Palpellia (gens)

Origin

Praenomina

Branches and cognomina

Members

• Sextus Palpellius P. f. Hister, consul suffectus in AD 43, early in the reign of Claudius. He had a distinguished public career, serving as a military tribune with the fourteenth legion, municipal judge, tribune of the plebs, praetor, and proconsul. He was governor of Pannonia in AD 50.
• Publius Palpellius P. f. Clodius Quirinalis, commander of the fleet at Ravenna at the commencement of the reign of Nero, had developed a reputation for rapaciousness and cruelty. He was one of the corrupt officials who escaped punishment by taking their own lives in AD 56.
• Sextus Palpellius Hister, a soldier in the fourth legion, who erected a monument to Sextus Palpellius Regulus, probably his brother.
• Sextus Palpellius Sex. f. Regulus, a veteran of the seventh legion, buried at Pola in Histria during the late first century, with a monument erected by Sextus Palpellius Hister, probably his brother.
• Gaius Palpellius M. f., named in an inscription from Venafrum in Samnium.
• Sextus Palpellius Candidus Tullittianus, named in an inscription from Samothrace.
• Palpellia Corinna, a freedwoman at Pola.
• Sextus Palpellius P. f. Faustus, one of the duumviri at Carthage, where he was also a flamen of Augustus, and twice served as quaestor.
• Florus, the husband of Ampliata and father of Sextus Palpellius Maximus.
• Sextus Palpellius Sex. l. Fructus Augustalis, a freedman, and the husband of Allia Prisca, named in an inscription from Humacum in Histria.
• Palpellia C. l. Hypora, a freedwoman, named in an inscription from Venafrum.
• Sextus Palpellius Sex. f. Mancia, one of the duumviri at Pola.
• Palpellia Maxima, wife of Marcus Atilius Ruf, buried at Apsorus in Dalmatia.
• Palpellia P. f. Maxima, buried at Pola.
• Sextus Palpellius Maximus, son of Florus and Ampliata, buried at Nesactium in Histria.
• Palpellia Sex. l. Primilla, a freedwoman named in a funerary inscription from Rome.
• Sextus Palpellius Sex. l. Prothymus, a freedman named in a funerary inscription from Rome.
• Palpellia Trophime, named in a funerary inscription from Pola.
• Palpellius Vitalis, a freedman at Pola.

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