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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Silo step by step; but all accounts agree in representing him as the most distinguished of the Italian generals. His most brilliant exploit seems to have been the defeat of Q. Caepio, whom he decoyed into an ambush; but he was unable, either by his stratagems or his sarcasms, to force Marius to an engagement (Plut. Mar. 33). After most of the allies had laid down their arms and submitted to the Romans, Pompaedius still continued the struggle. He regained Bovianum, which had been taken by Sulla, and entered this capital of Samnium in triumph (Obsequ. 116). But this was his last success. He was first defeated by Mam. Aemilius, and subsequently by Q. Metellus Pius. In the latter battle he perished, and with his death the war came to an end, B. C. 88 (Appian, App. BC 1.40, 44, 53; Diod. xxxvii. p. 539, ed. Wess.; Liv. Epit. 76; Flor. 3.18 ; Ores. 5.18; Vell. 2.16). Several writers have Popedius, and others give Sylo or Sillo as the cognomen, but Pompaedius Silo is the correct orthography.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sulla (search)
fence with the remark that his soldiers would fight all the better, and atone for their fault by their courage. As the time for the consular comitia approached Sulla hastened to Rome, where he was elected, almost unanimously, consul for the year B. C. 88, with Q. Pompeius Rufus as his colleague. The war against Mithridates had now become inevitable, and the Social War was not yet brought to a conclusion. The senate assigned to Sulla the command of the former, and to his colleague Pompeius the being fully repaid. Sulla was married five times : -- 1. To Ilia, for which name we ought perhaps to read Julia (Plut. Sull. 6). She bore Sulla a daughter, who was married to Q. Pompeius Rufus, the son of Sulla's colleague in the consulship in B. C. 88. [POMPEIUS, No. 8.] 2. To Aelia. 3. To Coelia, whom he divorced on the pretext of barrenness, but in reality in order to marry Caecilia Metella. 4. To Caecilia Metella, who bore him a son, who died before Sulla [see below, No. 6], and likewise t
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sulla (search)
Sulla 7. FAUSTUS CORNELIUS SULLA, a son of the dictator by his fourth wife Caecilia Metella, and a twin brother of Fausta, was born not long before B. C. 88, the year in which his father obtained his first consulship. He and his sister received the names of Faustus and Fausta respectively on account of the good fortune of their father. (Plut. Sull. 22, 34, 37.) At the death of his father in B. C. 78, Faustus and his sister were left under the guardianship of L. Lucullus. The enemies of Sulla's constitution constantly threatened Faustus with a prosecution to compel him to restore the public money which his father had received or taken out of the treasury; but the senate always offered a strong opposition to such an investigation. When the attempt was renewed in B. C. 66 by one of the tribunes, Cicero, who was then praetor, spoke against the proposal. (Ascon. in Cornel. p. 72, ed Orelli; Cic. pro Cluent. 34, de Leg. Agr. 1.4.) Soon after this Faustus accompanied Pompey into Asia, and wa
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Sulpi'cius Rufus 2. P. Sulpicius Rufus, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 88. He was born in B. C. 124, as he was ten years older than Hortensius. (Cic. Brut. 88.) He was one of the most distinguished orators of his time. Cicero, who had heard him, frequently speaks of him in terms of the highest admiration. He says that Sulpicius and Cotta were. beyond comparison, the greatest orators of their age. " Sulpicius," he states, " was, of all the orators I ever heard, the most dignified, and, so to speak,he turbulent tribune of the plebs, who was defended by M. Antonius and was acquitted. [NORBANUS, No. 1.] In B. C. 93 he was quaestor, and in B. C. 89 he served as legate of the consul Cn. Pompeius Strabo in the Marsic war. In the following year, B. C. 88, he was elected to the tribunate through the influence of the aristocratical party. The consuls of the year were L. Cornelius Sulla and Q. Pompeius Rufus, the latter of whom was a personal friend of Sulpicius. (Cic. Lael. 1.) At first Sulpicius
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Sura, Bru'ttius legatus of C. Sentius Saturninus, praetor in Macedonia in B. C. 88, was sent against Metrophanes, the general of Mithridates, whom he defeated in a naval engagement, and compelled to take to flight. He followed up his victory by taking the island of Sciathus, where the enemy had deposited their plunder. He next advanced into Boeotia, to oppose Archelaus, with whom he fought for three days in succession. Plutarch relates that he gained a brilliant victory, but Appian says that the two armies parted on equal terms. On the approach of Sulla, who had been appointed to the command of the Mithridatic war, Sura quitted Boeotia, and returned to his commander in Macedonia. (Appian, Mithr. 29 ; Plut. Sull. 11.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Titi'nius (search)
Titi'nius 10. C. Titinius, the husband of Fannia, who concealed Marius in B. C. 88. (V. Max. 8.2.3; Plut. Mar, 38, who erroneously calls him Tinnius.) For particulars of the dispute between Titinius and Fannia, see FANNIA.
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