praefectus classic in the reign of Claudius, brought the scar or char fish (scari) from the Carpathian sea, and scattered them along the coasts of Latium and Campania. For Elipertius Gelenius proposed to read e liberties ejus. (Plin. Nat. 9.17. s. 29.) Macrobius calls this Optatus, Octatvius. (Macrob. Saturn. 2.12.)