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Ennia Thrasylla


Ennia Thrasylla, also known as Ennia Naeva or Ennia Naevia,Ennia the wife of Macro,Ennia and Eunia (about 15-38,Ennia in Greek Greek: Έννίας, Ennia Thrasylla in Greek Greek: Έννία Θράσυλλα) was a Roman noblewoman who lived in the 1st century in the Roman Empire.

Ennia was of Latin, Greek, Armenian and Median descent. She was the daughter and known child of Lucius Ennius from his unnamed wife and perhaps had a brother called Lucius Ennius who was the father of Lucius Ennius Ferox, a Roman Soldier who served during the reign of the Roman emperor Vespasian from 69 until 79.

Her father Lucius Ennius, was a Latin Roman Eques, who originally may have come from the Roman province of Creta et Cyrenaica, as he was a contemporary to the reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius who ruled from 14 until 37. Lucius Ennius was a relative of Quintus Ennius, a Poet that lived during the Roman Republic and Manius Ennius a Roman Soldier, that served with Germanicus in 14 on the Rhine River.

The unnamed wife of Ennius who was the mother of Ennia, was a Roman noblewoman from Alexandria, in the Roman Province of Egypt who was of Greek, Armenian and Median descent. She was the daughter and oldest child, born to Thrasyllus of Mendes and his wife, Aka II of Commagene. Thrasyllus was an Egyptian Greek Grammarian, Literary Commentator who served as the astrologer and became the personal friend of the Roman emperor Tiberius, while Aka II was a Princess of Armenian, Greek and Median descent from the Kingdom of Commagene. Her maternal uncle was Tiberius Claudius Balbilus, hence was a paternal cousin to Claudia Capitolina who would later marry into the Kingdom of Commagene.


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