Laenia (gens)

Members

• Marcus Laenius Strabo, an eques at Brundisium, and a friend of Varro. He introduced the aviary to Roman culture.
• Marcus Laenius Flaccus, a friend of Titus Pomponius Atticus, who allowed the exiled Cicero to remain at his house near Brundisium in 58 BC, in defiance of the measure of Publius Clodius Pulcher forbidding it, until the orator could make his way to Epirus. In 51, Laenius asked Cicero for a sub-prefecture in Cilicia, where he had lent money at interest. Cicero refused to grant public office to a money-lender, but he recommended Laenius to Publius Silius Nerva, propraetor of Bithynia and Pontus, who might be willing to do so.

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