The gens Furnia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. The Furnian gens was of great antiquity, dating to the first century of the Republic; Gaius Furnius was tribune of the plebs in 445 BC. However, no member of the family achieved prominence again for nearly four hundred years.[1]

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This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

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  1. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, pp. 190, 191 ("Furnius", Nos. 1–3).
  2. ^ Dionysius, xi. 52.
  3. ^ Livy, iv. 1.
  4. ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, v. 2, 18, vi. 1, vii. 19, ix. 6, 11, Epistulae ad Familiares, viii. 10, ix. 24, x. 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12 25, 26, xv. 14.
  5. ^ Appian, Bellum Civile, v. 30, 40, 41, 137–142.
  6. ^ Cassius Dio, xlviii. 13, 14, lii. 42, liv. 5.
  7. ^ a b Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis ii. 25.
  8. ^ Florus, iv. 12.
  9. ^ Broughton, vol. II, pp. 249, 353, 359, 376, 384, 389, 402, 408,
  10. ^ Tacitus, Annales iv. 52.
  11. ^ Fasti Albenses, AE 2012, 437.

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