C. Cupiennius
1. A person to whom Cicero wrote a letter in B. C. 44, entreating him to interest himself in the affairs of the inhabitants of Buthrotum, and reminding him of the friendship which had existed between the father of Cupiennius and Cicero himself. (Cic. Att. 16.16, D.)
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