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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Diviti'acus (search)
Diviti'acus an Aeduan noble, and brother of Dumnorix, is mentioned by Cicero ( de Div. 1.41) as belonging to the order of Druids, and professing much knowledge of the secrets of nature and of divination. He was a warm adherent of the Romans and of Caesar, who, in consideration of his earnest entreaties, pardoned the treason of Dumnorix in B. C. 58. In the same year he took the most proninent part among the Gallic chiefs in requesting Caesar's aid against Ariovistus [see p. 287]; he had, some time before, gone even to Rome to ask the senate for their interference, but without success. It was probably during this visit that he was the guest of Cicero (de Div l.c.). Throughout, Caesar placed the greatest confidence in him, and in B. C. 57, pardoned, at his intercession, the Bellovaci, who had joined with the rest of the Belgians in their conspiracy. (Caes. Gal. 1.3, 16-20, 31, 32, 2.5, 14, 15. 6.12, 7.39; Plut. Caes. 19; D. C. 38.34, &c.) [E.E]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Fabri'cius (search)
Fabri'cius 3. Q. Fabricius was tribune of the people in B. C. 57, and well disposed towards Cicero, who was then living in exile. He brought before the people a motion that Cicero should be recalled, as early as the month of January of that year. But the attempt was frustrated by P. Clodius by armed force. (Cic. ad Qu. Frat. 1.4, post Red. in Sen. 8, pro Sext. 35, &c., pro Milon. 14.) In the Monumentum Ancyranum and in Dio Cassius (48.35), he is mentioned as consul suffectus of the year B. C. 36. [L.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
n to his aiming at the supremacy in the Roman republic, remarked that it was indifferent in what part of the body the royal diadem (bandage) was worn. It should be remarked that Favonius, although he belonged to the party of the Optimates, was yet a personal enemy of Pompey. In B. C. 59, when J. Caesar and Bibulus were consuls, Favonius is said to have been the last of all the senators that was prevailed upon to sanction the lex agrarian of Caesar, and not until Cato himself had fielded. In B. C. 57, when Cicero proposed that Pompey should be entrusted with the superintendence of all the supplies of corn, Favonius was at the head of the opposition party, and became still more indignant at the conduct of the tribune Messius, who claimed almost unlimited power for Pompey. When Ptolemy Auletes, the exiled king of Egypt, had caused the murder of the ambassadors whom the Alexandrians had sent to Rome, Favonius openly charged him in the senate with the crime, and at the same time unmasked th
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Galba (search)
Galba 9. P. SULPICIUS GALBA was appointed one of the judices in the case of Verres B. C. 70, but was rejected by Verres. Cicero calls him an honest, but severe judge, and says that he was to enter on some magistracy that same year. He seems to be the same as the Galba who was one of the competitors of Cicero for the consulship. In B. C. 57 he is mentioned as pontifex, and in 49 as augur. Whether he is the same as the Galba who served as legate under Sulla in the war against Mithridates must remain uncertain. (Cic. in Verr. 1.7, 10, de Petit. Cons. 2, ad Att. 1.1, 9.9, de Harusp. Resp. 6; Ascon. in Cic. in Tog. cand. p. 82 ; Appian, App. Mith. 43.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Gallus, Fa'dius 3. T. Fadius Gallus, was quaestor of Cicero in his consulship, B. C. 63, and tribune of the people in B. C. 57, in which year he exerted himself with others to effect the recal of Cicero from exile. At a later period T. Fadius himself appears to have lived in exile, and Cicero in a letter still extant (ad Fam. 5.18) consoled him in his misfortune. (Cic. ad Q. Frat. 1.4, ad Att. 3.23, post Red. in Senat. 8, ad Fam. 7.27.) [L.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
rse than inefficient. He directly fomented the insubordination in the legions of Lucullus by issuing, soon after his arrival in Asia, a proclamation releasing Lucullus's soldiers from their military obedience to him, and menacing them with punishment if they continued under his command. (App. Mith. 90.) Lucullus resigned part of his army to Glabrio (Cic. pro Leg. Man. 9), who allowed Mithridates to ravage Cappadocia, and to regain the greater portion of the provinces which the Romans had stripped him of. (Dio Cass. l.c.) Glabrio was himself superseded by Cn. Pompey, as soon as the Manilian law had transferred to him the war in the East. In the debate on the doom of Catiline's accomplices in December, B. C. 63, Glabrio declared in favour of capital punishment, before the speech of Cato determined the majority of the senate (Cic. Att. 12.21), and he approved generally of Cicero's consulship (Phil. 2.5). He was a member of the college of pontiffs in B. C. 57. (Har. Resp. 6, ad Q.fr. 2.1.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Grati'dius (search)
Grati'dius 2. M. Gratidius, perhaps a grandson of No. 1, was legate of Q. Cicero in his administration of the province of Asia. In one passage (Cic. ad Quint. fr. 1.4), a Gratidius is mentioned as tribune of the people in B. C. 57, which has in itself nothing improbable; but as the name Gratidius is not mentioned elsewhere among the tribunes of that year, whose names occur very frequently, it is usually supposed that in the passage just referred to, Gratidius is a false reading for Fabricius. (See Cic. p. Flacc. 21, ad Quint. fr. 1.1, 3, 10; Orelli, Onom. Tull. vol. ii. p. 388.) [L.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), I'ccius (search)
I'ccius 1. A noble of Rheims in Gallia Belgica, who headed a deputation of his townsmen to Caesar in B. C. 57, placing their state at Caesar's disposal, and praying his aid against the other Belgic communities then in arms against Rome. Iccius defended Bibrax (Bièvre) against the other tribes of the Belgae immediately after his return from Caesar's quarters. (Caes. Gal. 2.3, 6.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lenti'dius (search)
Lenti'dius one of the leaders of the Clodian mob of slaves and gladiators in January, B. C. 57, when P. Sextius, tribune of the plebs, was assailed and left for dead in the temple ot Castor in the forum. (Cic. pro Dom. 33, pro Sext. 37.) [W.B.D]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lentulus or Lentulus Spinther (search)
60: at the Apollinarian games he, for the first time, drew an awning over the theatre (carbasina vela, Plin. Nat. 19.6), and ornamented the scenes with silver. (V. Max. 2.4.6.) By Caesar's interest he obtained Hither Spain for his next year's province, where he remained into part of 58. (Caes. B. C. i 22; Cic. Fam. 1.9.4, &c.) He returned to become candidate for the consulship, when he was elected again, by Caesar's support. (Caes. l.c.) But on the very day of his entering office, 1 Jan. B. C. 57, he moved for the immediate recall of Cicero (Cic. in Pis. 15); brought over his colleague Metellus Nepos to the same views; and his services were gratefully acknowledged by Cicero. (Pro Sext. 40, 69, Brut. 77, ad Att. 3.22. &c.; and comp. the letters to Lentulus himself, ad Fam. 1.1-9.) Now, therefore, notwithstanding his obligations to Caesar, he had openly taken part with the aristocracy. Yet he opposed them in promoting Pompey's appointment to the supreme superintendence of the corn mar
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