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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Hebe (search)
ake persons of an advanced age young again. (Ov. Met. 9.400, &c.) She was worshipped at Athens, where she had an altar in the Cynosarges, near one of Heracles. (Paus. 1.19.3.) Under the name of the female Ganymedes (Ganymeda) or Dia, she was worshipped in a sacred grove at Sicyon and Phlius. (Paus. 2.13.3; Strab. viii. p.382.) At Rome the goddess was worshipped under the corresponding name of Juventas, and that at a very early time, for her chapel on the Capitol existed before the temple of Jupiter was built there; and she, as well as Terminus, is said to have opposed the consecration of the temple of Jupiter. (Liv. 5.54.) Another temple of Juventas, in the Circus Maximus, was vowed by the consul M. Livius, after the defeat of Hasdrubal, in B. C. 207, and was consecrated 16 years afterwards. (Liv. 36.36 ; comp. 21.62; Dionys. A. R. 4.15, where a temple of Juventas is mentioned as early as the reign of Servius Tullius; August. de Civ. Dei, 4.23; Plin. Nat. 29.4, 14, 35.36, 22.) [L.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Hosti'lius Cato 1. A. Hostilius Cato, was praetor in B. C. 207 (Liv. 27.35, 36), and obtained Sardinia for his province. (28.10.) In 201, after the evacuation of Italy by the Carthaginians, the senate named Hostilius one of ten commissioners for re-apportioning the demesne lands of Rome in Samnium and Apulia (31.4). In 190 he was legatus of L. Scipio Asiaticus, and was involved with him in the charge of taking bribes from Antiochus the Great. Hostilius in B. C. 187 was convicted of receiving for his own share from the king of Syria 40 pounds of gold and 403 of silver. He gave sureties for his appearance; but since Scipio, a greater defaulter, eluded punishment, Hostilius probably escaped also. (38.55, 58.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Hosti'lius Cato 2. C. Hostilius Cato, brother of the preceding, and his colleague in the praetorship B. C. 207. After several changes in his appointment, the senate at length directed Hostilius to combine in his own person the offices of praetor urbanus and praetor peregrinus, in order that the other praetors of the year might take the field against Hannibal (Liv. 27.35, 36.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lentulus (search)
Lentulus 27. SERV. CORNELIUS LENTULUS, curule aedile in B. C. 207; military tribune in Spain, two years after (Liv. 28.10, 29.2).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Li'cinus, Po'rcius 1. L. Porcius Licinus, lived in the second Punic war. He'is first mentioned in B. C. 211, when he served with distinction as legate in the army that was besieging Capua. In the following year (B. C. 210) he was plebeian aedile, and with his colleague, Q. Catius, celebrated the public games with great splendour. He was praetor in B. C. 207, and obtained Cisalpine Gaul as his province. In co-operation with the consuls of the year, C. Claudius Nero and M. Livius Salinator, he had a share ill the glory of the defeat of Hasdrubal, the brother of Hannibal, at the battle of the Metaurus, in Umbria. (Liv. 26.6, 27.6, 35, 36, 39, 46-48.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Macha'nidas (search)
l, unscrupnlous in the choice of its instruments--employed him as an active and able ally. Machanidas reverenced the religious prejudices of Greece as little as the political rights of his own subjects. Towards the close of the Aetolian war, in B. C. 207, while the Grecian states were negotiating the terms of peace, and the Eleians were making preparations for the next Olympic festival, Machanidas projected an inroad into the sacred territory of Elis. The design was frustrated by the timely arrival of the king of Macedon in the Peloponnesus, and Machanidas withdrew precipitately to Sparta. But the project marks both the man and the era--an era equally void of personal, national, and ancestral faith. At length, in B. C. 207, after eight months' careful preparation, Philopoemen, captain-general of the cavalry of the Achaean league, delivered Greece from Machanidas. The Achaean and Lacedaemonian armies met between Mantineia and Tegea. The Tarentine mercenaries of Machanidas routed and c
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mami'lius (search)
Mami'lius 3. C. Mamilius, plebeian aedile, B. C. 207. (Liv. 27.36.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ma'ximus, Fa'bius 5. Q. Fabius Maximus, Q. F. Q. N., elder son of the preceding, was curule aedile in B. C. 215, and praetor in 214. He was stationed in Apulia (Liv. 24.9, 11, 12), in the neighbourhood of Luceria ib. 12, 20), and co-operated ably with the other commanders in the second Punic war. (Cic. pro Rab. Post. 1.) He was consul in B. C. 213, when Apulia was again his province (Liv. 24.45, 46). His father in this year served under him as legatus at Suessula. (Liv. 24.43, 44; Plut. Fab. 24.) The younger Fabius was legatus to the consul M. Livius Salinator B. C. 207. (Liv. 28.9.) He died soon after this period, and his funeral oration was pronounced by his father. (Cic. de Nat. Deor. 3.32, Tuscul. 3.28, De Sen. 4, ad Fam. 4.6.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus (search)
Metellus 2. Q. Caecilus Metellus, L. F. L. N., son of the preceding, is enumerated by Cicero in his list of Roman orators (Brut. 14, 19), and his oration at his father's funeral has been spoken of above. (Comp. Plin. Nat. 7.43. s. 45.) He was elected one of the pontifices in B. C. 216, plebeian aedile in B. C. 209, and curule aedile in B. C. 208 (Liv. 23.2], 27.21, 36). In B. C. 207 he served in the army of the consul Claudius Nero, and was one of the legates sent to Rome to convey the joyful news of the defeat and death of Hasdrubal; and it was mainly in consequence of his services in this war that he owed his elevation to the consulship in the following year. On his return to Rome he was appointed magister equitum to M. Livius Salinator, who was nominated dictator for the purpose of holding the comitia, and it was at these comitia (B. C. 206) that he was elected consul with L. Veturius Philo, who had served with him in the campaign against Hasdrubal (Liv. 27.51, 28.9, 10 ; Cic. Bru
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nabis (search)
Nabis *Na/bis, (succeeded in making himself tyrant of Lacedaemon on the death of Machanidas, B. C. 207. To obviate the inconvenience of having a rival at any future time, he had Pelops, son of the king Lycurgus, who was still quite young, assassinated. To secure himself still further, he carried the licence of tyranny to the furthest possible extent; put to death or banished all the wealthiest and most eminent citizens, and even pursued them in exile, sometimes causing them to be murdered on their road; at other times, when they had reached some friendly city, getting persons not likely to be suspected to hire houses next to those in which the exiles had taken up their abode, and then sending his emissaries to break through the party-walls, and assassinate them in their own houses. All persons possessed of property who remained at Sparta were subjected to incessant exactions, and the most cruel tortures if they did not succeed in satisfying his rapacity. One of his engines of torture
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