Cornificia (gens)

Origin

Praenomina used

Members

• Cornificius, secretary of Verres during his praetorship, 74 BC.
• Quintus Cornificius, praetor in 66 BC, had been one of the judges at the trial of Verres, and tribune of the plebs the following year. Although an unsuccessful rival of Cicero's for the consulship of 63, he assisted Cicero in suppressing the conspiracy of Catiline.
• Quintus Cornificius Q. f., one of Caesar's officers during the Civil War, and a man of letters much admired by Cicero. He was proscribed by the Second Triumvirate and fell in battle.
• Cornificia, a famous poet. Probably sister of Quintus.
• Lucius Cornificius, one of the accusers of Milo after the death of Clodius.
• Publius Cornificius, a senator mentioned by Asconius, who may be the same as the accuser of Milo.
• Lucius Cornificius, accused Marcus Junius Brutus of Caesar's murder, and afterward one of the generals of Octavianus. He held the consulship in 35 BC, and may have been identical with the rhetorician and/or the poet Cornificius.