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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
is rather strange that he should have obtained the augurate before he had held any of the higher magistracies, yet we must suppose him to be the same as the subject of the following notice, since Livy gives his name with so much accuracy, and we know of no one else of the same name at this time. He was tribune of the plebs B. C. 210, curule aedile B. C. 197, and in the same year one of the triumviri for establishing colonies at Puteoli, Buxentum, and various other places in Italy; praetor B. C. 196, with Sardinia as his province, which was continued to him another year; and consul B. C. 194 with P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus. In his consulship he assisted as triumvir in founding the colonies which had been determined upon in B. C. 197, and he fought against the Boii with doubtful success. In the year after his consulship, B. C. 193, he served as legate to the consul L. Cornelius Merula, in his campaign against the Boii, and in B. C. 191 he served as legate to the consul M'. Acilius G
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lucullus (search)
Lucullus 7. C. Licinius Lucullus, tribune of the people B. C. 196, was the proposer of a law for the creation of the sacerdotal office of the Triumviri Epulones, who continued from that time forth to be regularly appointed. He was himself one of the first three persons who held the new office (Liv. 33.42). In B. C. 191 he was one of two commissoners appointed to dedicate the temple of Juventas in the Circus Maximus, which had been vowed by M. Livius on occasion of the memorable defeat of Hasdrubal (Liv. 36.36.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ly'sias (search)
Ly'sias 3. One of the ambassadors sent by Antiochus the Great, in B. C. 196, to meet the ten deputies appointed by the Romans to settle, together with Flamininus, the affairs of Greece. He was afterwards present at the interview of the king with the Roman ambassadors at Lysimachia. (Plb. 18.30, 33.) According to Appian (App. Syr. 6), he also accompanied Hegesianax and Menippus on their embassy to Rome in B. C. 193, though he is not mentioned on that occasion by Livy (34.57-59).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
nspicuous by the quantity of corn that they imported at a cheap rate from Africa, as well as by the magnificence with which they celebrated the Roman games. (Liv. 31.50.) In B. C. 198 he was elected one of the praetors, and obtained Sicily as his province, with a force of 4000 foot and 300 horse, but his services were confined to the sending supplies to the Roman armies in Greece. (Id. 32.8, 27.) After the customary interval of two years he obtained the consulship, with L. Furius Purpureo, B. C. 196. (Id. 33.24; Fast. Capit.) His great object was to obtain the renewal or continuation of the Macedonian war, to which an end had just been put by Flamininus; but this was frustrated by the people, who ratified the peace which the latter had concluded with Philip; and Marcellus was compelled to content himself with the conduct of the war in Cisalpine Gaul. Here he at first met with a defeat from the Boians, but this was soon compensated by a brilliant victory over the Insubrians, and the co
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ma'ximus, Fa'bius 6. Q. Fabius Maximus, Q. F. Q. N., second son of No. 5, was elected augur in the room of his father, B. C. 203 (Liv. 30.26), although he was then very young, and had borne no office previously. He died in B. C. 196. (Liv. 33.42.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ogu'lnius (search)
Ogu'lnius 4. M. Ogulnius, tribune of the soldiers in the second legion, fell in battle against the Boii, B. C. 196. (Liv. 33.36.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Parme'nion (search)
Parme'nion 2. One of the deputies from Lampsacus, who appeared before the Roman legates at Lysimachia to complain against Antiochus, B. C. 196. (Plb. 18.35.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Philippus V. (search)
mp in a strong position near the pass of Antigoneia, where it completely commanded the direct route into Macedonia, Viilius advanced to a position near that of the king, but was wholly unable to force the pass; and while he was still deliberating what to do, his successor Flamininus arrived and took the command of the army. (Id. ib. 5, 6, 9.) The events of the war from this period till its termination have been already fully given under FLAMININUS. By the peace finally granted to Philip (B. C. 196), the king was compelled to abandon all his conquests, both in Europe and Asia, withdraw his garrisons from all Greek cities, surrender his whole fleet to the Romans, and limit his standing army to 5000 men, besides paying a sum of 1000 talents. Among the hostages given for the fulfilmeant of these hard conditions, was his son Demetrius. (Plb. 18.27; Liv. 33.30.) Whatever resentment and enmity he might still entertain against his conquerors, Philip was now effectually humbled, and it is ce
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philo'chorus (search)
a seer and a diviner (ma/ntis kai\ i(erosko/pos); his wife was Archestrate ; he was a contemporary of Eratosthenes, but the latter was an old man, when Philochorus was still young; he was put to death at the instigation of Antigonus, because he was accused of being favourable to Ptolemy. But this statement of Suidas is not correct, so far as it relates to the date of Philochorus, as has been shown by several modern writers. Antigonus Doson died B. C. 220; while Eratosthenes, who died about B. C. 196 at the age of eighty, was only fifty-six at the death of the above-mentioned king : it therefore follows, if we place credit in Suidas, that Philochorus must have been put to death, when he was still a young man, a fact which is excessively improbable, as well on account of the very numerous works which he composed, as of the important office which he held in his native city. We are not, however, left to mere probability, in order to refute Suidas; for Philochorus himself relates that he h
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Poly'crates (search)
. C. 217, in which Antiochus was defeated, and which secured to Ptolemy the provinces of Coele-Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine. Although Polycrates was still young he was second to no one, says Polybius, in the king's court, and was accordingly appointed by Ptolemy governor of Cyprus. The duties of this office he discharged with the utmost fidelity and integrity ; he secured the island for Ptolemy Epiphanes, the infant son and successor of Philopator, and on his return to Alexandria about B. C. 196, he brought with him a considerable sum of money for the use of the monarch. He was received at Alexandria with great applause, and forthwith obtained great power in the kingdom; but as he advanced in years, his character changed for the worse, and he indulged in every kind of vice and wickedness. We are ignorant of his subsequent career, in consequence of the loss of the later books of Polybius ; but we learn from a fragment of the historian that it was through his evil advice that Ptolem
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