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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Asellus (search)
ensorship, B. C. 142. When Asellus boasted of his military services, and complained that he had been degraded unjustly, Scipio replied with the proverb, " Agas asellum," i. e. " Agas asellum, si bovem non agere queas" (Cic. de Orat. 2.64), which it is impossible to translate so as to preserve the point of the joke; it was a proverbial expression for saying, that if a person cannot hold as good a station as he wishes, he must be content with a lower. When Asellus was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 139, he accused Scipio Africanus before the people (Gel. 3.4); and Gellius (2.20) makes a quotation from the fifth oration of Scipio against Asellus, which may have been delivered in this year. Among other charges which Asellus brought against Scipio, was, that the lustrum had been inauspicious (because it had been followed by a pestilence); and Gellius (4.17) has preserved two verses of Lucilius referring to this charge: " Scipiadae magno improbus objiciebat Asellus Lustrum, illo censore, m
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Gabi'nius (search)
Gabi'nius 2. A. Gabinius, was tribune of the plebs, in B. C. 139, and introduced the first Lex Tabellaria, which substituted the ballot for open voting (Dict. of Ant. s. v. Tabellariae Leges.) Porcius Latro (Declamat. c. Catilinam, 100.19) mentions a Lex Gabinia, by which clandestine assemblies in the city were punishable with death, but it is not known to what age this law belongs, and even its existence has been doubted. (Heinec. Antiq. Rom. iv. tit. 17.47; Dieck, Versuche über das Criminalrecht der Römer, Halle, 1822, pp. 73, 74
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lae'lius (search)
ations of Laelius have been preserved:-1. De Collegiis, delivered by Laelius when praetor, B. C. 145. It was directed against the rogation of C. Licinius Crassus, then tribune of the plebs, who proposed to transfer the election of the augurs from the college to the people in their tribes. The bill was rejected through Laelius' eloquence. (Cic. Brut. 21, de Amic. 25, de Repub. 6.2, de Nat. Deor. 3.2, 17, where it is described as aureola oratiuncula; Nonius, s. v. Samium.) 2. Pro Publicanis, B. C. 139. Laelius, after twice pleading in behalf of the revenuecontractors, resigned their cause to his rival C. Servius Galba, since it seemed to require a more acrimonious style than his own. (Cic. Brut. 22.) 3. Dissuasio Legis Papiriae, B. C. 131, against the law of C. Papirius Carbo, which enacted that a tribune, whose office had expired, might be re-elected as often as the people thought advisable. Scipio Africanus the younger supported, and C. Gracchus opposed Laelius in this debate. (Cic. d
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Laenas (search)
Laenas 6. M. Popillius Laenas, M. F. P. N., the son of No. 3, was consul B. C. 139, and, as pro-consul in the following year, suffered a defeat from the Numantines. (Liv. Epil. 55; Frontin. Strateg. 3.17; App. Hisp. 79.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Longi'nus, Ca'ssius 4. L. Cassius Longinus Raviila, Q. F. L. N., second son of No. 2, received his agnomen of Ravilla from his ravi oculi. (Festus, s. v. Ravi.) He was tribune of the plebs, B. C. 137, and proposed the second law for voting by ballot (tabellaria lex), the first having been brought forward by Gabinius two years before, B. C. 139. The law of Cassius introduced the ballot in the "Judicium Populi," by which we must understand criminal cases tried in the comitia by the whole body of the people; but cases of perduellio were excepted from the operation of the law. This law gave great dissatisfaction to the optimates, as it deprived them of much of their influence in the comitia. (Cic. de Leg. 3.16, Brut. 25, pro Sext. 48; Ascon. in Corn. p. 78, ed. Orelli.) It is commemorated on many coins of the Cassia gens, a specimen of which is given below. Longinus was consul B. C. 127, with L. Cornelius Cinna, and censor B. C. 125, with Cn. Servilius Caepio. (Cic. Ver. 1.55.) Thei
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Piso (search)
Piso 13. Cn. Calpurnius Piso, of whom we know nothing, except that he was consul B. C. 139, with M. Popillius Laenas. (V. Max. 1.3 § 2.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pompeius (search)
ccordingly, fearing that the aristocracy would call him to account on his return to Rome, he proposed to the Numantines terms of peace. He required from them publicly an unconditional surrender; but in private only demanded from them hostages, the captives and deserters, and also thirty talents. The Numantines, who were weary of the war, gladly purchased peace on these conditions, and immediately paid part of the money; but on the arrival of M. Popillius Laenas in Spain shortly afterwards (B. C. 139), as the successor of Pompeius, the latter, who was now released from the responsibility of the war. had the effrontery to disown the treaty, although it had been witnessed by the officers of his own army. Laenas referred the matter to the senate, to which the Numantine legates accordingly repaired. Pompeius persisted in the same lie; the senate declared the treaty invalid; and the war was accordingly renewed. Pompeius escaped all punishment for this conduct in relation to the treaty : he
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sci'pio (search)
ing that Scipio held the lustrum, since Cicero says (de Orat. 2.66, that it was held by his colleague Mummius.). He vainly wished to check the appetite for foreign conquests, which had been still further excited by the capture of Carthage. In B. C. 139 Scipio was brought to trial before the people by Ti. Claudius Asellus, the tribune of the plebs. He seems to have been accused of majestas; but Asellus attacked him out of private animosity, because he had been deprived of his horse, and reducee opposed with the utmost energy the measures of the popular party; but previous to that time he had recognised the necessity of some concessions to the popular feeling, and had incurred the serious displeasure of his own party by supporting in B. C. 139 the Lex Tabellaria of the tribune L. Cassius Longinus (Cic. Brut. 25, de Leg. 3.16). Some even went so far as to class him among the men of the people (Cic. Ac. 2.5). Works Literary Attainments With respect to the literary attainments of S
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sci'pio (search)
Sci'pio 28. Cn. Cornelius Scipio Hispallus, son of No. 27, was sent along with Scipio Nasica Serapio [No. 24], in B. C. 149, to demand from the Carthaginians the surrender of their arms (Appian, Pun. 80). He was praetor, B. C. 139, when he published an edict that all Chaldaeans (i. e. astrologers) should leave Rome and Italy within ten days (V. Max. 1.3.2). Valerius Maximus (l.c.) calls him Caius; whence Pighius makes him the brother of the Hispallus mentioned by Appian, but it is far more probable that there should be a mistake in Valerius Maximus of C. for Cn. than that he should have borne a praenomen which does not occur elsewhere in the family of the Scipios.
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.