The great majority of Rabirii known from inscriptions lived in Italy, and a large family of this name seems to have lived at Tusculum, an ancient city ofLatium not far from Rome. Another of the Rabirii bears the cognomenTiburtinus, indicating that he or his ancestors probably came from Tibur, another city of northern Latium, not far from Rome and Tusculum, and strongly suggesting that the Rabirii were Latins.
Gaius Rabirius C. f. Postumus, born Gaius Curius, was adopted by his uncle, the senator Gaius Rabirius. He earned his fortune as a money-lender, and his chief client was Ptolemy Auletes, the exiled King of Egypt. He was subsequently tried and banished for repetundae, or extortion, despite Cicero's defense in 54 BC, but was recalled by Caesar, under whom he served during the Civil War.
Gaius Rabirius, an epic poet of the early first century. He seems to have written about the civil wars that attended the end of the Republic.
Rabirius, a physician and author on medical topics, mentioned by Pliny.
Rabirius, an architect active during the reign of Domitian, whose palace has been attributed to Rabirius. His artistic skill and virtuous life are described by Martial.
Rabiria, apparently the wife of a certain Cossus, presumably one of the Cornelii Lentuli, although which is uncertain.
Rabirii from inscriptions
Rabiria, possibly the wife of Cornelius, named in a funerary inscription from Venusia in Apulia belonging to Rabiria Modesta, perhaps her daughter, dating between AD 71 and 130.
Rabirius, named in an inscription from Tusculum in Latium.
Publius Rabirius P. l. Apollonius, a freedman buried at Rome.
Rabiria P. Ɔ. l. Aucta, a freedwoman named in a funerary inscription from Rome.
Rabiria Chrysa, buried at Rome with Rabiria Verna in a tomb built by their patron, Italus.
Publius Rabirius P. l. Dama, a freedman buried at Rome.
Rabiria Demaris, named in an inscription from Rome.
Rabiria Q. l. Demetria, a freedwoman buried at Rome.
Rabiria Donata, wife of Marcus Numisius Hilarus, named in an inscription from Casilinum.
Gaius Rabirius Eniochus, a soldier in the century of Decimus Roetius Secundus, stationed at Rome in AD 70.
Gaius Rabirius C. l. Faustus, a freedman named in an inscription from Rome, dating to between AD 6 and 10.
Gaius Rabirius Postumi l. Hermodorus, a freedman, probably of Gaius Rabirius Postumus, named in an inscription from Rome.
Gaius Rabirius C. l. Hilarius, a freedman and courier, buried at Narbo in Gallia Narbonensis.
Publius Rabirius P. l. Hilarus, a freedman named in a funerary inscription from Rome.
Publius Rabirius Hymnus, infant son of Rabiria Phoebe, buried at Puteoli in Campania, aged eight months and five days.
Publius Rabirius P. Ɔ. l. Isio, a freedman buried at Rome.
Rabiria Modesta, possibly the daughter of Cornelius and Rabiria, buried at Venusia, aged five?
Publius Rabirius P. l. Nicias, a freedman buried at Rome.
Rabiria Oecumene, buried at Rome in a tomb built by Lucius Marcius Antiochus, dating to the first century AD; perhaps the same Rabiria Eucumene mentioned in an inscription dating to AD 9.
Publius Rabirius P. l. Philargurus, a freedman buried at Rome.
Rabiria Phoebe, buried her infant son, Publius Rabirius Hymnus, at Puteoli.
