CALENUS, QUINTUS FUFIUS, Roman general. As tribune of the people in 61 B.C., he helped to secure the acquittal of Clodius when charged with having profaned the mysteries of Bona Dea (Cicero, Ad. Att. i. 16). In S9 Calenus was praetor, and brought forward a law that the senators, knights, and tribuni aerarii, who composed the iudices, should vote separately, so that it might be known how they gave their votes (Dio Cassius xxxviii. 8) . He fought in Gaul (51) and Spain (49) under Caesar ; in 48, when fetching reinforcements for Caesar in Epirus, most of his ships were captured by Bibulus and he himself barely escaped. In 47 he became consul. After Caesar's death he joined Antony, whose legions he afterwards commanded in the north of Italy. He died in 41, while preparing to march against Octavian.
See Caesar, B.G. viii. 39 ; B.C. i. 87, iii. 26 ; Cie. Philippic viii. 4.