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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
M. Rae'cius 1. Was sent as ambassador into Gaul, with Sex. Antistius, in B. C. 208, to make inquiries respecting the apprehended march of Hasdrubal into Italy. (Liv. 27.36.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
en absent nearly eight years. He had, however, neither forgotten nor forgiven his unjust sentence; he returned to the city in a manner which showed that his disgrace still rankled in his breast; his garments were mean, and his hair and beard long and uncombed; but the censors compelled him to lay aside his squedor, and resume his seat in the senate. Even then he would not speak, and He remained silent for two years, till the attacks made upon his kinsman, M. Livius Macatus, induced him, in B. C. 208, to open his lips in his defence. In the same year the exigencies of the republic led to his election to the consulship for the following year, B. C. 207, with C. Claudius Nero. The apprehended invasion of Northern Italy by Hasdrubal, made it more necessary than ever to have generals of experience at the head of the Roman legions. One of the consuls was obliged to be a plebeian; and the deaths of Gracchus, Flaminus, and Marcellus, left Livius almost the only plebeian general to whom the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Scerdilaidas (search)
e very name of a Roman fleet struck such a terror into Philip that he abandoned the Adriatic, and retired, with his whole fleet, to Cephallenia (Plb. 5.3, 95, 101, 108, 110). But during the following years his Roman allies were able to give little assistance to the Illyrian king, and Philip wrested from him the important fortress of Lissus, as well as a considerable part of his dominions. In B. C. 211 Scerdilaiidas joined the alliance of the Aetolians with the Romans, but his part in the war which followed appears to have been confined to threatening and infesting the Macedonian frontiers by occasional predatory incursions (Liv. 26.24, 27.30, 28.5; Plb. 10.41). It would appear that he must have died before the peace of 204, as his name, which is coupled with that of his son Pleuratus, during the negotiations in B. C. 208, does not appear in the treaty concluded by P. Sempronius with the Macedonian king (see Liv. 27.30, 29.12). He left a son, PLEURATUS, who succeeded him on the throne.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sci'pio Africanus (search)
e with him his treasures and elephants in safety, and to retire unmolested into northern Spain. Here he collected fresh troops, with which he eventually crossed the Pyrenees, and marched into Italy to the assistance of his brother Hannibal; while the other Carthaginian generals, Hasdrubal, the son of Gisco, and Mago, advanced against Scipio, and prevented him from pursuing their colleague. Scipio therefore remained in southern Spain during the remainder of that year. In the following year, B. C. 208, the propraetor Silanus defeated Mago in Celtiberia [MAGO, p. 903], whereupon the latter marched into the south of the country and joined Hasdrubal, son of Gisco, in Baetica. Scipio advanced against them; but as the Carthaginian generals would not risk a battle, and distributed their army in the fortified towns, he was unable to accomplish anything of importance, and was obliged to content himself with the capture of the town of Oringis, which was taken by his brother Lucius. Next year, B.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sci'pio (search)
Sci'pio 13. L. Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus, also called ASIAGENES or ASIAGENUS, was the son of No. 9, and the brother of the great Africanus [No. 12]. He served under his brother in Spain, where he took the town of Oringis in B. C. 208 ; and on the completion of the war was sent by his brother to Rome, with the joyful news. He was praetor in B. C. 193, when he obtained the province of Sicily, and consul in B. C. 190, with C. Laelius. The senate had not much confidence in his abilities (Cic. Phil. 11.7), and it was only through the offer of his brother Africanus to accompany him as a legate that he obtained the province of Greece and the conduct of the war against Antiochus (Liv. 28.3, 4, 17, 34.54, 55, 36.45, 37.1). He defeated Antiochus at Mount Sipylus, in B. C. 190, entered Rome in triumph in the following year, and assumed the surname of Asiaticus. The history of his accusation and condemnation, and of the confiscation of his property, has been already related in the life of his b
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Servi'lius (search)
Servi'lius 2. C. Servilius, C. F. P. N., son of the preceding, is first mentioned in B. C. 212, when he was sent into Etruria to purchase corn for the use of the Roman garrison in the citadel of Tarentum, which was then besieged by Hannibal. He succeeded in forcing his way into the harbour, and supplying the garrison with the corn. In B. C. 210 he was elected pontifex in the place of T. Otacilius Crassus, in B. C. 209 plebeian aedile, and in B. C. 208 curule aedile. In the last year, while holding the office of curule aedile, he was appointed magister equitum by the dictator T. Manlius Torquatus. He was praetor B. C. 206, when he obtained Sicily as his province, and consul B. C. 203 with Cn. Servilius Caepio. Livy, in speaking of his consulship (29.38, 30.1), as well as subsequently, calls him C. Servilius Geminus ; but in the Capitoline Fasti his name is given C. SERVILIUS C. F. P. NEPOS. It is therefore probable that his cognomen Geminus is a mistake. C. Servilius obtained Etruria
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
him resolutely opposing in the senate the ransom of those Romans who had been taken prisoners at the fatal battle of Cannae (B. C. 216). In the following year (B. C. 217) he was sent into Sardinia in consequence of the illness of the praetor Q. Mucius, who had the government of the province; and while in the island he carried on the war with success against the Carthaginians and the Sardinians, who had revolted at the instigation of the former people. In B. C. 212 he was a candidate for the dignity of pontifex maximus, but was defeated by P. Licinius Crassus, who was greatly his junior, and was then suing for the curule aedileship. The people wished to choose Torquatus consul for the year 210, but he refused to accept the honour. Two years afterwards (B. C. 208) he was appointed dictator for the purpose of holding the comitia and presiding at the games which had been vowed by the praetor M. Aemilius. (Liv. 22.60, 23.34, 40, 41, 25.5, 26.22, 27.33.) He died in B. C. 202. (Liv. 30.39.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tubulus (search)
Tubulus 1. C. Hostilius Tubulus, praetor urbanus B. C. 209, was stationed in Etruria in the following year (B. C. 208) as propraetor with the command of two legions. He received orders from the senate to keep an especial watch upon Arretium, which was suspected of an inclination to revolt to Hannibal, and he therefore took away as hostages one hundred and twenty children of the senators of the town. Next year (B. C. 207) Tubulus was sent from Etruria to Tarentum, and in the course of the same year from the latter place to Capua; but while marching to Capua he fell upon Hannibal's army, killed four thousand men, and took nine standards. He continued in the command at Capua till the end of B. C. 203. (Liv. 27.6, 7, 11, 22, 24, 35, 40, xxviii, 10, 29.13.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Vi'tulus, Mami'lius 3. C. Mamilius Vitulus, was elected maximus curio in B. C. 209, being the first plebeian who had held that office. He was praetor in B. C. 208 with Sicily as his province, and was one of the ambassadors sent to Philip, king of Macedonia, in B. C. 203. He died in B. C. 174 of the pestilence which visited Rome in that year. (Liv. 27.8, 35, 36, 38, 30.26, 41.26.)
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