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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lentulus (search)
Lentulus 21. P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, P. F. P. N., son of the last. (Cic. Fam. 1.7, 12.15, ad Q. Fr. 2.3, &c.) He assumed the toga virilis in B. C. 57, and therefore was born in 74. In the same year he was elected in the college of augurs, having been first received (by a sham adoption) into the Manlian gens; because two of the same gens could not at once be in the college, and Faustus Sulla of the Cornelian was already a member. (Cic. pro Sext. 69; D. C. 39.17; comp. Vaill. Cornel. No. 48-51, Eckhel, vol. v. p. 184, &c.) In 56, when Cato endeavoured to recal his father from Cilicia, he appeared publicly in mourning. (Cic. ad Q. Fr. 2.3, init.) He followed Pompey's fortunes with his father, and was supposed to have gone to Alexandria after the murder of their chief-perhaps to intercede with Caesar. (Ad Att. 11.13.) The dictator pardoned him, and he returned to Italy. In B. C. 45 he was divorced from his abandoned wife, Metella. (Horat. Serm. 2.3. 339; Cic. Att. 11.15, 23, 12.52
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Le'pidus (search)
g to the Lex Plantia de vi, an act which Cicero praised as one of great service to the state, and on account of which Paullus incurred the hatred of the popular party. He must then have been quite a young man, for he was not quaestor till three years afterwards; and it was during his quaestorship in Macedonia, in B. C. 59, under the propraetor C. Octavius, that he was accused by L. Vettius as one of the persons privy to the pretended conspiracy against the life of Pompey. He is mentioned in B. C. 57 as exerting himself to obtain the recall of Cicero from banishment. In his aedileship, B. C. 55, Paullus restored one of the ancient basilica in the middle of the forum, and likewise commenced a new one of extraordinary size and splendour. (Cic. Att. 4.16.) Respecting these basilicae, which have given rise to considerable dispute, a few remarks are made below, where a coin is given representing one of them. In B. C. 53, Paullus obtained the praetorship, but not until the month of July,
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ligur, Ae'lius tribune of the plebs, B. C. 57, endeavoured by his veto to prevent the passing of the decree of the senate for Cicero's recall. He seems to have been an obscure individual, and, according to Cicero, had assumed a surname to which he had no right. (Cic. pro Sext. 31, 32, 43, pro Dome. 19, de Harusp. Resp. 3.) [C.P.M]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
mpore iniquo" is so general that it is applicable to any portion of the epoch when he flourished. From the manner, however, in which Cicero, in a letter to his brother Quintus, written B. C. 55, gives his opinion on the merits of the poem, we may fairly conclude that it had been recently published; and, taking into account the slowness with which copies were multiplied, the conjecture of Forbiger becomes highly probable, that it may have been given to the world in the early part of the year B. C. 57, when the machinations of Clodius were producing a degree of disorder and anarchy almost without example even in those stormy times. Works De Rerum Natura The work which has immortalised the name of Lucretius, and which, happily, has been preserved entire, is a philosophical didactic poem, composed in heroic hexameters, divided into six books, extending to upwards of seven thousand four hundred lines, addressed to C. Memmius Gemellus, who was praetor in B. C. 58 [MEMMIUS], and is entit
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Maso (search)
Maso 6. I. Papirius Maso, disinherited his brother (frater), Aelius Ligur, tribune of the plebs B. C. 57. (Cic. pro Dom. 19, ad Att. 5.4.) This M. Papirius Maso may be the same as the M. Papirius, a Roman knight and a friend of Pompey, who was slain by P. Clodius on the Appian Way. (Cic. pro Mil. 7; Ascon. in Cic. Mil. p. 48; Schol. Bob. pro Mil. p. 284, ed. Orelli.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus (search)
and repaired to Pompey: the senate proposed to deprive him of his office, and according to some accounts actually did so. Metellus returned to Rome with Pompey, and was raised to the praetorship in B. C. 60. In this year he brought forward a law for the abolition of the vectigalia in Italy; and the senate, out of hatred to Metellus, attempted to call the law by the name of some other person. In the following year he appears not to have gone to a province, but to have remained in Rome. In B. C. 57 he was consul with P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther. Cicero, who had been banished in the preceding year, and whose friends were now exerting themselves to obtain his recall, was greatly alarmed at the election of Metellus, since he was one of his bitterest personal enemies. But since Clodius had offended both Pompey and Caesar, and the latter was anxious to mortify and weaken the power of the demagogue, Metellus, out of respect to them, suppressed his feelings towards Cicero, and announced i
