Fulcinia (gens)

Origin

Praenomina

Members

• Gaius Fulcinius, one of the four ambassadors sent to Fidenae in 438 BC to learn the reasons for that city's revolt. Lars Tolumnius, the king of Veii, who had encouraged the revolt, advised the Fidenates to put the ambassadors to death. Fulcinius and his colleagues were subsequently honoured with statues on the Rostra.
• Marcus Fulcinius, a native of Tarquinii in Etruria, was a successful banker at Rome, whom Cicero described as eminently respectable.
• Marcus Fulcinius M. f., son of the banker, died young.
• Marcus Fulcinius, a freedman of the banker Marcus Fulcinius.
• Lucius Fulcinius, a quaestor serving under Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus in Macedonia in 148 BC, is named on Macedonian coins.Broughton, vol. I, p. 461.
• Gaius Fulcinius, the father of Lucius, who charged Marcus Saufeius with murder.
• Lucius Fulcinius C. f., brought a charge of murder against Marcus Saufeius in BC 52.
• Lucius Fulcinius Trio, consul in AD 31, and an ally of Sejanus, whose downfall occurred that year. An infamous delator, he had accused Lucius Scribonius Libo, the consul of AD 16, and in 20 accused Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso of having poisoned Germanicus. For a time, Fulcinius avoided the fate of Sejanus by prosecuting his accomplices, but in AD 35 he was likewise accused and imprisoned, escaping condemnation by taking his own life. Fulcinius' will excoriated Tiberius, Macro, and several of the emperor's freedmen.