The gens Nasidiena was an obscure plebeian family at Rome. The gens is best known from Nasidienus Rufus, a wealthy eques whose dinner given for Maecenas is satirized by Horace.[1]
The nomenNasidienus probably belongs to a class of names deriving from other gentilicia, in this case perhaps Nasidius. Such names were not very characteristic of Latin nomina, but were quite common in Picenum, suggesting that the Nasidieni may originally have come from that region of Italy.[2]
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Nasidienus Rufus, an eques whom Maecenas favoured with his company, and whose dinner was a subject of Horace's ridicule. The name may well have been an alias invented by Horace to avoid offending the man in question.[3][4]
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