A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

3. M.Fundanius, defended by Cicero, B. C. 65. The scanty fragments of the "Oratio pro M. Fundanio" do not enable us to understand either the nature of the charge or the result of the trial. (Cic. Fragm. ed. Orelli, p. 445.) Q. Cicero (de Petit. Cons. 5) says that Fundanius possessed great interest in the comitia and would be very serviceable to M. Cicero at his approaching consular election. Cicero held up to ridicule one of the witnesses for the prosecution on this trial, who could not enunciate properly the first letter in the name Fundanius. (Quintil. Instit. 1.4.14.) While proconsul of Asia Minor, B. C. 59, Q. Cicero favoured one C. Fundanius in his demands on the property of Octavius Naso; and as it is doubtful whether the nomen of this Fundanius were Marcus or Caius, it is not unlikely that Naso's creditor and the defendant, B. C. 65, were the same person. (Cic. ad Q. Frat. 1.3.10.)