Afrania

or Gaia. the wife of the senator Licinius Buccio, a very litigious woman, who always pleaded her own causes before the praetor, and thus gave occasion to the publishing of the edict, which forbade all women to postulate. She was perhaps the sister of L. Afranius, consul in B. C. 60. She died B. C. 48. (V. Max. 8.3.1; Dig. 3. tit. 1. s. 1.5.)

plebeian, is first mentioned in the second century B. C. The only cognomen of this gens, which occurs under the republic, is Stellio : those names which have no cognomen are given under Afranius. Some persons of this name evidently did not belong to the Afrania Gens. On coins we find only S. Afranius and M. Afranius, of whom nothing is known. (Eckhel, v. p. 132, &c.)