Arpineia gens
Introduction The '''gens Arpineia''' was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. It is known chiefly from a single individual, Gaius Arpineius, an eques in the army of Caesar's army during the Gallic Wars.
Origin The nomen ''Arpineius'' belongs to a class of gentilicia formed using the suffix ''-eius'', typically formed from words or names ending in ''-as''. The root of the nomen is the cognomen ''Arpinas'', a surname indicating a relationship to the city of Arpinum in southern Latium, whence the ancestor of this family probably came.
Members * Gaius Arpineius, an eques, and a friend of Quintus Titurius Sabinus, who was sent to confer with Ambiorix in 54 BC.
See also * List of Roman gentes
References
Bibliography * Gaius Julius Caesar, ''Commentarii de Bello Gallico'' (Commentaries on the Gallic War). * ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849). * George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in ''Harvard Studies in Classical Philology'', vol. VIII, pp. 103–184 (1897).