Spurinna
Spurinna is an Etruscan name. The Tomb of Orcus in Tarquinia belonged to an offshoot of the family.
Notable Spurinnae include:
- Velthur Spurinna (5th century BC), from Tarquinia, who led an Etruscan contingent to Sicily to aid Athens in the siege of Syracuse (414–413 BC).
- Spurinna, who according to Suetonius was the haruspex who warned Julius Caesar about the Ides of March.[1]
- Titus Vestricius Spurinna (c. 24–after 105 AD), a two-time consul and friend of Pliny the Younger.
- Vestricius Spurinna, a general under Otho.
References
- Suetonius, Divus Julius 81.
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