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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), C. He'lvius (search)
C. He'lvius 2. was aedile of the plebs with M. Porcius Cato the elder, in B. C. 199, and, in the next sear, one of his colleagues in the praetorship. As praetor, Helvius had no province regularly assigned to him; but lie accompanied the consul. Sext Aelius Paetus, into Cisalpine Gaul, and received from him the command of one of the consular armies. ( Liv. 32.7, 9, 26.) He afterwards served in Galatia as legatus to Cn. Manlius Vulso, consul in B. C. 189. (Liv. 38.20, 21, 22; Plb. 22.17.3,&c.) [W.B.D]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Heracleides (search)
h which, pretending to have been ill-used and driven into banishment by Philip, he ingratiated himself with the Rhodians, and succeeded in setting fire to their arsenal, and burning great part of their fleet. It is not difficult to believe that a man who had risen to power by such arts as these should have abused it when attained: and we are told that he made use of his influence with the king to get rid of all those that were opposed to his views, and even induced him to put to death five of the leading members of his council of state at once. But by these and other such measures he rendered Philip so obnoxious to his subjects, that the king at length found himself obliged to yield to the popular clamour, displaced Heracleides, whom he had not long before employed in the command of his fleet, and threw him into prison, B. C. 199. Whether he was subsequently put to death we are not informed. (Plb. 13.4, 5; Diod. Exc. Vales. xxviii. pp. 572, 573; Polyaen. 5.17.2; Liv. 31.16, 33, 32.5.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Laeca, P. Po'rcius 1. was tribune of the plebs B. C. 199, and by his veto prevented Manlius Acidinus on his return from Spain from entering the city in an ovation, which had been granted him by the senate. [ACIDINUS, No. 1.] Laeca was appointed in B. C. 196 one of the triumviri epulones, who were first created in that year (see Dict. of Ant. s. v. Epulones); and in the following year, B. C. 195. he was one of the praetors, and was stationed with an army in the district of Pisae in Etruria, tha wanting in the one figured below. This evidently refers to the lex Porcia de Provocatione (Liv. 10.9; Cic. de Rep. 2.31, pro Rabir. 3, 4); and as the name of P. Laeca occurs on the coin, it is supposed that the law may have been proposed by the above-mentioned P. Laeca in his tribunate in B. C. 199. There is nothing improbable in this supposition; but the name of the proposer of the law is not mentioned by any ancient writer. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 286; Pighius, Ann. Rom. vol. ii. p. 255, &c.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lentulus (search)
Lentulus 11. Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, L. F. L. N. (Fasti Cap. A. U. 552); perhaps son of No. 8, since we find him designated as L. f. L. n.; though, on the other hand, his praenomen Cneius, and the absence of the agnomen Caudinus, are opposed to this connection. He was quaestor in B. C. 212; curule aedile with his brother (No. 12) in 204; consul in 201 (Liv. 25.17, 29.11, 30.40, 44). He wished for the province of Africa, that he might conclude the war with Carthage; but this wellearned glory was reserved for Scipio by the senate. Lentulus had the command of the fleet on the coast of Sicily, with orders to pass over to Africa if necessary. Scipio used to say, that but for Lentulus's greediness he should have destroyed Carthage. (Liv. 30.40-44.) Cn. Lentulus was proconsul in Hither Spain in B. C. 199, and had an ovation for his services. (Id. 31.50, 33.27.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lentulus (search)
Lentulus 12. L. Cornelius Lentulus, L. F. L. N., brother of the last (Vaill. Cornelii, No. 28), praetor in Sardinia B. C. 211 (Liv. 25.41, 26.1), succeeded Scipio as proconsul in Spain, where he remained for eleven years, and on his return was not allowed more than an ovation, because he only held proconsular rank. (Liv. 28.38, 29.2, 11, 13, 30.41, 31.20, 30.) During his absence in Spain he was carule aedile with his brother Cneius [No. 11], though he had been already praetor. (Liv. 29.11.) This might be to further his designs upon the consulship, which he obtained the year after his return, B. C. 199; and the year after that he was proconsul in Gaul. (Liv. 31.49, 32.1, 2, 8, 9.) He is perhaps the Lentulus that was decemvir sacrorum in B. C. 213, and died in 173. (Id. 25.2, 42.10.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lentulus (search)
