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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Norba'nus (search)
r whom Norbanus had formerly served as quaestor, and who gives in the De Oratore of Cicero a very interesting account of the line of argument which he adopted on the occasion. Norbanus .was acquitted. (Cic. de Orat. ii. 48, 49, 3.21, 25, 39, 40, Orat. Part. 30; V. Max. 8.5.2; Meyer, Fragm. Rom. Orator p. 287, &c., 2d ed.) In B. C. 90 or 89, Norbanus was praetor in Sicily during the Social or Marsic war, but no attempt at insurrection occurred in the island. (Cic. Ver. 5.4, comp. 3.49.) In B. C. 88 he came to the assistance of the town of Rhegium, which was very nearly falling into the hands of the Samnites, who, taking advantage of the civil commotions at Rome, had formed the design of invading Sicily. (Diod. Eclog. xxxvii. p. 540, ed. Wesseling. The text of Diodorus has *Ga/i+os *)Orbano/s for which we ought undoubtedly to read with Wesseling, *Gai+os *Norbano/s.) In the civil wars Norbanus espoused the Marian party, and was consul in B. C. 83 with Scipio .Asiaticus. In this year S
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nume'rius (search)
Nume'rius 1. NUMERIUS, one of the friends of Marius, provided a vessel for him at Ostia, when he was proscribed by Sulla in B. C. 88 (Plut. Mar. 35). Numerius, however, is probably only the praenomen of the friend of Marius.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Numito'rius (search)
Numito'rius 4. C. Numitorius, was a distinguished man of the aristocratical party, who was put to death by Marius and Cinia, when they entered Rome at the close of B. C. 88. His body was afterwards dragged through the forum by the executioner's hook. (Appian, App. BC 1.72; Flor. 3.21.14.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), O'ppius (search)
O'ppius 7. Q. Oppius, one of the Roman generals in the Mithridatic war, B. C. 88. He is called proconsul in the Epitome of Livy, from which we may infer that he had been praetor, and was afterwards sent, as was frequently the case, with the title of proconsul to take the command of an army. He had possession of the city of Laodiceia in Phrygia, near the river Lycus; but when Mithridates had conquered the whole of the surrounding country, the inhabitants of Laodiceia gave up Oppius to the king on the promise of their receiving pardon by so doing. Mithridates did no injury to Oppius, but carried him with him in his various campaigns, exhibiting to the people of Asia a Roman general as a prisoner. Mlithridates subsequently surrendered him to Sulla. (Liv. Epit. 78; Athen. 5.213a; Appian, App. Mith. 17, 20, 112.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Paeri'sades (search)
Paeri'sades 3. A second king of Bosporus, and the last monarch of the first dynasty that ruled in that country. He was probably a descendant of No. 1, but the history of the kingdom of Bosporus, during the period previous to his reign, is wholly lost. We only know that the pressure of the Scythian tribes from without, and their constantly increasing demands of tribute, which he was unable to resist, at length induced Paerisades voluntarily to cede his sovereignty to Mithridates the Great. (Strab. vii. pp. 309, 310.) The date of this event is wholly unknown, but it cannot be placed earlier than B. C. 112, nor later than B. C. 88. It is uncertain whether an anecdote related by Polyaenus (7.37) refers to this Paerisades or to No. 1. [E.H.B]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philippus (search)
of the whole of Syria, which they appear to have divided between them. Their concord, however, did not last long; Demetrius was the first to turn his arms against Philip, but the latter was supported not only by Straton tyrant of Beraea, but by a large Parthian army under a general named Mithridates, who blockaded Demetrius in his camp, and ultimately took him prisoner. After this Philippus made himself master of Antioch, and became for a short time sole ruler of Syria, probably in the year B. C. 88. But the civil war was soon renewed by his remaining brother Antiochus XII., who made himself master of Damascus and Coele-Syria, of which Philip was unable to dispossess him. (J. AJ 13.13.4, 14.3, 15.1; Euseb. Arm. p. 169.) The subsequent fortunes of the latter are wholly unknown but it seems certain that he was dethroned, and probably also put to death by Tigranes, king of Armenia, when that monarch established himself on the throne of Syria, B. C. 83. (Trog. Pomp. Prol. xl.; Euseb. Arm.
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 (search)
Pompeius 6. Q. Pomeius Rufus, Q. F., either son or grandson of No. 3, was a zealous supporter of the aristocratical party. In his tribunate of the plebs, B. C. 100, he brought forward a bill, in conjunction with his colleague L. Cato, for the recal of Mctellus Macedonicus from banishment (Oros. 5.17.) He was praetor B. C. 91 (Cic. de Orat. 1.37), and consul, B. C. 88, with L. Sulla. In the latter year the civil war broke out between Marius and Sulla respecting the command of the Mithridatic war. The history of these events is related in the life of MARIUS [p. 957]; and it is only necessary to mention here that the tribune P. Sulpicius Rufus, who was the great agent of Marius, had previously been the personal friend of Pompeius; but such was the exasperation of political feeling, that Sulpicius had recourse to arms against his former friend, in order to carry his measure for incorporating the new citizens among the old tribes. In the riots which ensued, the young son of Pompeius was mu
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pompeius (search)
Pompeius 8. Q. Pompeius Rufus, son of No. 6, married Sulla's daughter, and was murdered by the party of Sulpicius and Marins in the forum in B. C. 88 (Appian, App. BC 1.56; Plut. Sull. 8).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pompeius (search)
with the Romans, were marching to their assistance. He followed up this victory by others, and defeated, in succession, the Marsi, Marrucini, and Vestini. He at length took Asculum, and subdued the Picentines, and returned to Rome at the end of the year, which he entered in triumph on the 27th of December. Before he laid down his consulship, he probably brought forward the law (lex Pompeia), which gave to all the towns of the Transpadani the Jus Latii or Latinitas. In the following year, B. C. 88, occurred the dreadful struggle between Marius and Sulla for the command of the Mithridatic war, which ended in the proscription of Marius, and his flight from Italy. Strabo had returned to his army, and was engaged in southern Italy in completing the subjugation of the I talians, when he learnt that the senate had deprived him of the command, and had assigned his army to the consul Q. Pompeius Rufus, to whom the care of Italy was entrusted, while his colleague Sulla was engaged in the Mith
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