Axia gens

The gens Axia, also spelled Axsia, was a plebeian family at Rome during the final century of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire. The gens does not appear to have been particularly large or important, although at least some of the family were reasonably wealthy.

Branches and cognomina
None of the Axii mentioned in history bear a surname; the only cognomen found in inscriptions is Naso, originally referring to someone with a prominent nose.

Members

 * Quintus Axius M. f., a senator in 73 BC. He was a wealthy man from Reate, and friend of both Cicero and Varro, who made him a protagonist of his De Re Rustica.      His grand villa at Colli sul Velino can be seen today.
 * Marcus Gallius Axianus, son of Cicero and Varro's friend who was adopted into the Gallia gens.
 * Lucius Axius L. f. Naso, triumvir monetalis in 71 BC, probably to be identified with the eques mentioned by Varro, and a banker named in an inscription.
 * Lucius Axius L. f. (L. n.) Naso, proconsul in Cyprus in AD 29.