Scaurus
signified a person who had a defect in his ankles or feet (Scaurum, pravis fultum maic talis, Hor. Sat. 1.3. 47), and was used, like many other words of a similar kind, as a cognomen in several Roman gentes.
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.