Caeparia gens explained

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

• List of Roman gentes

Notes and References

1. [Cicero|Marcus Tullius Cicero]
2. [Sallust|Gaius Sallustius Crispus]
3. "caeparius" in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press