What is "vopiscus"

Vopiscus is a Latin praenomen, or personal name, which was occasionally used during the period of the Roman Republic, and later as a cognomen, surviving into imperial times. The feminine form is Vopisca. The name was not usually abbreviated, but is sometimes found with the abbreviation Vop.

The praenomen Vopiscus was always rare, but it was familiar to the scholar Marcus Terentius Varro, who described it as an antique name, no longer in general use by the 1st century BC. The only family known to have used it was gens Julia, but as with other uncommon praenomina, it may have been more common amongst the plebeians and in the countryside. The name was later used as a cognomen, becoming more frequent in imperial times. Vopiscus may once have been a praenomen in families that later used it as a cognomen, such as the Flavii and the Pompeii.

Vopiscus is a Latin praenomen that was later used as a cognomen. It may refer to:

• Vopiscus Julius Iulus, consul in 473 BC - see List of Roman consuls
• Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus (c. 130 — 87 BC), an orator and tragedian
• Marcus Manilius Vopiscus, consul suffectus in AD 60 - see List of Roman consuls
• Lucius Pompeius Vopiscus, consul suffectus in AD 69 - see List of Roman consuls
• Publius Manilius Vopiscus Vicinillianus, consul in AD 114 - see List of Roman consuls
• Flavius Vopiscus (fourth century), one of the authors of the Historia Augusta