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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Me'mmius (search)
ius was a man of profligate character. He wrote indecent poems (Plin. Ep. 5.3; Ovid. Trist. 2.433; Gel. 19.9), made overtures to Cn. Pompey's wife (Suet. Ill. Gr. 14), and, when curule aedile, in B. C. 60, seduced the wife of M. Lucullus, whence Cicero, combining this intrigue with Memmius's previous hostility to I,. Lucullus, calls him a Paris, who insulted not only Menelaus (M. Lucullus), but Agamemnon also (L. Lucullus). (Cic. ad Att.1.18.3; comp. V. Max. 6.1.13.) Memmius was praetor in B. C. 58. (Cic. ad Quint. Fr. 1.2, 5, 15.) He belonged at that time to the Senatorian party, since he impeached P. Vatinius, consul in B. C. 47 (Cic. in Vatin. 14); opposed P. Clodius (id. ad Att. 2.12); and was vehement in his invectives against Julius Caesar (Suet. Jul. 23, 49, 73; Schol. Bob. in Cic. pro Sest. p. 297, in Cic. Vatinian. p. 317, 323, Orelli); and attempted to bring in a bill to rescind the acts of his consulate. Before, however, Memmius himself competed for the consulship, B. C. 54
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Me'mmius (search)
Me'mmius 9. C. Memmius, son of the preceding by Fausta, daughter of Sulla the dictator, was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 54. He prosecuted A. Gabinius, consul in B. C. 58, for malversation in his province of Syria (Cic. ad Quint. Fr. 3.1. 5, 15, 2. 1, 3. 2, pro Rabir. Post.3; V. Max. 8.1.3), and Domitius Calvinus for ambitus at his consular comitia in B. C. 54 (Cic. ad Quint. Fr. 3.2.3, 3. 2). Memmius addressed the judices in behalf of the defendant at the trial of M. Aemilius Scaurus in the same year (Ascon. in Cic. Scaurian. p. 29, Orelli). Memmius was step-son of T. Annius Milo who married his mother after her divorce by C. Memmius (No. 7). (Ascon. I. c.; Cic. pro Sull. 19.) Memmius was consul suffectus in B. C. 34, when he exhibited games in honour of one of the mythic ancestors of the Julian house, Venus Genetrix. (D. C. 49.42.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Me'ttius (search)
Me'ttius 2. M. Mettus, was sent by Caesar at the opening of the Gallic war, in B. C. 58, as legatus to Ariovistus, king of the German league, and was detained prisoner by him, but subsequently rescued by Caesar. (Caes. Gal. 1.47, 53.) The annexed coin, which bears the legend M. Mettius, and has on the obverse the head of Caesar, probably refers to this Mettius. [W.B.D]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), No'vius (search)
No'vius 2. L. Novius, a colleague and enemy of P. Clodius in his tribunate, B. C. 58. A fragment of a speech of his is preserved by Asconius (in Cic. Mil. p. 47, Orelli).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Octavius (search)
s province with equal integrity and energy. The manner in which he treated the provincials was again recommended by Cicero as an example to his brother Quintus. He routed the Bessi and some other Thracian tribes, who had disturbed the peace of the province, and received in consequence the title of imperator from his troops. He returned to Italy at the latter end of B. C. 59, in full expectations of being elected to the consulship, but he died suddenly at the beginning of the following year, B. C. 58, at Nola, in Campania, in the very same room in which Augustus afterwards breathed his last. Octavius was married twice, first to Ancharity, by whom he had one daughter [ANCHARIA], and secondly to Atia, by whom he had a daughter and a son [ATIA]. His second wife, and his three children, survived him. (Suet. Aug. 3, 4; Nicol. Damasc. Vit. August. 100.2, ed. Orelli; Vell. 2.59; Cic. Att. 2.1, ad Qu. F. 1.1.7, 2.2.7, Philipp. 3.6; Tac. Ann. 1.9.) The following is the inscription which has been
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
; Liv. Epit. 101.) [CATILINA, p. 629b.] Paetus afterwards took an active part in the Catilinarian conspiracy, which broke out in Cicero's consulship. After the suppression of the conspiracy Paetus was brought to trial for the share he had had in it; he entreated Cicero with many tears to undertake his defence, pleading their early friendship, and their having been colleagues in the quaestorship, but this the orator refused (Cic. pro Sull. 6), and all his former friends in like manner withdrew from him their support. He was accordingly condemned, and went into exile at Epeirus, where he was living when Cicero himself went into banishment in B. C. 58. Cicero was then much alarmed lest Paetus should make an attempt upon his life (Sal. Cat. 17, 47; D. C. 37.25; Cic. pro Sull. passim; Cic. Att. 3.2, 7.) Autronius Paetus has a place in the list of orators in the Brutus of Cicero, who however dismisses him with the character, "voce peracuta, atque magna, nec alia re nlla probabilis" (100.68).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Piso (search)
