Vespillo
the name of a family of the Lucretia gens.
1.
Lucretius Vespillo, aedile B. C. 133, is said to have thrown the corpse of Tib. Gracchus into the Tiber and thus to have obtained the surname of
Vespillo. (Aurel. Vict.
de Vir. Ill. 64; respecting the
Vespillones, see
Dict. of Antiq. p. 559a, 2d ed.)