QUINTUS FUFIUS

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• QUINTUS FUFIUS CALENUS

CALENUS  , Roman general . As tribune of the people in 61 B.C., he was chiefly instrumental in securing the acquittal of the notorious Publius Clodius when charged with having profaned the mysteries of Bona Dea (Cicero, Ad . AU. is 16) . In 59 Calenus 'was praetor, and brought forward a law that the senators, knights, and tribuni aerarii, who composed the judices, should vote separately, so that it might be known how they gave their votes (Dio Cassius xxxviii . 8) . He fought in Gaul (51) and Spain (49) under Caesar, who, after he had crossed over to Greece (48), sent Calenus from Epirus to bring over the rest of the troops from Italy . On the passage to Italy, most of the ships were captured by Bibulus and Calenus himself escaped with difficulty . In 47 he was raised to the consulship through the influence of Caesar . After the death of the dictator, he joined Antony, whose legions he afterwards commanded in the north of Italy . He died in 41, while stationed with his army at the foot of the Alps, just as he was on the point of marching against Octavianus . Caesar, B.G. viii . 39; B.C. i .

87, iii . 26; Cie . Philippicae, viii . 4 .