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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Aqui'llia Gens patrician and plebeian. On coins and inscriptions the name is almost always written Aquillius, but in manuscripts generally with a single l. This gens was of great antiquity. Two of the Aquillii are mentioned among the Roman nobles who conspired to bring back the Tarquins (Liv. 2.4); and a member of the house, C. Aquillius Tuscus, is mentioned as consul as early as B. C. 487. The cognomens of the Aquillii under the republic are CORVUS, CRASSUS, FLORUS, GALLUS, TUSCUS: for those who bear no surname, see AQUILLIUS.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Chio'nides (search)
Chio'nides （*Xiwni/dhs and *Xioni/dhs), an Athenian comic poet of the old comedy, whom Suidas (s. v.) places at the head of the poets of the old comedy (prwtagwnisth\n th=s a)r*Xai/as kwmwdi/as), adding that he exhibited eight years before the Persian war, that is, in B. C. 487. (Clinton. sub ann.) On the other hand, according to a passage in the Poetics of Aristotle (100.3), Chionides was long after Epicharmus. [EPICHARMUS.] On the strength of this passage Meineke thinks that Chionides cannot be placed much earlier than B. C. 460; and in confirmation of this date he quotes from Athenaeus (xiv. p. 638a.) a passage from a play of Chionides, the *Ptw*Xoi/, in which mention is made of Gnesippus, a poet contemporary with Cratinus. But we also learn from Athenaeus (l.c. and iv. p. 137e.), that some of the ancient critics considered the *Ptwxoi/ to be spurious, and with respect to the passage of Aristotle, Ritter has brought forward very strong arguments against its genuineness. (For the d
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Sabi'nus, T. Sici'nius consul B. C. 487, with C. Aquillius Tuscus, carried on war against the Volsci, and obtained a triunlph, as we learn from the Capitoline Fasti and Dionysius, though Livy savs "cum Volscis aequo Marte discessum est." Dionysius calls him T. Siccius. (Fasti Capit.; Dionys. A. R. 8.64, 67; Liv. 2.40.) Sicinius served afterwards, as legatus, under the consul M. Fabius Vibulanus in B. C. 480. (Dionys. A. R. 9.12, 13.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Sici'nia Gens patrician and plebeian. The only patrician member of the gens was T. Sicinius Sabinus, who was consul B. C. 487. [SABINUS, p. 691a.] All the other Sicinii mentioned in history were plebeians; and although none of them obtained the consulship, they gained great celebrity by their advocacy of the rights of the plebeians in the struggles between the two orders. One or two of the plebeian Sicinii bore cognomens, which are given below. There are a few coins of this gens, of which a specimen is given on the preceding page. On the obverse is a female head, with " FORT. P. R." i. e. Fortune Populi Romani, and on the reverse a caduceus and a palm branch, with " Q. SICINIVS IIIVIR." This Q. Sicinius is not mentioned by any ancient writer. (Eckhel. vol. v. p. 313.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Tuscus, C. Aqui'llius consul B. C. 487 with T. Sicinius Sabinus, carried on war against the Hernici, whom he defeated, and obtained in consequence an ovation or lesser triumph. (Fasti Capit.; Liv. 2.40; Dionys. A. R. 8.64, 65, 67.)