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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
7, ad Q. Fr. 2.2, 3, pro Rabir. 2, 3, pro Cael. 10; Porphyr. apud Euseb. Arm. pp. 117, 118 ; Plut. Pomp. 49.) Some years afterwards, however, he obtained from private individuals what he had failed in inducing the senate to accomplish: and in B. C. 55 A. Gabinius, who was proconsul in Syria, was induced, by the influence of Pompey, aided by the enormous bribe of ten thousand talents from Ptolemy himself, to undertake his restoration. The Alexandrians had in the meantime placed on the throne o of the general of Mithridates [ARCHELAUS No. 2] ; and they opposed Gabinius with an army on the confines of the kingdom. They were, however, defeated in three successive battles, Archelaus slain, and Ptolemy once more established on the throne, B. C. 55. One of his first acts was to put to death his daughter Berenice, and many of the leading citizens of Alexandria. (D. C. 39.55-58; Liv. Epit. cv.; Plut. Ant. 3; Strab. xvii. p.796; Cic. in Pison. 21, pro Rabir. Post. 8 ; Porphyr. l.c.） He surv
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
n, Gellius had a narrow escape of his life. In consequence of the personal danger he had previously incurred, he was one of the warmest supporters of Cicero in his suppression of the second conspiracy, and accordingly proposed that Cicero should be rewarded with a civic crown. From this time he appears as a steady friend of Cicero and the aristocratical party. In B. C. 59 he opposed the agrarian law of Caesar, and in B. C. 57 he spoke in favour of Cicero's recall from exile. He was alive in B. C. 55, when Cicero delivered his speech against Piso, but probably died soon afterwards. He was married twice. (Appian, App. BC 1.117; Plut. Crass. 9; Oros. 5.24; Flor. 3.20.10; Eutrop. 6.7; Liv. Epit. 96, 98; Plut. Pomp. 22; Cic. Clu. 42; Ascon. in Tog. Cand. p. 84, ed. Orelli; Appian, App. Mith. 95; Flor. 3.6.8; Cic. post Red. ad Quir. 7; Gel. 5.6 ; Cic. Att. 12.21; Plut. Cic. 26; Cic. in Pis. 3; V. Max. 5.9.1.) Orelli, in his Onomasticon Tullianum (vol. ii. p. 269), makes the L. Gellius, the c
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
son. He was rewarded for his services by the praetorship, which he held in B. C. 48. But various causes had already alienated the mind of Caelius from his new patron, and these at length led him to engage in desperate enterprises which ended in his ruin and death. He was mortified that Caesar had entrusted the honourable duties of the city praetorship to C. Trebonius rather than to himself, a distinction, however, to which Trebonius had much greater claims, as he had in his tribuneship in B. C. 55 proposed the law for prolonging the proconsular government of Caesar. But his chief dissatisfaction with the existing state of things arose from his enormous debts. It seems that he had looked forward to a proscription for the payment of his creditors; but as Caesar's generous conduct towards his opponents deprived him of this resource, he saw no remedy for his ruined fortunes but a general commotion. Accordingly, when Trehonius was, in the exercise of his judicial duties, carrying into exe
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Tarpa, Sp. Mae'cius was engaged by Pompeius to select the plays that were acted at his games exhibited in B. C. 55 (Cic. Fam. 7.1). Tarpa was likewise employed by Augustus as a dramatic censor. (Hor. Serm. 1.10. 38, Ars Poet. 386; Weichert, Poet. Lat. p. 334.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tima'genes (search)
Tima'genes （*Timage/nhs). Three persons of this name are mentioned by Suidas. Tima'genes 1. Timagenes, the rhetorician (r(h/twr), of Alexandria, the son of the king's banker, was taken prisoner by Gabinius (B. C. 55), and brought to Rome, where he was redeemed from captivity by Faustus, the son of Sulla. He taught rhetoric at Rome in the time of Pompey, and afterwards under Augustus, but losing his school on account of his freedom of speech, he retired to an estate at Tusculum. He died at Dabanum, a town of Osrhoene in Mesopotamia. Works He wrote many books, the titles of which are not given by Suidas. Tima'genes 2. Timagenes, the historian. Works Periplus of the Whole Sea He wrote a Periplus of the whole sea, in five books. Tima'genes 3. Timagenes or Timogenes, of Miletus, an historian or an orator, wrote on the Pontic Heracleia and its distinguished men, in five books, and likewise epistles. Tima'genes 4. Timagenes, the Syrian. Works History of the Gauls Tim
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tima'genes (search)
