Aspre'nas
a surname of the Nonii, a consular family under the early emperors. (Comp.
Plin. Nat. 30.20.)
1. C.
Nonius Asprenas, was a performer in the
Trojae lusus under Augustus, and in consequence of an injury which he sustained from a fall in the game, he received a golden chain from Augustus, and was allowed to assume the surname of Torquatus, both for himself and his posterity. (Suet.
Oct. 43.)