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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Monoba'zus (search)
Monoba'zus （*Mono/bazos), was king or tetrarch of Adiabene in A. D. 63, when Tigranes, king of Armenia, invaded his kingdom. Monobazus applied for aid to Vologeses, the Parthian monarch; and the troops of Adiabene and Parthia entered Armenia, and invested its capital, Tigranocerta. Monobazus afterwards accompanied Vologeses to the camp of Corbulo [CORBULO] at Randeia, to negotiate a truce between Parthia and Rome. The sons of Monobazus were in the suite of Tiridates on his visit to Nero in A. D. 66. (Tac. Ann. 15.1, 14; D. C. 62.20, 23, 63.1.) [W.B.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Nata'lis, Anto'nius a Roman eques, was one of Piso's friends, and joined him in the conspiracy against Nero, A. D. 66, but having become suspected, and being threatened with the torture, he disclosed the names of the conspirators, and thus escaped punishment. (Tac. Ann. 15.50, 54-56, 71.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nero (search)
tus, his mother-in-law Sextia, and his daughter Pollutia, the wife of Rubellius Plautus, were all sacrificed. Virtue in any form was the object of Nero's fear. For some reason or caprice the emperor gave a large sum, which we may assume was public money, to rebuild Lugdunum (Lyon), which had suffered by a fire; and the town showed its gratitude, by espousing his cause when he was deserted by every body. The grant, however, was made some years after the conflagration. In the reign of Nero (A. D. 66) Apollonius of Tvana visited Rome, and, though he was accused of magic, he had the good luck to escape. Nero now became jealous of the philosophers, and Musonius Rufus, a Roman eques and a stoic philosopher, was banished by the emperor. The fragment of the sixteenth book of the Annals of Tacitus concludes with the account of the death of Annaeus Mella, the father of Lucan, and C. Petronius, a man of pleasure, but probably not the author of the Satyrica. Nero, as Tacitus says (Ann. 16.21), n
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Nymphi'dius Sabinus was commander of the praetorian troops, together with Tigellinus, towards the latter end of Nero's reign. He took an active part in suppressing the conspiracy of Piso against Nero, A. D. 66, and was in consequence rewarded by the emperor with the consular insignia. His mother was a freedwoman, who was accustomed to sell her favours to the servants of the imperial palace; and as Caligula did not disdain such intercourse, Nymphidius claimed that emperor for his father. On the death of Nero in A. D. 68, Nymphidius attempted to seize the throne, but was murdered by the friends of Galba. (Tac. Ann. xv. 72, Hist. 1.5, 25, 37; Plut. Galb. 8-15.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Orfitus (search)
Orfitus 1. Ser. Cornelius Orfitus, consul in A. D. 51, with the emperor Claudius (Tac. Ann. 12.41 ; Plin. Nat. 2.31; and the inscription in Fabrettus, p. 472). In A. D. 66 Orfitus proposed. in honour of the imperial family, that the month of June should for the future be called Germanicus (Tac. Ann. 16.12). It would appear, from an incidental notice in Tacitus (Tac. Hist. 4.42), that Orfitus perished not long after this, by an accusation of the informer Aquillius Regulus.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
man colony or Camalodunum and defeated Petilius Cerealis, the legate of the ninth legion. The return of Paulinus, however, soon changed matters; and he at length finally defeated Boadicea with great slaughter, though not till Londinium and Verulamium had also fallen into the hands of the Britons. For further details see BOADICEA. He returned to Rome in the following year, and was succeeded by Petronius Turpilianus. (Tac. Ann. 14.29-37, Agric. 5, 14.--16 ; D. C. 62.1-12; Suet. Nero 39.) In A. D. 66 Sentonius Paulinus was consul with C. Lucius Telesinus (Tac. Ann. 16.14; D. C. 63.1.) Paulinus was now looked upon as one of the first generals of the time, and while in Britain he was regarded by the people as the rival of Corbulo in military glory. His services were accordingly called into exercise in the civil wars which followed Nero's death. He was one of Otho's generals and chief military advisers, although he was not able to overcome the intrigues and influence of Licinius Proculus,
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
he from time to time arrested the tlow of blood by the application of bandages. During the intervals he conversed with his friends, not upon the solemn themes which the occasion might have suggested, but upon the news and light gossip of the day; he bestowed rewards upon some of his slaves, and ordered others to be scourged : he lay down to sleep, and even showed himself in the public streets of Curnae, where these events took place; so that at last, when he sunk from exhaustion, his death (A. D. 66) although compulsory, appeared to be the result of natural and gradual decay. He is said to have despatched in his last moments a sealed document to the prince, taunting him with his brutal excesses (flagitia Principis * * * * * * perscripsit utque obsignata misit Neroni,) and to have broken in pieces a murrhine vessel of vast price, in order that it might not fall into the hands of the tyrant. This last anecdote has been recorded by Pliny (H. N.37.2), who, as well as Plutarch (De Adulat. e
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Piso (search)
Piso 26. L. Calpurnius Piso, the son of No. 24, was consul in A. D. 57 with the emperor Nero, and in A. D. 66 had the charge of the public finances entrusted to him, together with two other consulars. He was afterwards appointed proconsul of Africa, and was slain there in A. D. 76, because it was reported that he was forming a conspiracy against Vespasian, who had just obtained the empire. (Tac. Ann. 13.28, 31, 15.18, Hist. 4.38, 48-50; Plin. Ep. 3.7.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Plutarchus (search)
writings. He was studying philosophy under Ammonius at the time when Nero was making his progress through Greece (*Peri\ tou= *Ei) e)n *Delfoi=s, 100.1), as we may collect from the passage referred to. Nero was in Greece and visited Delphi in A. D. 66 ; and Plutarch seems to say, that he was at Delphi at that time. We may assume then that he was a youth or a young mall in A. D. 66. In another passage (Antonius, 87) he speaks of Nero as his contemporary. His great-grandfather Nicarchus told hiA. D. 66. In another passage (Antonius, 87) he speaks of Nero as his contemporary. His great-grandfather Nicarchus told him what the citizens of Chaeroneia had suffered at the time of the battle of Actium (Plut. Antonius, 68). He also mentions his grandfather Lamprias, from whom he heard various anecdotes about M. Antonius, which Lamprias had heard from Philotas, who was studying medicine at Alexandria when M. Antonius was there with Cleopatra. (Antonius, 29.) His father's name does not appear in his extant works. He had two brothers, Timon and Larnprias. As a young man, he was once employed on a mission to the Rom
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ove pleasing to the court, and he, therefore, was not advanced to any of the higher offices of the state. It appears that he and his fatherin-law were even imprudent enough to celebrate in their houses republican festivals, and to commemorate the birth-days of Brutus and Cassius. "Quale coronati Thrasea Helvidinsque bibebant Brutorum et Cassii natalibus." (Juv. 5.36.) These proceedings reached the ears of the emperor ; Thrasea was put to death [THRASEA], and Priscus banished from Italy (A. D. 66). He retired with his wife, Fannia, to Apollonia in Macedonia, where he remained till the death of Nero. He was recalled to Rome by Galba (A. D. 68), and one of his first acts was to bring to trial Eprius Marcellus, the accuser of his father-in-law; but as the sentiments of Galba were doubtful, he dropped the accusation. On the murder of Galba at the beginning of the following year (A. D. 69), he obtained from Otho the corpse of the emperor, and took care that it was buried (Plut. Galb. 28
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