The gens Amafinia or Amafania was a Roman family during the late Republic. The best-known member of the gens was Gaius Amafinius, one of the earliest Roman writers in favor of the Epicurean philosophy. Cicero considered his works deficient in arrangement and style.Marcus Tullius Cicero, Academica Priora, i. 2, Tusculanae Quaestiones, iv. 3.

See also List of Roman gentes

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