title: Trebania gens
text: # Trebania gens
  
  The gens Trebania or Trebana was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Only a few members of this gens are known, chiefly from inscriptions.
  
  ## Origin
  
  The nomen Trebanius belongs to a class of gentilicia formed from cognomina ending in -as and -atis, usually derived from place names, or ending in -atus. Trebanius appears to be derived from the city of Treba in Sabinum, near the border with Latium. The similarly-named Trebatia gens likely derives its nomen from the same root.
  
  ## Members
  
  * Lucius Trebanius, triumvir monetalis at some point between about 135 and 126 BC. His coins feature a head of Pallas on the obverse, while the reverse depicts Jupiter driving a quadriga.
  * Gaius Trebanius Rufus, named in a bronze inscription from Neapolis in Campania.
  * Publius Trebanus Salistianus, buried at Trebula Mutusca, aged thirty, in a first-century tomb built by his wife, Ulpia Sabina.
  