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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Me'mmius (search)
Me'mmius 8. C. Memmius Gemellus, L. F., son of No. 6, was tribune of the plebs in . 100.66, when he opposed the demand of L. Lucullus for a triumph, on his return from the Mithridatic war. (Plut. Luc. 37.) Memmius was a man of profligate character. He wrote indecent poems (Plin. Ep. 5.3; Ovid. Trist. 2.433; Gel. 19.9), made overtures to Cn. Pompey's wife (Suet. Ill. Gr. 14), and, when curule aedile, in B. C. 60, seduced the wife of M. Lucullus, whence Cicero, combining this intrigue with Memmius's previous hostility to I,. Lucullus, calls him a Paris, who insulted not only Menelaus (M. Lucullus), but Agamemnon also (L. Lucullus). (Cic. ad Att.1.18.3; comp. V. Max. 6.1.13.) Memmius was praetor in B. C. 58. (Cic. ad Quint. Fr. 1.2, 5, 15.) He belonged at that time to the Senatorian party, since he impeached P. Vatinius, consul in B. C. 47 (Cic. in Vatin. 14); opposed P. Clodius (id. ad Att. 2.12); and was vehement in his invectives against Julius Caesar (Suet. Jul. 23, 49, 73; Schol. B
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Menippus (search)
cynic philosophers who threw all their teaching into a satirical form. In this character he is several times introduced by Lucian, who in one place speaks of him as tw=n palaiw=n kunw=n ma/la u(laktiko\n ka/rxaron (Bis Accus. 33). Even in the time of Diogenes, his works were somewhat uncertain; and they are now entirely lost: but we have considerable fragments of Varro's Saturae Menippeae, which were written in imitation of Menippus. (Cic. Ac. 1.2, 8; Gel. 2.18; Macr. 1.11.) The recent edition of the fragments of Varro by Oehler contains a short but excellent dissertation on the date of Menippus, whom he places at B. C. 60. The works of Menippus were, according to Diogenes (6.101), thirteen in number, namely,-- *Nekui/a *Diaqh=kai *)Epistola kekomyeume/nai a)po\ tou= tw=n qew=n prosw/pou pro\s tou\s fusikou\s kai\ maqhmatikou\s kai\ grammatikou\s kai\ gona\s )Epikou/rou kai\ ta\s qrhskruome/nas u(p' au\tw=n ei)ka/das and others. Further Information Comp. Menag. Obserrv. in loc.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus (search)
Metellus 20. Q. CAECILIUS Q. F. Q.N. METELLUS CELER, consul B. C. 60, was son of Nepos, consul B. C. 98. [No. 16.] The latter was most probably his father, but his descent has given rise to much dispute. Cicero and Asconiuis both call Metellus Celer the frater of the younger Metellus Nepos [No. 21], and Asconius states that the latter was the son of the elder Nepos [No. 16], the grandson of Balearicus [No. 7], and the great-grandson of Macedonicus [No. 5]. (Cic. Fam. 5.1, 2; Ascon. in Cornel. pem to pay a smaller sum for the farming of the taxes in Asia than they had agreed to give. Their request was accordingly refused, but was subsequently granted, in B. C. 59, by Caesar, who brought forward a bill in the comitia for the purpose. In B. C. 60, Metellus was consul with L. Afranius, who was a creature of Pompey, and had been raised to this dignity by Pompey's influence. Pompey was anxious to obtain the ratification of his acts in Asia, and an assignment of lands for his soldiers; but A
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus (search)
y on which the bill was to be brought forward, Cato attempted to prevent its being read, but was driven out of the forum by force. He soon, however, returned, supported by a large body of the aristocracy; and this time the victory remained in their hands. Metellus was obliged to take to flight, and repaired to Pompey: the senate proposed to deprive him of his office, and according to some accounts actually did so. Metellus returned to Rome with Pompey, and was raised to the praetorship in B. C. 60. In this year he brought forward a law for the abolition of the vectigalia in Italy; and the senate, out of hatred to Metellus, attempted to call the law by the name of some other person. In the following year he appears not to have gone to a province, but to have remained in Rome. In B. C. 57 he was consul with P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther. Cicero, who had been banished in the preceding year, and whose friends were now exerting themselves to obtain his recall, was greatly alarmed at the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus Scipio (search)
