Oppia gens

The gens Oppia was an ancient Roman family, known from the first century of the Republic down to imperial times. The gens may originally have been patrician, as they supplied priestesses to the College of Vestals at a very early date, but all of the Oppii known to history were plebeians. None of them obtained the consulship until imperial times.[1]

  1. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III. p. 34 ("Oppia Gens").