The gens Simplicia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are known from inscriptions dating to the imperial period, most occurring without praenomina from the third century onward, and in many instances their full nomenclature is uncertain. Some of them were from senatorial families, and one of the Simplicii was Praefectus Urbi of Constantinople in AD 403.
Origin
The nomen Simplicius belongs to a class of gentilicia formed from surnames ending in or , using the gentile-forming suffix . Its root is the cognomen Simplex, originally referring to someone "simple" or "unadorned" in character or manner. Surnames derived from the nature and habits of an individual were common at Rome.
Members
Simplicia, dedicated a tomb at Aquileia in Venetia and Histria to her husband, Getulicus, aged seventy years, seven days, five and a half hours. Simplicia, buried at Aquileia, along with her husband, Martinianus, and their children. Simplicia, the wife of Vincentius, with whom she dedicated a fourth-century tomb at Aquileia for their daughter, Petronia, aged sixteen. Simplicia, buried at Augusta Treverorum in Gallia Belgica, with a monument from her mother, Ursa. Simplicia, dedicated a tomb at Augusta Vindelicorum in Raetia, dating between AD 170 and 300, for her husband, Tiberius Acutianus Ursacius Veteranicinus, aged twenty-seven years, six months, and eight days. Simplicia, buried at Carthage in Africa Proconsularis. Simplicia, buried at Carpis in Africa Proconsularis, aged seventeen. Simplicia, made an offering to Mars Corotiacus at the present site of Martlesham, formerly part of Britannia. Simplicia, the wife of Felix Acutus, and mother of Simplicia Acutilla, a girl buried at Mediolanum in Gallia Transpadana in the third or fourth century. Simplicia, buried at Rome, with a monument from her husband, Cominius Clemens, with whom she had lived for eight years, seven months, and six days. Simplicia, buried at Rome in a third-century tomb dedicated by her parents. Simplicia, buried at Rome in a fourth-century tomb dedicated by her parents, Pancratius and Daphne. Simplicia, buried at Rome on the day before the Nones of June (June 4), in a tomb dating to the first half of the fourth century. Simplicia, buried at Rome, aged twenty-four years, eleven months, and fifteen days, in a tomb dating to the first half of the fourth century. Simplicia, dedicated a tomb at Rome to her daughter, Simplicia, in AD 336. Simplicia, buried at Rome on the day before the Nones of February (February 4), AD 336, aged thirteen, in a tomb dedicated by her mother, Simplicia. Simplicia, a little girl buried at Rome on the Ides of November (November 13), aged three years, eleven months, and seven days, in a tomb dating to the middle of the fourth century. Simplicia, dedicated a tomb at Rome, dating to the middle of the fourth century, to her foster-son, Vernaclus, aged five years, eight months, and twenty-three days. Simplicia, buried at Rome on the seventh day before the Ides of August (August 7), aged twenty-six, in a tomb dating to the last quarter of the fourth century. Simplicia, buried at Sirmium in Pannonia Inferior, during the latter half of the second century, or the first half of the third. Simplicius, buried in a family sepulchre at Aquileia, along with his wife of eighteen years, Leontia, aged thirty-two, and their children, the senator Valentinianus and Vetranissa. Simplicius, buried at Aquileia, together with Venentianus, perhaps his brother. Simplicius, dedicated a tomb at Arelate, dating to the late third or early fourth century, for his wife, Vibia Eromene, with whom he had lived for three years. Simplicius, along with his sister-in-law, Covia Sabina, dedicated a tomb at Bononia in Cisalpine Gaul to his wife, Covia Secundina, aged twenty-three years, six months. Simplicius, buried at Carthage. Simplicius, a subdiaconus, or subdeacon, buried at Comelimagus in Liguria, on the eleventh day before the Kalends of July (June 21), aged twenty-five years, ten months, and eleven days. Simplicius, Praefectus Urbi of Constantinople in AD 403. Simplicius, along with his wife, Pompeia, dedicated a tomb at Emerita in Lusitania to their son, Pompeianus, aged twenty years, three months, and twenty-three days. Simplicius, built a tomb at Gemellae in Africa Proconsularis for himself and his wife, who was fifty-six years old. Simplicius, buried at Hadrumetum in Africa Proconsularis. Simplicius, a presbyter buried at Myrtilis Iulia in Lusitania, on the eighth day before the Kalends of September (August 25), in the five hundred and seventy-fifth year of the colony, aged fifty-nine. Simplicius, a little boy buried at Rome during the third century, aged six years and seven hours.