Orbicia (gens)

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• Orbicia Procula, a freedwoman, was the concubine of the haruspex Gaius Helvius Agens. She died at the age of thirty, and was buried at Falerio in Picenum.
• Quintus Orbicius Velageni f., named in an inscription from Augusta Taurinorum in Gallia Transpadana.
• Manius Orbicius M'. l. Salvius, a freedman named in an inscription from Rome.
• Orbicius, the author of a short treatise on the names of the subdivisions and commanders of the army, incorporated into the Etymologicum Magnum, a twelfth century encyclopedia. Nothing is known of the date of Orbicius, except that he must have lived before the compilation of the Etymologicum.