Pius
a surname of several Romans.
1. Of the emperor Antoninus [ANTONINUS]. 2. Of a senator Aurelius, who lived at the commenceenent of the reign of Tiberius (Tac. Ann. 1.75). 3. Of L. Cestius [CESTIUS]. 4. Of Q. Metellus, consul B. C. 80, by whom it was handed down to his adopted son Metellus Scipio. [METELLUS, Nos. 19, 22.]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.