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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
VENUS VERTICORDIA, AEDES
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VENUS VERTICORDIA, AEDES
a temple built in 114 B.C., in accordance with
instructions of the Sibylline books, to atone for a case of incest among
the Vestals and a prodigium that followed the acquittal of two at the
first trial (Obseq. 37 (97); Lydus de mens. iv. 15; Ov. Fast. iv. 157-160;
cf. Oros. v. 15. 22). The epithet referred to the power of the goddess to
turn the mind from lust to purity (Ov. loc. cit.; Val. Max. viii. 15. 12).
The day of dedication was 1st April (CIL i². p. 314; Ov. Fast. iv. 133 ff.;
Lydus, loc. cit.; Macrob. i. 12. 15). Servius speaks of a fanum Veneris
Verticordiae in the vallis Murciae (Aen. viii. 636), but seems to be confusing the shrine of this goddess with that of Venus Murcia. This may
show that the former was near the latter; if not, there is no indication
of its location. The statue of the goddess is shown in coins of about
46 B.C. of M. Cordius Rufus (BM. Rep. i. 523. 4037-9).
About a century earlier Sulpicia (RE vii. 246), the wife of Q. Fulvi
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Chronological Index to Dateable Monuments (search)
Aemi'lia
5. A vestal virgin, who was put to death B. C. 114 for having committed incest upon several occasions.
She induced two of the other vestal virgins, Marcia and Licinia, to commit the same crime, but these two were acquitted by the pontifices, when Aemilia was condemned, but were subsequently condemned by the praetor L. Cassius. (Plut. Quaest. Rom. p. 284; Liv. Epit. 63 ; Orosius, 5.15; Ascon. in Cic. Mil. p. 46, ed. Orelli.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Balbus
2. M'. Acilius Balbus, M. F. L. N., consul B. C. 114. (Obsequ. 97; Plin. Nat. 2.29, 56. s. 57.)
It is doubtful to which of the Acilii Balbi the annexed coin is to be referred.
The obverse has the inscription BA(L)BVS, with the head of Pallas, before which is X. and beneath ROMA, the whole within a laurel garland. On the reverse we have MV. ACILI, with Jupiter and Victory in a quadriga.
II. T. Ampius Balbus, plebeian,
tribune of the plebs B. C. 63, proposed, in conjunction with his colleague T. Labienus, that Pompey, who was then absent from Rome, should, on account of his Asiatic victories, be allowed to wear a laurel-crown and all the insignia of a triumph in the Circensian games, and also a laurel crown and the praetexta in the scenic games. (Vell. 2.40.)
He failed in his first attempt to obtain the aedileship, although he was supported by Pompey (Schol. Bob. pro Planc. p. 257, ed. Orelli); but he appears to have been praetor in B. C. 59), as we find that he was gover
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Cato, Po'rcius
5. C. Porcius Cato, younger son of Cato Licinianus [No. 2], is mentioned by Cicero as a middling orator. (Brut. 28.) Ill his youth he was a follower of Tib. Gracchus. In B. C. 114, he was consul with Acilius Balbus, and in the same year obtained Macedonia as his province. In Thrace, he fought unsuccessfully against the Scordisci. His army was cut off in the mountains, and he himself escaped with difficulty, though Ammianus Marcellinus erroneously states that he was slain. (27.4.4.) Disappointed of booty in war, he endeavoured to indemnify himself by extortions in Macedonia. For this he was accused and sentenced to pay a fine.
Afterwards, he appears to have served as a legate in the war with Jugurtha in Africa, where he was won over by the king.
In order to escape condemnation on this charge, in B. C. 110, he went to Tarraco in Spain, and became a citizen of that town. (Cic. pro Balb. 11.)
He has been sometimes confounded with his elder brother. (Vell. 2.8; Eutrop. 4.24
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Gnipho, M. Anto'nius
a distinguished Roman rhetorician, who lived in the last century before the Christian aera.
He was born in B. C. 114, and was a native of Gaul, but studied at Alexandria.
He was a man of great talent and extraordinary memory, and was thoroughly acquainted with Greek as well as Roman literature, and he is further praised as a person of a kind and generous disposition.
After his return from Alexandria, he taught rhetoric at first in the house of J. Caesar, who was then a boy, and afterwards set up a school in his own house.
He gave instruction in rhetoric every day, but declaimed only on the nundines. Many men of eminence are said to have attended his lectures, and among them Cicero, when he was praetor.
He died in his fiftieth year, and left behind him many works, though Ateius Capito maintained that the only work written by him was De Latino Sermone, in two books, and that the other treatises bearing his name were productions of his disciples. (Suet. De Illustr.