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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Genu'cius (search)
Genu'cius 1. T. Genucius, was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 476; and in conjunction with his colleague, Q. Considius, he brought forward an agrarian law, and also accused T. Menenius Lanatus, who was charged with being the cause of the destruction of the Fabii on the Cremera. (Liv. 2.52; Dionys. A. R. 9.26; comp. [CONSIDIUS, No. 1.]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Hecataeus (search)
belonged to a very ancient and illustrious family (Hdt. 2.143). According to Suidas, he was a contemporary of Dionysius of Miletus, and lived about the 65th olympiad, i. e. B. C. 520. Hence Larcher and others conclude that he was born about 550, so that in B. C. 500, the time at which he acted a prominent part among the Ionians, he would have been about fifty years old. As Hecataeus further (Suidas, s. v. *(Ella/nikos) survived the Persian war for a short time, he seems to have died about B. C. 476, shortly after the battles of Plataeae and Mycale. Suidas tells us that Hecataeus was a pupil of Protagoras, which is utterly impossible for chronological reasons, just as it is impossible that Hecataeus should have been a friend of Xenocrates, as Strabo says (xii. p. 550.) Hecataeus must have been possessed of considerable wealth, for, like many other eminent men of that age, he satisfied his desire for knowledge by travelling into distant countries, and seeing with his own eyes that whic
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Menon (search)
arsalus in Thessaly, who aided the Athenians at Eion with 12 talents and 200 horsemen, raised by himself from his own penestae, and was rewarded by them for these services with the freedom of the city. (Dem. c. Arist. pp. 686, 687; Pseudo-Dem. peri\ dunta/cews, p. 173; Wolf, Proleg. ad Dem. c. Lept. p. 74.) By some this Menon has been identified with the Pharsalian who commanded the troops sent from his native city to the aid of the Athenians in the first year of the Peloponnesian war, B. C. 431; while the above-mentioned assistance at Eion is referred by them to the eighth year of the same war, B. C. 424. (Thuc. 2.22, 4.102, &c.; Gedik. ad Plat. Men. p. 70.) Perhaps, however, the service may have been rendered at the siege of Eion by Cimon in B. C. 476; and in that case the Menon alluded to by Demosthenes may have been the father of the leader of Thessalian cavalry mentioned by Thucydides in B. C. 431 (Hdt. 7.107; Plut. Cim. 7; Paus. 8.8; Thirlwall's Greece, vol. iii. p. 3.) [BOGES.]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mi'cythus (search)
Mi'cythus （*Mi/kuqos). 1. Son of Choerus, was at first a slave in the service of Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegium, but gradually rose to so high a place in the confidence of his master, that Anaxilas at his death (B. C. 476) left him guardian of his infant sons, with charge to hold the sovereign power in trust for the until they should attain to manhood. The administration of Micythus appears to have been both wise and vigorous, so that he conciliated the affections of his subjects, and held the government both of Rhegium and Messana, undisturbed by any popular commotions. One of the principal events of his reign was the assistance furnished by him to the Tarentines in their war against the lapygians (B. C. 473), which was terminated by a disastrous defeat, in which 3000 of the Rhegians perished, and the fugitives were pursued by the barbarians up to the very gates of the city. But notwithstanding this blow, we find him shortly after (B. C. 471) powerful enough to found a new colony, th
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Phry'nichus (search)
n the disciple of Thespis (Suid. s. v.) He is also spoken of as before Aeschylus (Schol. in Aristoph. Ran. 941). He is mentioned by the chronographers as flourishing at Ol. 74, B. C. 483 (Cyrill. Julian. i. p. 13b.; Euseb. Chron. s. a. 1534 ; Clinton, F. H. s. a.). He gained his first tragic victory in Ol. 67, B. C. 511 (Suid. s. v.), twenty-four years after Thespis (B. C. 535), twelve years after Choerilus (B. C. 523), and twelve years before Aeschylus (B. C. 499); and his last in Ol. 76, B. C. 476, on which occasion Themistocles was his choragus, and recorded the event by an inscription (Plut. Themist. 5). Phrynichus must, therefore, have flourished at least 35 years. He probably went, like other poets of the age, to the court of Hiero, and there died; for the statement of the anonymous writer on Comedy, in his account of Phrynichus, the comic poet (p. 29), that Phrynichus, the son of Phradmon, died in Sicily, evidently refers properly to the tragic poet, on account of his father's
