Avidia (gens)

Branches and cognomina

Members of the gens

• Titus Avidius Quietus, a friend and contemporary of Pliny the Younger, whom he supported in his accusation of Publicius Certus in AD 96.
• Titus Avidius Quietus, consul suffectus in AD 111.
• Gaius Avidius Nigrinus, proconsul during the reign of Domitian, and brother of the elder Quietus; Plutarch dedicated a treatise on brotherly love to them.
• Gaius Avidius C. f. Nigrinus, consul suffectus during the first half of AD 110; one of four senators put to death in the year following the accession of Hadrian.
• Avidia C. f. C. n. Plautia, the daughter of Nigrinus, married Lucius Ceionius Commodus, Hadrian's heir; her son, Lucius Ceionius Commodus, was adopted by Antoninus Pius, and was emperor with Marcus Aurelius from AD 161 to 169.
• Heliodorus, a rhetorician, and native of Syria, who became a private secretary and friend of Hadrian; he was appointed praefectus of Egypt.
• Avidius Cassius, son of Heliodorus, and a successful general under Marcus Aurelius, against whom he rebelled in AD 175.
• Avidius Maecianus, son of Avidius Cassius, entrusted with the command of Alexandria during his father's rebellion; he was slain by his own soldiers.