I.the name of a Roman gens.
1. Cn. Pupius, Cic. Fam. 13, 9, 3.—
2. L. Pupius, a centurion of the primipili, a Pompeian, Caes. B. C. 1, 13.—
3. Pupius, a tragic poet, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 67.—Hence,
II. Pū-pĭus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Pupius, Pupian: “lex,” of the people's tribune Pupius, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11 (13), 3; id. Fam. 1, 4, 1.