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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Marcellus Clau'dius 12. C. Claudius Marcellus, M. F. M. N., a brother of the preceding, of whom very little is known previous to his election in B. C. 50, to be consul for the ensuing year (49), a distinction which he obtained, it is said, in consequence of his declared enmity to Caesar. (Caès. B. G. 8.50.) He is constantly confounded with his cousin, C. Marcellus [No. 14] who was consul in the year 50 with L. Aemilius Paullus, a confusion little to be wondered at: indeed it is sometimes impossible to determine which of the two is meant. Matters were fast approaching to a crisis when he and his colleague, L. Cornelius Lentulus, entered upon their office. While yet only consuls elect, they had lent their countenance to the violent and illegal act of the consul C. Marcellus in investing Pompey with the command of the army without authority from the senate (D. C. 40.66); and on the very first day of their consulship (1 Jan. B. C. 49) they brought under the consideration of the senate the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Marcellus Clau'dius 13. C. Claudius Marcellus, M. F. M. N., uncle of the two preceding, and father of the consul in B. C. 50. He is called by the Pseudo-Asconius (ad Verr. p. 206) great-grandson (pronepos) of the conqueror of Syracuse [No. 4]; but as has been pointed out by Wesseling and Drumann, this is impossible on chronological grounds, and he must have been a grandson of No. 8, and therefore abnepos of No. 4. He was praetor apparently in B. C. 80, and afterwards succeeded M. Aemilius Lepid, in which Cicero was one of his colleagues, and is cited by him as one of those who regarded the whole science of augury as a merely political institution. (Cic. de Divin. 2.35, de Leg. 2.13.) He lived to see his son elected consul for the year B. C. 50; and on that occasion Cicero wrote him a letter of congratulation ad Fam. 15.8), expressed in the most friendly terms. Elsewhere also the latter dwells in the strongest manner upon the respect and affection with which he had always regarded Marc
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Marcellus Clau'dius 14. C. Claudius Marcellus, C. F. M. N., son of the preceding, and first cousin of M. Marcellus [No. 11 ], whom he succeeded in the consulship, B. C. 50. He enjoyed the friendship of Cicero from an early age, and attached himself to the party of Pompey in the state, notwithstanding his connection with Caesar by his marrige with Octavia. It was evidently to the influence of Pompey, combined with that of his cousin M. Marcellus, that he was indebted for his elevation to the coCurio, both of whom, though previously hostile, had been recently gained over by Caesar. The latter is said to have endeavoured to corrupt Marcellus also, but to have found him inaccessible to bribes. (Appian, App. BC 2.26.) On the 1st of March, B. C. 50, Marcellus brought before the senate, as previously arranged, the question of superseding Caesar in his command; but the interposition of Curio prevented any conclusion being come to at that time; and afterwards the illness of Pompey and the ele
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mia'rcia (search)
Mia'rcia 4. The second wife of M. Cato Uticensis, to whom she bore many children, was the daughter of L. Marcius Philippus, consul B. C. 56. It was about the year B. C. 56 that Cato is related to have ceded her to his friend Q. Hortensius, with the approbation of her father: some remarks upon this curious tale are made elsewhere. [Vol. I. p. 648b.] She continued to live with Hortensius till the death of the latter, in B. C. 50, after which she returned to Cato, who left her behind in Rome, placing his family and property under her care, when he fled from the city with the rest of the aristocratical party on Caesar's approach in B. C. 49. (Appian, App. BC 2.99; Plut. Cat. min. 25, 39, 52; Lucan, 2.329, &c.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ma'rius (search)
Ma'rius 7. L. Marius, L. F., was one of those who subscribed the accusation of Triarius against Scaurus, in B. C. 54 (Ascon. in Cic. Scaur. p. 19, ed. Orelli). He is probably the same as the Marius who was quaestor in B. C. 50, and succeeded C. Sallustius in the government of the province of Syria. (Cic. Fam. 2.17.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Messalla (search)
