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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Messalla (search)
ladiators, and finally destroying them, although they had not submitted until life and freedom had been guaranteed them. (D. C. 51.7.) He was proconsul of Aquitaine in B. C. 28-27, and obtained a triumph for his reduction of that province. (Fasti; Dio Cass. liii 12; Appian, App. BC 4.38; Tib. 1.7, 2.1. 33. 2.5. 117, 4.1, 4.8. 5.) Shortly before or immediately after his administration of Aquitaine Messalla held a prefecture in Asia Minor. (Tib. 1.3.) He was deputed by the senate, probably in B. C. 30, to greet Augustus with the title of " Pater Patrine; " and the opening of his address on that occasion is preserved by Suetonius. (Aug. 58; comp. Flor. 4.12.66; Ovid. Fast. 2.127, Trist. 2.39, 181; D. C. 56.8, 41.) During the disturbances at the comitia in B. C. 27, Augustus nominated Messalla to the revived office of warden of the city; but he resigned it in a few days, either because he deemed its functions unconstitutional--incivilem potestatem (Euseb. 1991),--or himself unequal to thei
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Olympus (search)
Olympus （*)/Olumpos), the physician in ordinary to Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, who aided her in committing suicide, B. C. 30. Works Account of the Death of Cleopatra He afterwards published an account of her death. Further Information Plut. Ant. 100.8.[W.A.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pasi'teles (search)
ary, sculptor, and silver-chaser, of the highest distinction (in omnibas his summus, Plin. Nat. 35.12. s. 45), flourished at Rome, in the last years of the republic. He was a native of Magna Gr.iecia, and obtained the Itoman franchise, with his couitrymen, in B. C. 90, when he must have been very young, since he made statues for the temple of Juno, in the portico of Octavia, which was built out of the Dalmatic spoils, in B. C. 33; so that he must have flourished from about B. C. 60 to about B. C. 30 (Plin. H. N. xxxvi. .5. s. 4. §§ 10, 12). This agrees very well with Pliny's statement, in another place, that he flourished about the time of Pompey the Great (H. N. 33.12. s. 55). Pasiteles was evidently one of the most distinguished of the Greek artists who flourished it Rome during the period of the revival of art. It is recorded of him, by his contemporary Varro, that he never executed any work of which he had not previously made a complete model, and that he called the plastic art t
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philo'stratus or Philostratus the Aegyptian (search)
rica with Juba when Cato and Scipio took the command against Julius Caesar, B. C. 47, on which occasion a rebuke given to Juba for the honours paid to Philostratus, led to the reconciliation of the two noble Romans, who had previously been at variance. (Plut. Cat. Mi. 57.) He afterwards attached himself to the party of Antony and Cleopatra, and his morals were not improved by the connection. (Epigram. apud Philostrat. V. S. 1.5.) Hence the indignation of Augustus, when he entered Alexandria B. C. 30, at finding a professed follower of the Academic school so degraded. He granted him his life, however, that no odium might attach to the philosopher Areius, whom Philostratus, with long white beard and funereal garb, followed, importuning for mercy. (Plut. Ant. 80.) His familiarity with princes, and his wealth, the result of a life of labour, are contrasted with the condition to which, alive and dead, he was subjected by the Roman soldiers, in an epigram of Crinagoras. (Anthol. Graec. ed. J
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philo'tas (search)
Philo'tas （*Filw/tas), a physician of Amphissa in Locris, who was born about the middle of the first century B. C. He studied at Alexandria, and was in that city at the same time with the triumvir Antony, of whose profusion and extravagance he was an eye-witness. He became acquainted with the triumvir's son Antyllus, with whom he sometimes supped, about B. C. 30. On one occasion, when a certain physician had been annoying the company by his logical sophisms and forward behaviour, Philotas silenced him at last with the following syllogism :--"Cold water is to be given in a certain fever; but every one who has a fever has a certain fever; therefore cold water is to be given in all fevers ;" which so pleased Antyllus, who was at table, that he pointed to a sideboard covered with large goblets, and said, "I give you all these, Philotas." As Antyllus was quite a lad at that time, Philotas scrupled to accept such a gift, but was encouraged to do so by one of the attendants, who asked him if
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
