title: Urbinia gens
text: # Urbinia gens
  
  The gens Urbinia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Only a few members of this gens are mentioned by Roman writers, but others are known from inscriptions.
  
  ## Origin
  
  The nomen Urbinius belongs to a class of gentilicia originally formed from cognomina ending in -inus. The surname Urbinus probably referred to a native of Urbinum in Umbria.
  
  ## Members
  
  * Gaius Urbinius, quaestor in 74 BC, served under Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius in Hispania Ulterior.
  * Urbinius Panopion, proscribed by the Second Triumvirate, was saved by one of his slaves, who exchanged clothes with him, and was slain in his place.
  * Urbinia, a woman whose estate was contested by a certain Clusinius Figulus, who claimed to be her son, and retained the advocate Labienus to represent him against Urbinia's heirs, represented by Gaius Asinius Pollio. Quintilian describes a rhetorical trick of Asinius, who implied that Figulus' case was exceptionally weak by describing Labienus himself as the strongest point in the plaintiff's favour.
  * Lucius Urbinius Quartinus, a native of Africa, was a soldier in the praetorian guard, where he served in the century of Faenius Justus. He was buried at Misenum in Campania, aged sixty, having served for twenty-five years, in a tomb built by Lucius Valerius Saturninus, dating from the second century, or the first half of the third.
  * Marcus Urbinius Rufus, a native of Dacia, dedicated a tomb at Misenum, dating between the middle of the second century and the middle of the third, for his fellow-soldier, Cassius Albanus, a native of Corsica, aged thirty years, two months, and two days.
  * Gaius Urbinius Victor, buried in a third-century tomb at Genua in Liguria.
  
  ### Undated Urbinii
  
  * Urbinius Micssi[...] buried at Ad Aquas Caesaris in Africa Proconsularis, aged eighty, along with Su[...]cia Rogata, aged thirty.
  * Urbinius Sic[...], named in a pottery inscription from Germania Inferior.
  