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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Sufe'nas, M. No'nius was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 56, and in conjunction with his colleagues C. Cato and Procilius, prevented the consular comitia from being held, in consequence of which an interregnum ensued and thus Pompey and Crassus were elected consuls. On account of their violent conduct in their tribunate Sufenas and his colleagues were brought to trial in B. C. 54 ; Procilius was condemned. but Sufenas and Cato were acquitted through the influence of Pompey. Sufenas was propraetor in B. C. 51, in one of the provinces in the neighbourhood of Cilicia, and on the breaking out of the civil war two years afterwards, he is mentioned as one of Pompey's generals. (Cic. Att. 4.15.4, 6.1.13, 8.15.3.) He appears to be the same as the Nonius, who was present at the battle of Pharsalia, and who sought to encourage his party after their defeat by remarking that seven eagles were left in the camp of Pompey; when Cicero replied, " It would be very well if we were fighting with jack-daw
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Tigranes Asiaticus (search)
The next year (B. C. 64) we find him again at war with the king of Parthia, but after several engagements with alternations of success, their differences were arranged by the mediation of Pompey, and the two monarchs concluded a treaty of peace (D. C. 37.6, 7; App. Mithr. 106). This is the last event recorded to us of the reign of Tigranes : the exact date of his death is unknown, but we find him incidentally mentioned by Cicero (pro Sext. 27) as still alive and reigning in the spring of B. C. 56, while we know that he was succeeded by his son Artavasdes before the expedition of Crassus against the Parthians in B. C. 54 (D. C. 40.16). His death must therefore have occurred in this interval. The character of Tigranes seems to have in no respect differed from that of many other Eastern despots. It was marked by the most extravagant pride and overweening confidence in prosperity, as well as by the most abject humiliation in misfortune. He alienated not only his Greek subjects and dep
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Trebo'nius (search)
Trebo'nius 9. A. Trebonius, a Roman eques and a negotiator or money-lender in the provinces, was recommended by Cicero to the proconsul Lentulus in B. C. 56. (Cic. Fam. 1.3.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tu'llia (search)
d in B. C. 63 during the consulship of her father. At the time of Cicero's exile (B. C. 58). Tullia displayed a warm interest in his fate. She and her husband threw themselves at the feet of the consul Piso to implore his pity on behalf of their father. During Cicero's banishment Tullia lost her first husband : he was alive at the end of B. C. 58, but she was a widow when she welcomed her father at Brundsium on his return from exile, in August of the following year. She was married again in B. C. 56 to Furius Crassipes, a young man of rank and large property; but she did not live with him long, though the time and the reason of her divorce are alike unknown. [CRASSIPES, No. 2.] In B. C. 50 she was married to her third husband, P. Cornelius Dolabella, one of the most profligate young men of a most profligate age. Cicero was well acquainted with the scandalous private life of his future son-in-law, for although the latter was still only twenty, he had been already twice defended by the o
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ned by Cicero in his oration for Plancius (100.21) as one of those distinguished men who had failed when a candidate for the aedileship, but who afterwards obtained the highest honours of the state. Volcatius did not take a prominent part in public affairs, and appears to have been a man of moderate opinions, and fond of quiet. He approved of Cicero's proceedings in his consulship, and spoke in the debate in the senate on the punishment of the Catilinarian conspirators. In the discussion in B. C. 56, respecting the restoration of Ptolemy Auletes to his kingdom, he was in favour of intrusting this important commission to Pompey, who had lately returned from the East. In B. C. 54 he was one of the consulars who supported M. Scaurtts, when he was brought to trial in this year. On the breaking out of the civil war, in B. C. 49, he resolved to take no part in the struggle, but remained quietly in Italy all the time. He is spoken of by Cicero in B. C. 46 as an enemy of M. Marcellus, when the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Va'tia or Va'tia Isauricus (search)
ring upon Pompey the command of the war against the pirates; in B. C. 63 he was a candidate for the dignity of pontifex maximus, but was defeated by Julius Caesar, who had served under him in the war against the pirates; in the same year he assisted Cicero in the suppression of the Catilinarian conspiracy, and spoke in the senate in favour of inflicting the last penalty of the law upon the conspirators; in B. C. 57 he joined the other nobles in procuring Cicero's recall from banishment ; in B. C. 56 he opposed the restoration of Ptolemy to his kingdom; and in B. C. 55 he was censor with M. Valerius Messala Niger. The other occasions on which his name occurs do not require notice. He took no part in the civil wars, probably on account of his advanced age, and died in B. C. 44, the same year as Caesar. By the Leges Annales, which were strictly enforced by Sulla, Servilius must have been at the least 43 years of age at his consulship, B. C. 79, and must therefore have been about 80 at the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Vati'nius (search)
standing the patronage of Caesar, he was unsuccessful in his first application for the praetorship, and he did not even obtain the votes of his own tribe, the Sergia, which had never previously failed to vote in favour of their own tribesman. In B. C. 56 he appeared as a witness against Milo and Sestius, two of Cicero's friends, who had taken a leading part in obtaining his recal from banishment. Cicero had long had a grudge against Vatinius, because he had induced Vettius to accuse him of beinger is involved in some obscurity, that Licinius had accused Vatinius twice before, once in B. C. 58 of Vis, on account of his proceedings in his tribunate (comp. Cic. in Vatin. 14, with the Schol. Bob. in Vatin. p. 323, ed. Orelli), and again in B. C. 56, about the same time that Cicero also attacked him. (Comp. Cic. in Vatin. 4, with the Schol. Bob. p. 316; Cic. ad Q. Fr. 1.2.4.) The most celebrated prosecution of Licinius, however, was in B. C. 54, and the speech which he delivered on this occ
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Q. Vela'nius a tribune of the soldiers, whom Caesar sent in B. C. 56 among the Veneti for the purpose of obtaining corn. (Caes. Gal. 3.7.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Viridovix (search)
Viridovix the chieftain of the Unelli, was conquered by Q. Titurius Sabinus, Caesar's legatus, in B. C. 56. (Caes. Gal. 3.17-19; D. C. 39.45.)
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