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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Phocis and Ozolian Locri, chapter 34 (search)
reward for this deed the Romans gave them their freedom. An army of bandits, called the Costoboes, who overran Greece in my day, visited among other cities Elateia. Whereupon a certain Mnesibulus gathered round him a company of men and put to the sword many of the barbarians, but he himself fell in the fighting. This Mnesibulus won several prizes for running, among which were prizes for the foot-race, and for the double race with shield, at the two hundred and thirty-fifth Olympic festival.162 A.D In Runner Street at Elateia there stands a bronze statue of Mnesibulus. The market-place itself is worth seeing, and so is the figure of Elatus carved in relief upon a slab. I do not know for certain whether they made the slab to honor him as their founder or merely to serve as a gravestone to his tomb. A temple has been built to Asclepius, with a bearded image of the god. The names of the makers of the image are Timocles and Timarchides, artists of Attic birth. At the end of the city on th
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Vologeses III. (search)
Arsaces Xxviii or Vologeses III. VOLOGESES III., probably a son of the preceding, began to reign according to coins (Eckhel, iii. p. 538), A. D. 149. During the reign, of Antoninus, he continued at peace with the Romans; but on the death of this emperor, the long threatened war at length broke out. In A. D. 162, Vologeses invaded Armenia, and cut to pieces a Roman legion, with its commander Severianus, at Elegeia, in Armenia. He then entered Syria, defeated Atidius Cornelianus, the governor of Syria, and laid waste every thing before him. Thereupon the emperor Verus proceeded to Syria, but when he reached Antioch, he remained in that city and gave the command of the army to Cassius, who soon drove Vologeses out of Syria, and followed up his success by invading Mesopotamia and Assyria. He took Seleuceia and Ctesiphon, both of which he sacked and set on fire, but on his march homewards lost a great number of his troops by diseases and famine. Meantime Statius Priscus, who had been sen
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Priscus, Sta'tius consul A. D. 159, with Plautius Quintillus, two years before the death of the emperor Antoninus (Fasti). He was one of the generals sent by his successor, M. Aurelius, to conduct the war against the Parthians, A. D. 162-165. He took Artaxata, the capital of Armenia, and rescued the whole of that country from the Parthian power. (Capitolin. Anton. Phil. 9, Verus, 7; Dio Cass. lxxi. Fragm. p. 1201, ed. Reimarus.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ru'sticus, Ju'nius 4. Q. Junius Rusticus, probably a son of No. 3, and grandson of No. 2, was one of the teachers of the emperor M. Aurelius, and the most distinguished Stoic philosopher of his time. He received the greatest marks of honour from Aurelius, who constantly consulted him on all public and private matters, raised him twice to the consulship, and obtained from the senate after his death erection of statues to his honour. His name, however, appears only once in the consular Fasti, namely, in A. D. 162. (D. C. 71.35 ; Capitol. M. Antonin. Phil. 3; Antonin. 1.7, with the note of Gataker.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Tertullus, Q. Flavius consul suffectus in A. D. 162. (Fasti.)