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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Apica'ta (search)
Apica'ta the wife of Sejanus, was divorced by him, A. D. 23, after she had borne him three children, when he had seduced Livia, the wife of Drusus, and was plotting against the life of the latter. His subsequent murder of Drusus was first disclosed by Apicata. (Tac. Ann. 4.3, 11.) When Sejanus and his children were killed eight years afterwards, A. D. 31, Apicata put an end to her own life. (D. C. 58.11.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), A'retas (search)
as made war upon Herod, and defeated him in a great battle. Herod applied for assistance to the Romans; and Vitellius, the governor of Syria, received an order to punish Aretas. He accordingly marched against Petra; but while he was on the road, he received intelligence of the death of Tiberius (A. D. 37), and gave up the expedition in consequence. (J. AJ 18.5. ยงยง 1, 3.) This Aretas seems to have been the same who had possession of Damascus at the time of the conversion of the Apostle Paul, A. D. 31. (2 Corinth. 11.32, 33; Acts 9.19-25.) It is not improbable that Aretas obtained possession of Damascus in a war with Herod at an earlier period than Josephus has mentioned; as it seems likely that Aretas would have resented the affront soon after it was given, instead of allowing so many years to intervene, as the narrative of Josephus would imply. The Aretas into whose dominions Aelius Gallus came in the time of Augustus, is probably also the same as the father-in-law of Herod. (Strab. xv
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Drusus (search)
proceeded, in proof of these charges, to order the journal of his sayings and doings to be read. This was too much, even for the Roman senate, degraded as it was. The senators were struck with astonishment and alarm at the contemptuous indecency of such an exposure by a tyrant formerly so dark, and deep, and vary in the concealment of his crimes; and they interrupted the horrid recital, under the pretence of uttering exclamations of detestation at the misconduct of Drusus. (Ann. 6.24.) In A. D. 31, a pretender had appeared among the Cyclades and in Greece, whose followers gave out that he was Drusus, the son of Germanicus, scaled from prison, and that he was proceeding to join the armies of his father, and to invade Egypt and Syria. This affair might have had serious consequences, had it not been for the activity of Poppaeus Sabinus, who, after a sharp pursuit, caught the false Drusus at Nicopolis, and extracted from him a confession that he was a son of M. Silanus. (Ann. 5.10; D. C.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Joannes AEGYPTIUS (search)
r the wonderful strength of his memory. He suffered the loss of his eyesight, either in the earlier part of Diocletian's persecution, or at some earlier period; but afterwards acted as Anagnostes or reader in the church, supplying the want of sight by his extraordinary power of memory. He could recite correctly, as Eusebius testifies from personal observation, whole books of Scripture, whether from the prophets, the gospels, or the apostolic epistles. In the seventh year of the persecution (A. D. 31 0) he was treated with great cruelty one foot was burnt off, and fire was applied to his sightless eyeballs, for the mere purpose of torture. As he was unable to undergo the toil of the mines or the public works, he and several others (among whom was Silvanus of Gaza), whom age or infirmity had disabled from labour, were confined in a place by themselves. In the eighth year of the persecution, A. D. 311, the whole party, thirtynine in number, were decapitated in one day, by order of Maximin
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Laco, Graeci'nus was commander of the night-watch (praefectus vigilum) in the 18th year of the reign of Tiberius, A. D. 31. When the emperor had commissioned Sertorius Macro to arrest Sejanus, Laco was stationed with his band of vigiles around the temple of Apollo, in which the senate was held. At a preconcerted signal, after Tiberius' letter (Juv. Sat. 10.71) had been read, Laco entered with his guards and took Sejanus into custody. For this service, which from the power of the criminal required both secrecy and boldness, Laco was rewarded with a large pecuniary donation and with the quaestorian ornaments. (D. C. 58.9, 10, 12.) [W.B.D]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Li'via (search)
us. [See the genealogical table, Vol. I. p. 1076.] In her eleventh year B. C. 1, she was betrothed to C. Caesar, the son of Agrippa and Julia, and the grandson of Augustus. She was subsequently married to her first cousin, Drusus junior, the son of the emperor Tiberius, but was seduced by Sejanus, who both feared and hated Drusus, and who persuaded her to poison her husband, which she accordingly did in A. D. 23. Her guilt was not discovered till the fall of Sejanus, eight years afterwards, A. D. 31, when it was revealed to Tiberius by Apicata, the wife of Sejanus. According to some statements Livia was put to death by Tiberius, but according to others she was spared by the emperor on account of her mother, Antonia, who, however, caused her to be starved to death. Such is the account of Dio Cassius (58.11); but from Tacitus saying (Ann. 6.2) that in A. D. 32 the statues of Livia were destroyed and her memory cursed, because her crimes had not yet been punished, it would appear as if he
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Macro, Nae'vius Serto'rius was praetorian prefect under Tiberius and Caligula. His origin was obscure (Philo, Legat. ad Caium, 4); he was perhaps a freedman by birth (Tac. Ann. 6.38); and the steps by which he attracted the notice and favour of Tiberius are unknown. Macro first appears in history as the conductor of the arrest of Aelius Sejanus, his immediate predecessor in the command of the praetorians, A. D. 31, The seizure of this powerful favorite in the midst of the senate where he had many adherents, and of the guards whom he principally had organised (Tac. Ann. 4.2), seemed, at least before its execution, a task of no ordinary peril. The plan of the arrest was concerted at Capreae by Tiberius and Macro, and the latter was despatched to Rome, on the 19th of October, with instructions to the officials of the government and the guards, and with letters to some of the principal members of the senate. Macro reached the capital at midnight; and imparted his errand to P. Memmius Regu
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pallas (search)
Pallas a freedman of the emperor Claudius, and one of his greatest favourites. He was originally the slave of Antonia, the mother of Claudius, and is first mentioned in A. D. 31, when Antonia entrusted to him the responsible commission of carrying a letter to the emperor Tiberius, in which she disclosed the ambitious projects of Sejanus, and in consequence of which the all-powerful minister was put to death. (J. AJ 18.7.6). The name of Pallas does not occur during the reign of Caligula, but on the accession of Claudius, whose property he had become by the death of Antonia, and who had meantime manumitted him, he played an important part in public affairs. Along with Narcissus and Callistus, two other freedmen, he administered the affairs of the empire, but Narcissus had more energy and resolution than the other two, and consequently took the leading part in the government during the early part of Claudius' reign. When they saw that the death of Messalina, the wife of the emperor, was
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
elected to this dignity at the commencement of the reign of Tiberius. We have no further particulars of the life of Paterculus, for there is no reason to believe that the P. Velleius or Vellaeus mentioned by Tacitus under A. D. 21 (Ann. 3.39) is the same as the historian. Paterculus was alive in A. D. 30, as he drew up his history in that year for the use of M. Vinicius, who was then consul; and it is conjectured by Dodwell, not without probability, that he perished in the following year (A. D. 31), along with the other friends of Sejanus. The favourable manner in which he had so recently spoken in his history of this powerful minister would be sufficient to ensure his condemnation on the fall of the latter. Works Historia Romana The work of Velleius Paterculus which is come down to us, and which is apparently the only one that he ever wrote, is a brief historical compendium in two books, and bears the title C. Velleii Paterculi Historiae Romanae ad M. Vinicium Cos. Libri II., w
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Prisca, Pu'blia the wife of C. Geminius Rufus, who was put to death in A. D. 31, in the reign of Tiberius. Prisca was also accused and summoned before the senate, but stabbed herself in the senate-house. (D. C. 58.4.)
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