07-06-2009, 05:31 PM
Well, just picking one of the list of Jona (from the fasti consulares):
Marcus Servilius Nonianus, the consul of AD 35 with Caius Sestius Gallus. Pliny (HN xxxvii 6 s21) speaks of this consul, otherwise just known as M. Servilius in Tacitus' Annales and by Dio Cassius, and informs us he was the grandson of a Nonius, proscribed by Marcus Antonius. So this would mean that his actual gentilicium was Nonius and he was adopted into the gens Servilia, guarding his old gentilicium as a cognomen ending in -ianus.
Marcus Servilius Nonianus was considered one of the best orators and historians of his time.
Hans
Marcus Servilius Nonianus, the consul of AD 35 with Caius Sestius Gallus. Pliny (HN xxxvii 6 s21) speaks of this consul, otherwise just known as M. Servilius in Tacitus' Annales and by Dio Cassius, and informs us he was the grandson of a Nonius, proscribed by Marcus Antonius. So this would mean that his actual gentilicium was Nonius and he was adopted into the gens Servilia, guarding his old gentilicium as a cognomen ending in -ianus.
Marcus Servilius Nonianus was considered one of the best orators and historians of his time.
Hans
Flandria me genuit, tenet nunc Roma
