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The gens Coponia was a

plebeian family at Rome. The family was prominent at Rome during the first century BC. The most famous of the gens may have been Gaius Coponius, praetor in 49 BC, and a partisan of Pompeius, whom although proscribed by the triumvirs in 43, was subsequently pardoned, and came to be regarded as a greatly respected member of the Senate.[1]

Origin

The Coponii originally came from Tibur, where an inscription bearing the name was found.[1]

Praenomina used

The Coponii are known to have used the praenomina Titus, Marcus, and Gaius.

Members

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
  2. ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Balbo 53.
  3. ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Oratore i. 39, ii. 32.
  4. ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Brutus 52.
  5. ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Balbo 53.
  6. ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Caelio 24.
  7. ^ Plutarchus, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Crassus 27.
  8. ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum viii. 12, A.
  9. ^ Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili iii, 5, 26.
  10. ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Divinatione i. 32, ii. 55.
  11. ^ Appianus, Bellum Civile iii. 40.
  12. Marcus Velleius Paterculus
    , Compendium of Roman History ii. 83.
  13. ^ Gaius Plinius Secundus, Historia Naturalis xxxvi. 4 §§ 12, 13.
  14. ^ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum Claudius, 46.
  15. Servius
    , ad Virg. Aen. viii. 720.

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