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Sto'mius
(*Sto/mios), a statuary, who made the statue of Hieronymus of Andros, to celebrate his victory at Olympia over Tisamenus of Elis, the seer who was afterwards present at the battle of Plataeae. (Paus. 6.14.5.) If the statue was made soon after the victory, the artist's age would of course fall at or just before the beginning of the Persian Wars, B. C. 500 or 490. (Thiersch, Epochen, p. 202.) [P.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Sulpi'cia Gens
originally patrician, and afterwards plebeian likewise.
It was one of the most ancient Roman gentes, and produced a succession of distinguished men, from the foundation of the republic to the imperial period.
The first member of it who obtained the consulship was Ser. Sulpicius Camerinus Cornutus, in B. C. 500, only nine years after the expulsion of the Tarquins, and the last of the name who appears on the consular Fasti was Sex. Sulpicius Tertullus in A. D. 158.
The family names of the Sulpicii during the republican period are -- CAMERINUS CORNUTUS, GALBA, GALLUS, LONGUS, PATERCULUS, PETICUS, PRAETEXTATUS, QUIRINUS, RUFUS (given below), SAVERRIO. Besides these cognomens, we meet with some other surnames belonging to freedmen and to other persons under the empire, which are given below. On coins we find the surnames Galba, Platorinus, Proclus, Rufus.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
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