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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
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Octavian, which was drawn up on the shore. In B. C. 29 he defeated the Cantabri, Vaccaei, and Astures. He was raised to the consulship in B. C. 26; and in B. C. 16, when the emperor went to Gaul, the government of the city and of Italy was left to Taurns, with the title of praefectus urbi. (Appian, App. BC 5.97-99,103, 105, 109, 118; D. C. 49.14, 38; Appian, Ill. 27 ; D. C. 1. 13; Plut. Ant. 65 ; D. C. 51.20, 53.23, 54.19); Tac. Ann. 6.11; Vell. 2.127.) In the fourth consulship of Augustus, B. C. 30, Taurus built an amphitheatre of stone at his own expence, and at its opening exhibited a show of gladiators ; and the people in return allowed him to appoint one of the praetors every year. This amphitheatre was burnt down in the great fire at Rome, in the reign of Nero. (D. C. 51.23, 62.18; Suet. Octav. 29 ; Tac. Ann. 3.72.) There was a Statilius Taurus, who was triumvir of the mint under Augustus, as we learn from coins, but whether he was the same person as the pre-ceding cannot be de
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
esent at the battle of Atax (Aude in Languedoc), which broke the Aquitanian rebellion. Messala, it is probable, went round the province to receive the submission of all the Gaulish tribes, and was accompanied in his triumphant journey by Tibullus. The poet invokes, as witnesses of his fame, the Pyrenean mountains, the shores of the sea in Xaintonge, the Saone, the Garonne, and the Loire, in the country of the Carnuti (near Orleans) (Eleg. 1.7. 9, foll.). In the autumn of the following year (B. C. 30) Messala, having pacified Gaul, was sent into the East to organise that part of the empire under the sole dominion of Octavian. Tibullus set out in his company, but was taken ill, and obliged to remain in Corcyra (Eleg. 1.3), from whence he returned to Rome. So ceased the active life of Tibullus : he retired to the peace for which he had yearned; his life is now the chronicle of his poetry and of those tender passions which were the inspiration of his poetry. The first object of his attac
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Vetus (search)
In B. C. 57 Vetus was tribune of the plebs and supported Cicero in opposition to Clodius. In the civil war he espoused Caesar's party, and we find him in Syria in B. C. 45, fighting against Q. Caecilius Bassus, who had formerly been on the Pompeian side, and who now attempted to seduce the troops in the East from their allegiance to Caesar. He besieged Bassus in Apameia, but was obliged to retire on the approach of the Parthians. In B. C. 34 Vetus carried on war against the Salassi, and in B. C. 30 was consul suffectus. He accompanied Augustus to Spain in B. C. 25, and on the illness of the emperor continued the war against the Cantabri and Astures, whom he reduced to submission. (Plut. Caes. 5; Cic. ad Q. Fr. 2.1.3, ad Att. 14.9.3; D. C. 47.27; Appian, App. Ill. 17; D. C. 53.25; Vell. 2.90; Florus, 4.12.21.) The annexed coin seems to have been struck by this C. Antistius Vetus, as triumvir of the mint. It contains on the obverse a female head with ANTISTIVS VETVS IIIVIR, and on the r
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller), Marcus Cicero (search)
Marcus Cicero Tullius, the orator's only son, 1.1, 15, 78; 2.1–8, 44; 3.1, 5, 33. born in 65. served with credit under Pompey, 2.45. and Sextus Pompey; a student of Peripatetic philosophy under Cratippus in Athens (44-43), 1.1. admonished to read also his father's works, 1.3; 3.121. served under Brutus (43-42); consul with Octavian (30)
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