title: Scutaria gens
text: # Scutaria gens
  
  The gens Scutaria was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Few members of this gens are mentioned in history, but others are known from inscriptions.
  
  ## Origin
  
  The nomen Scutarius belongs to a class of gentilicia derived from occupations; a scutarius was a shield-maker. The family seems to have come from Venusia in Apulia, originally a Samnite town, captured during the Third Samnite War. A Roman colony was established there in 291 BC.
  
  ## Praenomina
  
  The only praenomina found in the inscriptions of the Scutarii are Lucius and Sextus, both of which were common throughout all periods of Roman history.
  
  ## Members
  
      This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
  * Scutaria, named in a late second- or early third-century inscription from Aleria in Corsica.
  * Scutarius, named in an inscription from Anicium in Gallia Aquitania.
  * Lucius Scutarius, quaestor at Venusia in Apulia in 32 BC, and one of the duumviri in the following year.
  * Sextus Scutarius Aethrius, built a tomb for himself and his family at Rome.
  * Lucius Scutarius Andrea, dedicated an early first-century tomb at Venusia to the freedman Marcus Turellius Diomedes.
  * Scutaria L. l. Epistolio, a freedwoman buried at Allifae in Campania.
  * Sextus Scutarius Successus, named in a funerary inscription from Pisae in Etruria.
  