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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lentulus (search)
Lentulus 32. Cn. Lentulus Vatia, mentioned by Cicero, B. C. 56 (ad Q. Fr. 2.3.5).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lentulus (search)
Lentulus 33. L. Cornelius Lentulus Niger, flamen of Mars (Cic. Att. 12.7, in Vatin. 10; comp. Ascon. ad Cic. Scaur. sub fin.). At his dedication by the augur L. Caesar, he gave a sumptuous dinner (Macr. 2.9). In B. C. 58, he stood for the consulship, though Caesar tried to put him down by implicating him in an attempt on Pompey's life (Cic. in Vatin. 10; comp. ad Att. 2.24). In 57, he was one of the priests to whom was referred the question whether the site of Cicero's house was consecrated ground (De Harusp. Resp. 6, comp. pro Dom. 49, 52). He is also mentioned as one of the judges in the case of P. Sextius, B. C. 56 (in Vatin. l.c., ad Q. Fr. 2.3, 5). He died in the same year, much praised by Cicero (Cic. Att. 4.6).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Libo, Scribo'nius 5. L. Scribonius Libo, the father-in-law of Sex. Pompey, the son of Pompey the Great, and consul B. C. 34, is first mentioned in B. C. 56, in which year he appears to have been tribune, as supporting Pompey's views in relation to the affairs of Egypt in the case of Ptolemy Auletes. (Cic. Fam. 1.1.) On the breaking out of the civil war in B. C. 49, Libo naturally sided with Pompey, and was entrusted with the command of Etruria. But the rapid approach of Caesar, and the enthusiasm with which he was every where received, obliged Libo to retire from Etruria and join the consuls in Campania, from whence he subsequently proceeded with the rest of the Pompeian party to Brundisium. While here Caesar sent to him Caninius Rebilus, who was an intimate friend of Libo, to persuade him to use his influence with Pompey to effect a reconciliation; but nothing came of this negotiation. (Flor. 4.2.1; Lucan, 2.461; Cic. Att. 7.12, 8.11, b; Caes. Civ. 1.26.) Libo accompanied Pompey to
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Li'via (search)
Li'via 2. Livia Drusilla, the wife of Augustus, was the daughterof Livius Drusus Claudianus [DRUSUS, No. 7], who had been adopted by one of the Livia gens, but was a descendant of App. Claudius Caecus. Livia was born on the 28th of September, B. C. 56-54. (Letronne, Recherches pour servir à l'Histoire de l'Egypte, p. 171.) She was married first to Tib. Claudius Nero; but her beauty having attracted the notice of Octavian at the beginning of B. C. 38, her husband was compelled to divorce her, and surrender her to the triumvir. She had already borne her husband one son, the future emperor Tiberius, and at the time of her marriage with Augustus was six months pregnant with another, who subsequently received the name of Drusus. It was only two years previously that she had been obliged to fly before Octavian, in consequence of her husband having fought against him in the Perusinian war. (Suet. Tib. 3, 4; Vell. 2.75, 79; Suet. Aug. 62; D. C. 48.15, 34, 44.) Livia never bore Augustus any
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lucullus (search)
against the life of Pompey (Cic. in Vatin. 10, Ep. ad Att. 2.24); and in the same year he is mentioned among the judges at the trial of L. Flaccus (Cic. pro Flacc. 34). But these two are the last occasions on which his name appears in history. The precise period of his death is not mentioned, but he cannot long have survived the return of Cicero from exile, as the great orator refers to him as no longer living, in his oration concerning the consular provinces, delivered the following year, B. C. 56 (Cic. de Prov. Cons. 9). We are told that for some time previous to his death he had fallen into a state of complete dotage, so that the management of his affairs was confided to his brother Marcus (Plut. Luc. 43; Aur Vict. de Vir. Illustr. 74). But his death, as often happens, revived in its full force the memory of his great exploits; and when the funeral oration was pronounced in the forum over his remains, the populace insisted that he should be buried, as Sulla had been, in the Campus
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lucullus (search)
supported him in his demand for the restitution of his house (Cic. pro Dom. 52, de Harusp. Resp. 6). After all these services both to himself and his party, we cannot wonder that Cicero should designate him as one of the " lights and ornaments of the republic" (de Prov. Cons. 9). How long he survived his brother-whose funeral oration he pronounced-is uncertain; the exact date of the death of either one or the other being nowhere recorded. But we learn from Cicero that he was still alive in B. C. 56; at the beginning of which year he took an active part in opposing the mission of Pompey to Egypt, and supporting the pretensions of Lentulus Spinther to that appointment (Cic. Fam. 1.1). He is again mentioned a few months later, as present at the debate in the senate concerning the consular provinces (Id. de Prov. Cons. 9), but we hear no more of him after this, and it seems probable that he did not long survive. It is certain at least that he died before the commencemnent of the civil war
