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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Vologeses II. (search)
Arsaces Xxvii or Vologeses II. VOLOGESES II., succeeded his father Chosroes, and reigned probably from about A. D. 122 to 149. In A. D. 133, Media, which was then subject to the Parthians, was overrun by a vast horde of Alani (called by Dio Cassius, Albani), who penetrated also into Armenia and Cappadocia, but were induced to retire, partly by the presents of Vologeses, and partly through fear of Arrian, the Roman governor of Cappadocia. (D. C. 69.15.) During the reign of Hadrian, Vologeses continued at peace with the Romans ; and on the accession of Antoninus Pius, A. D. 138, he sent an embassy to Rome, to present the new emperor with a golden crown, which event is commemorated on a coin of Antoninus. (Eckhel, vii. pp. 5, 10, 11.) These friendly relations, however, did not continue undisturbed. Vologeses solicited from Antoninus the restoration of the royal throne of Parthia, which had been taken by Trajan, but did not obtain his request. He made preparations to invade Armenia, but
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Justi'nus Martyr (search)
led the truth, and had foretold the coming of the Christ. The conversation of this old man with Justin, which is narrated with considerable fulness by the latter (Dial. cum Tryph. 100.3, &c.), led to Justin's conversion. He had, while a Platonist, heard of the calumnies propagated against the Christians, but had hardly been able to credit them. (Apolog. Secunda, 100.12.) The date of his conversion is doubtful. The Bollandists place it in A. D. 119; Cave, Tillemont, Ceillier, and others, in A. D. 133; and Halloix about A. D. 140. Whether Justin had lived wholly at Flavia Neapolis before his conversion is not quite clear: that it had been his chief place of abode we have every reason to believe. Otto conjectured, from a passage in his works (Cohortat. ad Graec. 100.13), that he had studied at Alexandria; but, from the circumstance that while in that city he had seen with interest the remains of the cells built, according to the Jewish tradition, for the authors of the Septuagint versi
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Po'lemon ANTONIUS (search)
Po'lemon ANTONIUS 4. ANTONIUS, a highly celebrated sophist and rhetorician, who flourished under Trajan, Hadrian, and the first Antoninus, and was in high favour with the two former emperors. (Suid. s.v. Philostr. Vit. Soph. p. 532.) He is placed at the sixteenth year of Hadrian, A. D. 133, by Eusebius (Chron.). His life is related at considerable length by Philostratus (Vit. Sophist. 2.25, pp. 530-544). He was born of a consular family, at Laodiceia, but spent the greater part of his life at Smyrna, the people of which city conferred upon him at a very early age the highest honours, in return for which he did much to promote their prosperity, especially by his influence with the emperors. Nor, in performing these services, did he neglect his native city Laodiceia. An interesting account of his relations with the emperors Hadrian and Antoninus is given by Philostratus (pp. 533, 534). Among the sophists and rhetoricians, whom he heard, were Timocrates, Scopelianus, Dion Chrysostom a
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Sisenna, Nu'mmius consul under Hadrian, A. D. 133, with M. Antonius Hiberus (Fasti).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Theon (search)
ean, and Theon the Ptolemaist. THEON of Smyrna The date of " Theon of Smyrna the philosopher," to quote in full the account which Suidas gives of him, depends upon the assumption (which there seems no reason to dispute) that he is the Theon whom Ptolemy and the younger Theon mention as having made astronomical observations in the time of Hadrian. Theon of Smyrna certainly wrote on astronomy. On the assumption just made, Ptolemy has preserved his observations of Mercury and Venus (A. D. 129-133). Bouillaud supposes that it is Theon of Smyrna to whom Proclus alludes as having written on the genealogies of Solon and Plato, and Plutarch as having written on the lunar spots. (See Bouillaud's preface, or the quotations in Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 35.) Works *Tw=n kata\ maqhmatikh\n xrhsi/mwn ei)s th\n tou= *Pla/twnos a)na/gnwsin All that we have left is a portion of a work entitled, *Tw=n kata\ maqhmatikh\n xrhsi/mwn ei)s th\n tou= *Pla/twnos a)na/gnwsin. The portion which n
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
THEON of Smyrna The date of " Theon of Smyrna the philosopher," to quote in full the account which Suidas gives of him, depends upon the assumption (which there seems no reason to dispute) that he is the Theon whom Ptolemy and the younger Theon mention as having made astronomical observations in the time of Hadrian. Theon of Smyrna certainly wrote on astronomy. On the assumption just made, Ptolemy has preserved his observations of Mercury and Venus (A. D. 129-133). Bouillaud supposes that it is Theon of Smyrna to whom Proclus alludes as having written on the genealogies of Solon and Plato, and Plutarch as having written on the lunar spots. (See Bouillaud's preface, or the quotations in Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 35.) Works *Tw=n kata\ maqhmatikh\n xrhsi/mwn ei)s th\n tou= *Pla/twnos a)na/gnwsin All that we have left is a portion of a work entitled, *Tw=n kata\ maqhmatikh\n xrhsi/mwn ei)s th\n tou= *Pla/twnos a)na/gnwsin. The portion which now exists is in two books, one on