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Paetinus

a lengthened form of Paetus [PAETUS], like Albinus of Albus, was a family name of the Fulvia Gens. It superseded the family name of Curvus, of which it was originally an agnomen, and was superseded in its turn by the name of Nobilior.

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.