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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Messalla (search)
Messalla 8. M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus, M. F. M. N., son of the preceding, was born, according to Eusebius, in B. C. 59, in the same year with Livy the historian. (Hieron. in Euseb. Chiron. Olmp. 180. 2.) Since, however, Messalla had gained some reputation for eloquence before the breaking out of the civil war in B. C. 43, the earlier date assigned by Scaliger (ad loc. Euseb.) for his birth, about B. C. 70, seems preferable. (Ellendt, Proleg. ad Cic. Brut. p. 131, comp. Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. p. 183, B. C. 59.) He was partly educated at Athens (Cic. Att. 12.32), where probably began his intimacy with Horace and L. Bibulus. (Hor. Sat. 1.10. 81-86; Appian, App. BC 4.38; comp. Plut. Brut. 24.) In the interval between Caesar's death and the formation of the triumvirate, Messalla returned to Italy. (Cic. Att. 15.17.) He attached himself to the senatorian party, and especially to its leader, Cassius, whom, long after, when he had become the friend of Augustus, he was accustomed to call
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus (search)
y, in resisting the demands of the publicani, who petitioned the senate to allow them to pay a smaller sum for the farming of the taxes in Asia than they had agreed to give. Their request was accordingly refused, but was subsequently granted, in B. C. 59, by Caesar, who brought forward a bill in the comitia for the purpose. In B. C. 60, Metellus was consul with L. Afranius, who was a creature of Pompey, and had been raised to this dignity by Pompey's influence. Pompey was anxious to obtain the rproduce any change in his political conduct. As a war threatened to break out in Gaul, the senate determined that the consuls should draw lots for the provinces of the Gauls; but Metellus did not leave Rome this year, nor apparently the next. In B. C. 59, the year of Caesar's consulship, he took a leading part in the opposition to the agrarian law of Caesar, but in vain. He died in the course of the same year, so unexpectedly, that it was suspected that he had been poisoned by his wile Clodia, w
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus Scipio (search)
Fam. 8.8), is the one given at the commencement of this notice. Appian erroneously gives him the praenomen Lucius. (B. C. 2.24.) Metellus is first mentioned in B. C. 63, when he is said to have come to Cicero by night, along with M. Crassus and Marcellus, bringing with them letters relating to the conspiracy of Catiline. In B. C. 60 he was elected tribune of the plebs, but was accused of bribery by M. Favonius, who had failed in his election, and was defended by Cicero. He was tribune in B. C. 59, and was one of the college of pontiffs before whom Cicero spoke respecting his house in B. C. 57. In the latter year he exhibited gladiatorial games in honour of his deceased father, Metellus Pius. In B. C. 53 Scipio was a candidate for the consulship along with Plautius Hypsaeus and Milo, and was supported by the Clodian mob, since he was opposed to Milo. The candidates had recourse to the most unblushing bribery, and to open violence and force. The most frightful scenes were daily occurr
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Naso, L. Octa'vius whose heres was L. Flavius, praetor designatus in B. C. 59. (Cic. ad Q. Fr. 1.2.3.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Naso, Q. Voco'nius the judex quaestionis in the trial of Cluentius, B. C. 66. Since Cicero in one passage calls him Q. Naso (pro Cluent. 100.53), and in another Q. Voconius (Ibid. 100.54), Garatoni and Klotz, in their notes upon Cicero's oration, make two different persons out of Q. Voconius Naso, namely Q. Voconius, the judex quaestionis, and Q. Naso, the praetor. But Madvig has shown satisfactorily (de Ascon. p. 121), that Cicero refers only to one person, the judex quaestionis, pointing out moreover that the judices quaestionum were appointed to preside in those cases which the praetors, from their limited number, could not attend to, and that accordingly a praetor and a judex quaestionis would not be in the same court. This opinion of Madvig is also adopted by Zumpt (ad Cic. Ver. p. 234). Cicero in his oration for Flaccus, B. C. 59, speaks (100.21) of Q. Naso, as having been praetor, but the year of his praetorship is unknown. (Orelli, Onom. Tull. p. 649.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Octavius (search)
had been gathered together for Catiline, and had previously belonged to the army of Spartacus. He administered the affairs of his province with equal integrity and energy. The manner in which he treated the provincials was again recommended by Cicero as an example to his brother Quintus. He routed the Bessi and some other Thracian tribes, who had disturbed the peace of the province, and received in consequence the title of imperator from his troops. He returned to Italy at the latter end of B. C. 59, in full expectations of being elected to the consulship, but he died suddenly at the beginning of the following year, B. C. 58, at Nola, in Campania, in the very same room in which Augustus afterwards breathed his last. Octavius was married twice, first to Ancharity, by whom he had one daughter [ANCHARIA], and secondly to Atia, by whom he had a daughter and a son [ATIA]. His second wife, and his three children, survived him. (Suet. Aug. 3, 4; Nicol. Damasc. Vit. August. 100.2, ed. Orelli;
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), O'ppius (search)
O'ppius 11. L. Oppius, a Roman eques, was a witness on behalf of Flaccus, whom Cicero defended in B. C. 59. (Cic. pro Flacc. 13.) He is probably the same as the L. Oppius, M. f., whom Cicero recommended to Quintius Gallius, and whom he calls homo mihi familiaris, and famniliarissimus (ad Fazm. 13.43), and also the same as the L. Oppius, whom Cicero recommended to Q. Philippus, proconsul in Asia, B. C. 54 (ad Fam. 13.73, 74).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
M. O'rfius a Roman eques, of the municipium of Atella, was a tribune of the soldiers in Caesar's army, whom Caesar strongly recommended in B. C. 59 to his brother Quintus, who was then one of Caesar's legates. (Cic. ad Qu. Fr. 2.14.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Peducaeus (search)
Peducaeus 4. L. Peducaeus, a Roman eques, was one of the judices at the trial of L. Flaccus, whom Cicero defended B. C. 59. (Cic. pro Flacc. 28.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Petreius (search)
rmy more than thirty years, either as tribune, praefectus, legatus, or praetor; but we know nothing of his former history, nor in what year he was praetor. In consequence of the illness of Antonius, according to one statement, or his dislike to fight against his former friend, as others rltate, the supreme command of the army devolved upon Petreius on the day of the battle, in which Catiline perished. (Sal. Cat. 59, 60; D. C. 37.39, 40; Cic. pro Sest. 5.) The name of Petreius next occurs in B. C. 59, in which year he offered to go to prison with Cato, when (Caesar, the consul, threatened the latter with this punishment. (D. C. 38.3.) In B. C. 55 Petreius was sent into Spain along with L. Afranius as legatus of Pompey, to whom the provinces of the two Spains had been granted. On the breaking out of the civil war in B. C. 49, Afranius and Petreius were in Nearer Spain at the heaof so powerful an army, that Caesar, after obtaining possession of Italy, hastened to Spain to reduce those pr
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