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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Le'pidus (search)
Le'pidus 2. M. Aemilius Lepidus, M. F. M. N., probably a grandson of No. 1, was augur and twice consul. He died in the year of the battle of Cannae, B. C. 216; and his three sons exhibited in his honour funeral games which lasted for three days, and in which twenty-two pairs of gladiators fought in the forum. (Liv. 23.30.) His first consulship was in B. C. 232, when the agrarian law of C. Flaminius was passed (Plb. 2.21; Zonar. viii. p. 401c); but the date of his second consulship is uncertain. Some have supposed that he was consul suffectus in B. C. 220. (Pighius, ad Ann.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Le'pidus (search)
Le'pidus 3. M. Aemilius Lepidus, M. F. M. N., eldest son of the preceding, was praetor in B. C. 218, when he commanded in Sicily; and in the following year he is spoken of by Livy as praetor in Rome; but we must suppose that in the latter year he was only propraetor. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the consulship for B. C. 216. (Liv. 21.49, 51, 22.9, 33, 35, 23.30.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Libo, Scribo'nius 1. L. Scribonius Libo, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 216, in which year the fatal battle of Cannae was fought, brought forward a motion for ransoming the Roman prisoners taken in that engagement, but it was rejected by the senate. A relation of his, L. Scribonius, was one of the prisoners, who was sent to Rome by Hannibal to negotiate the terms of the ransom. In the same year Libo was created one of the triumviri mensarii. (Liv. 22.61, 23.21.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ma'gius (search)
Ma'gius 1. Decius Magics, one of the most distinguished men at Capua in the time of the second Punic war, and the leader of the Roman party in that town in opposition to Hannibal. He is characterised by Velleius Paterculus (2.16), who was descended from him, as "Campanorurn princeps celeberrimus et nobilissimus vir." He used every effort to dissuade his fellow-citizens from receiving Hannibal into their town after the battle of Cannae, B. C. 216, but in vain; and, accordingly, when Hannibal entered the city, one of his first acts was to require the senate to deliver up Magius to him. This request was complied with: Magius was put on board ship, and sent to Carthage; but a storm having driven the vessel to Cyrene, Magius fled for refuge to the statue of Ptolemy. He was in consequence carried to Alexandria to Ptolemy Philopator, who set him at liberty, and gave him permission to go where he pleased. Magius chose Egypt as his residence, as he could not return to Capua, and did not choos
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ma'mmula (search)
Ma'mmula 1. A. Cornelius Mammula, was praetor, B. C. 217, at the commencement of the second Punic war, in which year lie vowed a ver sacrum (Dict. of Ant. s. v.), but this vow was not fulfilled till B. C. 195 (Liv. 33.44, compared with 22.9, sub fin.). In B. C. 216 Mammula was propraetor in Sardinia, and applied in vain to the senate for corn and pay for his troops. (Liv. 23.21; V. Max. 7.6.1.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Marcellus Clau'dius 25. M. Claudius Marcellus, plebeian aedile in B. C. 216. (Liv. 23.30.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
. F. M'. N., consul B. C. 233, with Q. Fabius Maximus Verrucossus, carried on war against the Sardinians, and obtained a triumph in consequence of his victory over them. (Zonar. 8.18, p. 401.) The reduction of the Sardinians, however, must have been incomplete, as we find Matho's brother engaged against them two years afterwards, with a consular army. [See below, No. 2.] In B. C. 217 he was magister equitum to the dictator, L. Veturius Philo, and was elected praetor for the following year, B. C. 216. There seems no reason for believing that the M'. Pomponius Matho, praetor of this year, was a different person from the consul of B. C. 233, as the Romans were now at war with Hannibal, and were therefore anxious to appoint to the great offices of the state generals who had had experience in war. The lot, however, did not give to Matho any military command, but the jurisdictio inter cives Romanos et peregrinos. After news had been received of the fatal battle of Cannae, Matho and his coll
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ple. (Zonar. 8.18.) he was consul a second time in B. C. 228 with Q. Fabius Maximus Verrucossus, in which year, according to Cicero (Cato, 4), he did not resist, like his colleague, the agrarian law of the tribune C. Flaminius for the division of the lands in Cisalpine Gaul. Polybius (2.21), however, places the agrarian law of C. Flaminius four years earlier, in the consulship of M. Aemilius Lepidus, B. C. 232. Carvilius is not mentioned again till the year of the fatal battle of Cannae, B. C. 216, when he proposed, in order to fill up the numbers of the senate and to unite the Latin allies more closely to the Romans in this their season of adversity, that the vacancies in the senate should be supplied by electing two senators from each one of the Latin tribes, but his proposition was rejected with the utmost indignation and contempt. He died in B. C. 212, at which time he was augur. (Liv. 23.22, 26.23.) Carvilius is related to have been the first person who divorced his wife, whi
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
onths, bequeathing his example to the consuls who sncceeded him. Aemilius copied, Varro disregarded his injunctions, and the rout at Cannae illustrated the wisdom of Fabius' warning to Aemilius,-- "Remember, you have to dread not only Hamibal but Varro." Fabius was, however, among the first on Varro's return from Cannae to thank him for not having despaired of his country; and the defensive measures which the senate adopted in that season of dismay were dictated by him. After the winter of B. C. 216-215, the wargrad? tlly asscmed a new character, and, though still eminent, Fabius was no longer its presiding spirit. He was elected pontifex in 216, was already a member of the augural college, which office he held sixty-two years (Liv. 30.26); dedicated by public commission the temple of Venus Erycina, and opposed filling up with Latins the vacancies which the war had made in the senate. In B. C. 215 he was consul for the third time, when he ravaged Campania and began the siege of Capua
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Me'mmius (search)
Me'mmius 1. C. Memmius Quirinus, C. F., was the aedile who first exhibited the Cerealia at Rome, as we learn from the annexed coin; but the name does not occur in any ancient writer. The obverse has C. MEMMI. C. F. QVIRINVS, with a head which may be that of Quirinus: the reverse has MEMMIVS. AED. CEREALIA. PREIMVS. FECIT, and represents Ceres sitting; a serpent at her feet; in her right hand, three ears of corn; in her left, a distaff. The date of the introduction of the Cerealia at Rome (Dionys. A. R. 7.72; Liv. 22.56; Ovid. Fast. 4.397), and consequently of the aedileship of Memmius Quirinus, is unknown, though it must have been previous to B. C. 216. (Liv. l.c.）
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