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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Longus, Sempro'nius 1. Ti. Sempronius Longus, C. F. C. N., consul with P. Cornelius Scipio B. C. 218, the first year of the second Punic war. Sicily was assigned to him as his province, since the Romans did not dream that Hannibal would be able to cross the Alps, and invade Italy itself. Sempronius accordingly crossed over to Sicily, and began to prosecute the war against the Carthaginians with vigour. He conquered the island of Melita, which was held by a Carthaginian force, and on his return to Lilybaeum was preparing to go in search of the enemy's fleet, which was cruising off the northern coast of Sicily and Italy, when he was summoned to join his colleague in Italy, in order to oppose Hannibal As it was now winter, Sempronius feared to sail through the Adriatic, and, accordingly, he crossed over the straits of Messana with his troops, and in forty years marched through the whole length of Italy to Ariminum. From this place he effected a junction with his colleague, who was poste
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lucre'tius (search)
Lucre'tius 1. L. Lucretius, quaestor B. C. 218, was taken prisoner by the Ligurians, along with some other Roman officers, and delivered up to Hannibal. (Liv. 21.59.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Luscus, A'nnius 1. T. Annius Luscus, son of T. Annius, captured by the Boian Gauls in B. C. 218 [ANNIUS, No. 3], was sent in B. C. 172, with two other envoys to Perseus, king of Macedonia, and in B. C. 169 was triumvir for augmenting the colony at Aquilcia, in the territory of the Veneti. (Liv. 42.25, 43.17.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lycurgus (search)
ian envoy, to make war on Philip V. of Macedon, and the Achaeans. Having invaded Argolis and taken several towns, he laid siege to the fortress named Athenaeum, in the district of Belbina, claimed by the Megalopolitans as their territory, and took it in conselquenct of the dilatory conduct of Aratus, to whom it looked for succour, B. C. 219. In the same year he barely escaped with his life from the conspiracy of CHEILON, and fled for refuge to Pellene on the western frontier of Laconia. In B. C. 218 he made an incursion into Messenia, simultaneously with the invasion of Thessaly by Dorimachus, the Aetolian, in the hope of drawing Philip away from the siege of Palus in Cephallenia; but Philip, while he himself invaded Aetolia, desired Eperatus, the Achaean general, to go to the relief of the Messenians. Lycurgus effected little in Messenia, and was equally unsuccessful in the same year, in an attempt which he made on the citadel of Tegea, and also in his endeavour to intercept and def
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mago (search)
Mago 5. Son of Hamilcar Barca, and brother of the famous Harnibal. He was the youngest of the three brothers, and must have been quite a youth when he accompanied Hannibal into Italy, B. C. 218. But his whole life had been spent in camps, under the eye of his father or brother, and young as he was, he had already given proofs not only of personal courage, but of skill and judgment in war, sufficient to justify Hannibal in entrusting him with services of the most important character. The first occasion on which he is mentioned is the passage of the Po, which he effected successfully at the head of the cavalry: according to Caelius Antipater, he and his horsemen crossed the river by swimming. (Liv. 21.47.) At the battle of the Trebia shortly afterwards, he was selected by his brother to command the body of chosen troops placed in ambuscade among the thickets of the bed of the river, and by his well-timed attack on the rear of the Roman army contributed mainly to the success of the day.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Maso (search)
Maso 3. C. Papirius Maso, was, according to some annals, one of the triumviri for founding the colonies of Placentia and Cremona, in Cisalpine Gaul, in B. C. 218. (Liv. 21.25.) Asconius (in Cic. Pis. p. 3, ed. Orell.) calls him P. Papirius Mas,. He may be the same as the consul [No. 2] or the decemvir sacrorum mentioned below. [No. 4.]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mega'leas (search)
Mega'leas （*Megale/as), was chief secretary to Antigonus Doson, king of Macedonia, who appointed him, by his will, to the same office under Philip V., his ward and successor (B. C. 220). Megaleas was entirely under the influence of Apelles, and readily entered into his treasonable designs (B. C. 218), to baffle the operations of Philip in his war against the Aetolians. Their treachery, however, was counteracted by Aratus, and the latter accordingly was assailed with personal violence by Megaleas, Leontius, and Crinon, at Limnaca, in Acarnania, when Philip had returned thither from his successful campaign in Aetolia. For this offence Megaleas and Crinon were thrown into prison till they should find security for a fine of twenty talents, but Megaleas was released on the bail of Leontius, who had contrived to escape in the tumult for which his accomplices were punished. In the same year (218) Megaleas and Leontius excited a mutiny at Corinth among the troops of Philip. It was soon quell
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nicola'us (search)
Nicola'us 4. An Aetolian, and a general of Ptolemy IV. (Philopator). In B. C. 219 we find him besieging Ptolemais, which was held by the traitor Theodotus, who had revolted from Ptolemy to Antiochus the Great. Nicolaus, however, abandoned the siege on the approach of the Syrian king [LAGORAS]. In the same year he did much towards baffling the attempt of Antiochus on Dura or Dora in Phoenicia, by sending constant succours to the besieged. In B. C. 218 he was invested by Ptolemy with the supreme command in Coele-Syria, an appointment fully warranted, according to Polybius, by his military experience and bravery. He was, however, dislodged by Antiochus and his generals from a strong position which he had taken up between the range of Mount Libanus and the sea near the town of Porphyreon, and was obliged to seek safetyin a precipitate flight towards Sidon. It may be conjectured that after this he deserted to Antiochus: at least, we find the name of Nicolaus of Aetolia mentioned among the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Peri'genes (search)
Peri'genes （*Perige/nhs), commander of the fleet of Ptolemy IV. (Philopator) in the war against Antiochus III., king of Syria, B. C. 218. He engaged Diognetus, the admiiral of Antiochus, without any decisive result, but the defeat of the land forces of Ptolemy under Nicolaus compelled Perigenes to retreat. (Plb. 5.68, 69.) [E.H.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Petraeus (search)
Petraeus （*Petrai=os), a friend of Philip V., king of Macedonia, who was sent by that monarch to Sparta in B. C. 220, to receive the submission of the Lacedaemonians, and confirm them in their allegiance to Macedonia. We subsequently find him commanding a military force in Thessaly, where he successfully opposed the invasion of that country by the Aetolian general Dorimachus, B. C. 218. (Plb. 4.24, 5.17.) [E.H.
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