According to Appian (Num. 3), Turpilius was a Roman. Could Mommsen's text of Sall. Iug. 69.4 (Nam is civis ex Latio erat), if correct, mean that he was a Roman citizen of Latin origin ? See Reid, JRS 1 (1911) 77-83, and Sherwin-White, Rom. Citizenship 127f., on the status of Turpilius; and on the date of the massacre at Vaga, Carcopino, RH 158 (1928) 17f. (Broughton MRR I)
Commander and sole survivor of the troops at Vaga, and so was convicted of treason and put to death (Sall. Iug. 68-69; Plut. Mar. 8.1-2; App. Num. 3). (Broughton MRR I)
Praef. soc.? 109. Plutarch (Mar. 8.1-2; see MRR 1.547) refers to him as a praefectus fabrum (#).
(Broughton MRR III)