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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Matho, Q. Nae'vius praetor B. C. 184, received the province of Sardinia, and also the commission to inquire into all cases of poisoning. He was engaged in this investigation for four months before he set out for his province, prosecuting his inquiries in the various municipia and conciliabula in Italy; and if we may believe Valerius Antias, he condemned two thousand persons in this time. (Liv. 39.32, 38, 41.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nae'vius (search)
Nae'vius 4. M. Naevius, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 184, entered upon his office in B. C. 185, in which year, at the instigation of Cato the censor, he accused Scipio Africanus the elder of having been bribed by Antiochus to allow that monarch to come off too leniently. Scipio's speech in his defence was extant in the time of A. Gellius, who quotes a striking passage from it; but there was some dispute whether Naevius was the accuser of Scipio; some authorities spoke of the Petilii as the parties who brought the charge. (Liv. 38.56, 39.52; Gel. 4.18; Aur. Vict. de Vir. Ill. 49.) The short quotation which Cicero (Cic. de Orat. 2.61) makes from a speech of Scipio against Naevius must have been delivered upon another occasion, since Livy (38.56) tells us that the speech which Scipio delivered in his defence on the occasion referred to, did not contain the name of the accuser. (Meyer, Orator. Roman. Fragm. p. 6, &c., 2d ed.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nobi'lior (search)
son of the great M. Fulvius whose name occurs so often in that part of the historian's writings. A consideration of dates will make it almost certain that this Q. Fulvius M. f. must be the same as the consul of B. C. 153; for supposing him to have been sixteen when he was enrolled in the college of the epulones, he would have been forty-three when he was elected consul, the age at which a citizen could first obtain this honour. We therefore conclude that the Q. Nobilior who was triumvir in B. C. 184 must be a different person from the consul of 153. The consuls of the year B. C. 153 entered upon their office on the kalends of January, whereas up to this time the ides of March had been the day on which they took possession of their dignity. The formidable revolt of the Celtiberians is given as the reason of this alteration; but whatever may have been the cause, the kalends of January continued from this time forth to be the first day of the consular year. (Cassiodorus and Marianus, C
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nobi'lior (search)
Nobi'lior 5. M. Fulvius Nobilior, tribune of the soldiers, B. C. 180, and described as a brother of Q. Fulvius, was probably brother of the Quintus who was triumvir coloniae deducendae in B. C. 184. See the beginning of No. 4. (Liv. 40.41.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Phi'locles (search)
lamininus and Attalus to raise the siege of Corinth, having brought up through Boeotia to the promontory of Juno Acraea, just opposite Sicyon, a reinforcement of 1500 men; and in consequence of this success he was invited to Argos by the Macedonian party in the town, and made himself master of it. In the war between Prusias and Eumenes II. of Pergamus, Philip sided with the former, and sent Philocles to his court to negotiate with him, and also to Rome to explain and defend his conduct. In B. C. 184 Philocles and Apelles were joined by Philip with his son Demetrius in an embassy to Rome, to plead his cause before the senate, and avert their anger. In B. C. 181 Philocles and Apelles were again sent to Rome, to inquire into the truth of an accusation brought by Perseus against Demetrius, of having formed a design for changing the succession to the throne in his own favour, and of having communicated it to T. Quintius Flamininus and other Romans. The envoys had been chosen by Philip bec
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Plautus (search)
ies obliged him to enter the service of a baker. who employed him in turning a hand-mill. While in this degrading occupation he wrote three plays, the sale of which to the managers of the public games enabled him to quit his drudgery, and begin his literary career. He was then probably about 30 years of age (B. C. 224), and accordingly commenced writing comedies a few years before the breaking out of the Second Punic War. He continued his literary occupation for about forty years. and died B. C. 184, when he was seventy years of age. His contemporaries at first were Livins Andronicus and Naevius, afterwards Ennius and Caecilius: Terence did not rise into notice till almost twenty years after his death. During the long time that he held possession of the stage, he was always a great favourite of the people; and he expressed a bold consciousness of his own powers in the epitaph which he wrote for his tomb, and which has been preserved by A. Gellius (1.24):-- Postquam est mortem aptus Pl