In B. C. 35 he was employed by Antony to negotiate with the Median king Artavasdes, whom he succeeded in detaching from the alliance of Parthia, and gaining over to that of Rome: a service for which he was subsequently rewarded by the triumvir by the addition to his dominions of the Lesser Armenia. (D. C. 49.33, 44.) But though he thus owed his elevation to Antony he was fortunate enough not to share in his fall, and although he had sent an auxiliary force to the assistance of his patron in B. C. 30, shortly before the battle of Actium, he was able to make his peace with Octavian, who confirmed him in his kingdom, and some years afterwards bestowed on him the honorary appellations of a friend and ally of the Roman people. (Plut. Ant. 61; Strab. xii. p.578; D. C. 53.25.) At a subsequent Period (about B. C. 16) he was intrusted by Agrippa with the charge of reducing the kingdom of Bosporus, which had been usurped by Scribonius after the death of Asander. The usurper was put to death by t
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
rious or useful employment. He began to write poetry at a very early age, and the merit of his productions soon attracted the attention and patronage of Maecenas. This was most probably shortly after the final discomfiture and death of Antony in B. C. 30, when, according to the computation adopted in this notice, Propertius was about one-and-twenty. This inference is drawn from the opening elegy of the second book (5.17. &c.), from which it appears that Maecenas had requested him to describe theon of this connection cannot be accurately determined. Properties' first success with his mistress must have been after the battle of Actium, from 2.15. 37 and 44; and as it was in the summer time (3.20. 11, &c.), it should probably be placed in B. C. 30. The seventh elegy of the fourth book seems to show that the lovers were separated only by the death of Cynthia. See especially the fifth and sixth verses : -- Cum mihi somnus ab exequiis penderet amoris, Et quererer lecti frigida regna mei. T
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ptolemaeus Philadelphus (search)
Ptolemaeus Philadelphus 23. Surnamed PHILADELPHUS, a son of M. Antony, the Triumvir, by Cleopatra. He was the youngest of their three children, and could therefore hardly have been born before B. C. 39. (D. C. 49.32.) In B. C. 34, he was proclaimed by his father king of Syria, including Cilicia, and all the provinces west of the Euphrates (D. C. 49.41; Pint. Ant. 54). After the death of Antony, and the subjugation of Egypt, B. C. 30, his life was spared by Augustus, at the intercession of Juba and Cleopatra, and he was brought up by Octavia with her own children, but we hear nothing more of him. (D. C. 51.15; Plut. Ant. 87.) [E.H.B]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
L. Sae'nius a senator at the time of the Catilinarian conspiracy, B. C. 63 (Sal. Cat. 30). We find in the Fasti one of the consules suffecti for B. C. 30, with the name of L. Saenius, who was probably the sane person as the senator. Appian says B. C. 4.50), that a certain Balbinus was consul in B. C. 30, in which year the conspiracy of the younger Lepidus was detected by Maecenas. Now as the Fasti do not mention a consul of the name of Balbinus, it has been conjectured with much probability thaB. C. 30, in which year the conspiracy of the younger Lepidus was detected by Maecenas. Now as the Fasti do not mention a consul of the name of Balbinus, it has been conjectured with much probability that Balbinus was the cognomen of L. Saenius. Appian further states (l.c.) that Balbinus was proscribed by the triumvirs in B. C. 43, and restored with Sex. Pompey. The senatusconsultum, by which Augustus made a number of persons patricians, is called Lex Saenia by Tacitus (Tac. Ann. 11.25). Dio Cassius (52.42) speaks of the addition to the patricians as taking place in B. C. 29, but the name of the Lex Saenia shows that the authority of the senate was obtained at the latter end of the preceding ye
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Salo'me (search)
Salo'me （*Salw/mh). 1. Also called alexandra was the wife of Aristobulus I., king of the Jews, on whose death, in B. C. 106, she released his brothers, who had been thrown by him into prison. and advanced the eldest of them (Alexander Jannaeus) to the throne (Joseph. Am. 13.12.1. Bell. Jud. 1.4.1). By some she has been identified with Alexandra, the wife of Alexander Jannaeus, who, according to this hypothesis, married her, in obedience to the Jewish law, to raise up seed to his brother. Such a conjecture, however, is disproved by the fact, that Hyrcanus 11., son of Alexander Jannaeus and Alexamidra, was past 80 when he died, in B. C. 30, and therefore must have been born several years before the death of Aristobulus I. (See Joseph. Ant. xv, 6.3
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