title: Quirinia gens
text: # Quirinia gens
  
  The gens Quirinia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. No members of this gens appear in history, but several are known from inscriptions.
  
  ## Origin
  
  The nomen Quirinius belongs to a class of gentilicia derived from other names ending in -inus. Its root, the surname Quirinus, was an old Sabine word, apparently derived from quiris, a spear or javelin. As a cognomen, it was applied to Romulus, the legendary founder and first King of Rome, and it was later applied to other persons, including a family of the Sulpicia gens, and deities, including Mars, Janus, and the deified Augustus.
  
  ## Members
  
      This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
  * Lucius Quirinius Amerimnus, dedicated a tomb at Rome to Sentia Cleopatra, her husband, Appuleius Protus, and their son, Sentius Protus, dated to the late first or early second century AD.
  * Quirinia M. l. Ge, a freedwoman, buried along the Via Latina in Rome, together with Marcus Quirinius Pamphilus, in a tomb dating to the first century BC.
  * Marcus Quirinius Hermes, client of Sextus Vestilius Lycysus and Quirinia Januaria, to whom he dedicated a tomb at Salernum in Campania.
  * Quirinius Hilarus, named in an inscription from Rome.
  * Quirinia Januaria, buried at Salernum, aged forty-five, together with Sextus Vestilius Lycysus, in a tomb dedicated by their client, Marcus Quirinius Hermes.
  * Marcus Quirinius Pamphilus, buried along the Via Latina, together with Quirinia Ge, in a tomb dating to the first century BC.
  * Gaius Quirinius C. f. Proculus, named in an inscription from Aveia in Samnium.
  * Lucius Quirinius Tuscus, named in an inscription from Rome.
  