Cupiennius
Cŭpĭennĭus, ii, m.,
- a Roman proper name, Cic. Att. 16, 16, 14.
Cupiennius, iī, m. (cupio), erdichteter Name = der Lüsterne, Hor. sat. 1, 2, 36.
Cupiennius, (16) iī, m. , nom dʼhomme : Cic. Att. 16, 16, 14.
Cupie'nnius, C.
1. A person to whom Cicero wrote a letter in B. C. 44, entreating him to interest himself in the affairs of the inhabitants of Buthrotum, and reminding him of the friendship which had existed between the father of Cupiennius and Cicero himself. (Cic. Att. 16.16, D.)
Cupie'nnius, C.
2. The Cupiennius attacked by Horace (Sat. 1.2. 36) on account of his adulterous intercourse with Roman matrons, is said by the Scholiast on Horace to have been C. Cupiennius Libo of Cuma, a friend of Augustus.
There are some coins extant bearing the names of L. Cupiennius and C. Cupiennius; but who these persons were, is not known. (Eckhel, v. p. 199.)