Fonteius
4. C. Fonteius, legatus of the praetor Cn. Servilius Caepio, with whom he was slain in a popular tumult at Asculum in Picenum, on the breaking out of the Marsic or Social War, B. C. 90. (Cic. Font. 14; Liv. Epit. 72; Vell. 2.15; Appian, App. BC 1.38; Oros. 5.18.) He was the father of Fonteia (Cic. Font. 17), and of No. 5.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.