Lentulus 22. C. Cornelius Lentulus, in B. C. 199, one of the triumviri colon. deduc. (Liv. 32.2.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Le'pidus (search)
x. 6.6.1); and it is not improbable that he remained in Egypt in that capacity when his colleagues returned to Rome. His superior importance is also shown by his colleagues sending him alone to Philip III. of Macedonia, who had exhibited signs of hostility towards the Romans by the siege of Abydos, and who was not a little astonished at the haughty bearing of the young Roman noble on this occasion. How long Lepidus remained in Egypt is uncertain, but as he was chosen one of the pontiffs in B. C. 199, we must conclude that he was in Rome at that time, though he may have returned again to Egypt. He was elected aedile B. C. 192, praetor 191 with Sicily as his province, and consul 187, after two unsuccessful attempts to obtain the latter dignity. In his consulship he was engaged, with his colleague C. Flaminius, in the conquest of the Ligurians; and after the reduction of this people, he continued the Via Flaminia from Ariminum by way of Bononia to Placentia, and from thence to Aquileia.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
cipio at the battle of Zama. (Liv. 30.40.) Paetus during his consulship had Italy for his province; he had a conflict with the Boii, and made a treaty with the Ingauni Ligures. He was also in the same year appointed a decemvir for the distribution of lands among the veteran soldiers of Scipio, who had fought in Africa. (Liv. 31.4.) He was afterwards appointed a commissioner triumvir) with his brother Sextus and Cn. Cornelius Lentulus to settle the affairs of Narnia, the people of which place complained that there was not the proper number of colonists (coloni), and that certain persons, who were not coloni, were passing themselves off as such. (Liv. 32.2.) In B. C. 199, he was censor with P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus. He afterwards became an augur, and died B. C. 174, during a pestilence at Rome. (Liv. 41.26.) Paetus is mentioned by Pomponius (Dig. 1. tit. 1. s. 2.37) as one of those who professed the law (maximam scientiam in profitendo habuerunt), in the Roman sense of that period.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Philippus V. (search)
f by laying waste the environs of the city, sparing in his fury neither the sepulchres of men, nor the sacred groves and temples of the gods. After this he repaired to Corinth, and took part in an assembly of the Achaeans, but failed in inducing that people to take part more openly in the war with the Romans; and having a second time ravaged the territory of Attica, returned once more into Macedonia. (Liv. 31.18, 22-26.) The consul, Sulpicius, was now, at length, ready to take the field, B. C. 199. He had already gained some slight successes through his lieutenant, L. Apustius, and had been joined by the Illyrian prince Pleuratus, Amynander, king of Athamania, and the Dardanian, Bato. The Aetolians, on the contrary, though strongly solicited both by Philip and the Romans, as yet declined to take part in the war. Sulpicius advanced through Dassaretia. where Philip met him with his main army, and several unimportant actions ensued, in one of which, near Octolophus, the Romans gained t
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Po'lemon (search)
Po'lemon 3. Of Athens by citizenship, but by birth either of Ilium, or Samos, or Sicyon, a Stoic philosopher and an eminent geographer, surnamed o( perihgh/ths, was the son of Euegetes, and a contemporary of Aristophanes of Byzantium, in the time of Ptolemy Epiphanes, at the beginning of the second century B. C. (Suid. s.v. Ath. vi. p. 234; Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. sub ann. B. C. 199). In philosophy he was a disciple of Panaetius. He made extensive journeys through Greece, to collect materials for his geographical works, in the course of which he paid particular attention to the inscriptions on votive offerings and on columns, whence he obtained the surname of *Sthloko/pas, (Ath. l.c. ; Casaub. ad loc.) As the collector of these inscriptions, he was one of the earlier contributors to the Greek Anthology, and he wrote a work expressly, *Peri\ tw=n kata\ po/leis e)pigramma/twn (Ath. x. pp. 436, d., 442, e.); besides which, other works of his are mentioned, upon the votive offerings and
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