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Canidia (gens)
The ''gens Canidia'' was a Roman family of the late Republic. It is best known from a single individual, Publius Canidius Crassus, consul ''suffectus'' in 40 B.C., and the chief general of Marcus Antonius. ''Canidia'' was also a sobriquet bestowed upon Gratidia, a Neapolitan perfumer (according to Pomponius Porphyrion) who had deserted the poet Horace. He primarily describes her in his fifth and seventeenth epodes, and the eighth satire of his first book of Satires; she is mentioned in passing at Epode 5, Satire 2.1 and Satire 2.8. The ''Palinodia'' in the sixteenth ode of the first book may potentially refer to Canidia, though she is not specifically named.〔''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', William Smith, Editor.〕
==Origin of the gens==
The ''nomen Canidius'' may be derived from the Latin adjective ''canus'' or ''kanus'', meaning "white" or "grey", which could refer to the color of a person's hair. This was certainly the association that Horace intended; ''Gratidia'' conveyed the idea of what was pleasing and agreeable, while ''Canidia'' was associated with grey hairs and old age.〔''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', William Smith, Editor.〕
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