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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pleistarchus (search)
Pleistarchus （*Plei/starxos). 1. King of Sparta, of the line of the Agids, was the son and successor of the heroic Leonidas, who was killedin at Thermopylae, B. C. 489. He was a mere child at the time of his father's death, on which account the regency was assumed by his cousin Pausanias, who commanded the Greeks at Plataea. (Hdt. 9.10; Paus. 3.4.9.) It appears that the latter continued to administer affairs in the name of the young king till his own death, about B. C. 467 (Thuc. 1.132). Whether Pleistarchus was then of age to take the reins of government into his own hands we know not, but Pausanias tells us that he died shortly after assuming the sovereignty, while it appears, from the date assigned by Diodorus to the reign of his successor Pleistoanax, that his death could not have taken place till the year B. C. 458. (Paus. 3.5.1; Diod. 13.75; Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. p. 210.) No particulars of his reign are recorded to u
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pleisto'anax (search)
Pleisto'anax （*Pleistoa/nac, *Pleistw/nac), the nineteenth king of Sparta in the line of the Agidae, was the eldest son of the Pausanias who conquered at Plataea in B. C. 479. On the death of Pleistarchus, in B. C. 458, without issue, Pleistoanax succeeded to the throne, being yet a minor, so that in the expedition of the Lacedae-monians in behalf of the Dorians against Phocis, in B. C. 457, his uncle Nicomedes, son of Cleombrotus, commanded for him. (Thuc. 1.107; Diod. 11.79; Paus. 1.13, 3.5.) In B. C. 445 he led in person an invasion into Attica, being however, in consequence of his youth, accompanied by Cleandridas as a counsellor. The premature withdrawal of his army from the enemy's territory exposed both Cleandridas and himself to the suspicion of having been bribed by Pericles, and, according to Plutarch, while Cleandridas fled from Sparta and was condemned to death in his absence, the young king was punished bya heavy fine, which he was unable to pay, and was therefore oblige
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ru'tilus, Nau'tius 2. C. NAUTILUS SP. F. SP. N. RUTILUS, probably brother of No. 1., was consul for the first time B. C. 475, with P. Valerius Publicola, and laid waste the territory of the Volscians, but was unable to bring them to a battle. He was consul a second time in B. C. 458, with L. Minucius Augurinus. While Rutilus carried on the war with success against the Sabines, his colleague Minucius was defeated by the Aequians; and Rutilus had to return to Rome to appoint L. Quintius Cincinnatus dictator. (Liv. 2.52, 3.25, 26, 29; Dionys. A. R. 9.28, 35, 10.22. 23, 25.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Tarqui'tia Gens was of patrician rank, and of great antiquity, but only one member of it is mentioned, namely L. Tarquitius Fiaccus, who was magister equitum to the dictator Cincinnatus in B. C. 458 [FLACCUS. The other Tarquitii whose names occur towards the end of the republic, can scarcely be regarded as members of the patrician gens.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Vibula'nus (search)
ainst the rogation and its author, that even both the consuls could not have inspired greater fear. On the advice of his colleagues Terentillus withdrew his proposal. (Liv. 3.9; Dionys. A. R. 9.69.) In B. C. 459 Fabius was consul a third time with L. Cornelius Maluginensis. In this year he defeated the Volscians, who had laid siege to Antium, and also the Aequians, who had taken Tusculum, and on account of these victories celebrated a triumph on his return to Rome. In the following year, B. C. 458, when the two consuls marched with their two armies against the Sabines and Aequians, Fabius was left behind with a third for the protection of Rome. This is the account of Dionysius, but Livy simply says that he was one of the three ambassadors sent in that year to Cloelius Gracchus, the leader of the Aequians. (Liv. 3.22-25; Dionys. A. R. 10.20-22.) In B. C. 450 Fabius was elected a member of the second decemvirate, and along with his colleagues continued illegally in power in the foll
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
er the plague he and his elder brother fell in with a party of patrician youths who came rushing through the Subura, when their leader Kaeso knocked down his brother, who was still feeble from the sickness he had just got over, and injured him so much that he died shortly afterwards. Dionysius makes Volscius tribune of the plebs in this year. In consequence of this testimony Kacsso was condemned. The patricians in revenge charged Volscius with falsehood ; and in B. C. 459 the quaestors accused him before the comitia of the curiae or the centuries, of having borne false witness against Kaeso, but the tribunes prevented them from prosecuting the charge. In the following year, B. C. 458, L. Cincinnatus, the father of Kaeso, was appointed dictator, and presided in the comitia for the trial of Volscius. The tribunes dared not offer any further opposition, and Volscius was obliged to go into exile. (Liv. 3.13, 24, 25, 29 ; Dionys. A. R. 10.7; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. pp. 289, 298.)
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