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Gaius Popilius

C. Popilius

also: C. Popilio, Gaius Popilius

A Roman senator whom Cicero in the Verrines names, with C. Herennius, as condemned for embezzlement (peculatus) and proved to have taken money for a verdict. He is cited as an example of corrupt senatorial jurors.

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