s he is called P. Scipio Nasica, sometimes Q. Metellus Scipio, and sometimes simply Scipio or Metellus. His full legal name, as it appears in a senatus consultum (Cic. Fam. 8.8), is the one given at the commencement of this notice. Appian erroneously gives him the praenomen Lucius. (B. C. 2.24.) Metellus is first mentioned in B. C. 63, when he is said to have come to Cicero by night, along with M. Crassus and Marcellus, bringing with them letters relating to the conspiracy of Catiline. In B. C. 60 he was elected tribune of the plebs, but was accused of bribery by M. Favonius, who had failed in his election, and was defended by Cicero. He was tribune in B. C. 59, and was one of the college of pontiffs before whom Cicero spoke respecting his house in B. C. 57. In the latter year he exhibited gladiatorial games in honour of his deceased father, Metellus Pius. In B. C. 53 Scipio was a candidate for the consulship along with Plautius Hypsaeus and Milo, and was supported by the Clodian mob
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus (search)
atiline, he was at length permitted to make his triumphal entrance into Rome, and received the surname of Creticus. He was robbed, however, of the chief ornaments of his triumph, Lasthenes and Panares, whom a tribune of the plebs compelled him to surrender to Pompey. Metellus, as was naturally to be expected, joined Lucullus and the other leaders of the aristocracy in their opposition to Pompey, and succeeded in preventing the latter from obtaining the ratification of his acts in Asia. In B. C. 60 Metellus was sent by the senate with two others to investigate the state of Gaul, where a rising of the people was apprehended. He is mentioned by Cicero, in B. C. 57, as one of the pontiffs before whom he spoke respecting his house, and he probably died soon afterwards. (Liv. Epit. 98-100; Flor. 3.7, 4.2; Eutrop. 6.11; Oros. 6.4; Vell. 2.34, 38; Just. 39.5; Appian, App. Sic. 6; Dio Cass. Frag. 178, 36.1, 2; Plut. Pomp. 29; Sal. Cat. 30; Cic. Verr. i. 9, pro Flacc. 3, 13, 40, in Pison. 24,
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus (search)
Metellus 25. M. Caecilius Metellus, brother of the two preceding [Nos. 23, 24], was praetor B. C. 69, in the same year that his eldest brother was consul. The lot gave him the presidency in the court de pecuniis repetundis, and Verres was very anxious that his trial should come on before Metellus. (Cic. Verr. Act. 1.8, 9, 10.) Since he did not obtain the consulship, Drumann conjectures (vol. ii. p. 57) that the gladiators of M. Metellus, whom Cicero mentions in B. C. 60 (ad Att. 2.1.1) may have belonged to the son of the praetor, and were exhibited by him in honour of his father, who would therefore have died about this time.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus (search)
ly from Rome on the approach of Caesar with Pompey and the rest of his party, but remained behind in the city. He also showed his courage in attempting to prevent Caesar from taking possession of the sacred treasury, and only gave way upon being threatened with death. (Plut. Caes. 35, Pomp. 62; D. C. 41.17; Appian, App. BC 2.41; Caes. Civ. 1.33; Lucan, 3.114, &c.; Cic. Att. 10.4, 8.) He soon afterwards left Rome, and was at Capua at the beginning of March, when Pompey was on the point of leaving Italy. Cicero mentions Clodia as his mother-in-law, who may perhaps have been the wife of Metellus, consul B. C. 60. [No. 20.] (Cic. Att. 9.6.3.) There was a Metellus who fought on the side of Antony in the last civil war, was taken prisoner at the battle of Actium, and whose life was spared by Octavian at the intercession of his son, who had fought on the side of the latter. (Appian, App. BC 4.42.) The elder of these Metelli may have been the tribune of B. C. 49; but this is only conjecture.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus (search)
Metellus 28. M. Caecilius Metellus, son probably of No. 25, is mentioned by Cicero in B. C. 60 (ad Att. 2.1.1). See No. 25.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mu'cia (search)
Mu'cia 2. With the epithet TERTIA, was the daughter of Q. Mucius Scaevola, the augur, consul in B. C. 95. She was a cousin (soror) of Q. Metellus Celer, consul in B. C. 60, and of Q. Metellus Nepos, consul III B. C. 57. Mucia married Cn. Pompey, by whom sne had two sons, Cneius and Sextus, and a daughter, Pompeia. She was divorced by Pompey just before his return from the Mithridatic war in B. C. 62. Mucia next married M. Aemilius Scaurns, a stepson of the dictator Sulla. In B. C. 39, Mucia, at the earnest request of the Roman people, went to Sicily to mediate between her son Sex. Pompey and Augustus. She was living at the time of the battle of Actium, B. C. 31. Augustus treated her with great respect. (Ascon. in Scaur. p. 19, Orelli ; Cic. ad Fam. 5.2, ad Att. 1.12; D. C. 37.49, 48.16, 51.2, 56.38; Appian. B. C. 5.69, 72; Suet. Jul. 50; Plut. Pomp. 42; Zonar. 10.5; Hieron. in Jovin. 1.48.) Whether the Mucia mentioned by Valerius Maximus (9.1.8) bo the same person is uncertain.
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