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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Agrippa the Great (search)
e was exceedingly popular amongst the Jews. In the city of Berytus he built a theatre and amphitheatre, baths, and porticoes. The suspicions of Claudius prevented him from finishing the impregnable fortifications with which he had begun to surround Jerusalem. His friendship was courted by many of the neighbouring kings and rulers. It was probably to increase his popularity with the Jews that he caused the apostle James, the brother of John, to be beheaded, and Peter to be cast into prison (A. D. 44. Acts, xii.) It was not however merely by such acts that he strove to win their favour, as we see from the way in which, at the risk of his own life, or at least of his liberty, he interceded with Caligula on behalf of the Jews, when that emperor was attempting to set up his statue in the temple at Jerusalem. The manner of his death, which took place at Caesarea in the same year, as he was exhibiting games in honour of the emperor, is related in Acts xii., and is confirmed in all essential
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Aristobu'lus (search)
the future king of Chalcis,--were educated at Rome together with Claudius, who was afterwards emperor, and who appears to have always regarded Aristobulus with great favour. (J. AJ 18.5.4, 6.1, 20.1.2.) He lived at enmity with his brother Agrippa, and drove him from the protection of Flaccus, proconsul of Syria, by the charge of having been bribed by the Damascenes to support their cause with the proconsul against the Sidonians. (J. AJ 18.6.3.) When Caligula sent Petronius to Jerusalem to set up his statues in the temple, we find Aristobulus joining in the remonstrance against the measure. (J. AJ 18.8; Bell. Jud. 2.10; Tac. Hist. 5.9.) He died as he had lived, in a private station (Joseph. Bell. Jud. 2.11.6), having, as appears from the letter of Claudius to the Jews in Josephus (J. AJ 20.1.2), survived his brother Agrippa, whose death took place in A. D. 44. He was married to Iotapa, a princess of Emessa, by whom he left a daughter of the same name. (J. AJ 18.5.4; Bell. Jud. 2.11.6.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Cyrus (search)
Cyrus Christians. 1. An Egyptian, belonging to the fifth century, afterwards bishop of Smyrna, according to the testimony of Theophanes. His poetical talents procured him the favour of the empress Eudocia. Under Theodosius the Younger he filled the office of governor of the praetorium, and exarch of the city of Constantinople. When Eudocia withdrew to Jerusalem, A. D. 44.5, he fell under the emperor's displeasure. This led to his retirement from civil offices and his joining the clerical order. It is the express testimony of Theophanes that, by order of Theodosius, he was made bishop of Smyrna. After he was elevated to the episcopal dignity, he is said to have delivered a discourse to the people on Christmas day, in which he betrayed gross ignorance of divine things. He lived till the time of the emperor Leo. Suidas says, that on his retirement from civil authority he became e)pi/skopos tw=n i(erw=n e)n *Koruaei/w| th=s *Yrugi/as; but whether this means bishop of Cotyaeia in Phrygia
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Drusilla (search)
Drusilla 4. DRUSILLA, daughter of Herodes Agrippa I., king of the Jews, by his wife Cypros, and sister of Herodes Agrippa II., was only six years old when her father died in A. D. 44. She had been already promised in marriage to Epiphanes, son of Antiochus, king of Commagene, but the match was broken off in consequence of Epiphanes refusing to perform his promise of conforming to the Jewish religion. Hereupon Azizus, king of Emesa, obtained Drusilla as his wife, and performed the condition of becoming a Jew. Afterwards, Felix, the procurator of Judaea, fell in love with her, and induced her to leave Azizus--a course to which she was prompted not only by the fair promises of Felix, but by a desire to escape the annoyance to which she was subjected by the envy of her sister Berenice, who, though ten years older, vied with her in beauty. She thought, perhaps, that Felix, whom she accepted as a second husband, would be better able to protect her than Azizus, whom she divorced. In the Acts
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Fadus, Cus'pius a Roman eques of the time of the Emperor Claudius. After the death of King Agrippa, in A. D. 44, he was appointed by Claudius procurator of Judaea. During his administration peace was restored in the country, and the only disturbance was created by one Teudas, who came forward with the claim of being a prophet. But he and his followers were put to death by the command of Cuspius Fadus. He was succeeded in the administration of Judaea by Tiberius Alexander. (J. AJ 19.9, 20.5.1, Bell. Jud. 2.11.5; Tac. Hist. 5.9; Zonar. 12.11; Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 2.11.) [L.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Igna'tius (search)
y the choice of the apostles, and was ordained by the laying on of their hands. Theodoret especially mentions Peter as the apostle who laid hands on him. (Orat. ad Manachos Euphratesiae, Opp. vol. iv. p. 1312, ed. Schulz.) But these statements are hardly consistent with the account of Eusebius (Chron. Pars II. interp. Hieron), that his ordination took place A. D. 69, when Peter and several of the apostles were already dead. He is said to have succeeded Evodius, whose ordination is placed in A. D. 44. As in the apostolic age a plurality of bishops existed in some at least of the first churches, e. g. Ephesus and Philippi (comp. Acts, 20.17, 28 ; Philip. 1.1), and as the church at Antioch was from the first a large and important church, it is not impossible that Ignatius may have been made bishop before the death of Evodius, and may therefore have been ordained by Peter or some other of the apostles. Of the episcopate of Ignatius we know little. He appears to have been over-earnest in
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mariamne (search)
Mariamne 6. Second daughter of Herod Agrippa I., by his wife Cypros, was ten years old when her father died, in A. D. 44. She married Archelaus, son of Helcias or Chelcias, to whom she had been betrothed by Agrippa; but she afterwards divorced him, and married Demetrius, a Jew of high rank and great wealth, and alabarch at Alexandria. (Ant. 18.5.4, 19.9.1, 20.7, ยงยง 1, 3.) [E.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
her creatures filled the lowest as well as the highest public offices; and their incompetency for the posts they had bought led in A. D. 43 to a scarcity and tumult. The charms, the arts, or the threats of Messallina were so potent with the stupid Claudius that he thought her worthy of the honours which Livia, the wife of Augustus, had enjoyed; he alone was ignorant of her infidelities, and sometimes even the unconscious minister of her pleasures. At his triumph for the campaign in Britain (A. D. 44), Messallina followed his chariot in a carpentum or covered carriage (comp. D. C. 60.33; Tac. Ann. 12.42; Suet. Ctud. 17)--a privilege requiring a special grant from the senate. The adulteress received the title of Augusta and the right of precedence--jus consessus--at all assemblies ; her lover, Sabinus, once praefect of Gaul, but for his crimes degraded to a gladiator, was, at her request, reprieved from death in the arena; and the emperor caused a serious riot at Rome by withholding the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Taurus, Stati'lius 4. M. Statilius Taurus was consul A. D. 44 with L. Quintius Crispinus Secundus. and afterwards governed Africa as proconsul. He possessed great wealth, which proved his ruin. Agrippina, coveting his gardens, got Tarquitius Priscus, who had been the legate of Taurus in Africa. to accuse the latter of repetundac and of magic. Taurus put an end to his own life before the senate pronounced sentence. (D. C. 9.13; Tac. Ann. 12.59, 14.46.)