Spurinna

Spurinna is an Etruscan name. The Tomb of Orcus in Tarquinia belonged to an offshoot of the family.

Notable Spurinnae include:

Velthur Spurinna (5th century BC), from Tarquinia, who led an Etruscan contingent to Sicily to aid Athens in the siege of Syracuse (414–413 BC).
Spurinna, the haruspex who warned Julius Caesar about the Ides of March.
Titus Vestricius Spurinna (ca. 24–after 105 AD), a two-time consul and friend of Pliny the Younger.
Vestricius Spurinna, a general under Otho.

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