orrupt magistrate, a fair sample of his noble contemporaries, neither better nor worse than the majority of them. He is first mentioned in B. C. 59, when he was brought to trial by P. Clodius for plundering a province, of which he had the administration after his praetorship, and he was only acquitted by throwing himself at the feet of the judges (V. Max. 8.1.6). In the same year Caesar married his daughter Calpurnia. Through his influence Piso obtained the consulship for the following year B. C. 58, having for his colleague A. Gabinius, who was indebted for the honour to Pompey. The new consuls were the mere instruments of the triumvirs, and took care that the senate should do nothing in opposition to the wishes of their patrons. When the triumvirs had resolved to sacrifice Cicero, the consuls of course threw no obstacle in their way; but Clodius, to make sure of their support, promised Piso the province of Macedonia, and Gabinius that of Syria, and brought a bill before the people to
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Piso (search)
Piso 12. C. Calpurnius Piso Frugi, a son of No. 11, married Tullia, the daughter of Cicero, in B. C. 63, but was betrothed to her as early as B. C. 67 (Cic. Att. 1.3). In Caesar's consulship, B. C. 59, Piso was accused by L. Vettius as one of the conspirators in the pretended plot against Pompey's, life. He was quaestor in the following year, B. C. 58, when he used every exertion to obtain the recal of his father-in-law from banishment, and for that reason would not go into the provinces of Pontus and Bithynia, which had been allotted him. He did not, however, live to see the return of Cicero, who arrived at Rome on the 4th of Septem>ber, B. C. 57. He probably died in the summer of the same year. He is frequently mentioned by Cicero in terms of gratitude on account of the zeal which he had manifested in his behalf during his banishment. (Cic. Att. 2.24, in Vatin. 11, pro Sest. 24, 31, ad Q. Fr. 1.4, ad Fam. 14.1, 2, post Red. in Sen. 15, post Red. ad Quir. 3.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ocracy by the energy with which he pressed for a reduction of the sum which the publicani had agreed to pay for the taxes in Asia, and by the support which he gave in B. C. 59 to Julius Caesar, who granted the demands of the equites. The younger Plancius, the subject of this notice, first served in Africa under the propraetor A. Torquatus, subsequently in B. C. 68 under the proconsul Q. Metellus in Crete, and next in B. C. 62. as military tribune in the army of C. Antonius in Macedonia. In B. C. 58 he was quaestor in the last-mentioned province under the propraetor L. Appuleits, and here he showed great kindness and attention to Cicero, when the latter came to Macedonia during his banishment in the course of this year. Plancius was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 56. In B. C. 55, in the second consulship of Pompey and Crassus, he became a candidate for the curule aedileship with A. Plotius, Q. Pedius, and M. Juventius Laterensis. The elections were put off this year; but in the followin
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pompeius Magnus or Pompeius the Great or Cn. Pompeius (search)
3.] It is only necessary to mention here, that by Caesar's agrarian law, which divided the rich Campanian land among the poorer citizens, Pompey was able to fulfil the promises he had made to his veterans; and that Caesar likewise obtained from the people a ratification of all Pompey's acts in Asia. In order to cement their union more closely, Caesar gave to Pompey his daughter Julia in marriage, Pompey having shortly before divorced his wife Mucia. At the beginning of the following year, B. C. 58, Gabinius and Piso entered upon the consulship, and Caesar went to his province in Gaul Pompey retired with his wife Julia to his villa of Albanum near Rome, and took hardly any part in public affairs during this year. He quietly allowed Clodius to ruin Cicero, whom the triumvirs had determined to leave to his fate. Cicero therefore went into banishment; but after Clodius had once gained from the triumvirs the great object he had desired, he did not care any longer to consult their views. H
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