The earliest clear and contemporary evidence for the praenomen comes from coins of Agrippa, struck in Gaul in 38 B.C., BMC, R. […] Agrippae pater ne post Agrippam quidem notus. ’ Agrippa was the same age to within a year as Octavianus, and is said to have been his schoolfellow (Nicolaus, Vita Caesaris 7, 16). […] Agrippa himself preferred to drop it (Seneca, Controv. 2, 4, 13). […] The men of action in the party like Salvidienus and Agrippa, the earliest of the great marshals, occupy the stage of history, crowding out the obscurer partisans and secret contributors. […] Only two names can be recovered, Agrippa and Maecenas. 9 NotesPage=>131 1 Phil. 2, 93, &c.