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5.5. Elite families<br />

This section considers what the literary and epigraphic evidence tell us about the<br />

composition <strong>of</strong> the elite at Nola. In the accounts <strong>of</strong> the Samnite wars, some members <strong>of</strong><br />

the Nolan leading classes appear by name, Herius Pettius, Herennius Bassius and L.<br />

Bantius. 648 A bearer <strong>of</strong> the name Pettius, Lucius Pettius, appeared as meddix on two<br />

iüvilas inscriptions on stone in Capua, and it has been suggested that they were <strong>of</strong><br />

Etruscan origin. 649 A bearer <strong>of</strong> the name Bassius also appears in the boundary inscription<br />

ST Cm 47, as Minatus Bassius son <strong>of</strong> Minatus. In the same inscription the praenomen<br />

twice appears as gentilicium: Vibius Minatus son <strong>of</strong> Vibius and Ovius Minatus son <strong>of</strong><br />

Ovius. The gens <strong>of</strong> the fourth person in the inscription, Percennius Mamus son <strong>of</strong><br />

Maraeus, does not appear elsewhere, although Percennius is attested as praenomen in<br />

other Oscan-speaking<br />

territories. 650<br />

The second boundary inscription, ST Cm 48, provides us with three gens names:<br />

Statius, Staius and Calavius. The gens names Statius and Staius are widespread among<br />

the Oscan-speaking communities both in Campania and the Central Apennines. The<br />

gens Calavia is attested elsewhere in inscriptions: Stenius Calavius son <strong>of</strong> Trebius,<br />

occurs on a curse tablet from Cumae, while Stenius Calavius son <strong>of</strong> Gavius, is attested to<br />

have donated a gold ring to the goddess Angitiae (? ) in Aesernia. 651 The Calavii <strong>of</strong><br />

Capua already mentioned in detail in the previous section 652<br />

648 Herennius Bassius: Livy 23.43.9 and 23.44.1. Herius Pettius Livy 23.43.9. L. Bantius: 23.15.7.<br />

649 ST Cp 29 and 30. See sections 3.3 and 3.4.<br />

650<br />

Salonries (1987) 75.<br />

651<br />

ST Cm 13; ST Sa 22.<br />

652<br />

Livy 9.7.2; 9.26.7; 23.2.2; 23.8.2-8; 26.27.2. See also section 3.4.<br />

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