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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ma'ximus, Egna'tius is mentioned by Cicero in B. C. 45 (ad Att. 13.34), and the same person is probably intended in one or two other passages of Cicero, where the name of Egnatius occurs without any surname (ad Att. 13.45, &c). The acquaintance of Cicero may perhaps be the same as the C. EGNATIUS CN. F. CN. N. MAXIMUS, whose name occurs on several interesting coins which seem to have been struck in the time of Julius Caesar, and of which three specimens are given below. The head of Venus which appears on the obverse of the first, and that of Cupid on the obverse of the second, probably have reference to the descent of Julius Caesar from Venus. An Egnatia Maximilla belonging to the family of the Egnatii Maximi is mentioned in the time of Nero. [EGNATIA.]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ma'ximus, Fa'bius 13. Q. Fabius Maximus, Q. F. Q. N., was joined with Q. Caelius Rufus in B. C. 59, in the prosecution of C. Antonius Hybrida [ANTONIUS, No. 10] for extortion in his province of Macedonia. (Cic. in Vatin. 11; Schol. Bob. in Vatinian. p. 321, Orelli.) For his services as legatus to Caesar in Spain, B. C. 45 (Caes. B. H. 2, 41), he obtained a triumph and the consulship of that year on Caesar's deposition of it in September. Fabius died on the last day (December 31) of his official year. (D. C. 43.42, 46; Plin. H. N 7.53; Cic. Fam. 7.30; Liv. Epit. 116; comp. Macr. 2.3.) To which of the Fabii Maximi the preceding coin belongs is quite uncertain. [W.B.D]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Messalla (search)
of direct bribery, but found guilty of transgressing the Lex Licinia de Sodalitiis, that is, of causing and countenancing assemblies or clubs for controlling the elections. (Dict. of Antiq. s. v. Ambitus; Cic. Fam. 8.2, 4.) Messalla was stoned by the Clodian mob during his consulate. (Schol. Bob. in Or. de aere al. Milon. p. 343, Orelli.) In B. C. 47 Messalla was with Caesar in the East, and was probably the legatus of that name whom in the African war in the following year a mutinous centurion and his company besieged in Messana. (Auct. B. Afr. 28.) After the battle of Thapsus Messalla was sent to Utica. (Id. 86.) Messalla was in high repute for his skill in augury, on which science he wrote; and scanty fragments from his treatise are preserved by Gellius (N. A. 13.14, 15) and Festus (vv. "serpserit" and "vernisera"). Cicero (Cic. Fam. 6.18) mentions letters of Messalla written during the second Spanish war, in B. C. 45. He was the purchaser of the domus Autroniana. (Cic. Att. 1.13.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Murcus, L. Sta'tius was Caesar's legatus in B. C. 48, and one of three commissioners appointed by him to treat with the Pompeians at Oricum (Caes. Civ. 3.15). Murcus was one of the praetors in B. C. 45-44, and went into Syria after his year of office expired, with the title of proconsul, and as successor to Sextus Caesar, slain by his own soldiers in Apameia, at the instigation of Caecilius Bassus [CAESAR, No. 24; BASSUS]. With the aid of Marcius Crispus, proconsul of Bithynia [CRISPUS], Murcus besieged Bassus in Apameia, and compelled him to surrender. But on the arrival of C. Cassius Longinus [LONGINUS, No. 11], Murcus and Crispus both surrendered their legions to him. Henceforward Murcus was an active supporter of the senatorian or Pompeian 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,
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Musca (search)
Musca 5. MUSCA, mentioned by Cicero in B. C. 45, appears to have been a freedman or steward of Atticus. (Cic. Att. 12.40.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nicon (search)
Nicon （*Ni/kwn), a physician, mentioned by Cicero, B. C. 45 (ad Fam. 7.20), the tutor of Sextus Fadius. He is perhaps the person quoted by Celsus (De Medic. 5.18.26, p. 87), and called in some editions Micon. Works *Peri\ *Polufagi/as, De Edacitate He was the author of a work *Peri\ *Polufagi/as, De Edacitate. [W.A.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), No'nius (search)
No'nius 7. Nonius Asprenas had the title of proconsul in B. C. 46, and served under Caesar in the African war, in that year, and also in the Spanish war, B. C. 45. (Auct. B Afr. 80, Hisp. 10.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
rdinibls), next to the place of the senators, which was in the orchestra (Vell. 2.32; Liv. Epit. 99; D. C. 36.25 ; Cic. pro Mur. 19; Tac. Ann. 15.32; Hor. Epod. 4.15, Ep. 1.1. 62; Juv. 3.159, 14.324). For those equites who had lost their rank by not possessing the proper equestrian census, there was a special place assigned (inter decoctorcs, Cic. Phil. 2.18). This law soon became very unpopular; the people, who were excluded from the seats which they had formerly occupied in common with the equites, thought themselves insulted; and in Cicero's consulship (B. C. 63) there was such a riot occasioned by the obnoxious measure, that it required all his eloquence to allay the agitation. (Cic. Att. 2.1). This L. Roscius Otho must not be confounded, as he has frequently been, with the L. Roscius who was praetor in B. C. 49. The latter had the cognomen of Fabatus [FABATUS]. The Otho spoken of by Cicero in B. C. 45, may be the same as the tribune. (Cic. Att. 13.29, comp. 12.37.2, 38.4, 42.1.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), O'via (search)
O'via the wife of C. Lollius, with whom Cicero had some pecuniary transactions in B. C. 45. It appears that Cicero had purchased an estate of her, and owed her some money. (Cic. Att. 12.21, 24, 30, 13.22.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Paciacus, L. Ju'nius served under Caesar in the Spanish war, B. C. 45. and was sent by Caesar with six cohorts and sotae cavalry to strengthen Ulia. which was besieged by Cn. Pompey. (Auct. B. Hisp. 3; Cic. Fam. 6.18, ad Att. 12.2.) Paciacus, which Drumnann preserves (Gesch. Roms, vol. iv, p. 52), is hardly a Roman name. Orelli reads Paciaecus, which is preferabe ; but it may perhaps be Pacianus, a name which occurs elsewhere sometimes with one c and sometimes with two. [PACCIANUS, PACIAXUS.]
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