbreviated CIPh-2-1), Athens (2014).