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The gens Calpurnia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome, which first appears in history during the third century BC. The first of the gens to obtain the consulship was Gaius Calpurnius Piso in 180 BC, but from this time their consulships were very frequent, and the family of the Pisones became one of the most illustrious in the Roman state.
The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor.
Calpurnia is a genus of flowering plants within the family Fabaceae. It includes six species which range through eastern, central, and southern Africa and in southern India. [ 1 ] The genus comprises shrubs or small trees in or along the margin of forests in the eastern parts of South Africa .
Calpurnia gens, an ancient Roman family . Calpurnia (wife of Caesar), last wife of Roman dictator Julius Caesar Calpurnia (wife of Pliny), third and last wife of Pliny the Younger and granddaughter of Calpurnius Fabatus
Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (101 BC [1] – c. 43 BC) was a Roman senator and the father-in-law of Julius Caesar [2] through his daughter Calpurnia.He was reportedly a follower of a school of Epicureanism that had been modified to befit politicians, as Epicureanism itself favoured withdrawal from politics. [3]
Calpurnia was either the third or fourth wife of Julius Caesar, and the one to whom he was married at the time of his assassination.According to contemporary sources, she was a good and faithful wife, in spite of her husband's infidelity; and, forewarned of the attempt on his life, she endeavored in vain to prevent his murder.
He was a member of the gens Calpurnia, specifically among the Calpurnii Pisones.His father and grandfather both shared his name, with his father being Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso (consul in 23 BC), and his grandfather being one of the participants in the Catilinarian conspiracy.
He was a member of the gens Calpurnia, one of Rome's most distinguished senatorial families, and specifically was among the Calpurnii Pisones. His wife was Licinia, daughter of the consul Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi .