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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lucullus (search)
ervilia, he could not have been born before B. C. 65; and was a mere child at the time of his father's death. Lucullus had entrusted him to the guardianship of his maternal uncle, Cato; but at the same time recommended him, by his testament, to the friendly care of Cicero, who appears to have joined with Cato in superintending the education of the boy. (Cic. de Fin. 3.2, ad Att. 13.6.) His relationship with Cato and Brutus naturally threw the young Lucullus into the republican party, whom he zealously joined after the death of Caesar: so that he accompanied Brutus to Greece, was present at the battle of Philippi, and was killed in the pursuit after that action, B. C. 42. (Cic. Phil. 10.4; Vell. 2.71; V. Max. 4.7.4.) Cicero tells us that he was a youth of rising talents, and of much promise. (De fin. 3.2, Phil. 10.4.) While yet under age he had dedicated, by command of the senate, a statue of Hercules near the Rostra, in pursuance of a vow of his father. (Plin. Nat. 34.8. (19), ad fin.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ma'nius (search)
Ma'nius the person who managed the affairs of M. Antonius, in Italy, was one of the chief instigators of the war in B. C. 42, usually known as the Perusinian war, which was carried on by L. Antonius and Fulvia, the wife of the triumvir, against Octavianus, during the absence of M. Antonius in the East. Manius also took an active part in the conduct of the war, but he was destined to pay dearly for his activity: for upon the reconciliation of Antonius and Octavianus, in B. C. 40, Manius was put to death by the former, as one of the disturbers of the peace, but partly, it appears, on account of his having exasperated Fulvia against Antonius. (Appian, App. BC 5.14, 19, 22, 29, 32, 66; comp. Mart. 11.20.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Mocilla, L. Ju'lius a man of praetorian rank, who espoused the republican party after the death of Julius Caesar, and fought in the army of Cassius and Brutus at the battle of Philippi (B. C. 42). After the loss of that battle he fled to Samothrace, with his son and others of his party, and their wants were supplied by Pomponius Atticus, who sent from Epeirus every thing that they needed. (Corn. Nep. Attic. 11.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
peian party. Cassius appointed him prefect of the fleet. He defeated Dolabella [DOLABELLA] and the Rhodians off the coast of Cilicia, and blockaded Laodiceia. Murcus was next stationed off the coast of Peloponnesus, and subsequently in the Ionian sea, where he seized and occupied a small island opposite the harbour of Brundisium, and prevented M. Antony for some time from transporting his forces to Illyricum and the main-land of Greece. After the ruin of the republican party at Philippi, in B. C. 42, Murcus carried his fleet over to Sextus Pompey in Sicily. But his past services to the Pompeians were ill-requited by their present leader; for at the instigation of his freedmen Menas and Menodorus, to whom Murcus had borne himself loftily, Sextus caused him to be assassinated, and promulgated a report that he had been murdered by his own slaves. (Cic. Phil. 11.12, ad Att. 12.2, ad Fam. 12.11; Pseudo-Brut. ad Cic. 2.5; Vell. 2.69, 72, 77; J. AJ 14.11. ยงยง 1, 3, 4, B. J. 1.10.4; Appian, App
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nero (search)
ntum, for it was settled A. D. 116. On the assassination of Caesar he went so far as to propose that the assassins should be rewarded. He was praetor probably in B. C. 42. On the quarrels breaking out among the triumviri he fled to Perusia and joined the consul L. Antonius, who was besieged there B. C. 41. In this year his eldest was born of Livia his wife." (D. C. 48.44; Tacit. Annal. 1.10, 5.1.) Nero died shortly after, and left Caesar the tutor of his two sons. If Tiberius was born in B. C. 42 (see Clinton, Fasti, B. C. 42), Nero died in B. C. 34 or 33, for Tiberius, his son, pronounced his funeral oration in front of the Rostra, when he was nine yearsf Livia his wife." (D. C. 48.44; Tacit. Annal. 1.10, 5.1.) Nero died shortly after, and left Caesar the tutor of his two sons. If Tiberius was born in B. C. 42 (see Clinton, Fasti, B. C. 42), Nero died in B. C. 34 or 33, for Tiberius, his son, pronounced his funeral oration in front of the Rostra, when he was nine years old. [G.L]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Plancina, Muna'tia the wife of Cn. Piso, who was appointed governor of Syria in A. D. 18 [PIso, No. 23], was probably the daughter of L. Munatius Plancus, consul B. C. 42. She possessed all the pride and haughtiness of her hs9band, and while he used every effort to thwart Germanicus, she exerted herself equally to annoy and insult Agrippina. She was encouraged in this conduct by Livia, the mother of the emperor, who hated Agrippina most cordially. On the return of her husband to Rome in A.D. 20, after the death of Germanicus. whom it was believed that she and Piso had poisoned, she was involved in the same accusation as her husband, but was pardoned by the senate in consequence of the entreaties of the empress-mother. As long as the latter was alive, Plancina was safe, and she was suffered to remain unmolested for a few years even after the death of Livia, which took place in A. D. 29. But being accused in A. D. 33, she no longer possessed any hope of escape, and accordingly put an en
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Plancus (search)
in next year. He received a still further proof of Caesar's confidence in being nominated to the government of Transalpine Gaul for B. C. 44, with the exception of the Narbonese and Belgic portions of the province, and also to the consulship for B. C. 42, with D. Brutus as his colleague. On the death of Caesar in B. C. 44 the political life of Plancus may be said to commence. After declaring himself in favour of an amnesty he hastened into Gaul to take possession of his province as speedily as pwas probably only an insignificant advantage gained over some Alpine tribes, in consequence of which he had assumed the title of imperator even before the battle of Mutina, as we see from his correspondence with Cicero (Cic. Fam. 10.8, 24). In B. C. 42 Plancus was consul according to the arrangement made by the dictator Caesar, and had as his colleague M. Lepidus in place of D. Brutus. The Perusinian war in the following year, B. C. 41, placed Plancus in great difficulty. He had the command of
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pompeius (search)
s attempts upon Messana, but had afterwards allowed him to obtain possession of the town on condition that they should rule together over Sicily; but this condition was never observed, and Sextus became the real master of the island. Sextus likewise received support from Q. Cornificius, the governor of Africa. Rome now began to suffer from want of its usual supplies, which were cut off by Sextus; and accordingly Octavian sent against him a fleet commanded by his legate Q. Salvidienus Rufus (B. C. 42). The latter succeeded in protecting the coasts of Italy from the ravages of Pompey's ships, but was defeated in the straits of Sicily when he ventured upon a naval engagement against the main body of Pompey's fleet. This battle was fought under the eyes of Octavian, who departed immediately afterwards for Greece, in order to prosecute the war against Brutus and Cassius. Pompey had now become stronger than ever. His naval superiority was incontestable ; and in his arrogance he called himsel
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Po'rcia (search)
ction for her husband was stronger than her stoicism, and on the morning of the 15th, her anxiety for his safety was so great that she fainted away, and word was brought to Brutus in the senate-house that his wife was dying. She parted with Brutus at Velia in Lucania in the course of the same year, when he embarked for Greece. She then returned to Rome, where she continued to live unmolested by the triumvirs. But after she learnt the loss of the battle of Philippi and the death of Brutus in B. C. 42, she resolved not to survive the ruin of her party and the death of her husband, and accordingly put an end to her own life. The common tale was, that her friends, suspecting her design, had taken all weapons out of her way, and that she therefore destroyed herself by swallowing live coals. The real fact may have been that she suffocated herself by the vapour of a charcoal fire, which we know was a frequent means of self-destruction among the Romans. (Plut. Cat. 25, 73, Brut. 2, 13, 15, 23,
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ptolemaeus (search)
son of Aristobulus, was put to death at Antioch by the partisans of Pompey, Ptolemy afforded shelter and protection to the brothers and sisters of the deceased prince, and his son Philippion at first married one of the fugitive princesses, Alexandra : but, afterwards, Ptolemy becoming enamoured of her himself, put Philippion to death, and made Alexandra his own wife. After the battle of Pharsalia Ptolemy was confirmed by Caesar in the possession of his dominions, over which he continued to rule till his death in B. C. 40, when he was succeeded by his son Lysanias. The only occasion on which we meet with his name during this interval is in B. C. 42, when he united with Marion, prince of Tyre, in an attempt to restore Antigonus, the son of Aristobulus, to the throne of Judaea. They were, however, both defeated by Herod. (Strab. xvi. p.753 ; J. AJ 13.16.3, 14.3.2, 7.4, B. J. 1.9.2, 13.1.) We learn from his coins that he assumed the title of tetrarch. (Eckhel, vol. iii. p. 264.) [E.H.B]
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