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
the honour of a triumph was granted to Purpureo, though not without some opposition. He was consul B. C. 196 with M. Claudius Marcellus, and with his colleague defeated the Boii. Purpureo vowed three temples to Jupiter, two in the Gallic war during his praetorship, and the other during his consulship: one of these was consecrated in B. C. 194, and the other two in B. C. 192. After the conquest of Antiochus by Scipio, Purpureo was one of the ten commissioners sent by the senate to settle the affairs of Asia. He is mentioned again in B. C. 187, as one of the vehement opponents of the triumph of Cn. Manlius Vulso [VULSO]. He was one of the candidates for the censorship in B. C. 184, when L. Valerius Flaccus and M. Porcius Cato were elected. In the following year, B. C. 183, he was sent, with two other senators, as ambassador to Transalpine Gaul; and this is the last time that his name occurs. (Liv. 27.2, 31.4, 6, 10, 21, 47-49, 33.24, 37, 34.53, 35.41, 37.55, 38.44, 45, 54, 39.40, 54.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sci'pio (search)
of his property, has been already related in the life of his brother. But notwithstanding the poverty to which he is said to have been reduced (Liv. 38.60), he celebrated with great splendour, in B. C. 185, the games which he had vowed in his war with Antiochus. Valerius of Antium related that he obtained the necessary money during an embassy on which he was sent after his condemnation, to settle the disputes between the kings Antiochus and Eumenes. He was a candidate for the censorship in B. C. 184, but was defeated by the old enemy of his family, M. Porcius Cato, who gave another proof of his hatred to the family by depriving Asiaticus of his horse at the review of the equites (Liv. 39.22, 40, 44). It appears, therefore, that even as late as this time an eques did not forfeit his horse by becoming a senator. The name of Scipio Asiaticus occurs on coins, and he is the only one of the family of whom coins are extant. On the obverse is a head crowned with laurel, and on the reverse J
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sci'pio (search)
he great Africanus, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the consulship for B. C. 192, and did not obtain it till the following year, when he was elected with M'. Acilius Glabrio. In his consulship, B. C. 191, he fought against the Boii, defeated them in battle, and triumphed over them on his return to Rome. He defended his cousin, L. Scipio Asiaticus, when he was accused in B. C. 187, after his conquest of Antiochus. He was one of the many distinguished men, who sued for the censorship in B. C. 184, but was defeated by M. Porcius Cato. Hence Pliny speaks of him (H. N. 7.34), as bis repulsa notatus a populo. In B. C. 183 and 182 he was engaged as one of the triumviri in settling a Latin colony at Aquileia. The last time he is mentioned is in B. C. 171, when he was one of the advocates appointed by the Spanish deputies to bring to trial the Roman governors who had oppressed them. Scipio Nasica is mentioned both by Cicero and Pomponius as a celebrated jurist, aud the latter writer adds,
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tudita'nus (search)
Tudita'nus 5. M. Sempronius Tuditanus, M. F. C. N., tribune of the plebs B. C. 193, proposed and carried a plebiscitium, which enacted that the law about money lent should be the same for the Socii and the Latini as for the Roman citizens. (Dict. of Antiq. s. v. Lex Sempronia de Fenore.) He was praetor B. C. 189, when he obtained Sicily as his province, and consul B. C. 185 with Ap. Claudius Pulcher. In his consulship he carried on war in Liguria, and defeated the Apuani, while his colleague was equally successful against the Ingauni. Tuditanus was an unsuccessful candidate for the consulship in B. C. 184, but was elected one of the pontifices in the following year. He was carried off by the great pestilence which devastated Rome in B. C. 174. (Liv. 35.7, 37.47, 50, 39.23. 32, 40, 46, 41.21.)
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