Passiena (gens)

Origin

Members

• Passienus, the father of Rufus, was an orator mentioned by Seneca the Elder. He died in 9 BC.
• Lucius Passienus Rufus, consul in 4 BC, and subsequently proconsul of Africa, where he won a number of military victories, for which he was awarded the triumphal ornaments.
• Gaius Sallustius Passienus L. f. Crispus, son of the consul Rufus, and the grandson of a sister of the historian Sallust, who had no children of his own. Sallust adopted his grandnephew, who assumed his nomenclature. He was a confidant of Augustus and Tiberius, but held no public office. Tacitus reports that he died in AD 20. He is frequently confused with his son.
• Gaius Sallustius Passienus C. f. L. n. Crispus, grandson of Rufus, was the husband of Agrippina, and stepfather of Nero. He was a wealthy man, and a highly-respected orator, and was consul twice, the second time in AD 44, early in the reign of Claudius.
• Gaius Passienus Paulus, an eques, highly regarded as a friend and fellow-poet by Pliny the Younger.
• Gaius Passienius C. f. Cossonius Scipio Orfitus, served as senator, augur, quaestor urbanus, and a judicial magistrate. He was praetor designatus, and curator of Sutrium, and was admitted to the patriciate.
• Passienus Rufus, a friend of the orator and grammarian Marcus Cornelius Fronto. He was consul suffectus in AD 142.
• Quintus Passienus Licinus, consul suffectus in AD 149.
• Passenia Petronia, a woman of a senatorial family, named on a tile from about the time of Commodus.
• Vibius Passienus, governor of Africa Proconsularis between AD 260 and 268, during the reign of Gallienus. According to Trebellius Pollio, he attempted to place the usurper Celsus on the throne, but his rebellion was swiftly quashed.

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