Matinia gens

The gens Matinia was a minor plebeian family at Rome. Its most famous member may have been Publius Matinius, a money-broker in the time of Cicero.

Members Publius Matinius, a money-broker, was recommended to Cicero by Marcus Junius Brutus in 51 BC, when Cicero was proconsul in Cilicia. Together with Marcus Scaptius, a client of Brutus, Matinius had loaned a considerable amount to the people of Salamis.Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, v. 21, vi. 1, 3. Titus Matinius T. f. Hymenaeus, named in an inscription found near the abbey of San Pietro at Ferentillo in Umbria.

See also List of Roman gentes

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Footnotes

Bibliography Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum. Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).