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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ror. Nor were the hopes of men for a while disappointed. Grave and calculating statesmen might feel displeasure and alarm at the reckless profusion which characterised the very commencement of the new reign; but since a large portion of the sums squandered was lavished upon the soldiers and the people, the lower orders at least of the community were enthusiastic in their attachment to the new ruler. This state of things did not endure long. A formidable plot against his life was organised (A. D. 183) by his sister Lucilla, jealous, it was believed, of the superior influence and position of Crispina; but the scheme failed in consequence of the awkwardness of the assassin, who, instead of dealing the fatal blow at the proper moment, put the prince upon his guard by exclaiming as he rushed forward, "The senate sends thee this." The event seems to have awakened the slumbering ferocity of a temper which now burst forth with frightful vehemence, and raging from that time forward without con
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
companied M. Aurelius to the East at the period of the rebellion of Avidius Cassius; and after her father's death, was treated with much distinction by her brother, Commodus; but being jealous of the superior honours paid to his empress, Crispina, and eager to get rid of a husband, whom she despised, as far inferior to herself, she engaged in a plot against the life of the prince, which, having been detected, she was banished to the island ot Capreae. and there put to death, about the year A. D. 183. The story of her having been accessory to the death of Verus rests upon no good evidence, but in general profligacy she seems to have been a worthy descendant of the Faustinae, and a worthy sister to Commodus. Historians do not expressly mention that she had children by her first husband; yet the legend, FECUNDITAS, which appears upon some of her medals, although the date of these may be uncertain, would lead to the conclusion that their union was not unfruitful; and since the Claudius
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Perennis (search)
Perennis after the death of Paternus [PATERNUS] in A. D. 183, became sole praefect of the praetorians, and Commodus being completely sunk in debauchery and sloth, virtually ruled the empire. Having, however, rendered himself obnoxious to the soldiery, he was delivered up to them, and put to death, together with his wife and children, in A. D. 186 or 187. The narrative of Dio Cassius, who states that his death was demanded by a deputation of fifteen hundred dartmen, despatched for this special purpose from the turbulent army in Britain, and that these men, after having marched unmolested through France and Italy, on their approach to Rome, overawed the prince, although his own guards were far more numerous, is so improbable that we can scarcely give it credit. Moreover, Dion represents the character of Perennis in a very different light from that in which it is exhibited by other historians. Although he admits that Perennis procured the death of his colleague Paternus, in order that
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
f Naucratis in Egypt, was a Greek sophist and grammarian. He received instruction in criticism from his father, and afterwards went to Athens, where he studied rhetoric under the sophist Adrian. He opened a private school at Athens, where he gave instruction in grammar and rhetoric, and was subsequently appointed by the emperor Commodus to the chair of rhetoric at Athens. He died during the reign of Commodus at the age of fifty-eight, leaving a young son behind him. We may therefore assign A. D. 183 as the year in which he flourished. (Suidas, s. v. *Poludeu/khs ; Philostr. Vit. Soph. 2.12.) Philostratus praises his critical skiil, but speaks unfavourably of his rhetorical powers, and implies that he gained his professor's chair from Commodus simply by his mellifluous voice. He seems to have been attacked by many of his contemporaries on account of the inferior character of his oratory, and especially by Lucian in his *)Rhto/rwn dida/skalos, as was supposed by the ancients and has bee
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Po'stumus, M. Egna'tius one of the consules suffecti in A. D. 183.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
account of the celebrated attack which he made upon Publicius Certus in the senate, in the reign of Nerva, A. D. 96. Quadra'tus, Ummi'dius 3. Ummidius Quadratus, is mentioned as one of the persons whom Hadrian persecuted. (Spartian. Hadr. 15.) He may have been a son of No. 2, who probably married again after the time that Pliny's letter was written. It seems to have been this Quadratus who married the sister of Antoninus Pius. Quadra'tus, Ummi'dius 4. M. Ummidius Quadratus, the son of No. 3, was the nephew of Antoninus Pius, being his sister's son. Antoninus Pius gave his maternal property to this Quadratus. (Capitol. M. Aurel. 7, where he is in some editions erroneously called Mummius Quadratus.) He was consul in A. D. 167, with M. Aurelius Verus. Quadra'tus, Ummi'dius 5. Ummidius Quadratus, the son of No. 4, was induced by Lucilla to enter into a conspiracy against her brother Commodus, by whom he was put to death, A. D. 183. (Herodian. 1.8; Lamprid. Commod. 4; D. C. 72.4.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Quadra'tus, Ummi'dius 5. Ummidius Quadratus, the son of No. 4, was induced by Lucilla to enter into a conspiracy against her brother Commodus, by whom he was put to death, A. D. 183. (Herodian. 1.8; Lamprid. Commod. 4; D. C. 72.4.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Secundus, Vitru'vius secretary to Commodus, was put to death along with Paternus and Julianus upon the discovery of the conspiracy against the emperor in A. D. 183. (Lamprid. Com-mod. 4.) [W.R]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Theo'philus (search)
ho was still a heathen, but a man of extensive reading and great learning, and an earnest lover of truth (Theoph. ad Autolyc. 1. p. 69b., iii. pp. 119, a., 127, b., 138, d.). This work must have been written, or, at least, finished, shortly before the death of Theophilus, for there is an allusion towards the close of it, which fixes the composition of that part after the death of Marcus Antoninus, in A. D. 180; and, according to the preceding testimonies, Theophilus did not live later than A. D. 183, or perhaps than A. D. 181. The work is cited by various titles, either simply pro\s *Au)to/lukon bibli/a g/, or with the addition peri\ th=s tw=n *Xristianw=n pi/stews, or, as Eusebius has it (H. E. 4.24), tri/a ta\ pro\s Au)to/lukon stoixeiw/dh suggra/mmata, implying that the object of the work was to teach Autolycus the elements of Christian truth; and again, in a MS. in the Paris library, the title is given with an addition which states the object of the work to be, to prove " that the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Victori'nus, C. Aufi'dius a chosen friend and counsellor of M. Aurelius, was distinguished alike for his high principles and for his eloquence, in which he was excelled by no one among his contemporaries. He was legate in Germany, proconsul of Africa, and praefect of the city under Commodus. Although detested by that emperor on account of his virtues, he escaped destruction by his bold and fearless bearing, died a natural death soon after the ruin of Perennis [PERENNIS], and was honoured by the erection of a statue to his memory. He is probably the same person with the C. Aufidius Victorinus who is marked in the Fasti as consul for the second time in A. D. 183, the year in which the first great plot against Commodus was organised and failed. (D. C. 72.4, 11; Gruter, ccclxix. 2 ; Capitolin. M. Aurel. 38). [W.R]