Aufidia

AUFIDIA gens - That this family was plebeian is shewn by the tribuni plebis, who were chosen from it. " Perhaps, says Vaillant, the river Aufidius, celebrated on account of the slaughter of the Romans at Cannae, gave the original name to this family;" which however was not known until about the period of the republic's decline. Its coins consisted of only two varieties, one of these, a rare denarius, has 

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