Carfulena gens

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The gens Carfulena was a plebeian family at Rome toward the end of the Republic. The gens is best known from Decimus Carfulenus, who served under Caesar during the Alexandrine War; other members are known from inscriptions. [1]

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  1. Appian calls him Carsuleius.

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  1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 612 ("Decimus Carfulenus").
  2. Hirtius, De Bello Alexandrino, 31.
  3. Appian, Bellum Civile, iii. 66 ff.
  4. Cicero, Philippicae, iii. 9, Epistulae ad Familiares, x. 33, xv. 4.
  5. 1 2 3 AE 1982, 380, AE 2003, 678.

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