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus Scipio (search)
praenomen Lucius. (B. C. 2.24.) Metellus is first mentioned in B. C. 63, when he is said to have come to Cicero by night, along with M. Crassus and Marcellus, bringing with them letters relating to the conspiracy of Catiline. In B. C. 60 he was elected tribune of the plebs, but was accused of bribery by M. Favonius, who had failed in his election, and was defended by Cicero. He was tribune in B. C. 59, and was one of the college of pontiffs before whom Cicero spoke respecting his house in B. C. 57. In the latter year he exhibited gladiatorial games in honour of his deceased father, Metellus Pius. In B. C. 53 Scipio was a candidate for the consulship along with Plautius Hypsaeus and Milo, and was supported by the Clodian mob, since he was opposed to Milo. The candidates had recourse to the most unblushing bribery, and to open violence and force. The most frightful scenes were daily occurring in the streets of Rome; and these disturbances were secretly fomented by Pompey, who was anxio
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus (search)
tted to make his triumphal entrance into Rome, and received the surname of Creticus. He was robbed, however, of the chief ornaments of his triumph, Lasthenes and Panares, whom a tribune of the plebs compelled him to surrender to Pompey. Metellus, as was naturally to be expected, joined Lucullus and the other leaders of the aristocracy in their opposition to Pompey, and succeeded in preventing the latter from obtaining the ratification of his acts in Asia. In B. C. 60 Metellus was sent by the senate with two others to investigate the state of Gaul, where a rising of the people was apprehended. He is mentioned by Cicero, in B. C. 57, as one of the pontiffs before whom he spoke respecting his house, and he probably died soon afterwards. (Liv. Epit. 98-100; Flor. 3.7, 4.2; Eutrop. 6.11; Oros. 6.4; Vell. 2.34, 38; Just. 39.5; Appian, App. Sic. 6; Dio Cass. Frag. 178, 36.1, 2; Plut. Pomp. 29; Sal. Cat. 30; Cic. Verr. i. 9, pro Flacc. 3, 13, 40, in Pison. 24, ad Att. 1.19, de Har. Resp. 6.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
nd for his lawless and ferocious life, a by-name has probably superseded his birth-names. The year of his quaestorship is unknown. He was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 57, when his memorable and fatal contest with P. Clodius began. The history of his tribunate and of the succeeding events until the murder of Clodius in B. C. 52, iing his election for the curule-aedileship in B. C. 56, and was thus during his year of office exempt from impeachment. Milo, whose tribunate expired in December B. C. 57, was on the other hand open to legal proceedings, and Cicero from dread of Crassus, who favoured Clodius, refused to undertake his defence. It was, therefore, neents, and retreated into Lucania, where he was met by the praetor Q. Pedius, and slain under the walls of an obscure fort in the district of Thurii. Milo, inll B. C. 57, married Fausta, a daughter of the dictator Sulla. She proved a faithless wife, and Sallust the historian was soundly scourged by Milo for an intrigue with her.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mu'cia (search)
Mu'cia 2. With the epithet TERTIA, was the daughter of Q. Mucius Scaevola, the augur, consul in B. C. 95. She was a cousin (soror) of Q. Metellus Celer, consul in B. C. 60, and of Q. Metellus Nepos, consul III B. C. 57. Mucia married Cn. Pompey, by whom sne had two sons, Cneius and Sextus, and a daughter, Pompeia. She was divorced by Pompey just before his return from the Mithridatic war in B. C. 62. Mucia next married M. Aemilius Scaurns, a stepson of the dictator Sulla. In B. C. 39, Mucia, at the earnest request of the Roman people, went to Sicily to mediate between her son Sex. Pompey and Augustus. She was living at the time of the battle of Actium, B. C. 31. Augustus treated her with great respect. (Ascon. in Scaur. p. 19, Orelli ; Cic. ad Fam. 5.2, ad Att. 1.12; D. C. 37.49, 48.16, 51.2, 56.38; Appian. B. C. 5.69, 72; Suet. Jul. 50; Plut. Pomp. 42; Zonar. 10.5; Hieron. in Jovin. 1.48.) Whether the Mucia mentioned by Valerius Maximus (9.1.8) bo the same person is uncertain.
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