M. Orfius
a Roman eques, of the municipium of Atella, was a tribune of the soldiers in Caesar's army, whom Caesar strongly recommended in B. C. 59 to his brother Quintus, who was then one of Caesar's legates. (Cic. ad Qu. Fr. 2.14.)
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.