Gnaeus Genucius Augurinus (died 396 BC) came from the ancient plebeian gens Genucia and was a high magistrate of the early Roman Republic.
[2] According to the opinion of the historian Frederick Münzer, who here follows Theodor Mommsen, the editor of the Fasti Capitolini forged the cognomen Augurinus, which was not mentioned by Livy, since it could only have been added to representatives of the Genucii after one of them, Gaius Genucius, had been among the first plebeian augurs in 300 BC.
[3] Together with his colleague Lucius Titinius Pansa Saccus, he is said to have gone to war as commander-in-chief of a Roman army against the Falisci and Capenates.
Due to their rashness, the two high military leaders were ambushed, and in the ensuing battle Genucius, who was fighting in the front ranks, was killed.
Genucius could be identical to the homonym mistakenly referred to as tribune by Gaius Gracchus in a speech to the people.