person
Marcus Fulvius Bambalio
Bambalio
also: Bambalio
The maternal grandfather of Antony's wife Fulvia, whose cognomen Bambalio (stammerer) derived from his hesitant speech. Cicero mocks him in Philippic 3 as a man of no account whatever.
Reading notes
- Third Philippic §16 Bambalio
M. Fulvius Bambalio, maternal grandfather of Antony's wife Fulvia, whose cognomen ("stammerer") came from his hesitant speech; Cicero turns Antony's mockery of low birth back on Antony's own connections.