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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ge'ntius (search)

as waiting to see the prolable result of the war. Several embassies had been previously sent him by the Romans, but without effect; and it was even said that one of the ambassadors, L. Decimius, had allowed himself to be, bribed by the Illyrian king. (Liv. 42.26, 37. 45.) The envoys of Perseus could it first obtain little more success: Gentius represented that he could not stir without money, which the Macedonian king was unwilling to grant; and it was not till the fourth year of the war (B. C. 168) that Perseus, alarmed at the successes of the Remnans, consented to secure the alliance of the Illyrian by the payment of a sum of 300 talents. A treaty having been concluded on these terms, and confirmed by oaths and the sending of mutual hostages, Gentius allowed himself to be led into acts of direct hostility against the Romanas, before he had actually received the stipulated sum: but as soon as Perseus saw that he was so far committed that he could no longer withdraw from the contest,

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Heracleides (search)

Heracleides 2. A Macedonian painter, who was at first merely a painter of ships, but afterwards acquired some distinction as a painter in encaustic. He lived in the time of Perseus, after whose fall he went to Athens, B. C. 168. (Plin. Nat. 35.11. s. 40. §§ 30, 42

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Hosti'lius (search)

Hosti'lius 4. C. Hostilius was sent by the senate to Alexandria in B. C. 168 to interpose as legatus between Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Syria [ANTIOCHUS, IV.] and Ptolemy Physcon and Cleopatra, the sovereigns of Egypt. [CLEOPATRA, No. 6.] (Liv. 44.19, 29.)

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Hype'rbatas (search)

Hype'rbatas 2. General of the Achaeans in B. C. 179. The Romans having sent to require of the league the recal of all the Lacedaemonian exiles without distinction, Hyperbatus held an assembly, in which he urged, in opposition to Lycortas, the necessity of compliance with this request (Plb. 26.1.) On this occasion he took the same side with Callicrates, and we find him again, in B. C. 168, uniting with that unworthy statesman against the proposal of Lycortas and his party, to send assistance to the two Ptolemies in their war against Antiochus Epiphanes. (Id. 29.8.) [E.H.B]

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ion (search)

Ion （*)/Iwn), of Thessalonica, was an officer of Perseus, king of Macedonia, and commanded, with Timanor, his light-armed troops in the battle in Thessaly, in which the Romans were defeated, B. C. 171. In B. C. 168, after Perseus had been conquered at Pydna, Ion delivered up at Samothrace to Cn. Octavius (the commander of the Roman fleet) the king's younger children, who had been entrusted to his care. (Liv. 42.58, 45.6.) [E.

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lentulus (search)

Lentulus 31. L. Lentulus, in B. C. 168 was one of three who carried home the despatches of the consul Aemilius Paullus, after the defeat of Perseus (Liv. 45.1).

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lycortas (search)

mpliance with the requisition of the Romans for the recal of all the Lacedaemonian exiles without exception. On this occasion he was opposed to Callicrates and Hyperbatus; and, of course, he became more and more an object of dislike and suspicion to the Romans. He adhered, however, firmly to the moderate policy which he had adopted from the first; and, when the war between Rome and Perseus broke out, he recommended the Achaeans to preserve a strict neutrality. (Pol. 26.1, &c., 28.3, 6.) In B. C. 168, we find him proposing, in opposition again to Callicrates and Hyperbatus, to send aid to the two Ptolemies (Philometor and Physcon), who had asked for a force, with Lycortas for general, against Antiochus Epiphanes; but his motion was unsuccessful. From this period we hear no more of him. Had he been alive in B. C. 167, he would doubtless have been among the Achaeans who were apprehended and sent to Rome after the conquest of Macedonia: but his son Polybius makes no mention of him, nor ev

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ma'sgaba (search)

Ma'sgaba a Numidian, son of Masinissa, was sent to Rome by his father as ambassador in B. C. 168. He was received with the utmost distinction, one of the quaestors being sent to meet him at Puteoli, and attend him from thence to Rome. (Liv. 45.13,14.) [E.H.B]

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ma'ximus, Fa'bius (search)

Ma'ximus, Fa'bius 8. Q. Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, Q. F. Q. N., was by adoption only a Fabius Maximus, being by birth the eldest son of L. Paullus Aemiliis, the conqueror of Perseus, consul in B. C. 132. Fabius served under his father (Aemilius) in the last Macedonian war, B. C. 168, and was despatched by him to Rome with the news of his victory at Pydna. (Plb. 29.6.) Fabius was praetor in Sicily B. C. 149-148, and consul in 145. Spain was his province, where he encountered, and at length defeated Viriarathus. (Liv. 44.35 ; Appian, Hispan. 65, 67, 90, Maced. 17; Plut. paull. Aem. 5; Cic. de Amic. 25.) Fabius was the pupil and patron of the historian Polybius, who has recorded some interesting and honourable traits of his filial and fraternal conduct, and of the affection entertained for him by his younger brother, Scipio Aemilianus. (Plb. 18.18.6, 32.8.4, 9.9, 10.3, 14, 33.6.3, 9.5 38.3.8; Cic. De Amic. 19, Paradox. 6.2.)

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mena'lcidas (search)

Mena'lcidas （*Menulki/das), a Lacedaemonian adventurer, who, in some way not further specified by Polybius, took advantage of the circumstances of Egypt, in its war with Antiochus Epiphanes (B. C. 171-168), to advance his own interests at the Ptolemies' expence. He was thrown into prison by Philometor and Physcon, but was released by them in B. C. 168, at the request of C. Popillius Laenas, the Roman ambassador, who was sent to command Antiochus to withdraw from the country. (Plb. 30.11; comp.B. C. 168, at the request of C. Popillius Laenas, the Roman ambassador, who was sent to command Antiochus to withdraw from the country. (Plb. 30.11; comp. Liv. 45.12, 13; Just. 34.2, 3; V. Max. 6.4.3.) In B. C. 150 we find Menalcidas, as general of the Achaean league, engaging for a bribe of ten talents to induce the Achaeans to aid Oropus against Athens. By the promise of half the sum, he won Callicrates to the same cause, and they succeeded in carrying a decree for the succour required. No effectual service, however, was rendered to the Oropians, but Menalcidas still exacted the money he had agreed for, and then evaded the payment of his porti

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