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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Justi'nus (search)
e commanded a squadron of cavalry in the army of the same general in the last struggle with Mithridates, and that his father served under C. Caesar (i. e. the dictator), to whom he afterwards became private secretary. It is hence evident that the son must have flourished under Augustus; and since the recovery of the standards of Crassus from the Parthians was recorded towards the close of his history, it is probable that it may have been published not long after that event, which took place B. C. 20. Works Justini Historiarum Philippicarum Libri XLIV. Our knowledge of this production is derived from three sources which, taken in combination, afford a considerable amount of inform ation with regard to the nature and extent of the undertaking. 1. A few brief fragments quoted by (Pliny ?), Vopiscus, Jerome, Augustin, Orosius, Priscian, Isidorus, and others down to John of Salisbury and Matthew of Westminster. 2. The Excerpts of Just. 3. A sort of epitome found in several MSS., indic
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lentulus (search)
Lentulus 34. L. Cornelius Lentulus, L. F., son of the last, and also flamen of Mars (ad Att. 4.16, 9, 12.7, ad Q. Fr. 3.1, 15). He defended M. Scaurus, in B. C. 54, when accused of extortion (Ascon. ad Cic. Scaur. 100.1): he accused Gabinius of high treason, about the same time, but was suspected of collusion (ad Q. Fr. l.c., ad Att. 4.16, 9). In the Philippics he is mentioned as a friend of Antony's; and he was appointed by the latter to a province, but made no use of the appointment, in B. C. 44 (Philipp. 3.10). He struck coins as priest of Mars (Ultor), B. C. 20, to commemorate the recovery of the standards from the Parthians, by Augustus (D. C. 54.8; Vaill. Cornel. No. 38).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mithrida'tes (search)
Mithrida'tes kings of COMMAGENE. There were two kings of Commagene of this name, of whom very little is known. The first (Mithridates I.) must have succeeded Antiochus I. on the throne of that petty kingdom at some time previous to B. C. 31, as he is mentioned by Plutarch in that year among the allies of Antony. (Plut. Ant. 61.) Mithridates II. was made king of Commagene by Augustus, B. C. 20, when a mere boy. Dio Cassius tells us that his father had been put to death by the previous king: hence it seems probable that he was a son of the preceding. (D. C. 54.9. See, however, Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. p. 343, not. h, who has brought together the few facts that are known concerning these kings of Commagene.) [E.H.B]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Nerva, Lici'nius 7. A. Licinius Nerva Silianus, was adopted by some Licinius Nerva, as the name Silianus shows, out of the Silia gens. He was the son of P. Silius (Vell. 2.116), a distinguished commander under Augustus, and consul, B. C. 20. with M. Appuleius. Silianus was consul, A. D. 7, but he is called Licinius Silanus in the text of Dio Cassius (55.30). P. Silius, the consul of B. C. 20, appears in the Fasti Consulares as P. Silius Nerva, whence it appears that the cognomen Nerva belonged . He was the son of P. Silius (Vell. 2.116), a distinguished commander under Augustus, and consul, B. C. 20. with M. Appuleius. Silianus was consul, A. D. 7, but he is called Licinius Silanus in the text of Dio Cassius (55.30). P. Silius, the consul of B. C. 20, appears in the Fasti Consulares as P. Silius Nerva, whence it appears that the cognomen Nerva belonged to the Silii. [SILIUS.] The authorities for the Licinii Nervae are collected by Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. iv. p. 196, &c. [G.L]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philon (search)
above referred to, but also by the anger of the emperor at the request of the mildly-disposed Petronius, that the execution of the command might be deferred till the harvest was over (see the letter of Petronius in Phil. p. 583). Nothing but the death of the emperor, which ensued in January A. D. 41, saved Petronius, for whose death orders had been given (J. AJ 18.8.8). If Philon, at the time of the embassy, was, as is not improbable, about 60 years old, the date of his birth will be about B. C. 20. In the treatise on the subject, which without doubt was written not earlier than the reign of the emperor Claudius, he speaks of himself as an old man. As to other events in his personal history, we only know with certainty of a journey undertaken by him to Jerusalem (Phil. de Provid. ap. Euseb. Praep. Evang. 8.14, in Mangey, ii. p. 646). On the statement of Eusebius (Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 2.17; comp. Hieronym. Catalog. Script. Ecclesiast), that Philon had already been in Rome in the time of
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Philopator I. was a son of TARCONDIMOTUS I. In common with his father he had espoused the cause of Antony during the civil war between the latter and Octavian, but on learning the tidings of the battle of Actium, and the death of Tarcondimotus B. C. 31, he declared in favour of the conqueror. He was nevertheless deprived of his kingdom by Octavian, and we do not learn that that he was subsequently reinstated, though in B. C. 20 we find his paternal dominions restored to his brother, Tarcondimotus. (D. C. 51.2, 7, 54.9.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Rufus, Egna'tius 2. M. Egnatius Rufus, probably son of the preceding, was aedile in B. C. 20, and gained so much popularity in this office, principally through extinguishing the fires by means of his own servants, that he obtained the praetorship for the following year in opposition to the laws, which enacted that a certain time should intervene between the offices of aedile and praetor. Encouraged by this success, he endeavoured to secure the consulship for the following year, B. C. 18; but as the consul C. Sentius Saturninus refused to receive his name as one of the candidates, he entered into a plot with persons who were, like himself, bankrupts in character and fortune, to murder Augustus. Being detected in these treasonable designs, he was thrown into prison and executed. (Vell. 2.91-93; D. C. 53.24; Suet. Aug. 19.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Sila'nus, Lici'nius consul B. C. 20, is a false reading in Dio Cassius (55.30) for Silianus. The full name of this consul was A. Licinius Nerva Silianus [NERVA, LICINIUS, No. 7].
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Si'lia Gens plebeian, did not attain much importance till quite the latter end of the republic, although a person of this name is mentioned as early as B. C. 409. The first member of the gens who obtained the consulship was P. Silius Nerva, in B. C. 20. The different cognomens of the Silii are given below in alphabetical order. Nerva is the only cognomen that occurs on coins of the gens.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Si'lius (search)
Si'lius 4. P. Silius, governed Bithynia and Pontus as propraetor in B. C. 51, at the same time as Cicero governed Cilicia as proconsul, Bibulus Syria, and Thermus Asia. Silius was a friend of Atticus (Cic. Att. 6.1.13, 7.1.8). Several of Cicero's letters are addressed to this Silius. He consulted Cicero on a legal point in B. C. 44, the explanation of which has exercised the ingenuity of modern jurists. (Cic. Fam. 7.21, ad Att. 15.23, 24; P. E. Huschke, De Causa Siliana, Rostochii, 1824, and also in his Studien, Breslau, 1830, vol. i.) This Silius was probably the father of P. Silius Nerva, consul in B. C. 20. [SILIUS NERVA.]
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