Scaptia gens

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• Publius Scaptius, said to have been the arbiter chosen to decide the ownership of land disputed between the people of Aricia and Ardea, in 466 BC. As a Roman, Scaptius was expected to be neutral, but he decided that the land in question should belong to Rome. Niebuhr suggested that Scaptius be regarded as a figure of folklore, since the land in question was probably included in the original allotment of the Scaptian tribe.
• Marcus Scaptius, a negotiator, or money-lender, in Cilicia, whom Appius Claudius Pulcher had appointed prefect of Salamis, and placed in charge of a cavalry troop, which Scaptius used to enforce his claims. Cicero considered this a scandalous grant of authority to a private citizen, notwithstanding the recommendation of Brutus, and canceled the appointment on becoming governor of Cilicia.
• Marcus Scaptius, appointed military tribune of Cappadocia by Cicero during his government of Cilicia.
• Scaptia M. l. Hilara, a freedwoman, and the wife of the freedman Marcus Ceppuleius Bito, with whom she was buried at Verteneglio in Venetia and Histria, in a tomb built by their son, Marcus Ceppuleius Pudens, dating to the late first century BC or early first century AD.
• Scaptia M'. f. Paulla, the wife of Tiberius Terentianus, was buried at Ephesus in Asia, together with her son-in-law, Lucius Cusinius, in a tomb built by her daughter, Claudia Firmilla, some time in the first half of the first century AD.
• Lucius Scaptius Primus, dedicated a tomb dating to the reign of Nero at the present site of Tresigallo, formerly part of Venetia and Histria, to his wife, Gellia Urbana, and Gaius Trebius Anteros, a freedman.
• Manius Scaptius Q. f. Pius, buried at Ephesus, in a tomb dating to the latter half of the first century AD.
• Scaptia, dedicated a tomb at Rome to her daughter, Atticilla, aged twenty.
• Scaptia M. f., named in an inscription from Saturnia in Etruria.
• Gaius Scaptius C. f. Atticus, buried in a family sepulchre at Bonna in Germania Inferior.
• Gaius Scaptius Nucerinus, buried at Bonna.
• Statia Scaptia L. f. Phia, buried at Carthago Nova in Hispania Citerior.
• Scaptia Phyllis, buried at Bonna.
• Scaptia Prisca, buried at Bonna.