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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ties suffered dreadfully from famine, and the approach of Philip made Lysias anxious to be at liberty to oppose his rival, a treaty was concluded between Judas and Lysias, and the latter withdrew his troops. This peace, however, was of short duration. Demletrius, who was the rightful heir to the throne of Syria, had escaped front Rome, where he had been a hostage, and on his arrival in Syria succeeded in getting into his power Lysias and the young Antiochus, both of whom he put to death, B. C. 162. He then proceeded to sow dissension along the patriotic party in Judaea, by proclaiming Alcimus high-priest. Several of the zealots for the law declared in favour of the latter, and his claims were supported by a Syrian army. But as Judas would not own the authority of a highpriest who owed his appointment to the Syrians, the war broke out again. At first the Maccabee met with great success; he defeated the Syrians under Nicanor in two successive battles, and then sent an embassy to Rome
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Menyllus (search)
Menyllus 2. Of Alabanda, was sent ambassador to Rome, in B. C. 162, by Ptolemy VI. Philometor, to plead his cause against his younger brother Physcon. The senate, however, espoused the cause of the latter, and the next year Menyllus was sent again to endeavour to excuse Ptolemy for his noncompliance with the orders of the senate. But they refused to listen to him, and ordered the embassy to quit Rome within five days. (Plb. 31.18, 32.1.) During his stay at Rome on the former occasion, Menyllus took an active part, in conjunction with the historian Polybius, in effecting the escape of Demetrius, the young king of Syria, who was detained at Rome as a hostage. (Id. 31.20-22.) [DEMETRIUS.] [E.H.B]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mer'ula (search)
Mer'ula 2. CN. (CORNELIUS?) MERULA, was appointed legatus by the senate in B. C. 162-161, to adjust the disputes between the brothers Ptolemy Philometor and Physcon respecting the sovereignty of Cyprus. Merula accompanied Physcon to Crete and Asia Minor, and, after an ineffectual embassy to the elder brother at Alexandria, he induced the senate, on his return to Rome, to cancel the existing treaty with Philometor. (Plb. 31.18, 25, 26, 7, 32.1.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Octavius (search)
ll. 26; Plin. Nat. 34.3. s. 7 ; Festus, s. v. Octaviae.） The wealth which Octavius had obtained in Greece enabled him to live in great splendour on his return to Rome. He built a magnificent house on the Palatine, which, according to Cicero (de Off. 1.39), contributed to his election to the consulship, and he also erected a beautiful porticus, which is spoken of below. He was consul with T. Manlius Torquatus in B. C. 165, being the first member of his family who obtained this dignity. In B. C. 162 Octavius was sent with two colleagues into Syria, which was in a state of great confusion in consequence of the contentions for the guardianship of the young king Antiochus V.; and the Romans therefore considered it a favourable opportunity for enforcing the terms of the peace made with Antiochus the Great, by which the Syrian monarchs were prevented from having a fleet and rearing elephants. But this embassy cost Octavius his life, for he was assassiated in the gymnasium at Laodiceia, by
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ptolemaeus (search)
Ptolemaeus 20. A rhetorician of Alexandria, who was employed as ambassador by Ptolemy Euergetes II. to Antiochus Epiphanes when the latter was besieging Alexandria, B. C. 170 (Plb. 28.16). He is perhaps the same person with the brother of Comanus, whom we find accompanying that minister on his embassy to Rome in B. C. 162. (Id.31.27.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ptolemaeus or Ptolemaeus Sympetesis (search)
Ptolemaeus or Ptolemaeus Sympetesis 21. An Egyptian, surnamed SYMPETESIS, who was appointed by Ptolemy Euergetes II. to govern Cyrene during his absence, when he went to Rome in B. C. 162, to prefer his complaints in person against his brother Philometor. He subsequently joined in the revolt of the Cyrenaeans against Euergetes, and appears to have commanded the army with which they defeated him near the Catabatlhmus. (Plb. 31.26.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sci'pio Nasica (search)
l, censor and pontifex maximus. He inherited from his father a love for jurisprudence, and became so celebrated for his discernment and for his knowledge of the pontifical and civil law, that he received the surname of Corculum (corculum a corde dicebant antiqui solertem et acutum, Festus, s. v.). He married a daughter of Scipio Africanus the elder. He is first mentioned in B. C. 168, when he served with distinction under L. Aemilius Paulus in Macedonia. He was consul for the first time in B. C. 162 with C. Marcius Figulus, but abdicated, together with his colleague, almost immediately after they had entered upon their office, on account of some fault in the auspices. He was censor B. C. 159 with M. Popillius Laenas, when he enacted, together with his colleague, that no statues of public men should be allowed to be erected in the forum without the express sanction of the senate or the people. In his censorship the clepsydra was for the first time introduced at Rome. He was consul a se
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
its ancient reputation. Chapman's All Fools, printed in 1605, owes a portion of its plot to the Self-tormentor. (Collier, Annals of the Stage, 3.95.) Colman (Terence, p. 160) notices the resemblance between Menedemus and Laertes in the Odyssey (15.354), 16.139.) Some of the lines of Menander's Heauton-timoroumenos are preserved. (Meinek. Hist. Graec. Com.） 4. Eunuchus Eunuchus, " the Eunuch," was at the time the most popular of Terence's comedies. It was played at the Megalesian Games, B. C. 162, and so highly applauded that it was repeated at the same festival, and the poet received from the aediles the unusual sum of 8000 sesterces, a fact so memorable as to be recorded in the Didascalia. It is an adaptation of Menander's *Eu)nou=xos, but Thraso and Gnatho, the swaggering captain and the parasite, are taken from that author's *Ko/lac, " the Flatterer." There was also a " Colax" by Naevius, which Terence's enemies accused him of appropriating, but which he denies having ever seen
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