his year of office. He was the father (or grandfather) of the empress Messallina [MESSALLINA, No. 1]; and Suetonius (Suet. Cl. 26) calls him cousin of the emperor Claudius I. Strictly speaking, however, he was cousin only by marriage; and there is some difference of opinion as to the name of his wife. Lipsius (ad Tac. Ann. 11.37) and Perizonius (Ep. ad N. Heins. Collect. Burmann. iv. pp. 801-802) make Messalla to have married Domitia Lepida, daughter of Antonia major, and granddaughter of M. Antony and Octavia. Claudius, son of Antonia minor, was therefore Domitia Lepida's first cousin, but Messalla's cousin only by marriage. The following stemma will show their respective relationship:-- Ryckius (ad loc. Tao.), on the other hand, and Brotier (Tac. Supplem. Stemm. Caes.), make two Messallae Barbati, father and son, of whom the elder married Marcella major, daughter of Claudius Marcellus, consul B. C. 50, and Octavia, and the younger Domitia Lepida. (D. C. 54.28; Tac. Ann. 11.37.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ni'cias (search)
rammarian, who lived at Rome in the time of Cicero, with whom he was intimate. Suetonius (de Illustr. Gramm. 14) calls him, if the ordinary reading be correct, Curtius Nicia. He also mentions (l.c.) that he originally belonged to the party of Pompey, but that, having endeavoured to involve Pompey's wife in an intrigue with Memmius, he was betrayed by her, and disgraced by his former patron. From the scattered notices of him found in Cicero, we may conclude that he was of an amiable disposition, but soft and effeminate. We nowhere read of his having any great reputation. In one passage (ad Attic. 7.3) Cicero does not seem to trust much to his authority as to the question, whether Piraeca was the name of a locus or of an oppidum. If we may trust a corrupt passage in Suetonius (l.c.), he wrote a treatise on the writings of Lucilius. (Sueton. l.c.; Cic. Fam. 9.10, ad Att. l.c. 12.26, 53, 13.23; Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. p. 207.) Cicero's letters that mention him extend front B. C. 50 to 45.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Octa'via (search)
Octa'via 2. The younger daughter of C. Octavius, by his second wife, Atia, and own sister of the emperor, Augustus, was married first to C. Marcellus, consul, B. C. 50, and subsequently to the triumvir, M. Antonius. (Suet. l.c.) Plutarch (Plut. Ant. 31), as has been remarked above, makes the elder Octavia the wife of the triumvir; and he has lately found a supporter of his opinion in Weichert (De Cassio Parmensi, p. 348, &c.), though some modern scholars, adopting the views of Perizonius, have decided in favour of the authority of Suetonius. The question is fully discussed by Drumann (Geschichte Roms, vol. iv. p. 235), who adheres, on good reasons as it appears to us, to the opinion of Perizonius; but for the arguments adduced on each side of the question we must refer the reader to Drumann. Octavia had been married to Marcellus before the year B. C. 54, for Julius Caesar, who was her great uncle, was anxious to divorce her from Marcellus that she might marry Pompey, who had then ju
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Octavius (search)
Octavius 10. M. Octavius Cn. F. M. N. (Cic. Fam. 8.2.2), the son of No. 9. He was a friend of Ap. Claudius Pulcher, consul B. C. 54, and accompanied the latter into Cilicia, but left the province before Claudius in order to become a candidate for the aedileship. He was curule aedile B. C. 50 along with M. Caelius; and as both of them were friends of Cicero, they begged the orator, as he was then in Cilicia, to send them panthers for the games they had to exhibit. (Cic. ad Fam. 3.4, ad Att. 5.21, 6.1.21.) On the breaking out of the civil war in B. C. 49, Octavius, true to the hereditary principles of his family, espoused the aristocratical party. He was appointed, along with L. Scribonius Libo, to the command of the Liburnian and Achaean fleets, serving as legate to M. Bibulus, who had the supreme command of the Pompeian fleet. He and Libo did good service to the cause; they defeated Dolabella on the illyrian coast, and compelled C. Antonius to surrender at the island of Coricta (Caes.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ornodopantes (search)
Ornodopantes （*)Ornodopa/nths,) a Persian satrap, whom Bibulus persuaded in B. C. 50 to revolt from Orodes, the Parthian king, and proclaim Pacorus as king. (D. C. 40.30.) [Comp. Vol. I. p. 356a.] This Parthian name appears to be the same, with a slightly varied orthography, as that of Ornospades, which occurs in Tacitus. The latter was a Parthian chief of great power and influence in the reign of Tiberius. (Tac. Ann. 6.37
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