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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Cosco'nius (search)
Cosco'nius 3. C. Cosconius, praetor in the Social war, B. C. 89, distinguished himself in the command of one of the Roman armies. According to Livy (Liv. Epit. 75) Cosconius and Lucceius defeated the Samnites in battle, slew Marius Egnatius, the most distinguished of the enemy's generals, and received the surrender of very many towns. Appian (App. BC 1.52) says, that Cosconius burnt Salapia, took possession of Cannae, and then proceeded to besiege Canusium; but a Samnite army came to the relief of the town, which defeated Cosconius and obliged him to fall back upon Cannae. Trebatius, the Samnite general, following up his advantage, crossed the Aufidus, but was attacked, immediately after his passage of the river, by Cosconius, defeated with a loss of 15,000 men, and fled with the remnant to Canusium. Hereupon, Cosconius marched into the territories of the Larinates, Venusini, and Apulians, and conquered the Poediculi in two days. Most modern commentators Appian has made a mistake in t
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Di'dius (search)
20,000 Vaccaeans, transplanted the inhabitants of Termesus, conquered Colenda after a siege of nine months, and destroyed a colony of robbers by enticing them into his camp and then ordering them to be cut down. (Comp. Frontin. Strat. 1.8.5, 2.10.1.) According to Sallust (ap. Gel. 2.27; comp. Plut. Sert. 3) Sertorius served in Spain as military tribune under Didius. Didius also took part in the Marsic war, which soon after broke out, and he fell in a battle which was fought in the spring of B. C. 89. (Appian, App. BC 1.40 ; Vell. 2.16; Ov. Fast. 6.567, &c.) According to a passage in Plutarch (Plut. Sert. 12), Didius was beaten and slain, ten years later, by Sertorius in Spain, but the reading in that passage is wrong, and instead of *Di/dion, or as some read it *Fi/dion, we ought to read *Foufi/dion. (Ruhnken, ad Vell. Pat. 2.16.) There is a coin figured on p. 602b., which refers to our T. Didius : the reverse shews a portico with a double row of pillars, and bears the inscription T. D
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Favori'nus (search)
have proposed to change the name in Gellius into Fannius, Augurinus, or Favonius; but as all the MSS. agree in Favorinus, it would be arbitrary to make any such alteration, and we must acquiesce in what we learn from Gellius. As for the lex Licinia here spoken of, Macrobius (2.13), in enumerating the sumptuary laws, mentions one which was carried by P. Licinius Crassus Dives, and which is, in all probability, the one which was supported by Favorinus. The exact year in which this law was promulgated is uncertain; some assign it to the censorship of Licinius Crassus, B. C. 89, others to his consulship in B. C. 97, and others, again, to his tribuneship, B. C. 110, or his praetorship, B. C. 104. The poet Lucilius is known to have mentioned this law in his Satires; and as that poet died in B. C. 103, it is at any rate clear that the law must have been carried previous to the consulship of Licinins Crassus, i. e. previous to B. C. 97. (H. Meyer, Fragm. Orat. Rom. p. 207, &c., 2d edit.) [L.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), A. ? Gabi'nius (search)
A. ? Gabi'nius 3. A.? GABINIUS, was legatus in the Social War, and, in B. C. 89, after a successful campaign against the Marsi and Lucani, lost his life in a blockade of the enemy's camp. (Liv. Epit. 76 ; Flor. 3.18.13; Oros. 5.18, calls him Caius.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Gabi'nius (search)
Gabi'nius 7. P. Gabinius Capito was praetor in B. C. 89, and afterwards propraetor in Achaia, where he was guilty of extortion, for which, upoh his return to Rome, he was accused by L. Piso (whom the Achaei had selected as their patronus), and condemned. (Cic. pro Arch. 5, Div. in Caecil. 20.) Lactantius (1.6) mentions him as one of the three deputies who were sent in B. C. 76 to Erythrae to collect Sibylline prophecies.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lucceius (search)
Lucceius 1. A Roman general, who, in conjunction with the praetor C. Cosconius, defeated the Samnites in the Social war, B. C. 89. (Liv. Epit. 75.) [COSCONIUS, No. 2.]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus Pius (search)
Metellus Pius 19. Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius, Q. F. L. N., son of Numidicus [No. 14], received the surname of Pius on account of the love which he displayed for his father when he besought the people to recall him from banishment, in B. C. 99. He was about twenty years of age when he accompanied his father to Numidia in B. C. 109. He obtained the praetorship in B. C. 89, and was one of the commanders in the Marsic or Social war, which had broken out in the preceding year. He defeated and slew in battle Q. Pompaedius, the leader of the Marsians in B. C. 88. He was still in arms in B. C. 87, prosecuting the war against the Samnites, when Marius landed in Italy and joined the consul Cinna. The senate, in alarm, summoned Metellus to Rome; and, as the soldiers placed more confidence in him than in the consul Octavius, they entreated him to take the supreme command shortly after his arrival in the city. As he refused to comply with their request, numbers deserted to the enemy; and finding i
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Mu'tilus, C. Pa'pius one of the principal Samnite generals in the Marsic or Social war, B. C. 90-89. At the head of the greater part of the Samnite forces, he invaded Campania, took several of its towns, and obliged almost all the rest to surrender to him; but having made an attack upon the camp of the consul, Sex. Caesar, he was repulsed with a loss of 6000 men, B. C. 90. In the following year hé had to resist Sulla, who had penetrated into Samnium, but he experienced a total defeat, was badly wounded in the engagement, and fled with a few troops to Aesernia. (Appian, App. BC 1.40, 42, 51; Oros. 5.18; Vell. 2.16; Diod. xxxvii. Ecl. 1.) The name of this Samnite leader is given differently; but C. Papius Mutilus seems to have been his real name. Orosius calls him Papius Mutilus; Velleius terms him Papius Mutilius ; and Appian styles him in two passages (1.40, 42) C. Papius, and in the third (1.51) Motilus, who is evidently the same person as the one he had previously called C. Papius.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
power. Thus he was one of those who advocated sending Pompey to conduct the war in Spain against Sertorius, and is reported on that occasion to have said "Non se Pompeium sua sententia pro consule, sed pro consulibus mittere." (Cic. pro Leg. Man. 21, Phil. 11.8; Plut. Pomp. 17.) He appears, likewise, to have been a personal friend of Pompey, for he had defended him previously in B. C. 86, when he was accused of having appropriated to his own use the booty taken at Asculum in the Marsic war, B. C. 89. (Cic. Brut. 64; V. Max. 6.2.8; Plut. Pomp. 4.) It would seem that Philippus did not live to see the return of Pompey from Spain. Philippus was one of the most distinguished orators of his time. His reputation continued even to the Augustan age, whence we read in Horace (Hor. Ep. 1.7.46):-- "Strenuus et fortis causisque Philippus agendis Clarus." Cicero says that Philippus was decidedly inferior as an orator to his two great contemporaries Crassus and Antonius, but was without questio
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pompeius (search)
Pompeius 16. SEX. POMPEIUS SEX. F. CN. N., was the son of No. 15, and we may conclude from his praenomen that he was the elder of his two sons. He never obtained any of the higher offices of the state, but acquired great reputation as a man of learning. and is praised by Cicero for his accurate knowledge of jurisprudence, geometry, and the Stoic philosophy. He was present on one occasion in the camp of his brother Strabo during the Social war, B. C. 89, but this is the only time in which his name occurs in public affairs. (Cic. Brut. 47, Philipp. 12.11, De Orat. 1.15, 3.21, De Off. 1.6.)
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