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Tadius

1. Appears to have held some property, which was said to belong to a girl who was in legitima tatela. Atticus thought that Tadius had a title to it by usucapion, at which Cicero expressed his surprise, as there could be no usucapion in case of a ward. (Cic. ad att. 1.5, 8.)

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.