Lucius Nonius Asprenas was a Roman politician and general who fought with Julius Caesar and was elected consul suffectus in 36 BC.
A novus homo of the late republic, and originally hailing from Picenum,[1] Asprenas was elected to the office of praetor by 47 BC.
[2] Although having no obvious connections or political ties to Julius Caesar[3] he held a proconsular command under Caesar in Africa during the civil war, holding the town of Thapsus with two legions in 46 BC.
[5] During the early years of the Second Triumvirate Asprenas was largely overlooked for military command, but eventually he was given a role in Caesar Octavianus’s war against Sextus Pompeius.
He also had a daughter, Nonia Polla, who married Lucius Volusius Saturninus.