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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Scaurus, Aemi'lius 2. M. Aemilius Scaurus raised his family from obscurity to the highest rank among the Roman nobles. He was born in B. C. 163. His father, notwithstanding his patrician descent, had been obliged, through poverty, to carry on the trade of a coal-merchant, and left his son a very slender patrimony. The latter had thought at first of carrying on the trade of a money-lender ; but he finally resolved to devote himself to the study of eloquence, with the hope of rising to the honours of the state. He likewise served in the army, where he appears to have gained some distinction. His first campaign was in Spain, probably in the war against Numantia. He next served under the consul L. Aurelius Orestes, in Sardinia, B. C. 126. He was curule aedile in B. C. 123, but was prevented by his poverty from giving the games with much splendour. Though we have only scanty accounts of his early career, it appears that he had already obtained great influence in the state; and he is menti
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
he author's plays. The plot, which is single, and which Hurd (Dial. ii.) somewhat magisterially calls " the true Greek plot," was too simple for Roman taste, and the long narrations and general paucity of action in this comedy will alone account for its bad recep tion. " Tous les genres," says Voltaire, " sent bons, hors le genre ennuyeux." The Hecyra has never been modernised. 3. e(eauto\n timwroume/nos e(eauto\n timwroume/nos, the Self-Tormentor, was performed at the Megalesian Games, B. C. 163. It was borrowed from Menander, and, like the Hecyra, belongs to the Comédie larmonyante. (Comp. Spectator, No. 502.) Its plot is twofold, and the parts are not better connected than the two stories in Vanbrugh's and Cibber's Provoked Husband. From the Prologue it appears that the critics had opened a new battery on Terence; they charged him with being a late learner of his art, and hinted what they afterwards expressed openly (comp. Prol. in Heaut. with Prol. in Adelph.) that his friends
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
tion with his colleague Cn. Aufidius, he accused the praetor C. Lucretius, on account of his tyrannical and oppressive conduct in Greece. He was praetor in B. C. 167, and obtained the jurisdictio inter peregrinos; and in this year he proposed to the people, without previously consulting the senate, that war should be declared against the Rhodians, in hopes of obtaining the command himself. His proposition was vehemently opposed by the tribunes M. Antonius and M. Pomponius. He was consul in B. C. 163, with Ti. Sempronius Gracchus, and carried on war against the Corsicans, whom he subdued. The senate in consequence voted him the honour of a thanksgiving; and he was so overcome with joy at the intelligence, which he received as he was offering a sacrifice, that he dropt down dead on the spot. (Liv. 43.8, 45.16, 21; Fasti Capitol.; Obseq. 73; Titulius Terent. Heautont. ; V. Max. 9.12.3; Plin. Nat. 7.53.) Thalna 4. (JUVENTIUS) THALNA, one of the judices at the trial of Clodius, in B. C.
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halna, L. F. T. N., son of No. 2, was tribune of the plebs B. C. 170, when, in conjunction with his colleague Cn. Aufidius, he accused the praetor C. Lucretius, on account of his tyrannical and oppressive conduct in Greece. He was praetor in B. C. 167, and obtained the jurisdictio inter peregrinos; and in this year he proposed to the people, without previously consulting the senate, that war should be declared against the Rhodians, in hopes of obtaining the command himself. His proposition was vehemently opposed by the tribunes M. Antonius and M. Pomponius. He was consul in B. C. 163, with Ti. Sempronius Gracchus, and carried on war against the Corsicans, whom he subdued. The senate in consequence voted him the honour of a thanksgiving; and he was so overcome with joy at the intelligence, which he received as he was offering a sacrifice, that he dropt down dead on the spot. (Liv. 43.8, 45.16, 21; Fasti Capitol.; Obseq. 73; Titulius Terent. Heautont. ; V. Max. 9.12.3; Plin. Nat. 7.53.)
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