Laenas
8. C. Popillius Laenas, the son of the preceding, is mentioned, as well as his father, by Cicero (Cic. Brut. 25), as an eloquent speaker. Perhaps he is the same C. Popillius who is spoken of by Cicero (Cic. Ver. 1.13) as being convicted for embezzlement (peculatus).
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.