person
Publius Scapula
P. Scapula
also: Scapulae
Creditor of Gaius Quinctius; on his death the debt to his children had to be settled by Publius Quinctius, the Scapula children handled by Aquilius's good offices.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 12.37 §2 The greatest throng is at Scapula's
The horti Scapulani were the gardens of the late P. Scapula, now held by his coheirs; their position made them the most public and so most desirable site for Cicero's shrine. Much of the 45 BC correspondence turns on prying them loose at auction.
- Ad Atticum 12.52 §2 either the Scapulan gardens or the Clodian
Two of the suburban pleasure-gardens (horti) across the Tiber that Cicero canvassed as the site for Tullia's shrine: those of the estate of the dead P. Scapula (held jointly by coheirs) and those of Clodia. He pressed Atticus to secure one or the other.
- Ad Atticum 13.12 §4 About the Scapulan gardens
The horti (suburban pleasure-grounds) of the late P. Scapula near Rome, then coming up for sale among his heirs. They were Cicero's leading candidate for the site of the shrine to Tullia he was trying to buy.
- Ad Familiares 9.13 §1 the war that was stirred up by Scapula and was afterwards so consolidated by Pompeius
After Caesar's governors alienated the Spanish provinces, the soldier P. Scapula (with Q. Aponius) raised a fresh revolt in Further Spain in 46 BC; Pompey's elder son Cn. Pompeius then took command, building it into the major war that Caesar crushed at Munda in March 45 BC. The 'Pompeius' here is the son, not the father killed in 48.