Scaevola or Scævola (
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power ...
for "Lefty") may refer to:
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Gaius Mucius Scaevola, a legendary assassin said to have burnt his right hand away as a show of determination during the early years of the Roman Republic
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Muciii Scaevolae, a family in the Roman Republic
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Quintus Cervidius Scaevola
Quintus Cervidius Scaevola (fl. 2nd century AD) was a Roman jurist of the equestrian order. Both the ''Historia Augusta'Historia Augusta'', "Marcus Antoninus Philosophus"11.10/ref> and the '' Tabula Banasitana'' attest that Scaevola was a member ...
, a Roman jurist
* Scaevola, a 1958 nuclear test undertaken by the United States as part of
Operation Hardtack I
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''Scaevola'', the genus of fan-flowers
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''Scaevola'', a genus of extinct gastropods
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