Taria gens
The gens Taria was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned in the time of Augustus, when Lucius Tarius Rufus attained the consulship. Praenomina The praenomina used by the Tarii were the most common names at all periods of Roman history: Lucius, Gaius, Marcus, Publius, and Quintus, along with the slightly less-common Sextus. Branches and cognomina A family of Tarii settled at Nedinum in Dalmatia by the first century, and Tarii were still living in Dalmatia a century later. Members Lucius Tarius Rufus, served under Octavian at the Battle of Actium, and was governor of Macedonia from 18 to 16 BC, when he was appointed consul suffectus. He was still living in AD 23, when he was named curator of Rome's aqueducts. Lucius Tarius Philargyrus, dedicated a tomb at Rome for his wife, Ebrilia Auctulla, dating from the late first century BC, or the early first century AD. Taria L. l. Apate, a freedwoman named in an inscription from Rome, dating from the first half of the first century. Marcus Tarius C. f., built a first-century tomb at Nedinum in Dalmatia for his siblings, Sextus Tarius, Taria Tertia, and Quintus Tarius. Sextus Tarius