Natalis

• a Roman surname, e. g. Antonius Natalis, Tac. A. 15, 50, 54 sq.; 71.

a Roman eques, was one of Piso's friends, and joined him in the conspiracy against Nero, A. D. 66, but having become suspected, and being threatened with the torture, he disclosed the names of the conspirators, and thus escaped punishment. (Tac. Ann. 15.50, 54-56, 71.)

the person who maintains the cause of paganism in the dialogue of Minucius Felix, entitled Octavius. [Felix, Minucius.] Various conjectures have been made as to who this Natalis was; but there are no sufficient data for deciding the question. (Bähr, Christl. Röm. Theologie, § 19.)

or Mini'cius. There is a rescript of Trajan to Minucius Natalis (Dig. 2. tit. 12. s. 9), who was probably a proconsul, and may be the jurist Natalis. In this passage of the Digest his name is written Minitius Natalis. This person appears to have been also consul and augur. The letter of Pliny the Younger to his friend Minucius may probably be addressed to Minucius Fundanus. (Plin. Ep. 7.12.)

The time of the jurist Natalis is determined as prior to that of Salvius Julianus, by the fact that Julianus wrote notes in six books Ad (apud, in) Minitium or Ad Minicium, from which books there are some citations in the Digest (6. tit. 1. s. 61). In one passage, the tenth book of the work, Ad Minitium is cited (Dig. 19. tit. 1. s. 11.15), but as Zimmern suggests, x. is a blunder for v.

Pomponius (Dig. 19. tit. 1. s. 6.4) quotes Minicius as quoting Sabinns. [G.L]