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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sci'pio (search)
Sci'pio 24. P. CORNELIUS SCIPIO NASICA SERAPIO, the son of No. 23, was a fierce and stiff-necked aristocrat, and is chiefly known by the repeated mention of him in Cicero's writings, as the leader of the senate in the murder of Tib. Gracchus. He is first mentioned in B. C. 149, when he was sent along with Cn. Scipio Hispallus [No. 28], to demand from the Carthaginians the surrender of their arms (Appian, Pun. 80). He was unsuccessful in his application for the aedileship, but was consul in B. C. 138, with D. Junius Brutus. In consequence of the severity with which he and his colleague conducted the levy of troops, they were thrown into prison by C. Curiatius, the tribune of the plebs. It was this Curiatius who gave Nasica the nick-name of Serapio, from his resemblance to a dealer in sacrificial animals, or some other person of low rank, who was called by this name; but though given him in derision, it afterwards became his distinguishing surname (Liv. Epit. 55 ; V. Max. 9.14.3; Plin.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sci'pio (search)
Sci'pio 28. Cn. Cornelius Scipio Hispallus, son of No. 27, was sent along with Scipio Nasica Serapio [No. 24], in B. C. 149, to demand from the Carthaginians the surrender of their arms (Appian, Pun. 80). He was praetor, B. C. 139, when he published an edict that all Chaldaeans (i. e. astrologers) should leave Rome and Italy within ten days (V. Max. 1.3.2). Valerius Maximus (l.c.) calls him Caius; whence Pighius makes him the brother of the Hispallus mentioned by Appian, but it is far more probable that there should be a mistake in Valerius Maximus of C. for Cn. than that he should have borne a praenomen which does not occur elsewhere in the family of the Scipios.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sulla (search)
press authority for this statement (for the passage of Servius, ad Virg. Aen. 6.73, does not prove it), it is probable that he did, as we read of Quindecemviri in the time of Cicero (Cic. Fam. 8.4) instead of decemviri as previously. III. Laws relating to the Administration of Justice. Sulla established permanent courts for the trial of particular offences, in each of which a praetor presided. A precedent for this had been given by the Lex Calpurnia of the tribune L. Calpurnius Piso, in B. C. 149, by which it was enacted that a praetor should preside at all trials for repetundae during his year of office. This was called a Quaestio Perpetua, and nine such Quaestiones Perpetuae were established by Sulla, namely, De Repetundis, Majestatis, De Sicariis et Veneficis, De Parricidio, Peculatus, Ambitus, De Nummis Adulterinis, De Falsis or Testamentaria, and De Vi Publica. Jurisdiction in civil cases was left to the praetor peregrinus and the praetor urbanus as before, and the other six p
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller), Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi (search)
Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi so surnamed for his integrity; author and statesman; tribune (149); law against extortion, 2.75. consul (135).
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