Propertia gens

Origin

Members

• Nerius Propertius, named in an inscription from Asisium, dating to the end of the second century BC, or the beginning of the first.
• Titus Propertius, grandfather of Gaius Propertius Postumus, the proconsul.
• Quintus Propertius T. f., father of the proconsul Gaius Propertius Postumus.
• Quintus Propertius Q. f., probably the elder brother of Gaius Propertius Postumus, named in the same sepulchral inscription from Rome.
• Gaius Propertius Q. f. T. n. Postumus, held a number of magistracies, including those of quaestor, praetor, and proconsul of an uncertain province during the time of Augustus.
• Sextus Propertius, the poet, variously known as Sextus Aurelius Propertius, or Sextus Propertius Nauta, was born in Umbria about the middle of the first century BC, and wrote his elegies between about 31 and 16 BC.
• Propertius Celer, had been praetor, but in AD 15, he asked to be degraded in the hopes of being relieved of the financial burdens of his rank. The emperor Tiberius instead sent him a million sestertii in order to maintain his household.