Arpineia gens
The gens Arpineia or Arpinia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. It is known chiefly from a single individual, Gaius Arpineius, an eques in Caesar's army during the Gallic Wars.
Origin
The nomen Arpineius belongs to a class of gentilicia formed using the suffix ', typically formed from words or names ending in '. 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.
- Publius Arpinius, a potter whose maker's mark appears on pottery from Leontopolis in Egypt.