Roman family name (also Offellius, Offillius etc.), probably from the Oscan praenomen Of(f)ellus, which also appears as a cognomen (a landowner in Venusia: Hor. Sat. 2,2,2f.; 53f.; 112ff.).
Tribunus militum in 36 BC, mocked rewards handed out by Octavian (Augustus) as paltry, whereupon according to Appian he vanish…
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Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum),
Fündling, Jörg (Bonn),
Eck, Werner (Cologne) and
Hurschmann, Rolf (Hamburg),
“Ofellius”, in:
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