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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ve'ttius (search)
Ve'ttius 6. L. Vettius, a Roman eques, was in the pay of Cicero in B. C. 63, to whom he gave some valuable information respecting the Catilinarian conspiracy. Hence he is called by Cicero noster index. Among others he accused Caesar of being privy to the conspiracy. (Comp. Suet. Jul. 17, where we ought to read a L. Vettio indice instead of a L. Vettio judice.) He was an unprincipled fellow, who was ready to sell his services to any one who would pay him well. He again appears in B. C. 59 as an informer. In that year he accused Curio, Cicero, L. Lucullus, and many other distinguished men, of having formed a conspiracy to assassinate Pompey. Dio Cassius, who always thinks the worst about every man, asserts (38.9) as a positive fact that Vettius had been purchased by Cicero and L. Lucullus to murder Caesar and Pompey; but this statement is in opposition to all other authorities, and deserves no credence. It seems almost certain that the conspiracy was a sheer invention for the purpose of
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
s or VERGI'LIUS MARO, was born on the 15th of October, B. C. 70 in the first consulship of Cn. Pompeius Magnus and M. Licinius Crassus, at Andes, a small village near Mantua in Cisalpine Gaul. The tradition, though an old one, which identifies Andes with the modern village of Pietola, may be accepted as a tradition, without being accepted as a truth. The poet Horace, afterwards one of his friends, was born B. C. 65; and Octavianus Caesar, afterwards the emperor Augustus, and his patron, in B. C. 63, in the consulship of M. Tullius Cicero. Virgil's father probably had a small estate which he cultivated : his mother's name was Maia. The son was educated at Cremona and Mediolanum (Milan), and he took the toga virilis at Cremona on the day on which he commenced his sixteenth year in B. C. 55, which was the second consulship of Cn. Pompeius Magnus and M. Licinius Crassus. On the same day, according to Donatus, the poet Lucretius died, in his forty-first year. It is said that Virgil subsequ
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
P. Umbre'nus one of Catiline's crew, had formerly carried on business in Gaul as a moneylender (negotiator, see Dict. of Ant. s. v. 2d ed.), and was therefore employed by Lentulus to persuade the ambassadors of the Allobroges to take part in the conspiracy, B. C. 63. (Sall. Cat. 40 ; Cic. Cat. 3.6.)
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
n upon modes of lowering and winding, having especial reference to shading sidewalks and show-windows. Some devices, however, have been intended for window-shades, and are modified in shape and mode of operation to suit their location. Awnings of linen were first used by the Romans in the theater, when Q. Catulus dedicated the Temple of Jupiter, B. C. 69. After this, Lentulus Spinther is said to have first introduced cotton awnings in the theater at the Apollinarian Games, July 6, B. C. 63; they were red, yellow, and iron-gray. By and by, Caesar the Dictator covered with awnings the whole Roman Forum, and the Sacred Way, from his own house to the ascent of the Capitoline Hill; this was 46 B. C., and is said to have appeared more wonderful than the gladiatorial exhibition itself. Afterward, without exhibiting games, Marcellus, the son of Octavia, sister of Augustus, when he was aedile and his uncle consul the eleventh time, on the day before the Kalends of August, July 31, 23 B
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
s the cotton-plant as the wool-bearing tree, and stated that its capsules contained seeds, which were taken out, and that what remained was combed like wool. Nearchus, Alexander's famous navigator, also refers to it, and says that the shirts, mantles, and turbans of the people of India were made of it. Strabo, on the authority of Nearchus, refers to the fabrics of cotton as being flowered and beautifully dyed. An awning of cotton was spread over the theater by Lentulus Spinther, July 6, 63 B. C. Linen had been formerly used. Pliny mentions cotton in four places in his Natural History; two refer to the account of Theophrastus, one to the carbasa (cotton) of Spain, one to the cotton of Egypt: — In Upper Egypt, towards Arabia, there grows a shrub, which some call gossypium, and others xylon, from which the stuffs are made that we call xylina. It is small, and bears a fruit resembling the filbert, within which is a downy wool which is spun into thread. There is nothing to be pre
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller), Marcus Cicero (search)
Marcus Cicero Tullius, the orator (106-43), born at Arpinum, educated at Rome under Archias, the Scaevolas, and the teachers of philosophy (see Introduction), at Athens, in Asia, and at Rhodes; his training was all for service, 1.155. as consul (63) he crushed the conspiracy of Catiline, 1.84. banished (58), 2.58. his enforced retirement from his profession, 3.2–4. as a philosopher and orator, 1.1–3. follower of Socrates and Plato, 1.2. of the New Academy, 2.7–8. why he wrote on philosophy, 2.2–8; 3.1–5. attitude on the downfall of the repub
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller), Quintus Hortensius (search)
Quintus Hortensius （114-50), Cicero's famous rival as orator and advocate; his close friend (after 63), 3.73. enormously wealthy; lavish in his aedileship (75), 2.57. not always scrupulous, 3.73–
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller), Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther (search)
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther the splendour of his aedileship (63), 2.57. as consul (57) he was largely instrumental in securing Cicero's recall from banishment.
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