Oppius
4. C. Oppius, a praefect of the allies, was sent by the consul P. Aelius Paetus, in B. C. 201, with some raw levies to attack the territories of the Boii, but was cut off by the enemy with a large number of his men (Liv. 31.2).
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.