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

The Nomen Caeparius is Latin for "a trader in onions"[3]

See also

References
  1. Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, iii. 6, Epistulae ad Familiares, ix. 23.
  2. Gaius Sallustius Crispus, The Conspiracy of Catiline, 46, 47, 55.
  3. "caeparius" in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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