Scantinius
3. SCANTINIUS, a tribune, but in what year is unknown, proposed a law to suppress unnatural crimes. Some persons suppose that this law derived its name from Scantinius Capitolinus spoken of above [No. 1]; but such a way of naming a lex would be contrary to Roman usage, though it is a curious coincidence that the person condemned on account of this crime should bear the same name as the lex. It was under this lex that M. Caelius Rufus brought an accusation against App. Claudius the censor (Cael. ad Fam. 8.12, 14). This lex is mentioned by other writers. (Juv. 2.44; Suet. Dom. 8; Auson. Epigr. 88; Tertullian. de Monogam. 12.)
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