Gavia gens

This article is about a Roman family. For the genus of birds known as loons or divers, see loon.

The gens Gavia, or occasionally Gabia, was a Roman family of plebeian descent. It first appears in history during the first century BC, but none of its members obtained any of the curule magistracies until imperial times. The Gavi Arch at Verona was built in honor of one of the Gavii.[1]

  1. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 232 ("Gavius or Gabius").