Coponia (gens)

Origin

Praenomina used

Members

• Titus Coponius, of Tibur, a man of distinguished merit and rank, was made a Roman citizen upon the condemnation of Gaius Masso, whom he accused.
• Marcus Coponius, party to a lawsuit pleaded by Quintus Scaevola in the court of the centumviri, 93 BC.
• Titus and Gaius Coponius T. n., two brothers spoken of by Cicero as young men of great acquirements, 56 BC.
• Coponius, left in command of Carrhae during the expedition of Crassus against the Parthians, 53 BC. Possibly the same as the praetor of 49.
• Gaius Coponius, praetor in 49 BC, and a partisan of Pompeius during the Civil War. Later a greatly respected member of the Senate.
• Coponius, a Roman sculptor, who made fourteen statues representing nations conquered by Pompeius. They stood in the entrance hall to the Theatre of Pompeius, giving it the name Porticus ad Nationes.