Ranius
a name of rare occurrence. Cicero (Cic. Att. 12.21) speaks of a Ranius, who may have been a slave or a freedman of Brutus. There was a L. Ranius Acontius Optatus, who was consul in the reign of Constantine, A. D. 334 (Fasti).
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.