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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 11 11 Browse Search
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P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Adelphi: The Brothers (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) 1 1 Browse Search
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Polybius, Histories, book 32, The Senate Breaks its Alliance with Ptolemy Philometor (search)
The Senate Breaks its Alliance with Ptolemy Philometor THIS year Comanus and his brother arrived at Rome on B. C. 161. The Senate break off relations with Ptolemy Philometor, and encourage Ptolemy Physcon in his claim on Cyprus. their mission from the younger Ptolemy, and Menyllus of Alabanda from the elder. Their interview with the Senate was the occasion of many mutual recriminations expressed with great bitterness; and when Titus Torquatus and Gnaeus Merula gave evidence in favour of the younger king, and supported him with great earnestness, the Senate voted that Menyllus and his colleagues should leave Rome within five days, and that the treaty of alliance with the elder Ptolemy should be annulled; but that they should send envoys to the younger to inform him of the decree of the Senate. Publius Apustius and Gaius Lentulus were appointed to this service, who immediately sailed to Cyrene, and with great despatch announced to Physcon the decree of the Senate. Greatly elated by thi
Polybius, Histories, book 32, Prusias Accuses Eumenes (search)
Prusias Accuses Eumenes Prusias sent envoys to Rome with some Gauls to accuse Further complaints against Eumenes by Prusias and the Gauls. See 31, 4, B. C. 161. Eumenes; and Eumenes in his turn sent his brother Attalus to rebut the accusations. Ariarathes sent a present of ten thousand gold pieces, and envoys to inform the Senate of the reception given to Tiberius Gracchus; and generally to ask for their commands, and to assure them that he would do anything they told him. . . .
P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Adelphi: The Brothers (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), Introduction, THE TITLE OF THE PLAY. (search)
aken the surnames of the families into which they had been adopted. which were celebrated by Q. Fabius Maximns and P. Cornelius Africanus. L. Atilius Praenestinus and Minutius Prothimus performed it. Flaccus, the freedman of Claudius, composed the music for Sarranian flutes.Sarranian flutes) The "Sarranian" or "Tyrian" pipes, or flutes, are supposed to have been of a quick and mirthful tone; Madame Dacier has consequently with much justice suggested that the representation being on the occasion of a funeral, the title has not come down to us in a complete form, and that it was performed with the Lydian, or grave, solemn pipe, alternately with the Tyrian. This opinion is also strengthened by the fact that Donatus expressly says that it was performed to the music of Lydian flutes. Taken from the Greek of Menander, L. Anicius and M. Cornelius being Consuls.Being Consuls) L. Anicius Gallus and M. Cornelius Cethegus were Consuls in the year from the Building of the City 592, and B.C. 161.
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, COMITIUM (search)
t awnings were spread over it (cf. Plin. NH xix. 23). Its site was conjecturally fixed as early as 1870 (Jord. i. 2. 318, n. 3), but certainty was only reached when the CURIA IULIA (q.v.) was correctly identified. For comitium and curia were connected through all time (Liv. xlv. 24. 12:comitium vestibulum curiae). The comitium was the political centre of ancient Rome until the second century B.C. Macrob. (Sat. iii. 16. 15) refers to the administration of justice as still going on there in 161 B.C., though the tribes usually voted in the forum. In 145 B.C. the tribune C. Licinius Crassus was the first, we are told, to lead the legislative assembly of the people from the comitium to the forum (Cic. Lael. 25, 96; Varro, RR i. 2. 9; cf. Plaut. Curc. 400 ff.), and Plutarch must be wrong in attributing the step to Gaius Gracchus (5). The republican comitium was a templum or inaugurated plot of ground (Cic. Rep. ii. 11 : fecit et saepsit... comitium et curiam) orientated according to the c
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Albi'nus (search)
Albi'nus 17. L. Postumius Sp. F. L. N. ALBINUS, apparently son of No. 12, was curule aedile B. C. 161, and exhibited the Ludi Megalenses, at which the Eunuch of Terence was acted. He was consul in 154, and died seven days after he had set out from Rome in order to go to his province. It was supposed that he was poisoned by his wife. (Obseq. 76; V. Max. 6.3.8.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), A'lcimus (search)
A'lcimus （*)/Alkimos), also called Jacimus, or Joachim (*)Ia/keimos), one of the Jewish priests, who espoused the Syrian cause. He was made high priest by Demetrius, about B. C. 161, and was installed in his office by the help of a Syrian army. In consequence of his cruelties he was expelled by the Jews, and obliged to fly to Antioch, but was restored by the help of another Syrian army. He continued in his office, under the protection of the Syrians, till his death, which happened suddenly (B. C. 159) while he was pulling down the wall of the temple that divided the court of the Gentiles from that of the Israelites. (J. AJ 12.9.7; 1 Maceab. vii. ix
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Apu'stius (search)
Apu'stius 3. P. Apustius, one of the ambassadors sent to the younger Ptolemy, B. C. 161. (Plb. 32.1.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Dio'genes (search)
Dio'genes 4. A person sent by OROFERNES, together with Timotheus, as ambassador to Rome in B. C. 161, to carry to Rome a golden crown, and to renew the friendship and alliance with the Romans. The principal object of the ambassadors, however, was to support the accusation which was brought against Ariarathes; and Diogenes and his coadjutor, Miltiades, succeeded in their plan, and lies and calumnies gained the victory, as there was no one to undertake the defence of Ariarathes. (Plb. 32.20.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Fa'nnia Gens plebeian. No members of it are mentioned in Roman history previous to the second century B. C., and the first of them who obtained the consulship was C. Fannius Strabo, in B. C. 161. The only family-name which occurs in this gens under the republic is STRABO: the others are mentioned without a cognomen. There are a few coins belonging to this gens: one of them is given under CRITONIUS; another figured below bears on the obverse a head of Pallas, and on the reverse Victory in a quadriga, with M. FAN. C. F. [L.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Meno'chares (search)
Meno'chares （*Mhnoxa/rhs), an officer of Demetrius Soter, king of Syria. In B. C. 161, when Demetrius had escaped from Rome and established himself on the Syrian throne, he sent Menochares to plead his cause with Tiberius Gracchus [No. 6.] and his fellow-commissioners, then in Cappadocia. In the following year, Menochares was sent by Demetrius to Rome, to conciliate the senate by the present of a golden crown and the surrender of Leptines, the assassin of Cn. Octavius, the Roman envoy. (Plb. 31.4,6; Diod. xxxi. Exc. Leg. xxv. p. 626.) [LEPTINES, No. 6.] [E.
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