Scaptia gens


The gens Scaptia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Few members of this gens are mentioned in history, but they gave their name to the Scaptian tribe, established in 332 BC.

Praenomina

The Scaptii used a variety of common praenomina, including Gaius, Marcus, Lucius, Publius, and Quintus, all of which were among the most common names throughout all periods of Roman history, as well as the more distinctive Manius, and at least one instance of Statia, an Oscan praenomen sometimes found among freedwomen at Rome, but in this case belonging to a woman in one of the Spanish provinces, who was evidently born free, perhaps descended from a Sabine or Samnite family that had settled in Spain.

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