Tima'genes 1. Timagenes, the rhetorician (r(h/twr), of Alexandria, the son of the king's banker, was taken prisoner by Gabinius (B. C. 55), and brought to Rome, where he was redeemed from captivity by Faustus, the son of Sulla. He taught rhetoric at Rome in the time of Pompey, and afterwards under Augustus, but losing his school on account of his freedom of speech, he retired to an estate at Tusculum. He died at Dabanum, a town of Osrhoene in Mesopotamia. Works He wrote many books, the titles of which are not given by Suidas.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Trebo'nius (search)
Trebo'nius 11. C. Trebonius, played rather a prominent part in the last days of the republic. He commenced public life as a supporter of the aristocratical party, and in his quaestorship (B. C. 60) he attempted to prevent the adoption of P. Clodius into a plebeian family, contrary to the wish of the triumvirs. (Cic. Fam. 15.21.) He changed sides, however, soon afterwards, and in his tribunate of the plebs (B. C. 55) he was the instrument of the triumvirs in proposing that Pompey should have the two Spains, Crassus Syria, and Caesar the Gauls and Illyricum for another period of five years. This proposal received the approbation of the comitia, and is known by the name of the Lex Trebonia. (D. C. 39.33; Cic. Att. 4.8. b. § 2.) For this service he was rewarded by being appointed one of Caesar's legates in Gaul, where he remained till the breaking out of the civil war in B. C. 49. In the course of the same year he was intrusted by Caesar with the command of the land forces engaged in the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Va'tia or Va'tia Isauricus (search)
63 he was a candidate for the dignity of pontifex maximus, but was defeated by Julius Caesar, who had served under him in the war against the pirates; in the same year he assisted Cicero in the suppression of the Catilinarian conspiracy, and spoke in the senate in favour of inflicting the last penalty of the law upon the conspirators; in B. C. 57 he joined the other nobles in procuring Cicero's recall from banishment ; in B. C. 56 he opposed the restoration of Ptolemy to his kingdom; and in B. C. 55 he was censor with M. Valerius Messala Niger. The other occasions on which his name occurs do not require notice. He took no part in the civil wars, probably on account of his advanced age, and died in B. C. 44, the same year as Caesar. By the Leges Annales, which were strictly enforced by Sulla, Servilius must have been at the least 43 years of age at his consulship, B. C. 79, and must therefore have been about 80 at the time of his death. The respect in which he was held by his contempora
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Vati'nius (search)
e this year were attended with the most serious riots. The aristocracy strained every nerve to prevent the election of Pompey and Crassus to the consulship ; and so great were the tumults that it was not till the beginning of the following year (B. C. 55) that the elections took place, and Pompey and Crassus were declared consuls. [Vol. III. p. 486a.] Not succeeding in securing the consulship for their own party, the aristocracy brought forward M. Cato as a candidate for the praetorship; but Pomight be prosecuted for bribery. Having thus removed one obstacle, they employed their money most freely, and by bribery as well as by force defeated Cato and carried the election of Vatinius. (Plut. Cat. 42, Pomp. 52.) During his year of office (B. C. 55) Vatinius was safe from prosecution ; but in the following year (B. C. 54) he was accused of bribery by C. Licinius Calvus. It appears, though the matter is involved in some obscurity, that Licinius had accused Vatinius twice before, once in B.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ccepted as a tradition, without being accepted as a truth. The poet Horace, afterwards one of his friends, was born B. C. 65; and Octavianus Caesar, afterwards the emperor Augustus, and his patron, in B. C. 63, in the consulship of M. Tullius Cicero. Virgil's father probably had a small estate which he cultivated : his mother's name was Maia. The son was educated at Cremona and Mediolanum (Milan), and he took the toga virilis at Cremona on the day on which he commenced his sixteenth year in B. C. 55, which was the second consulship of Cn. Pompeius Magnus and M. Licinius Crassus. On the same day, according to Donatus, the poet Lucretius died, in his forty-first year. It is said that Virgil subsequently studied at Neapolis (Naples) under Parthenius, a native of Bithynia, from whom he learned Greek (Macr. 5.17); and the minute industry of the grammarians has pointed out the following line (Georg. 1.437) as borrowed from his master : Glauco et Panopeae et Inoo Melicertae. (Compare Gell
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