Vespillo
the name of a family of the Lucretia gens.
1. Lucretius Vespillo, aedile B. C. 133, is said to have thrown the corpse of Tib. Gracchus into the Tiber and thus to have obtained the surname of Vespillo. (Aurel. Vict. de Vir. Ill. 64; respecting the Vespillones, see Dict. of Antiq. p. 559a, 2d ed.)
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.