The gens Caeparia was a Roman family during the late Republic. It is best known from two individuals: Marcus Caeparius of Tarracina, one of the conspirators of Catiline, who was supposed to induce the people of rural Apulia to revolt, in 63 BC; and another Marcus Caeparius, mentioned by Cicero in 46 BC.Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, iii. 6, Epistulae ad Familiares, ix. 23.Gaius Sallustius Crispus, The Conspiracy of Catiline, 46, 47, 55.
Origin The Nomen Caeparius is Latin for "a trader in onions""caeparius" in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
See also List of Roman gentes
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