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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sci'pio (search)
therefore attained the legal age. The senate, of course, assigned to him Africa as his province, to which he forthwith sailed, accompanied by his friends Polybius and Laelius. The details of the war, which ended in the capture of Carthage, are given by Appian (Pun. 113-131) and would take up too much space to be repeated here. The Carthaginians defended themselves with the courage of despair. They were able to maintain possession of their city till the spring of the following lowing year, B. C. 146, when the Roman legions at length forced their way into the devoted town. The inhabitants fought from street to street, and from house to house, and the work of destruction and butchery went on for days. The fate of this once magnificent city moved Scipio to tears, and anticipating that a similar catastrophe might one day befall Rome, he is said to have repeated the lines of the Iliad (6.448) over the flames of Carthage, e)/ssetai h)=mar, o(/t' a)/n pot' o)lw/lh| *)/Ilios (irh/, kai\ *Pri/
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Sila'nus, Ju'nius 2. D. Junius Silanus, was commissioned by the senate about B. C. 146, in consequence of his knowledge of the Punic language, to translate into Latin the twenty-eight books of Mago on Agriculture. (Plin. Nat. 18.3. s. 5.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Strabo, Fa'nnius 3. C. Fannius Strabo, M. F., the son-in-law of Laelius, is frequently confounded with C. Fannius C. f. [No. 2.] In his youth he served in Africa, under Scipio Africanus, in B. C. 146, and along with Tib. Gracchus, was the first to mount the walls of Carthage on the capture of the city. He afterwards served in Spain with distinction, in B. C. 142, under Fabius Maximus Servilianus. (Plut. Tib. Gracch. 4 ; Appian, Hisp. 67.) Fannius is introduced by Cicero as one of the speakers ble that Cicero confounded C. Fannius, M. f., the son-in-law of Laelius, with C. Fannius, C. f., and that the latter was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 142. It is, however, quite impossible to reconcile all the statements of ancient writers respecting this C. Fannius. According to his own statement, as preserved by Plutarch (Tib. Gracch. 4), he was one of the first to mount the walls of Carthage in B. C. 146, but if he was thirty in B. C. 129, he could only have been thirteen in the former year!
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Tryphon, Dio'dotus （*Dio/dotos o( *Tru/fwn), a usurper of the throne of Syria during the reign of Demetrius II. Nicator. After the death of Alexander Balas in B. C. 146, Tryphon first set up Antiochus, the infant son of Balas, as a pretender against Demetrius; but in B. C. 142 by murdered Antiochus and reigned as king himself. Tryphon was defeated and put to death by Antiochus Sidetes, the brother of Demetrius, B. C. 139, after a reign of three years. For details and authorities, see DEMETRIUS II., p. 967.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tudita'nus (search)
Tudita'nus 6. C. Sempronius Tuditanus, C. F., was one of the ten commissioners sent to L. Mummius in B. C. 146 in order to form Southern Greece into a Roman province. He has been confounded by Drumann (Gesckichte Roms, vol. iii. p. 81) with the following [No. 7], as he had been by Cicero, whose mistake was corrected by Atticus. This Tuditanus was the proavus or great grandfather of the orator Hortensius. (Cic. Att. 13.6.4, 13.33.3.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Viriathus (search)
command of the quaestor within the walls of Carpessus, which Appian supposes to be the same as the ancient Tartessus. Fearing to meet the enemy in the field, the quaestor obtained 5000 men from the Belli and Titthi, Celtiberian tribes, who were then allies of the Romans, and sent them against Viriathus; but they were also defeated by the Lusitanian general, who now laid waste Carpetania without encountering any opposition. On the arrival of the praetor C. Plautius in the following year, B. C. 146, with a fresh army, Viriathus abandoned Carpetania and retreated into Lusitania. He was eagerly followed by Plautius, who crossed the Tagus in pursuit of him, but while the Romans were engaged in fortifying their camp on a mountain, covered with olives, which the Roman writers call the Hill of Venus, they were attacked by Viriathus and put to the rout with great slaughter. Plautius was so disheartened with this defeat that he made no further attempt against the enemy, but led his army into
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