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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Plaeto'rius (search)
Plaeto'rius 5. M. Plaetorius, was the accuser, in B. C. 69, of M. Fonteius, whom Cicero defended [FONTEIUS, No. 5]. About the same time he was curule aedile with C. Flaminius, and it was before these aediles that Cicero defended D. Matrinius. In B. C. 67 he was praetor with the same colleague as he had in his aedileship. In B. C. 51 he was condemned (incendio Plaetoriano, i. e. dacnatione, Cic. Att. 5.20.8), but we do not know for what offence. We find him a neighbour of Atticus in B. C. 44, and this is the last that we hear of hin (Cic. Font. 12, pro Cluent. 45, 53, ad Att. 15.17). The following coins, struck by M. Plaetorius, a curule aedile, probably refer to the above-mentioned Plaetorius, as we know of no other Plaetorius who held this office. From these we learn that he was the son of Marcus, and that he bore the cognomen Cestianus. The first coin bears on the obverse a woman's head covered with a helmet, with the legend CESTIANVS S. C., and on the reverse an eagle standing on a
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pompeia (search)
Pompeia 2. The daughter of Q. Pompeius Rufus, son of the consul of B. C. 88 [POMPEIUS, No. 8], and of Conelia, the daughter of the dictator Sulla. She married C. Caesar, subsequently the dictator, in B. C. 67, but was divorced by him in B. C. 61, because she was suspected of intriguing with Clodius, who stealthily introduced himself into her husband's house while she was celebrating the mysteries of the Bona Dea. (Suet. Jul. 6; Plut. Caes. 5, 10 ; D. C. 37.45.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pompeius Magnus or Pompeius the Great or Cn. Pompeius (search)
the price of provisions in consequence rose enormously. Such a state of things had become intolerable, and all eyes were now directed to Pompey. He, however, was not willing to take any ordinary command, and the scarcity of provisions made the people ready to grant him any power he might ask. Still he was prudent enough not to ask in person for such extraordinary powers as he desired, and to appear only to yield to the earnest desires of the people. Accordingly, at the beginning of the year B. C. 67, he got the tribune A. Gabinius, a man of abandoned character, and whose services he had probably purchased, to bring forward a bill, which was intended to give Pompey almost absolute authority over the greater part of the Roman world. It proposed that the people should elect a man with consular rank, who should possess unlimited and irresponsible power for three years over the whole of the Mediterranean, and to a distance of fifty miles inland from its coasts,--who should have fifteen lega
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pompeius (search)
Pompeius 24. Cn. Pompeius Magnus, the eldest son of the triumvir [No. 22] by his third wife Mucia, was born between the years B. C. 80 and 75. He accompanied his father in the expedition against the pirates B. C. 67, but he must then have been too young to have taken any part in the war. On the breaking out of the civil war in B. C. 49, he was sent to Alexandria to obtain ships and troops for his father; and after procuring an Egyptian fleet of fifty ships he joined the squadron that was cruising in the Adriatic Sea in B. C. 48. Here he succeeded in taking several of Caesar's vessels off Oricum, and he made an unsuccessful attack upon the town of Lissus. After the defeat of his father at Pharsalia, he was deserted by the Egyptian fleet which he commanded, and he then repaired to the island of Corcyra, where many of the Roman nobles, who had survived the battle, had taken refuge. Here he maintained that, possessing as they did the command of the sea, they ought not to despair of succes
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pompo'nius (search)
Pompo'nius 11. M. Pomponius, one of the legates of Pompey in the war against the pirates, B. C. 67, to whom Pompey assigned the superintendence of the gulfs washing the south of Gaul and Liguria. (Appian, Aithr. 95.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Poseido'nius (search)
other offices filling that of Prytanis (Strab. iv. p.655, vii. p. 316). He was sent as ambassador to Rome in B. C. 86. With Marius he became personally acquainted, and Plutarch in his life of Marius was considerably indebted to information derived from him (Plut. Mar. 45). Cicero, when he visited Rhodes, received instruction both from Molo and from Poseidonius (Cic. de Nat. Deor. 1.3, de Fin. 1.2 ; Plut. Cic. 4). Pompey also had a great admiration for Poseidonius, and visited him twice, in B. C. 67 and 62. (Strab. xi. p.492; Plut. Pomp. 42 ; Plin. Nat. 7.31.) To the occasion of his first visit probably belongs the story that Poseidonius, to prevent the disappointment of his distinguished visitor, though severely afflicted with the gout, held a long discourse on the topic that pain is not an evil (Cic. Tusc. Disp. 2.25). He seems to have availed himself of his acquaintance with Pompey to gain such additions as he could to his geographical and historical knowledge (Strab. xi. p.492). In
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
9). Two years afterwards, B. C. 70, Gellius was censor with Lentulus, his former colleague in the consulship. They exercised their office with great severity, and expelled many persons from the senate, among whom was C. Antonius. It was during their censorship that Pompey, who was then consul, appeared as an ordinary eques at the solemn muster of the equites, and, amid the applause of the spectators, led his horse by the curie chair of the censors, and answered the ordinary questions. In B. C. 67 and 66 Gellius served as one of Pompey's legates in the war against the pirates, and had the charge of the Tuscan sea. In the first conspiracy of Catiline an attempt was made to obtain possession of his fleet, and, though the mutiny was put down, Gellius had a narrow escape of his life. In consequence of the personal danger he had previously incurred, he was one of the warmest supporters of Cicero in his suppression of the second conspiracy, and accordingly proposed that Cicero should be re
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Qui'ntius (search)
ch a height, that Junins, who had presided at the trial, was obliged to retire from public life. L. Quintius, however, was not strong enough to obtain the repeal of any of Sulla's laws. The consul Lucullus opposed him vigorously in public, and induced him, by persuasion in private, says Plutarch, to abandon his attempts. It is not improbable that the aristocraey made use of the powerful persuasion of money to keep him quiet. (Plut. Luc. 5; Sallust, Hist. p. 173, ed. Orelli; Pseudo-Ascon. in Div. in Cueeil. p. 103, in Act. i. in Verr. pp. 127, 141, ed. Orelli; Cic. Clu. 27-29, 37, 39.) In B. C. 67 Quintius was praetor, in which year he took his revenge upon his old enemy Lucullus, by inducing the senate to send him a successor in his province, although he had, according to a statement of Sallust, received money from Lucullus to prevent the appointment of a successor. (Plut. Luc. 33, where he is erroneously called L. Quintus ; Sail. apud Schol. in Cic. de Leg. Man. p. 441. ed. Orelli.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ru'brius (search)
Ru'brius 5. RUBRIUS, was propraetor in Macedonia about B. C. 67, in which year M. Cato served under him as tribune of the soldiers. (Piut. Cat. min. 9.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
r in B. C. 124. The account here given is confirmed by the fact, which seems to be clearly established, that he was praetor in the year when Sulla died (B. C. 78), for supposing him to have obtained the office " suo anno," his birth would thus be fixed to B. C. 118 or 119. He probably obtained Sicily for his province, in B. C. 77, and from the local knowledge thus acquired was enabled to render good service to Verres, whose cause he espoused (Cic. Ver. 2.45, 4.20). During the piratical war (B. C. 67) he acted as the legatus of Pompeius, and having been despatched to Crete in command of an army, died in that island at the age of about fifty-two. Works Historiae His great work, entitled Historiae, extended to at least twelve or fourteen books, but we cannot speak with confidence of a greater number, for although in certain editions of Nonius (s. v. refragabunt) we find a reference to book xxiii., some MSS., instead of xxiii., have xxii., and some xiv. Many quotations are to be fou
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