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. 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. Aquinius, a very inferior poet, a contemporary of Catullus and Cicero. See also List of Roman gentes References Roman gentes