Optatus Elipirtius
praefectus classic in the reign of Claudius, brought the scar or char fish (scari) from the Carpathian sea, and scattered them along the coasts of Latium and Campania. For Elipertius Gelenius proposed to read e liberties ejus. (Plin. Nat. 9.17. s. 29.) Macrobius calls this Optatus, Octatvius. (Macrob. Saturn. 2.12.)
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.