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Furia (gens)
The ''gens Furia'', originally written ''Fusia'', was one of the most ancient and noble patrician houses at Rome. Its members held the highest offices of the state throughout the period of the Roman Republic. The first of the Furii to attain the consulship was Sextus Furius Medullinus in 488 BC.〔''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', William Smith, Editor.〕
==Origin of the gens==
The antiquity of the Furii is confirmed by the ancient form of the ''nomen'', ''Fusius'', found in the earliest days of the Republic. A similar process derived the ''nomina Papirius, Valerius'' and ''Veturius'' from ''Papisius, Valesius'' and ''Vetusius''. History leaves us in darkness as to the origin of the Furia ''gens''; but, from sepulchral inscriptions found at Tusculum, we see that the name Furius was very common at that place, and hence it is generally inferred that the Furia ''gens'', like the Fulvia, had come from Tusculum.〔〔George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in ''Harvard Studies in Classical Philology'', vol. VIII (1897).〕
As the first member of the ''gens'' that occurs in history, Sex. Furius Medullinus, BC 488, is only five years later than the treaty of isopolity which Spurius Cassius Viscellinus concluded with the Latins, to whom the Tusculans belonged, the supposition of the Tusculan origin of the Furia ''gens'' does not appear at all improbable. However, the ''cognomen Medullinus'', which belonged to the oldest branch of the ''gens'', may indicate that the family came from the ancient Latin city of Medullia, which was conquered by Ancus Marcius, the fourth King of Rome, toward the end of the 7th century BC.〔〔Titus Livius, ''Ab Urbe Condita'' i. 32, 33.〕
The ''nomen'' Furius is a patronymic surname derived from ''Fusus'', apparently an ancient ''praenomen'' that had fallen out of use before historical times. This name was preserved, however, as a ''cognomen'' used by many of the early Furii, including the families of the ''Medullini'' and the ''Pacili''. ''Cossus'', a surname of the ''gens Cornelia'', which they later revived as a ''praenomen'', may have had a similar origin.〔〔
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