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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Piso (search)
Piso 15. Calpurnius Piso, of unknown descent, praetor about B. C. 135, was defeated by the slaves in Sicily. (Flor. 3.19.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Poseido'nius (search)
the latter (xvi. p. 1093), where the expression kaq' h(ma=s, in an author who quotes from so many writers of different ages, may very well be understood of one who preceded him but a short time. Vossius supposes that the old age of Poseidonius may have coincided with the childhood of Strabo. The supposition is not necessary. As Panaetius died in B. C. 112, and Poseidonius came to Rome in the consulship of M. Marcellus (B. C. 51), and according to Lucian (l.c.) reached the age of 84 years, B. C. 135 is probably not far from the date of the birth of Poseidonius. Poseidonius, leaving Syria, betook himself to Athens, and became the disciple of Panaetius, and never returned to his native country. (Suid. l.c. ; Cic. de Off. 3.2, Tusc. Disp. 5.37.) On the death of Panaetius he set out on his travels, and first visited Spain. At Gades he staid thirty days, observing the setting of the sun, and by his observations confuting the ignorant story of the hissing sound made by the sun as it desce
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