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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
PORTA TIBURTINA
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PORTA TIBURTINA
a gate in the Aurelian wall (III. 44), by which the VIA
TIBURTINA (q.v.) left the city (DMH). In the eighth century it was known
as Porta S. Laurentii, because it led to the church of that name (GMU 88;
R ii. 406). There seems to be no trace in the present gate of any work
by Aurelian, who may have simply restricted himself to flanking with two
towers the arch by which the aquae Marcia, Tepula and Iulia crossed the
road. This was rebuilt by Augustus in 5 B.C., and also bears inscriptions
of Vespasian and Septimius Severus, relating to the aqueducts (CIL vi.
1244-1246). From the bull's head on the keystone of the arch came the
name porta Taurina, which we find in the Liber Pontificalis in the lives
of Alexander I (LPD i. 127) and Anastasius I (ib. 258) as well as in the
Mirabilia (Jord. ii. 319-328); while Magister Gregorius (JRS 1919, 20,
46) gives both porta Tiburtina and porta Aquileia, que nunc Sancti
Laurentii dicitur, in his list.
The gate was restored by Honor
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Chronological Index to Dateable Monuments (search)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Lae'lius
2. C. Laelius Sapiens, was son of the preceding. His intimacy with the younger Scipio Africanus was as remarkable as his father's friendship with the elder (Vell. 2.127; V. Max. 4.7.7), and it obtained an imperishable monument in Cicero's treatise "Laelius sive de Amicitia" He was born about B. C. 186-5; was tribune the plebs in 151; praetor in 145 (Cic. de Amic. 25); and consul, after being once rejected, in 140 (Cic. Brut. 43, Tusc. 5.19; Plut. Imp. Apophthegm. p. 200). His character was dissimilar to that of his father.
The elder Laelius was an officer of the old Roman stamp, softened, perhaps, by his intercourse with Polybius, but essentially practical and enterprising.
A mild philosophy refined, and, it may be, enfeebled the younger Laelius, who, though not devoid of military talents, as his campaign against the Lusitanian guerilla-chief Viriatus proved (Cic. de Off. 2.11), was more of a statesman than a soldier, and more a philosopher than a statesman. From Diogenes of
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Mariamne
2. Daughter of Simon, a priest at Jerusalem. Herod the Great was struck with her beauty and married her, B. C. 23, at the same time raising her father to the high-priesthood, whence he deposed Jesus, the son of Phabes, to make room for him. In B. C. 5, Mariamne being accused of being privy to the plot of ANTIPATER and Pheroras against Herod's life, he put her away, deprived Simon of the high-priesthood, and erased from his will the name of Herod Philip, whom she had borne him, and whom he had intended as the successor to his dominions after Antipater. (Jos. Ant. 15.9.3, 17.1.2, 4.2, 18.5.1, 19.6.2, Bell. Jud. 1.28.2, 30.7.)
Menalippus
*Mena/lippos, (an equivalent form to *Mela/nippos), an architect, probably of Athens, who, in conjunction with the Roman architects, C. and M. Stallius, was employed by Ariobarzanes II. (Philopator), king of Cappadocia, to restore the Odeum of Pericles, which had been burnt in the Mithridatic war, in Ol. 173, 3, B. C. 86-5.
The exact date of the restoration is unknown; but Ariobarzanes reigned from B. C. 63 to about B. C. 51. (Böckh, Corp. Insc. vol. i. No. 357; Vitr. 9. 1.) [P.S
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Sulla
12. L. Cornelius Sulla, P. F. P. N., the son of No. 11, was consul B. C. 5 with Augustus. (Plin. Nat. 7.11. s. 13; Dio Cass. index, lib. lv.)