L. Carpinatius
the pro-magister or deputy-manager of the company of publicani, who farmed the scriptura (see Dict. of Ant. s. v.) in Sicily during the government of Verres, with whom he was very intimate. He is called by Cicero a second Timarchides, who was one of the chief agents of Verres in his robberies and oppressions. (Cic. Ver. 70, 76, 3.71.)
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.