person
Marcus Scaptius
Scaptius
also: Scaptio, Scaptius, M. Scaptius
Agent and courier of Brutus who appears in Cicero's letters as a messenger between Rome and Brutus's camp; probably the same Scaptius known from the Ad Atticum letters as Brutus's financial representative in Cyprus.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 15.13 §4 M. Scaptius has arrived
Marcus Scaptius, an agent and courier of Brutus; his secret visit to Servilia is Cicero's only thread of news about Brutus's movements.