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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Phrasaortes (search)
Phrasaortes （*Frasao/rths), son of Rheomithres, a Persian, who was appointed by Alexander the Great satrap of the province of Persia Proper, B. C. 331. He died during the expedition of the king to India. (Arr. Anab. 3.18, 6.29.) [E.H.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Phratapiiernes (search)
Phratapiiernes （*Fratafe/rnhs). 1. A Persian who held the government of Parthia and Hyrcania, under Dareius Codomannus, and joined that monarch with the contingents from the provinces subject to his rule, shortly before the battle of Arbela, B. C. 331. He afterwards accompanied the king on his flight into Hyrcania, but, after the death of Dareius, surrendered voluntarily to Alexander, by whom he was kindly received, and appears to have been shortly after reinstated in his of Parthia, during the advance of Alexander against Bessus, when he was detached by the king, together with Erigyius and Caranus to crush the revolt of Satibarzanes, in Asia. He rejoined the king at Zariaspa, the following year. The next winter (B. C. 328-327), during the stay of Alexander at Nautaca, we find Phrataphernes again despatched to reduce the disobedient satrap of the Mardi and Tapui, Autophradates, a service which he successfully performed, and brought the rebel a captive to the kiln, by whom he was s
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Po'lemon (search)
Po'lemon 2. Son of Megacles, a Macedonian of Pella, who was one of the officers appointed by Alexander to command the garrison at Memphis, B. C. 331. (Arr. Anab. 3.5.4.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Po'lemon (search)
Po'lemon 3. Son of Theramees, a Macedonian officer, who was left by Alexander in the command of a fleet of thirty triremes which was destined to guard the mouths of the Nile, and the sea-coast of Egypt, B. C. 331. (Arr. Anab. 3.5.6; Curt. 4.8.4.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Poti'tus, Vale'rius 7. C. Valerius Potitus Flaccus, probably son or grandson of No. 6, was consul B. C. 331, with M. Claudius Marcellus. Livy says, that in some annals Valerius appeared with the cognomen of Potitus, and in others with that of Flaccus (Liv. 8.18). Orosius, who mentions Valerius (3.10), calls him simply Valerius Flaccus, without the cognomen of Potitus. It is probable that he was the first of the family who assumed the surname of Flaccus, and that his descendants dropped the name of Potitus. If this supposition is correct, the Flacci, who became afterwards a distinguished family of the Valeria gens, would be sprung from this Valerius Potitus. [FLACCUS, VALERIUS.]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Poti'tus, Vale'rius 8. L. Valerius Potitus, probably a brother of No. 7, was magister equitum in B. C. 331, to the dictator Cn. Quintilius Varus. (Liv. 8.18.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Quinti'lia (search)
ntilii, just as those of his brother Remus were named Fabii. The Luperci, who were among the most ancient priests of Rome, were divided into two classes, one called Quintilii or Quintiliani, and the other Fabii or Fabiani. (Festus, s. vv. Quinctiliani Luperci, and Fabiani ; Ovid. Fast. 2.378). Hence it has been conjectured with much probability that this priesthood was originally confined to these gentes. (Comp. Dict. of Ant. s. v. Luperci. )But although the gens was so ancient, it never attained any historical importance, and its name is best known from the nnfortunate Quintilius Varus, who was destroyed with his whole army by the Germans in the reign of Augustus. The Quintilii obtained only one consulship and one dictatorship during the whole of the republican period, the former in B. C. 453, and the latter in B. C. 331. During the republic VARUS is the only family-name that occurs in the gens; but in the times of the empire we find one or two other cognomens, which are given below.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Se'rgia (search)
Se'rgia 1. One of the noble women at Rome who were accused of poisoning the leading men of the state in B. C. 331. The details and authorities are given under CORNELIA, No. 1.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), So'polis (search)
So'polis （*Sw/polis), son of Hermodorus, commanded the Amphipolitan cavalry in the army of Alexander the Great, in the battle against the Triballians on the banks of the river Lyginus, B. C. 335. He is mentioned again as commanding a troop of horse, probably the contingent from Amphipolis, at the battle of Arbela in B. C. 331; and we may perhaps identify him with the father of Hermolaus, the youthful conspirator against Alexander's life [HERMOLAUS]. (Arr. Anab. 1.2, 3.11, 4.13; Curt. 8.7.) [E.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Stateira (search)
Stateira 2. The sister and wife of Dareius Codomannus, celebrated as the most beautiful woman of her time. She accompanied her husband on his march to the battle of Issus (B. C. 333), and was taken prisoner, together with her mother-in-law Sisygambis and her daughters, after that battle. They were all treated with the utmost respect and courtesy by the generous conqueror, but Stateira died shortly before the battle of Arbela, B. C. 331. She was honoured by Alexander with a splendid funeral, and he sent a special envoy to apprise Dareius of her fate. (Curt. 3.3.22, 11.24-26, 12. §§ 11,15,22, 4.10. §§ 18-34; Arrian. Anab. 2.11, 12, 4.19, 20; Plut. Alex. 21, 30 ; Just. 11.9,
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