SCHOLA QUAESTORUM ET CAPLATORUM
mentioned only in Not. in
Region
III, between the lacus Pastorum and the thermae Titianae. The interpretation of this name is uncertain. Caplatores (capulatores) were workmen
engaged in the pressing of olive oil, and there is epigraphical evidence
for the existence of collegia of caplatores in several Latin and Campanian
towns (
CIL x. 5917;
ix. 665, 2336;
xiv. 3677;
DE ii. 104). In the
first of these inscriptions a quaestor collegi caplatorum is mentioned, and
this may cast some light on the title of the Notitia (Pr. Reg. 126; HJ 319;
HCh 316-318). The trivium or contrada cambiatoris, a mediaeval
district near the Colosseum and the basilica of Constantine, may preserve
the latter name.
