the name of a family of the Horatia gens. Barbatus was also a surname of P. Cornelius Scipio, consul in B. C. 328 [SCIPIO], of the Quinctii Capitolini [CAPITOLINUS], and of M. Valerius Messalla, consul in B. C. 12. [MESSALLA.]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890