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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Galba (search)
Galba 10. SER. SULPICIUS GALBA, a grandson of No. 6, and great-grandfather of the emperor Galba. He was sent by Caesar at the beginning of his Gallic campaign, in B. C. 58, against the Nantuates, Veragri and Seduni, and defeated them; but he, nevertheless, led his army back into the country of the Allobrogians. In B. C. 54 he was praetor urbanus. In B. C. 49 he was a candidate for the consulship; but, to the annoyance of his friend J. Caesar, he was not elected. He was a friend of Decimus Brutus and Cicero; and in the war of Mutina, of which he himself gives an account in a letter to Cicero still extant (ad Fam. 10.30), he commanded the legio Martia. (Caes. Gal. 3.1, 6, 8.50; D. C. 37.48, 39.5, 65 ; Cic. Fam. 6.18, 11.18, Philip. 13.16; V. Max. 6.2.11.) According to Suetonius (Galba, 3; comp. Appian, App. BC 2.113), he was one of the conspirators against the life of J. Caesar.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
A. Hi'rtius A. F., belonged to a plebeian family, which came probably from Fercntinum in the territory of the Hernici. (Orelli, Inscr. n. 589.) He was throughout life the personal and political friend of Caesar the dictator (Cic. Phil. 13.11), but his name would scarcely have rescued the Hirtia gens xii. from obscurity, had not his death marked a crisis in the history of the republic. In B. C. 58 he was Caesar's legatus in Gaul (Cic. Fam. 16.27), but was more frequently employed as a negotiator than as a soldier. In December B. C. 50, he was despatched with a commission to L. Balbus at Rome, and as he arrived and departed at night, his errand, as a known emissary of Caesar, caused much speculation and alarm, especially to Cn. Pompey. (Cic. Att. 7.4.) Hirtius returned from Gaul on the breaking out of the civil war in B. C. 49, and was at Rome in April after Pompey's expulsion from Italy, at which time lie obtained for the younger Q. Cicero an audience with Caesar (ad Att. 10.4.5, 11).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Isis (search)
in the Class. Mus. vol. i. p. 34, &c.). In the western parts of Europe the worship of Isis became likewise established, and many places in Sicily, Italy, and Gaul, are known to have been the seats of it. According to Appuleius (Met. xi. p. 262), it was introduced at Rome in the time of Sulla : at a later time her statue was removed from the capitol by a decree of the senate (Tertull. ad Nation. 1.10, Apolog. 6; Arnob. ad v. Gent. 2.73); but the populace and the consuls Piso and Gabinius, in B. C. 58, resisted the decree. A further decree of B. C. 53 forbade the private worship of Isis, and ordered the chapels dedicated to her to be destroyed. Subsequently, when the worship was restored, her sanctuaries were to be found only outside the pomoerium. (D. C. 40.47.) This interference on the part of the government was thought necessary on account of the licentious orgies with which the festivals of the goddess were celebrated. In B. C. 50, the consul, L. Aemilius Paulus himself, was the firs
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Labie'nus (search)
. p. 455a.] (Comp. Veil. Pat. 2.40.) All these services did not go unrewarded. When Caesar, after his consulship, went into his province of Transalpine Gaul in B. C. 58, he took Labienus with him as his legatus, and treated him with distinguished favour. We find that Labienus had the title of pro praetore (Caes. Gal. 1.21), whicaesar during a great part of his campaigns in Gaul, and showed himself an able and active officer. He was with Caesar throughout the whole of his first campaign (B. C. 58). According to Appian (Celt. 3, 15) and Plutarch (Plut. Caes. 18), it was Labienus who cut to pieces the Tigurini; but Caesar ascribes the merit of this to himse we have no further mention of Labienus in Gaul for the next three years, it is probable that he quitted the army when Caesar returned to it, after the winter of B. C. 58. His absence was supplied by P. Crassus, the son of the triumvir; but when the latter left Gaul, in B. C. 54, in order to join his father in the fatal expedition
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
M. Lae'nius or LE'NIUS FLACCUS, a friend of Atticus, who, notwithstanding the stringent edict of Clodius, B. C. 58 (" Lex Clodia in Ciceronem." Pseud. Cic. pro Dom. 17), sheltered Cicero in his country-house near Brundisium, until he could securely embark for Epeirus. The father, brother, and sons of Laenius were equally earnest in befriending the exile. Laenius afterwards, B. C. 51, met Cicero in Asia Minor, and applied to him for a sub-prefecture in Cilicia, where Laenius had money at interest. Cicero, however, refused to gratify him, since he had made a rule to grant no money-lender (negotianti) office in his province. Yet in the same year, and for a similar purpose, he highly recommended Laenius to P. Silius Nerva, pro-praetor in Bithynia and Pontus. (Cic. pro Planc. 41, ad Fam. 13.63, 14.4, ad Att. 5.20, 21, 6.1, 3.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), La'mia (search)
La'mia 1. L. Aelius Lamia, was of equestrian rank, and distinguished himself by the zealous support which he afforded to Cicero in the suppression of the Catilinarian conspiracy. So great were his services that he was marked out for vengeance by the popular party, and was accordingly banished (relegatus) by the influence of the consuls Gabinius and Piso in B. C. 58. He was subsequently recalled from exile; and during the civil wars he appears to have espoused Caesar's party, since we find that he obtained the aedileship in B. C. 45. During this time he lived on intimate terms with Cicero, and there are two letters of the latter to Brutus, intreating Brutus to use his influence to assist Lamia in his canvass for the praetorship. He seems to have carried his election, and would have been praetor in B. C. 43, the year in which Cicero was put to death. (Cic. pro Sest. 12, in Prison. 27, post Red. in Sen. 5, ad Att. 13.45, ad Fam. 11.16, 17.) This Lamia seems to be the same as the L. Lamia
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Laterensis (search)
lus) he became a candidate for the tribunate of the plebs; but as he would have been obliged, if elected, to have sworn to maintain the agrarian law of Caesar, which was passed in that year, he retired voluntarily from the contest. It was probably owing to his political sentiments that Laterensis became one of Cicero's personal friends; and it was doubtless his opposition to Caesar which led L. Vettius to denounce him as one of the conspirators in the pretended plot against Pompey's life in B. C. 58. In B. C. 55, in the second consulship of Pompey and Crassus, Laterensis became a candidate for the curule aedileship, with Cn. Plancius, A. Plotius, and Q. Pedius. The elections were put off this year; but in the summer of the following year (B. C. 54) Plancius and Plotius were elected; but before they could enter upon their office Laterensis, in conjunction with L. Cassius Longinus, accused Plancius of the crime of sodalitium, or the bribery of the tribes by means of illegal association
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)
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 entitled De Rerum Natura. It has been sometimes represented as a complete exposition of the religious, moral, and physical doctrines of Epicurus, but this is far from being a correct description. The plan is not by any means so vast or so discursive, and although embracing numerous topics requiring great minuteness of detail, and admitting of great variety of illustration, is extremely distinct, and possesses almost epical unity. Epicurus maintained that the unhappiness an
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ma'nlius (search)
Ma'nlius 5. Cn. Manlius, tribune of the plebs B. C. 58, brought forward a law granting to the freedmen (libertini) the right of voting in all the tribes; but he was prevented from passing it by Domitius Ahenobarbus, who was then praetor (Ascon. in Cic. Mil. p. 46). Baiter, in his note on Asconius (l.c.), has shown that this Cn. Manlius is a different person from C. Manilius, who was tribune in B. C. 66. and who brought forward a similar law. [MANILIUS, No. 7.]
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