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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
1. Ummidius Quadratus, was governor of Syria during the latter end of the reign of Claudius, and the commencement of the reign of Nero. He succeeded Cassius Longinus in the province about A. D. 51, and continued to govern it till his death in A. D. 60. Only three circumstances are mentioned in connection with his administration. In A. D. 52 he allowed Rhadamistus to dethrone and put to death Mithridates, the king of Armenia, whom Tiberius had placed upon the throne, and whom the Romans had hithe above. She could hardly have been a daughter, as some modern writers have supposed, since she had a grandson of the age of twenty-four and upwards at the time of her death [see below, No. 2], and it is not probable that Ummidius, who died in A. D. 60, could have had a great-grandson of that age about A. D. 100. Quadra'tus, Ummi'dius 2. Ummidius Quadratus, a friend and admirer of the younger Pliny, whom he took as his model in oratory. Pliny speaks of him in the highest terms, and praises
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
1. Ummidius Quadratus, was governor of Syria during the latter end of the reign of Claudius, and the commencement of the reign of Nero. He succeeded Cassius Longinus in the province about A. D. 51, and continued to govern it till his death in A. D. 60. Only three circumstances are mentioned in connection with his administration. In A. D. 52 he allowed Rhadamistus to dethrone and put to death Mithridates, the king of Armenia, whom Tiberius had placed upon the throne, and whom the Romans had hien previously the legatus of Caligula in Lusitania. The Ummidia Quadratilla, whose death in the reign of Trajan is mentioned by Pliny [QUADRATILLA], was in all probability a sister of the above. She could hardly have been a daughter, as some modern writers have supposed, since she had a grandson of the age of twenty-four and upwards at the time of her death [see below, No. 2], and it is not probable that Ummidius, who died in A. D. 60, could have had a great-grandson of that age about A. D. 100.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Secundus, Vi'bius a Roman eques, was accused of malversation (repetundae) in Mauritania, and condemned, A. D. 60. He was banished from Italy, and escaped a heavier punishment through the influence of his brother Vibius Crispus. (Tac. Ann. xiv 28.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Seneca the Younger or the Younger Seneca (search)
less to dissuade the emperor from his purpose, or, what is more probable, they saw that either the mother or the son must perish. Seneca broke the silence by asking Burrus if orders should be given to the soldiers to out Agrippina to death. Burrus replied that the soldiers were devoted to the family of Germanicus, and would not shed the blood of his children; but Anicetus, he added, would finish what he had begun. Anicetus performed his promise, and Agrippina died by the hand of assassins, A. D. 60. The imperial murderer fled as if he could leave his conscience behind him, to the city of Naples, whence he addressed a letter to the senate upon the death of his mother : he charged her with a conspiracy against himself, on the failure of which she had committed suicide. The author of the letter was Seneca (Tac. Ann. 14.11) : it is not extant, but a few words from it are quoted by Quintilian (Inst. Orat. 8.5). This letter is Seneca's great condemnation : he had consented to Agrippina be
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Seve'rus, Verula'nus a legatus of Corbulo, under whom he served in the East, in A. D. 60-12 (Tac. Ann. 14.26, 15.3). The L. Verulanus Severus, who was consul suffectus under Trajan in A. D. 108, was perhaps a son of the preceding.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Turpi'lius La'beo of Venice, a Roman knight, contemporary with Pliny, who mentions him as an exception to the low condition in life of the generality of Roman painters since Pacuvius. Another peculiarity was that he painted with his left hand. He was recently dead when Pliny wrote the passage in which he mentions him. There were some beautiful pictures by him at Verona. He may be placed about A. D. 60. (Plin. Nat. 35.4. S. 7.) [P.S]
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