Aculeo
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Aculeonis Proper-name noun: masculine genitive singular of Aculeo
- a Roman cognomen in the gens Furia, Liv. 38, 55, 4.—C. Aculeo, a famous lawyer, friend of L. Licinius Crassus, Cic. de Or. 1, 43, 191; 2, 1, 2 al.
occurs as a surname of C. Furius who was quaestor of L. Scipio, and was condemned of peculatus. (Liv. 38.55.) Aculeo, however, seems not to have been a regular family-name of the Furia gens, but only a surname given to this person, of which a similar example occurs in the following article.
a Roman knight, who married the sister of Helvia, the mother of Cicero. He was surpassed by no one in his day in his knowledge of the Roman law, and possessed great acuteness of mind, but was not distinguished for other attainments. He was a friend of L. Licinius Crassus, and was defended by him upon one occasion. The son of Aculeo was C. Visellius Varro; whence it would appear that Aculeo was only a surname given to the father from his acuteness, and that his full name was C. Visellius Varro Aculeo. (Cic. de Or. 1.43, 2.1, 65; Brut. 76.)