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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
L. Pompo'nius Bononiensis the most celebrated writer of Fabulae Atellanae, was a native of Bononia (Bologna) in northern Italy, as his surname shows, and flourished in B. C. 91. (Euseb. Chron.） Works Fabulae Atellanae The nature of the Fabulae Atellanae is described at length in the Dict. of Antiq. ; and it is therefore only necessary to state here that these farces were originally not written, but produced by the ready fertility of the Italian improvvisatori ; and that it is probable that Pomponius and his contemporay Novius [NOVIUS] were the first to write regular dramas of this kind. (Comp. Veil. Pat. 2.9; Macrob. Saturn. 1.10.) Pomponius is frequently referred to by the Roman grammarians, who have preserved the titles of many of his plays. Editions The fragments which have thus come down to us are collected by Bothe, Poetae Scenici Latin. vol. v., Fragm. vol. ii. pp. 103-124, and by Munk, De L. Pomponio Bononiensi, &c., Glogaviae, 1827. (Comp. Schober, Ueber die Attellanis
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Publi'cola, Ge'llius 3. Gellius Publicola, probably a brother of No. 1, is called a step-son of L. Marcius Philippus, consul B. C. 91, and a brother of L. Marcius Philippus, consul B. C. 56. According to Cicero's account he was a profligate and a spendthrift, and having dissipated his property, united himself to P. Clodius. As an intimate friend of the latter, he of course incurs the bitterest enmity of Cicero, whose statements with respect to him must, therefore, be received with caution. (Cic. pro Sext. 51, 52, in Vatin. 2, de Harusp. Resp. 27, ad A tt. iv. 3.2, ad Q. Fr. 2.1.1; Schol. Bob. pro Sext. p. 304, ed. Orelli.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ruti'lia (search)
Ruti'lia the mother of C. Cotta, the orator, accompanied her son into exile in B. C. 91, and remained with him abroad till his return some years afterwards. [COTTA, No. 9.] She bore his death with the heroism of a genuine Roman matron. (Sen. Consol. ad Helv. 16; comp. Cic. Att. 12.20, 22.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
es accused of different offences, chiefly by his private enemies; but such was his influence in the state, that he was always acquitted. Thus, in consequence of his having refused to elect Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus into the college of augurs, of which he was a member, Ahenobarbus accused him of majestas, in B. C. 104, on the ground that the sacra publica at Lavinium had, through his fault, not been properly observed ; but thirty-three tribes out of the thirty-five voted for his acquittal. In B. C. 91, he was accused of repetundae by Q. Servilius Caepio, who alleged that he had appropriated to his own use some public money, during an embassy to Asia; but he secured himself by bringing a counter-accusation against Caepio. The latter, out of revenge, induced Q. Varius, the tribune of the people, 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 g
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
is way into the town again, and massacred all who were capable of bearing arms. He then distributed the dresses and armour of the barbarians who had been killed among his men, and under this guise obtained admission into a town which had sent men to aid the people of Castulo in ejecting the Roman soldiers ; most of the persons in the town were killed, and the rest were sold. On his return to Rome he obtained the quaestorship in Gaul upon the Po, and he held this office at a critical time (B. C. 91), for the Marsic war was impending. He actively exerted himself in raising troops and procuring 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 success
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Servi'lia (search)
Servi'lia 2. The mother of M. Junius Brutus, the murderer of Caesar. She was the daughter of Livia, the sister of the celebrated M. Livius Drusus, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 91. Her mother Livia was married twice; first to M. Cato, by whom she had M. Cato Uticensis, and next to Q. Servilius Caepio, by whom she became the mother of this Servilia, and of her sister spoken of below. Servilia. herself was married twice; first to M. Junius Brutus [BRUTUS, No. 20], by whom she became the mother of the murderer of Caesar, and secondly to D. Junius Silanus, consul B. C. 62. This Servilia was the favourite mistress of the dictator Caesar, and seems to have fascinated him more by her genius than her personal charms. Caesar's love for her is mentioned as early as B. C. 63 (Plut. Cat. 24, Brut. 5), and continued, apparently unabated, to the time of his death, nearly twenty years afterwards. The scandal-mongers at Rome related various tales about her, which we may safely disbelieve. Thus she is
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Silo, Q. Pompae'dius the leader of the Marsi in the Social War, and the soul of the whole undertaking, at first endeavoured to obtain for the Socii the Roman franchise, by means of M. Livius Drusus, the celebrated tribune of the plebs in B. C. 91. He came to Rome to concoct his plans with Drusus, and remained in his house several days; and it is related by Diodorus that he subsequently marched upon Rome at the head of 10,000 men, with weapons concealed beneath their clothes, in order to extort the franchise by force, but that he was persuaded by Domitins, perhaps the censor of the preceding year, to give up his enterprise (Plut. Cat. Mi. 2; Diod. xxxvii. p. 612, ed. Wess.). With the death of Drusus the allies lost all hope of obtaining their demands peaceably, and forthwith took up arms. The history of the war which ensued is given in too confused and fragmentary a manner to enable us to follow the operations of Pompaedius Silo step by step; but all accounts agree in representing him
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sulla (search)
again on the throne. His success attracted the attention of Arsaces, king of Parthia, who accordingly sent an embassy to him to solicit the alliance of the Roman people. Sulla was the first Roman general who had any official intercourse with the Parthians, and he received the ambassadors with the same pride and arrogance as the Roman generals were accustomed to exhibit to the representatives of all foreign powers. Soon after this interview Sulla returned to Rome, where he was threatened in B. C. 91 by C. Censorinus with an impeachment for malversation, but the accusation was dropped. The enmity between Marius and Sulla now assumed a more deadly form. Sulla's ability and increasing reputation had already led the aristocratical party to look up to him as one of their leaders, and thus political animosity was added to private hatred. In addition to this Marius and Sulla were both anxious to obtain the command of the imapending war against Mithridates; and the success which attended Sul
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tarqui'nius (search)
Tarqui'nius 1. P. Tarquinius, tribune of the plebs with Livius Drusus. B. C. 91, supported the latter in the laws which he proposed. (J. Obseq. 100.114.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Titi'nius (search)
Titi'nius 11. Cn. Titinius, a distinguished Roman eques, resisted the tribune M. Livius Drusus, B. C. 91. (Cic. pro Cluent. 56.
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