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Di'vico
a commander of the Helvetians in the war against L. Cassius, in B. C. 107. Nearly fifty years later, B. C. 58, when J. Caesar was preparing to attack the Helvetians, they sent an embassy to him, headed by the aged Divico, whose courageous speech is recorded by Caesar. (B. G. 1.13; comp. Oros. 5.1; Liv. Epit. 65.) [L.S]
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]
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), (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.)
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