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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lana'tus (search)
Lana'tus 1. AGRIPPA MENENIUS LANATUS, C. F., consul, B. C. 503, with P. Postumius Tubertus, conquered the Sabines and obtained the honour of a triumph on account of his victory. In the struggles between the patricians and plebeians he is represented as a man of moderate views, who had the good fortune, rarely to be found in civil strifes, of being beloved and trusted by both parties. It was owing to his mediation that the first great rupture between the patricians and plebeians, when the latter seceded to the Sacred Mount, was brought to a happy and peaceful termination in B. C. 493; and it was upon this occasion he is said to have related to the plebeians his well-known foible of the belly and its members. He died at the latter end of this year, and as he did not leave sufficient property for defraying the expences of any but a most ordinary funeral, he was buried at the public expence in a most splendid manner: the plebeians had made voluntary contributions for the purpose, which w
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Mene'nia Gens was a very ancient and illustrious patrician house at Rome from B. C. 503 to B. C. 376. Its only cognomen is Lanatus. [LANATUS.] Cicero (Cic. Fam. 13.9) mentions a Menenian tribe, and Appian a Menenius who was proscribed by the triumvirs in B. C. 43, and rescued from death by the self-devotion of one of his slaves. (B. C. 4.44.) [W.B.D]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Postu'mia Gens patrician, was one of the most ancient patrician gentes at Rome, and frequently held the highest offices of the state, from the banishment of the kings to the downfal of the republic. The most distinguished family in the gens was that of ALBUS or ALBINUS, but we also find at the commencement of the republic distinguished families of the names of MEGELLUS and TUBERTUS. The first of the Postumii, who obtained the consulship, was P. Postumius Tubertus, in B. C. 503, only six years after the expulsion of the kings. REGILLENSIS is properly an agnomen of the ALBINI, and accordingly persons with this surname are given under ALBINUS. In the Punic wars, and subsequently, we also find the surnames PYRGENSIS, TEMPSANUS, and TYMPANUS. A few Postumii are mentioned without any surname: these are given below.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
wing year, B. C. 507, Publicola was elected consul a third time with M. Horatius Pulvillus, who had been his colleague in his first consulship, or according to other accounts, with P. Lucretius; but no event of importance is recorded under this year. He was again consul a fourth time in B. C. 504 with T. Lucretius Tricipitinus, his colleague in his second consulship. In this year he defeated the Sabines and entered Rome a second time in triumph. Ilis death is placed in, the following year (B. C. 503) by the annalists (Liv. 2.16), probably, as Niebuhr has remarked, simply because his name does not occur again in the Fasti. Niebuhr supposes that the ancient lays made him perish at the lake Regillus, at which two of his sons were said to have been killed (Dionys. A. R. 6.12), and at which so many heroes of the infant commonwealth met their death. He was buried at the public expense, and the matrons mourned for him ten months, as they had done for Brutus. (Liv. 1.58, 59, 2.2, 6-8, 11, 15,
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tubertus (search)
Tubertus 1. P. Postumius Tubertus, Q. F., consul B. C. 505 with M. Valerius Volusus in the fifth year of the republic. Both consuls fought against the Sabines, over whom they gained a decisive victory in the neighbourhood of Tibur, and obtained in consequence the honour of a triumph. (Liv. 2.16 ; Zonar. 5.37-39; Plut. Publ. 20; Zonar. 7.13.) Tubertus was consul again in B. C. 503 with Agrippa Menenius Lanatus. According to Livy he defeated the Aurunci, and on his return triumphed over them; but other authorities relate that he again fought against the Sabines, and at first with bad success, but that he afterwards gained a victory over them, and on his return celebrated the lesser triumph or ovation, which was on this occasion first introduced at Rome. (Dionys. A. R. 5.44-47; Zonar. 7.13; Plin. Nat. 15.29 ; Fasti Cap.) In B. C. 493 he was one of the ten ambassadors sent by the senate to the people on the Sacred Mountain. (Dionys. A. R. 6.69.) This Tubertus was buried in the city on ac