Furnia (gens)

The gens Furnia was a plebeian family at Rome. The gens was of great antiquity, dating to the first century of the Republic; Gaius Furnius was tribune of the plebs in 445 BC. However, no member of the family achieved prominence again for nearly four hundred years.^[1]

Members

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

• Gaius Furnius, tribune of the plebs in 445 BC. He opposed the rogation of that year, which would have opened the consulship to the plebeians. His name occurs only in Dionysius; Livius mentions the rogation, but not Furnius.^[2][3]
• Gaius Furnius, tribune of the plebs in BC 50, was a friend and correspondent of Cicero. He opposed the demand of the oligarchic party at Rome that Caesar should immediately resign his proconsulship of Gaul. After Caesar's murder, Furnius espoused the side of Marcus Antonius, but after the Battle of Actium he was reconciled to Octavian through the exertions of his son. Furnius was consul suffectus in 29 BC.
• Gaius Furnius C. f., son of the consul of 29 BC, successfully reconciled his father to Octavian following the Battle of Actium. He was consul in 17 BC. A certain Furnius was put to death in the reign of Tiberius, AD 26, for having committed adultery with Claudia Pulchra, but it is doubtful whether he is the same person.^[4][5]

See also

List of Roman gentes

References

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
2. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia xi. 52.
3. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita iv. 1.
4. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De Beneficiis ii. 25.
5. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales iv. 52.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.