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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Medon (search)
Medon 2. A citizen of Beroea, was one of the ambassadors whom Perseus, king of Macedonia, sent with a proposal of peace to the Romans after he had defeated them, under P. Licinius Crassus, on the banks of the Peneus, in B. C. 171. Licinius, however, adhered to the regular Roman policy, of never granting peace but after a victory. (Plb. 8; Liv. 42.62.) [E.E]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mena'lcidas (search)
Mena'lcidas （*Menulki/das), a Lacedaemonian adventurer, who, in some way not further specified by Polybius, took advantage of the circumstances of Egypt, in its war with Antiochus Epiphanes (B. C. 171-168), to advance his own interests at the Ptolemies' expence. He was thrown into prison by Philometor and Physcon, but was released by them in B. C. 168, at the request of C. Popillius Laenas, the Roman ambassador, who was sent to command Antiochus to withdraw from the country. (Plb. 30.11; comp. Liv. 45.12, 13; Just. 34.2, 3; V. Max. 6.4.3.) In B. C. 150 we find Menalcidas, as general of the Achaean league, engaging for a bribe of ten talents to induce the Achaeans to aid Oropus against Athens. By the promise of half the sum, he won Callicrates to the same cause, and they succeeded in carrying a decree for the succour required. No effectual service, however, was rendered to the Oropians, but Menalcidas still exacted the money he had agreed for, and then evaded the payment of his portio
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Milon (search)
Milon 4. Of Beroea, an officer in the army of Perseus, with which he opposed the Roman consul P. Licinius Crassus B. C. 171. (Liv. 42.58.) He is again mentioned as holding an important command under Perseus just before the battle of Pydna, B. C. 166. After that action he fled, with his two colleagues, Hippias and Pantauchus, to Beroea, where they were the first to set the example of defection, by surrendering that fortress into the hands of Aemilius Paullus. (Liv. 44.32, 45 Plut. Aemnil. 16.) [E.H.B]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Misa'genes (search)
Misa'genes a Numidian, son of Masinissa, was appointed by his father to command the forces which he sent to the assistance of the Romans in the war against Perseus, B. C. 171. He appears to have continued in this position throughout the four years of the war, and to have rendered important services to his allies. After the close of the war (B. C. 168) he was sent back by Aemilius Paullus to Africa; but the ships in which his troops were embarked were dispersed by a storm, many of them wrecked, and he himself compelled to take refuge at Brundusium. Here he was received with the utmost distinction, the quaestor, L. Stertinius, being immediately despatched by the senate to bear him magniiicent presents, and to provide both him and his troops with all that they required. (Liv. 42.29, 35, 45.14; Val. Max. v. 1.1, who writes the name Musicanes.) He probably died before his father, as we hear nothing of him after the death of Masinissa. [E.H.B]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Nerva, Lici'nius 2. A. Licinius Nerva is called the brother of Caius by Drumann, which is possible, but no proof is alleged. He was a tribunus plebis, B. C. 178, and he proposed that the consul, A. Manlius Vulso, should not hold his command among the Istri beyond a certain day, the object of the tribune being to bring Manlius to trial for misconducting the war. (Liv. 41.10.) In B. C. 171 Nerva was one of three commissioners sent to Crete to get archers for the army of the consul P. Licinius Crassus, and in B. C. 169 he was sent with others into Macedonia to examine and report on the state of the Roman anny there, and the resources of king Perseus. In B. C. 166, he was a praetor, with one of the Hispaniae as his province. (Liv. 42.35, 44.18, 45.44.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nicander (search)
Philip, by whom he was treated with unexpected kindness, he reached Hypata just at the moment when the Aetolians were deliberating about peace, and by bringing some money from Antiochus, and the promise of further aid, he succeeded in persuading them to refuse the terms proposed by the Romans. (Liv. 36.29; Plb. 20.10, 11.) In B. C. 190 he was appointed praetor (or *Ztrathyos) of the Aetolians (Clinton, Fasti Hell.), and endeavoured in vain to force the consul, MI. Fulvius Nobilior, to raise the siege of Anmbracia (Liv. 38.1, 4-6; Plb. 22.8, 10), after which he was sent as ambassador to Rome, with Phaeneas, to settle the terms of peace. (Plb. 22.13.) We hear no more of him, but that, as he was ever afterwards favourably inclined towards the royal family of Macedonia, because of Philip's kindness to him, he fell under the displeasure of the Romans on that account during their war with Perseus, B. C. 171-168, and that he was summoned to Rome, and died there. (Plb. 20.11, 27.13, 28.4, 6.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nobi'lior (search)
Nobi'lior 3. M. Fulvius Nobilior, M. F. M. N., son of No. 2, was tribune of the plebs B. C. 171 (Liv. 42.32), curtle aedile B. C. 166, the year in which the Andria of Terence was performed (Tit. Andsr. Terent.), and consul B. C. 159, with Cn. Cornelius Dolabella. Of the events of his consulship we have no records; but as the triumphal fasti assign him a triumph in the following year over the Eleates, a Ligurian people, he must have carried on war in Liguria.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Papus (search)
Papus 5. L. Aemilius Papus, praetor B. C. 205, obtained Sicily as his province. It was under this Aemilius Papus that C. Octavius, the great-grand-father of the emperor Augustus, served in Sicily. (Liv. 28.38; Suet. Auq. 2.) [OCTAVIUS, No. 12.] The L. Aemilius Papus, decemvir sacrorum, who died in B. C. 171, is probably the same person as the preceding. (Liv. 42.28.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Perseus (search)
re said to have been employed by Perseus, a suspicion to which the latter certainly afforded some countenance, by taking the leader of them--a Cretan named Evander--into his immediate service. Another plot which the Romans pretended to have discovered at the same time, for poisoning some of their chief officers [RAMMIUS], was probably a mere fiction to inflame the minds of the populace against Perseus. War was now determined by the senate, but it was not declared till the following spring (B. C. 171), and even then the Romans were not fully prepared to commence hostilities. Perseus, on the other hand, found himself at the head of a splendid army, fully equipped and ready for immediate action: but instead of making use of this advantage, he still clung to the delusive hopes of peace, and was persuaded by Q. Marcius Philippus, with whom he held a personal conference in Thessaly, to send ambassadors once more to Rome. Tlese soon returned, as was to be expected, without having even obtain
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philetaerus (search)
Philetaerus 2. A son of Attalus I., and brother of Eumenes II., king of Pergamus. In B. C. 171, he was left by Eumenes in charge of the affairs of Pergamus, while the king and Attalus repaired to Greece to assist the Romans in the war against Perseus. With this exception he plays no part in history. (Liv. 42.55; Strab. xiii. p.625; Plb. 40.1.)
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