Arpineia (gens)

The gens Arpineia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. It is known chiefly from a single individual, Gaius Arpineius, an eques in the army of Caesar's army during the Gallic Wars.[1]

Origin

The nomen Arpineius belongs to a class of gentilicia formed using the suffix -eius, typically formed from words or names ending in -as. The root of the nomen is the cognomen Arpinas, a surname indicating a relationship to the city of Arpinum in southern Latium, whence the ancestor of this family probably came.[2]

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See also

References

  1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 349 ("Gaius Arpineius").
  2. Chase, p. 120.
  3. Caesar, De Bello Gallico, v. 27.

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