The nomen Numicius appears to belong to a class of gentilicia formed from other names ending in -ex, -icis, or -icus, which took -icius as a suffix. However, if as seems likely, the name is really the same as Numisius, it might perhaps be derived from the praenomenNumerius.
Titus Numicius Priscus, consul in 469 BC, had the conduct of the war against the Volscians, defeating them before Antium, the Volscian capital, and taking the town of Caeno. When the Sabines attempted to take advantage of the consuls' absence, Numicius and his colleague invaded their territory simultaneously, ending the threat.
Tiberius Numicius, tribune of the plebs in 320 BC, was given as a prisoner to the Samnites, together with the other tribunes and the consuls, after the defeat of the Romans at the Battle of the Caudine Forks, during the Second Samnite War. The Samnites saw their sacrifice as a pretext for renewing the war, and refused the prisoners, allowing them to return home.
Publius Numicius Pica Caesianus, a cavalryprefect in the time of Augustus, he subsequently served as quaestorpro praetore in Asia, and tribune of the plebs.
Numicius, the person to whom Horace addressed the sixth epistle of his first book. He might be the same person as Publius Numicius Pica Caesianus.
Numicius Priscus, a member of the praetorian guard, mentioned in an inscription from Rome, dating to AD 147.
Gaius Numicius, the former master of Gaius Numicius Eusebius, and perhaps also the former master of Prima Numicia Paulla and Gaius Numicius Philinus, or of Numicius Taurus.
Publius Numicius, the former master of Publius Numicius Berullus. His wife may have been named Afraia, as that was the nomen of her freedwoman.
Publius Numicius, the former master of Publius Numicius Surus and Numicia Laudica.
Quintus Numicius, the former master of Quintus.
Quintus Numicius Q. l., a freedman, named in an inscription from Rome.
Marcus Numicius Acastus, a freedman, possibly of the wife of a Quintus Numisius.
Publius Numicius P. l. Berullus, a freedman, and husband of Afraia Italia, freedwoman of his former master's wife, mentioned in an inscription from Rome as having donated six jars of ointment.
Gaius Numicius C. l. Eusebius, buried at Rome, aged twelve.
Numicia P. l. Laudica, a freedwoman buried at Rome.
Prima Numicia C. l. Paulla, a freedwoman mentioned in an inscription from Rome.
Gaius Numicius C. l. Philinus, a freedman mentioned in an inscription from Rome.
Marcus Numicius Severus, tent-mate and heir of Publius Aelius Fuscus, a soldier in the third cohort of the praetorian guard, who was buried at Rome, aged twenty-two, after five years' service.
Publius Numicius Suntrophus, mentioned in an inscription from Rome as having donated four jars of ointment.
Publius Numicius P. l. Surus, a freedman buried at Rome.
Numicius C. l. Taurus, a freedman mentioned in an inscription from Rome.
Titus Numicius Thermus, mentioned in an inscription from Rome as having donated six jars of ointment.
Publius Numicius Xanthus, probably a freedman, named in an inscription from Rome.
Gaius Annius Numicius, named in an inscription from Ostia.
Numicia Primigenia, female whose domus was found in Pompeii. Lived with someone named Lesbianus.
