Aquinia gens

The gens Aquinia was a plebeian family in Rome. The gens does not appear to have been particularly large or important, and is known primarily from two individuals.Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.

Members of the gens Marcus Aquinius, a partisan of Gnaeus Pompeius in Africa, who took part in the war against Caesar. After the defeat of the Pompeians, he was pardoned by Caesar.Gaius Julius Caesar (attributed), De Bello Africo 57, 89 Aquinius, a very inferior poet, a contemporary of Catullus and Cicero.Gaius Valerius Catullus xiv. 18.Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tusculanae Quaestiones v. 22.

See also List of Roman gentes

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