Gaia Afrania

Gaia (or Caia) Afrania (fl. 1st century BC) was the wife of the senator Licinius Buccio, and a very litigious woman.[1] She always pleaded her own causes before the praetor, and thus gave occasion to the publishing of the edict which forbade all women to postulate. Afrania died in 48 BC.[2][3]

See also

Afrania (gens)

References

  1. ^ Smith, William (1870), "Afrania, Gaia", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, pp. 54–55, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0063.html 
  2. ^ Valerius Maximus, viii. 3. § 1
  3. ^ Dig. 3. tit. 1. s. 1. § 5

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).