Scantia gens

The gens Scantia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Few members of this gens occur in history, and none of them attained any of the higher offices of the Roman state, but a number are known from inscriptions.[1]

Origin

All that can be said with certainty about the nomen Scantius is that it seems to share a common root with several other nomina, such as Scandilius, Scantilius, and Scantinius, which were either formed directly from it using the common gentile-forming suffixes -ilius and -inius, or from related cognomina, such as Scandillus, Scantillus, or Scantinus, of which only the feminine Scantilla is known from history or inscriptions; the wife of Didius Julianus was Manlia Scantilla.[2][3][4]

Members

See also

Footnotes

  1. Cantius in some manuscripts.

References

  1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 734 ("Scantia", "Scantius").
  2. Chase, pp. 122–126.
  3. Aelius Spartianus, "The Life of Didius Julianus", 3.
  4. CIL VI, 22831 ("Naevia Scantilla"), CIL XIII, 5567 ("Scantilla, daughter of Senilis").
  5. Livy, x. 46.
  6. Broughton, vol. I, pp. 180, 181.
  7. Varro, Saturarum Menippearum, fragment 142, p. 275 (ed. Bipontina).
  8. Cicero, Pro Milone, 27.
  9. Tacitus, Annales, iv. 16.

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