Carfulena gens

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The gens Carfulena was a plebeian family at Rome toward the end of the Republic. The gens is best known from Decimus Carfulenus, who served under Caesar during the Alexandrine War; other members are known from inscriptions.[1]

Members[]

  • Decimus Carfulenus,[i] who served under Caesar during the Alexandrine War in 47 B.C., was tribune of the plebs in 44, the year of Caesar's assassination, and subsequently perished in the Battle of Mutina, in 43.[2][3][4]
  • Publius Carfulenus, the former master of Publius Carfulenus Modestus.[5]
  • Publius Carfulenus P. l. Modestus, a freedman mentioned in an inscription at Aquileia.[5]
  • Publius Carfulenus Princeps l., a freedman mentioned in an inscription at Aquileia.[5]

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ Appian calls him Carsuleius.

See also[]

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 612 ("Decimus Carfulenus").
  2. ^ Hirtius, De Bello Alexandrino, 31.
  3. ^ Appian, Bellum Civile, iii. 66 ff.
  4. ^ Cicero, Philippicae, iii. 9, Epistulae ad Familiares, x. 33, xv. 4.
  5. ^ a b c AE 1982, 380, AE 2003, 678.

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