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Lupus, Ruti'lius 2. P. Rutilius Lupus, probably son of the preceding, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 56, was a very warm partisan of the aristocracy. Immediately after entering upon his office in the December of the preceding year, he proposed the repeal of the agrarian law of Caesar; and he also took an active part in the disputes relating to the restoration of Ptolemy Auletes to Egypt. (Cic. ad Qu. Fr. 2.1, ad Fam. 1.1, 2.) He was praetor in B. C. 49, and was stationed at Tarracina with three cohorts, but he was deserted by his men as soon as they saw Caesar's cavalry approaching. Instead, however, of hastening to Brundisium to join Pompey, he returned to Rome, and administered justice there for a short time, but must have quitted the city before Caesar's arrival. (Caes. Civ. 1.24 Cic. Att. 8.12, A. § 4, 9.1.2.) Shortly afterwards he crossed over to Greece, and was sent by Pompey to take the charge of Achaia. (Caes. Civ. 3.55.) He may have been the father of Rutilius Lupus, the gramma
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Marcellus Clau'dius 11. M. Claudius Marcellus, M. F. M. N. (probably a son of the preceding), the friend of Cicero, and subject of the oration Pro M. Marcello, ascribed, though erroneously, to the great orator. He is first mentioned as curule aedile with P. Cledius in B. C. 56. (Cic. Att. 4.3.) In February of that year he defended Milo, at Cicero's request, against the charge of violence brought against him by Clodius. (Cic. ad Q. Fr. 2.3.) In 54 he was one of the six advocates who defended the cause of M. Scaurus (Ascon. ad Scaur. p. 20, ed. Orell.); and after the death of Clodius (B. C. 52), took a prominent part in the defence of Milo. (Id. ad Mion. pp. 35, 40, 41.) In the same year he was elected consul, together with Ser. Sulpicius Rufus, for the ensuing year. For this distinction he was probably indebted to the support and favour of Pompey; and during the period of his magistracy (B. C. 51 ) he showed himself a zealous partisan of the latter, and sought to secure his favour by u
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Syr. 51.) But he returned to Rome soon enough to sue for the consulship at the elections of the year 57, and was chosen for the ensuing year, together with L. Marcins Philippus. Before the close of the same year also he took a prominent part in favour of Cicero, after the return of the latter from exile, and exerted himself zealously and successfully to procure the restoration of his house and property. (Cic. Att. 4.2, 3, ad Q. Fr. 2.1, de Har. resp. 1.7.) During the year of his consulship (B. C. 56), Marcellinus opposed a vigorous resistance to the factious violence of Clodius and of the tribune C. Cato; and by his conduct in this respect earned from Cicero the praise of being one of the best consuls he had ever seen. (Ad Q. Fr. 2.6.) At the same time he endeavoured to check the ambition and restrain the power of Pompey, and at the very commencement of his magistracy succeeded in preventing his being sent to Egypt with an army to reinstate Ptolemy Auletes. But not content with this,
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mia'rcia (search)
Mia'rcia 4. The second wife of M. Cato Uticensis, to whom she bore many children, was the daughter of L. Marcius Philippus, consul B. C. 56. It was about the year B. C. 56 that Cato is related to have ceded her to his friend Q. Hortensius, with the approbation of her father: some remarks upon this curious tale are made elsewhere. [Vol. I. p. 648b.] She continued to live with Hortensius till the death of the latter, in B. C. 50, after which she returned to Cato, who left her behind in Rome, plaB. C. 56 that Cato is related to have ceded her to his friend Q. Hortensius, with the approbation of her father: some remarks upon this curious tale are made elsewhere. [Vol. I. p. 648b.] She continued to live with Hortensius till the death of the latter, in B. C. 50, after which she returned to Cato, who left her behind in Rome, placing his family and property under her care, when he fled from the city with the rest of the aristocratical party on Caesar's approach in B. C. 49. (Appian, App. BC 2.99; Plut. Cat. min. 25, 39, 52; Lucan, 2.329, &c.)
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