The Pupinia gens was an old patrician family, already existing in the days of Romulus, and probably included in the hundred gentes originally remembered by historian Tito Livio. According to illustrious scholar Theodor Mommsen, the antiquity of this family is derived from the fact that it was named after one of the old rustic tribes, the homonymous Pupinia tribe. Since the Gens Pupinia exponents of the plebeian class exist only in the historical period, Mommsen believes that the original patrician family had soon extinguished, leaving the name of his own Tribe, which became in 495 BC. one of the first 16 Rustic Tributes.
Historical information about the Pupin Tribe is rather scarce: we know that with the progressive expansion of Rome this tribe was conquered by various Italic and provincial territories, including the cities of Trebula in Sannio and Sassina in Umbria, Forobrentani in Etruria, Laus Pompeia in Lombardy.
Originally seems to inhabit the region northeast of Rome, as Tito Livio reports, according to which, during the Annibale invasion towards Rome, the Carthaginian leader from Gabii passed through the Pupinia region and placed the camp at 8 miles from Rome. Notemodify wikitesto Voices correlateemodify wikitesto
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