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ALLIENUS. - This is doubtless a surname. Its name, as Ursinus thinks, is derived from Allius, in the same manner as from Nasidius, we have Nasidienus, and from Satrius, Satrienus. But the name of the family to which the Allienus belonged, whose name appears on the following very rare denarius, is not known. It is the only type, viz.:-
Obv. - Caius CAES. IMPerator COnsul ITERum. Head of Venus.
Rev. - Aulus ALIENVS PROCOnsul. - A naked man, holding a small cloak folded round his left arm. In his right hand he holds the triquetra, or symbol of three cornered Sicily - his right foot on the prow of a vessel. - Morell Thesaurus, Alliena, TAB. iii. fig. 1, p. 15
This Aulus Allienus (says Havercamp), was the lieutnant of Q. Cicero, in Asia during the civil war. When he became Praetor, he attached himself to the party of Kulius Caesar, under whom he obtained the proconsulship of Sicily, which this coin attests, having been minted in the year of Rome 706 (B.C. 48). - See SICILIA - also TROIVETRA.