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Priscus, Servi'lius 3. SP. SERVILIUS PRISCUS STRUCTUS, consul B. C. 476, with A. Virginius Tricostus Rutilus. In consequence of the destruction of the Fabii at the Cremera in the preceding year, the Etruscans had advanced up to the very walls of Rome, and taken possession of the hill Janiculus. In an attempt which Priscus made to take this hill by assault, he was repulsed with great loss, and would have sustained a total defeat, had not his colleague Virginius come to his assistance. In consequence of his rashness on this occasion, he was brought to trial by the tribunes, as soon as his year of office had expired, but was acquitted. (Liv. 2.51, 52; Dionys. A. R. 9.25, &c.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pyrrhus (search)
8.5.) The Tarentines had demanded that his troops should be withdrawn, if he would not assist them in the field; but Pyrrhus paid no heed to their remonstrances, and retained possession of their town, as well as of Locri, in hopes of being soon able to return to Italy at the head of the Greeks of Sicily, of which island his warm imagination had already pictured him as the sovereign. Pyrrhus remained in Sicily upwards of two ears, namely from the middle of B. C. 478, to the latter end of B. C. 476. At first he met with brilliant success in Sicily. He drove the Carthaginians before him, and took the strongly fortified city of Eryx, in the assault of which he was the first to mount the scaling ladders, and distinguished himself as usual by his daring and impetuous valour. The Carthaginians became so alarmed at his success, that they offered him both ships and money on condition of his forming an alliance with them, although they had only a short time before made a treaty with the Rom
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Simo'nides (search)
ancient authorities are so fully collected and discussed, that it is unnecessary to refer to any except the most important of them. Sirmonides was born at Julis, in the island of Ceos, in Ol. 56. 1, B. C. 556, as we learn from one of his own epigrams (No. 203 * The numbers of the fragments quoted in this article are those of Schneidewin's edition.), in which he celebrates a victory which he gained at Athens, at the age of 80 years, in the archonship of Adeimantus, that is, in Ol. 75. 4, B. C. 476; and this date is confirmed by other authorities, and by the date of his death, which took place at the age of 89 (Suid.) or 90 (Mar. Par.), in Ol. 78. 1, B. C. 467; Lucian (Macrob. 26) extends his life beyond 90 years. (Schn. pp. iii. iv.; Clinton, F. H. s. aa. 556, 476, 467.） His father was named Leoprepes, and his grandfather Hyllichus; but this must have been his maternal grandfather, if, as there is reason to believe, his paternal grandfather was also named Simonides. and was also a
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Simo'nides (search)
ancient authorities are so fully collected and discussed, that it is unnecessary to refer to any except the most important of them. Sirmonides was born at Julis, in the island of Ceos, in Ol. 56. 1, B. C. 556, as we learn from one of his own epigrams (No. 203 * The numbers of the fragments quoted in this article are those of Schneidewin's edition.), in which he celebrates a victory which he gained at Athens, at the age of 80 years, in the archonship of Adeimantus, that is, in Ol. 75. 4, B. C. 476; and this date is confirmed by other authorities, and by the date of his death, which took place at the age of 89 (Suid.) or 90 (Mar. Par.), in Ol. 78. 1, B. C. 467; Lucian (Macrob. 26) extends his life beyond 90 years. (Schn. pp. iii. iv.; Clinton, F. H. s. aa. 556, 476, 467.） His father was named Leoprepes, and his grandfather Hyllichus; but this must have been his maternal grandfather, if, as there is reason to believe, his paternal grandfather was also named Simonides. and was also a
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tricostus (search)
Tricostus 7. A. Virginius Rutilus, T. F. T. N., brother of No. 6, was consul in B. C. 476 with Sp. Servilius Priscus Structus. (Liv. 2.51 ; Dionys. A. R. 9.25.)
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