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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Postu'mius (search)
Postu'mius 3. POSTUMUS, a soothsayer, who predicted success to Sulla, and told him to keep him in chains, and put him to death if matters did not turn out well. Plutarch (Plut. Sull. 9) says that this occurred when Sulla was marching upon Rome, in B. C. 88; whereas Cicero (de Div. 1.33) and Valerius Maximus (1.6.4) relate that it happened before the battle in which Sulla defeated the Samnites.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ptolemaeus X. （*Ptolemai=os), king of EGYPT, son of the preceding, bore his father's name of Alexander, whence he is styled PTOLEMAEUS ALEXANDER II. When a mere child, he was sent by his grandmother Cleopatra for safety to the island of Cos, probably as early as B. C. 102 (see J. AJ 13.13.1), where he remained till the year B. C. 88, when that island was taken by Mithridates the Great. On this occasion Alexander fell into the hands of the conqueror, who treated him with the utmost distinction, and retained him at his own court. But the young prince soon after found an opportunity to escape, and took refuge with Sulla, whom He accompanied on his return to Rome. Here he remained till B. C. 81, when the death of Ptolemy Lathyrus without male issue having left the throne of Egypt vacant, Sulla, who was then dictator, nominated the young Alexander (who had obtained a high place in his favour) king of Egypt, and sent him to take possession of the crown. It was, however, agreed, in deferenc
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ru'brius (search)
Ru'brius 2. Q. Rubrius Varro. who was declared a public enemy along with Marius in B. C. 88, is mentioned by Cicero (Cic. Brut. 45) as an energetic wntd passionate accuser.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
in the same manner as that of the pontifex maximus. Seventeen of the tribes were to be selected by lot, and nine of these were to give their votes in favour of each candidate. The ten commissioners thus elected were to have extraordinary powers. Their office was to last five years, and the imperium was to be conferred upon them by a lex curiata. They were authorised to sell all the lands out of Italy, which had become part of the public domain since the consulship of Sulla and Q. Pompeius (B. C. 88), with the exception of those which had been guaranteed by treaty to the Roman allies; and likewise all the public domains in Italy, with the exception of the Campanian and Stellatian districts, and of the lands which had been assigned by the state, or had had a possessor since the consulship of Carbo and the younger Marius (B. C. 82). The object of the latter enactment was to avert any opposition that might be made by the numerous persons who had received grants of public lands from Sulla.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ered in his consulship. (Suet. Aug. 89.) 5. Pro L. Caerucio ad populum. Time and subject unknown. 6. Pro se contra publicanos. Delivered B. C. 93 or 92. 7. Oratio ficta ad Mithridatem regem (Plut. Pomp. 37). He wrote also an autobiography in five books at least (Tac. Agric. 1), quoted by Charisius (pp. 96, 100, 105, 112, 119, 176, ed. Putsch.), by Diomedes (pp. 371, 372), and by Isidorus (Orig. 22.11); and a History of Rome in Greek, which contained an account of the Numantine war, in which he had served; but we know not what period it embraced. (In addition to the authorities quoted above see likewise Athen. 4.168, vi. p. 274, xii. p. 543; Plut. Mar. 28; Liv. 39.52; Macr. 1.16; Plin. Nat. 7.30; Gel. 7.14.10; Lactant. 15.17; Appian. B. H. 88; Suidas s. v. *(Routi/lios ; Meyer, Oratorum Roman. Fragmenta, p. 265, 2d ed.; Krause, Vitae Historic. Roman. p. 227.) With regard to the question whether Rufus was ever tribune of the plebs, see Clinton, sub B. C. 88, and Cic. pro Planc. 21. [W.R]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Saturni'nus, Se'ntius 1. C. SENTIUS (SATURNINUS), was propraetor of Macedonia during the Social war, and probably for some time afterwards. He defeated the Thracians, who had invaded his province with a large force, under their king Sothimus (Oros. 5.18, Sull. 11 ; Cic. Ver. 3.93, in Pison. 34). The exact time during which he governed Macedonia is uncertain. If the reading is correct in the Epitome of Livy (Epit. 70), he could not have been appointed later than B. C. 92, as none of the events recorded in the seventieth book were later than that year. It is said in the Epitome that he fought unsuccessfully against the Thracians, but this is probably an error. It is, at all events, clear front Plutarch (l.c.) that he was still governor of Macedonia in B. C. 88, when Sulla was in Greece. Modern writers give him the cognomon Saturninus, as it was borne by most of the other Sentii, but it does not occur in any of the ancient writers, as far as we are aware.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
a was consul B. C. 117, with L. Caecilius Metellus. It appears from the Laelius of Cicero (100.1), that he lived at least to the tribunate of P. Sulpicius Rufus, B. C. 88. Cicero, who was born B. C. 106, informs us, that after he had put on the toga virilis, his father took him to Scaevola, who was then an old man, and that lie kept as close to him as he could, in order to profit by his remarks (Lael. 100.1). It does not appear how long the Augur survived B. C. 88, the year in which the quarrel of Marius and Sulla began. After his death Cicero became a hearer of Q. Mucius Scaevola, the pontifex. The Augur was distinguished for his knowledge of the law, andaw him in bed, and he was the first man to come to the curia. Valerius Maximus (3.8) records, that when L. Cornelius Sulla, after driving Marius out of the city (B. C. 88), proposed that the senate should declare him an enemy, Scaevola affirmed that he would never consent to declare him an enemy who had saved Rome. Probably all th
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
le, to accuse Scaurus in the following year, B. C. 90, of having excited the Italian allies to revolt. Scaurus boldly met the charge; and going into the forum, put it to the people whether they would give credence to Q. Varius, the Spaniard, or M. Scaurus, the princeps senatus; whereupon there was such an unequivocal demonstration of popular feeling in his favour, that the tribune himself withdrew the accusation. Scaurus was then seventy-two years of age, and died soon afterwards; since, in B. C. 88, his widow Caecilia was married to Sulla. [CAECILIA, No. 5.] By his wife Caecilia Scaurus had three children, two sons [see below, Nos. 2 and 3], and a daughter Aemilia, first married to M'. Glabrio, and next to Cn. Pompeius, subsequently the triumvir. Scaurus is frequently praised in the highest terms by Cicero and others, in consequence of his being such a strong supporter of the aristocratical party. But though he distinguished himself throughout the whole of his public life by opposin
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
arms, and probably he held some command during the war; but the Roman annalists did not care to record the heroic acts of a man of unknown family. The marks of honour which he bore were, as he said, his scars, and the loss of an eye. Sertorius was well received in Rome; the people acknowledged his merit by clapping of hands when he entered the theatre; but L. Cornelius Sulla and his party successfully opposed him when he was a candidate for the tribuneship. On the outbreak of the civil war, B. C. 88, he declared himself against the party of the nobles, though he was by no means an admirer of his old commander, C. Marius, whose character he well understood. When Marius fled from Rome before Sulla, Sertorius remained; and while Sulla was engaged in the war against Mithridates, Sertorius sided with L. Cornelius Cinna, the consul, against the other consul Octavius. The two consuls fought a battle in the Forum, which ended in the victory of Octavius, and the flight of Cinna and Sertorius.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sexti'lius (search)
Sexti'lius 4. SEXTILIUS, governor of the province of Africa in B. C. 88, forbade Marius to land in the country. (Plut. Mar. 40 ; Appian, App. BC 1.62, where he is called Sextius).
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