Egnatuleius

• a quaestor who deserted with the legio Martia from Antony to Octavius, Cic. Phil. 3, 3, 7.

the name of a plebeian gens at Rome. The names of two only belonging to it have come down to us.

1. C. Egnatuleius, C. F., whose name is found upon a coin figured below. The obverse represents the head of Apollo with C. Egnatvlei. C. (F.), and the reverse Victory and a trophy, with Rom(A) beneath. The letter Q indicates that the coin was a Quinarius or half a Denarius. (Eckhel, Doctr. Num. vol.v. p. 205.)

2. L. Egnatuleius, was quaestor in the year B. C. 44, and commanded the fourth legion, which deserted from Antony to Octavianus. As a reward for his conduct on this occasion, Cicero proposed in the senate that he should be allowed to hold public offices three years before the legal time. (Cic. Phil. 3.3, 15, 4.2, 5.19.) [C.P.M]