A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

plebeian, first came into notice in the middle of the third century B. C. ; but though one of its members obtained the consulship (B. C. 243), the Fundanii never attained much importance in the state. FUNDULUS is the only cognomen that occurs in this gens. [W.B.D]

It is uncertain to whom the two following coins of this gens, both of which bear the name C. Fundanius, are to be referred. The first has on the obverse the head of Jupiter, and on the reverse Victory placing a crown upon a trophy, with a captive kneeling by the side: the second has on the obverse the head of Pallas, and on the reverse Jupiter in a quadriga, the horses of which are driven by a person sitting upon one of them; the Q at the too indicates that the coin was a Quinarius.