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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.)

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    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 30.20
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