Tarpa, Sp. Maecius
was engaged by Pompeius to select the plays that were acted at his games exhibited in B. C. 55 (Cic. Fam. 7.1). Tarpa was likewise employed by Augustus as a dramatic censor. (Hor. Serm. 1.10. 38, Ars Poet. 386; Weichert, Poet. Lat. p. 334.)
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.