L. Cantilius
a scribe or secretary of one of the pontiffs, committed incest with a Vestal virgin in the second Punic war, B. C. 216, and was flogged to death in the comitium by the pontifex maximus. (Liv. 22.57.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.