Pupius
- the name of a Roman gens.
- 1 Cn. Pupius, Cic. Fam. 13, 9, 3.—
- 2 L. Pupius, a centurion of the primipili, a Pompeian, Caes. B. C. 1, 13.—
- 3 Pupius, a tragic poet, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 67.—Hence,
- II Pū-pĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Pupius, Pupian: lex, of the people's tribune Pupius, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11 (13), 3; id. Fam. 1, 4, 1.
1. P. Pupius, was one of the first plebeian quaestors, elected B. C. 409. (Liv. 4.54.)
2. Cn. Pupius, and K. Quintius Flamininus, were appointed duumviri in B. C. 216, for building the temple of Concord. (Liv. 22.33.)
3. L. Pupius, aedile B. C. 185, and praetor B. C. 183, when he obtained by lot the charge of Apulia. (Liv. 39.39, 45.)
4. M. Pupius, was an old man when he adopted Piso [No. 5]. (Cic. pro Dom. 13.)
5. M. Pupius Piso, consul B. C. 61, is spoken of under Piso [No. 18].
6. Cn. Pupius, an agent of the company that farmed the Bithynian revenues, is recommended by Cicero to Crassipes (ad Fam. 13.9).
7. L. Pupius, a centurio primi pili, fell into Caesar's hands, when he entered Italy at the beginning of B. C. 49, but was dismissed by him uninjured. (Caes. Civ. 1.13.)
a Roman dramatist, whose compositions are characterised by Horace, whether ironically or not we cannot tell, as the "lacrymosa poemata Pupi." The sum total of our information regarding this personage is derived from the scholiast on the passage in question (Ep. 1.1. 67): Pupius, Tragoediographus, ita affectus spectantium movit ut eos flere compelleret. Inde istum versum fecit: Flebunt amici et bene noti mortem meam, Nam populus in me vivo lacrymatu' est satis.
(Burmann, Anthol. Lat. 2.213, or No. 79, ed. Meyer; comp. Weichert, Poet. Lat. Reliq. p. 276.) [W.R]