Opsilia gens

The gens Opsilia was an obscure plebeian family at Rome. No members of this gens are known to have held any magistracies, but several are found in inscriptions.

Origin
The nomen Opsilius belongs to a class of gentilicia formed from other names using the suffix -ilius. In this case the nomen is derived from the more common Opsius; the same nomen also gives rise to the gens Opsidia or Obsidia. The common root of all three nomina is op-, "help", found in the name of the goddess Ops, as well as the praenomen Opiter, and the derived patronymics Opiternius and Opetreius, and the nomen Oppius. Most of these names are thought to be of Sabine or Samnite origin.

Members

 * Opsilia, built a tomb at Tusculum for her husband Marcus Coelius Vinicianus, a former praetor and tribune of the plebs.
 * Opsilius, centurion in a cohort of soldiers stationed at the present site of Gilsland, then in the province of Britannia.
 * Marcus Opsilius M. f., buried at Fanum Fortunae in Umbria.
 * Publius Opsilius P. l. Alexas, a freedman named in a dedicatory inscription from Rome.
 * Opsilius Conius, buried at Carales in Sardinia, aged thirty. His wife built a tomb for him, dating to between AD 201 and 230.
 * Sextus Opsilius Geminus, named in a libationary inscription found at Roermond, formerly part of Germania Inferior.
 * Marcus Opsilius M. l. Midas, a freedman named in an inscription from Rome.
 * Lucius Opsilius L. l. Pamphilus, a freedman mentioned in an inscription from Rome, under the names of the consuls of AD 5.
 * Titus Opsilius Saturninus, named in a dedicatory inscription from Rome.
 * Opsilia Tyche, named in a dedicatory inscription from Rome.