Gnaeus Tremellius Scrofa, an important Roman agronomist and author of the Augustan period, whose writings have not survived, but are known to us from scant passages in the De re rustica of
Columella; he appears as a character in the similarly titled work by
Varro.
An unusual etiological tale is told in Macrobius
(Sat. I.6.30) of the origin of the family
cognomenScrofa (sow).