Caeparia gens
The gens Caeparia was a Roman family during the late Republic. It is best known from two individuals: Marcus Caeparius of Tarracina, one of the conspirators of Catiline, who was supposed to induce the people of rural Apulia to revolt, in 63 BC; and another Marcus Caeparius, mentioned by Cicero in 46 BC.[1][2]
Origin
[edit]The Nomen Caeparius is Latin for "a trader in onions"[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, iii. 6, Epistulae ad Familiares, ix. 23.
- ^ Gaius Sallustius Crispus, The Conspiracy of Catiline, 46, 47, 55.
- ^ "caeparius" in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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