Ofania gens

The gens Ofania was a minor plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens known almost entirely from inscriptions.

Origin
The nomen Ofanius belongs to a class of gentilicia apparently formed from cognomina ending in -anus, or place-names ending in -anum, although in this case neither a surname Ofanus nor a place called Ofanum is known.

Members

 * Gaius Ofanius, named in an inscription from Nursia in Samnium.
 * Lucius Ofanius L. l., a freedman named in an inscription from Rome.
 * Titus Ofanius T. f., named in an inscription from the present site of Spilamberto, a village just south of Mutina in northern Italy.
 * Ofania Sex. l. Alexandria, a freedwoman named in a dedicatory inscription from Rome.
 * Marcus Ofanius Aristionis, built a funerary monument at Rome for himself and his son, Marcus Ofanius Primus.
 * Sextus Ofanius Eros, perhaps the former master of Ofania Alexandria, named in an inscription from Rome.
 * Ofanius Hyginus, dedicated a monument at Peltuinum in Samnium to his brother, Quintus Tattius Vestinus, and his wife, Alledia.
 * Ofania Januaria, dedicated a monument at Misenum to her friend, the soldier Valerius Saturninus, who died aged twenty-eight.
 * Marcus Ofanius M. f. Primus, buried at Rome with his father, Marcus Ofanius Aristonis.
 * Ofania C. f. Quarta, the wife of Gaius Papirius Masso. Her husband served as military tribune, plebeian aedile, quaesitor judex and curator frumenti.
 * Gaius Ofanius C. f. Valens Cyrro, a soldier in the fifteenth legion, buried at Carnuntum, aged thirty, having served eight years.