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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philidas (search)
Philidas （*Fili/das), an Aetolian, who was sent by Dorimachus, with a force of 600 men, to the assistance of the Eleans during the Social War, B. C. 218. He advanced into Triphylia, but was unable to make head against Philip, who drove him in succession out of the fortresses of Lepreum and Samicum, and ultimately compelled him to evacuate the whole of Triphylia. (Pelyb. 4.77-80.) [E.H.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Philippus V. (search)
totally defeated a force of Aetolian and Eleian troops under Euripidas, and following up his advantage, took the strong fortress of Psophis by a sudden assault, laid waste without opposition the rich plains of Elis, and then advancing into Triphylia, made himself master of the whole of that region, though abounding in strongholds, within six days. After this brilliant campaign. he took up his quarters at Argos for the remainder of the winter. (Polyh. 4.37, 57, 61-82.) The ensuing spring (B. C. 218) he first turned his attention to the reduction of the important island of Cephallenia, but failed in an attack on the city of Palae in consequence of the treachery and misconduct of one of his own officers, Leontius, who purposely prevented the troops under his command from carrying the breach by assault. Hereupon Philip abandoned the enterprise; but landing suddenly at the head of the Ambracian gulf, he penetrated unexpectedly into the heart of Aetolia, where he surprised the capital cit
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Plautus (search)
supposition is con firmed by the fact that Cicero speaks (Cato, 14) of the Pseudolus, which was acted in. B. C.191, as written by Plattus when he was an old man, an epithet which Cicero would certainly have given to no one under thirty years of age; and also by the circumstance that in another passage of Cicero (quoted by Augustine, De Cix. Dci, 2.9), Plautus and Naevius are spoken of as the contemporaries of P. and Cn. Scipio, of whom the former was consul in B. C. 222, and the latter in B. C. 218. The principal objection to the above mentioned date for the birth of Plautus, arises from a passage of Cicero, in his Tusculan Disputations (i. l), according to which it would appear that Plautus and Naevius were younger than Ennius, who was born in B. C. 239. But we know that this cannot be true of Naevius; and Ritschl has shown that the passage, when rightly interpreted, refers to Livius, and not to Ennius, being older than Naevius and Plautus. Indeed, Cicero, in another of his works (B
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pomp'nia (search)
Pomp'nia 1. Wife of P. Cornelius Scipio, consul B. C. 218, and mother of P. Scipio Africanus the elder. (Sil. Ital. 13.615; comp. Gel. 7.1.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pompo'nius (search)
Pompo'nius 5. SEX. POMPONIUS, legatus of the consul Ti. Sempronius Longus in the first year of the first Punic war, B. C. 218. (Liv. 21.15.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ptolemaeus (search)
Ptolemaeus 14. A Macedonian officer of high rank in the army of Philip V. during the Social War, who joined with Leontius and Megaleas in promoting the treasonable designs of Apelles, and was in consequence put to death by Philip, B. C. 218. (Plb. 5.25, 26, 29.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Ptolemy Philopator or Ptolemy Philopator (search)
ich had been held by the kings of Egypt since the invasion of Syria by Euergetes) advanced into Phoenicia, where the two strong fortresses of Tyre and Ptolemais were betrayed into his hands by Theodotus. These tidings at length aroused Ptolemy and his ministers from their apathy, and while they sought to amuse Antiochus with pretended negotiations they began to assemble Greek mercenaries, as well as to arm and train Egyptian troops after the Macedonian fashion. With the approach of spring (B. C. 218) they were able to oppose an army under Nicolaus and a fleet under Perigenes to the arms of Antiochus ; but Nicolaus was defeated near Porphyreon, and the Syrian king made himself master, with little difficulty, of great part of Coele-Syria and Palestine. But the next year (B. C. 217) Ptolemy in person took the command of his forces, and set out from Alexandria at the head of an army of 70,000 foot and 5000 horse. He was met by Antiochus with a nearly equal force at Raphia, on the borders
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Py'rrhias (search)
Py'rrhias （*Purri/as). an Aetolian, who was sent by his countrymen during the Social War (B. C. 218), to take the command in Elis. Here Mydon he took advantage of the absence of Philip, and that the incapacity of Eperatus the Achaean praetor, to make frequent incursions into the Achaean terancient ritories, and having established a fortified post on combatant, Mount Panachaicum, laid waste the whole country as far as Rhium and Aegium. The next year (B. C. 217) he concerted a plan with Lycurgus king of Sparta for the invasion of Messenia, but failed in the execution of his part of the scheme, being repulsed by the Cyparissians before he could effect a junction with Lycurgus. He in consequence returned to Elis, but the Eleans being dissatisfied with his conduct, he was shortly after recalled by the Aetolians, and succeeded by Euripidas. (Plb. 5.30, 91, 92, 94.) At a later period he obtained the office of praetor, or chief magistrate of the Aetolians, in the same year that the honorary
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sci'pio (search)
Sci'pio 9. P. Cornelius Scipio, the son of No. 7, was consul, with Ti. Sempronius Longus, in the first year of the Punic War, B. C. 218. Scipio, having received Spain as his province, set sail with his army from Pisae to Massilia. On his arrival at the latter place, he found that Hannibal had already crossed the Pyrenees, and was advancing towards the Rhone; but as his men had suffered much from sea-sickness, he allowed them a few days' rest, thinking that he had abundance of time to prevent HNiebuhr, Lectures on Roman History vol. i. pp. 206, 207). Upon the arrival of Publius in Spain, he found that his brother Cneius had already obtained a firm footing in the country. Soon after Cneius had landed at Emporium in the preceding year, B. C. 218, most of the chiefs on the sea-coast joined him, attracted by his affability and kindness, which formed a striking contrast with the severity and harshness of the Carthaginian commanders. In the course of the same year he gained a victory near
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sci'pio (search)
Sci'pio 10. Cn. Cornelius Scipio Calvus, son of No. 7, and brother of No. 9, was consul B. C. 222 with M. Claudius Marcellus. In conjunction with his colleague he carried on war against the Insubrians. The details of this war are given under Marcellus. [Vol. II. pp. 927, 928.] (Plb. 2.34; Plut. Marcel. 6, 7; and the other authorities quoted in the life of Marcellus). In B. C. 218 Cneius served as legate of his brother Publius, under whom he carried on war for eight years in Spain, as has been related above.
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