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53 BC (search for this): entry milo-t-annius-papianus-bio-1
Milo, T. A'nnius Papia'nus was the son of C. Papius Celsus and Annia [ANNIA, No. 2]. He was born at Lanuvium, of which place he was in B. C. 53, chief magistrate--dictator. Milo derived the name of Annius from his adoption by his maternal grandfather T. Annius Lascus. But the appellation by which he is best known, was an Italiot-Greek name, common in the South of Italy, the fruitful nursery of Gladiators. Since his ancestors, neither in the Papian nor Annian families, bore this name, and Milo witian games of unusual and, according to Cicero, of insane magnificence. He was enabled to give them by the bequest of a deceased curule-aedile, whose name is lost, and he exhibited them in the year previous to his canvass for the consulship. In B. C. 53 Milo was candidate for the consulship, and Clodius for the praetorship of the ensuing year. The gladiatorial combats were revived, and Clodius upbraided Milo in the senate with his insolvency. Cicero, to whom Milo's election was of vital importa
52 BC (search for this): entry milo-t-annius-papianus-bio-1
in B. C. 57, when his memorable and fatal contest with P. Clodius began. The history of his tribunate and of the succeeding events until the murder of Clodius in B. C. 52, is inseparable from that of his rival, and has already been related [P. CLODIUS PULCHER, No. 40]. We shall, therefore, merely recapitulate the principal features are still extant. The contest, however, between the rival ruffians was brought to an end by the murder of Clodius at Bovillae on the Appianroad, January 20th, B. C. 52. The details of the meeting, the quarrel, and its catastrophe, are related in the account of Clodius [No. 40]. The immediate effect of the death of Clodius wass not without hope, since the higher aristocracy, from jealousy of Pompey, supported him, and Cicero undertook his defence. His trial opened on the 4th of April, B. C. 52. He was impeached by the two Clodii, nephews of the deceased, de Vi, by Q. Petulcius and L. Cornificius, d(e Ambitu, and by P. Fulvius Neratus, de Sodalitiis. L.
51 BC (search for this): entry milo-t-annius-papianus-bio-1
self-defence ceased with the flight of Clodins, and the pretence wholly fails when it is remembered that Milo's escort was much the more numerous and the better-armed. Milo's exile was a heavy blow to his numerous creditors. His houses at Rome, his numerous villas, and his bands of fighting men were put up to auction, and Cicero did not escape suspicion of having purchased through an agent, Philotimus, some of the Annian property below its real worth. Cicero, on his return from Cilicia in B. C. 51, showed that he felt the imputation by offering to cancel the purchase or to increase the price. He however, owed no gratitude to Milo, who had espoused his cause because it suited his own interest, and his undertaking the defence of so notorious a criminal with extreme risk to himself amply discharged his real or supposed obligations. The close of Milo's life was as inglorious as his political career had been violent and disgraceful. Milo expected a recall from Caesar, when, in B. C. 49, t
49 BC (search for this): entry milo-t-annius-papianus-bio-1
in B. C. 51, showed that he felt the imputation by offering to cancel the purchase or to increase the price. He however, owed no gratitude to Milo, who had espoused his cause because it suited his own interest, and his undertaking the defence of so notorious a criminal with extreme risk to himself amply discharged his real or supposed obligations. The close of Milo's life was as inglorious as his political career had been violent and disgraceful. Milo expected a recall from Caesar, when, in B. C. 49, the dictator permitted many of the exiles to return. But better times were come, and Rome neither needed nor wished for the presence of a bankrupt agitator. Milo's former friend the extribune M. Caelius, praetor in B. C. 48, promulgated a bill for the adjustment of debts-a revolutionary measure for which the senate, where the Caesarian party had then a majority, expelled him from his office. Caelius, himself a man of broken fortunes, required desperate allies, and he accordingly invited Mi
48 BC (search for this): entry milo-t-annius-papianus-bio-1
aking the defence of so notorious a criminal with extreme risk to himself amply discharged his real or supposed obligations. The close of Milo's life was as inglorious as his political career had been violent and disgraceful. Milo expected a recall from Caesar, when, in B. C. 49, the dictator permitted many of the exiles to return. But better times were come, and Rome neither needed nor wished for the presence of a bankrupt agitator. Milo's former friend the extribune M. Caelius, praetor in B. C. 48, promulgated a bill for the adjustment of debts-a revolutionary measure for which the senate, where the Caesarian party had then a majority, expelled him from his office. Caelius, himself a man of broken fortunes, required desperate allies, and he accordingly invited Milo to Italy, as the fittest tool for his purposes. At the head of the survivors of his gladiatorial bands, reinforced by Samnite and Bruttian herdsmen, by criminals and run-away slaves, Milo appeared in Campania, and proclaim
56 BC (search for this): entry milo-t-annius-papianus-bio-1
assailed by the Clodians, but Clodius was twice driven from the forum, and the last time narrowly escaped with life. Nor did the rivals restrict their warfare to the swords of their adherents. With equal justice and consistency they accused each other of a breach of the Lex Plotia de Vi, and with equal violence both eluded the results of prosecution. Clodius, however, notwithstanding Miloe's repeated disruption of the comitia, succeeded in carrying his election for the curule-aedileship in B. C. 56, and was thus during his year of office exempt from impeachment. Milo, whose tribunate expired in December B. C. 57, was on the other hand open to legal proceedings, and Cicero from dread of Crassus, who favoured Clodius, refused to undertake his defence. It was, therefore, necessary for his safety that he should again hold an office of the state. But his bankrupt condition did not allow him to risk the expenses of the curule-aedileship, and there is no authentic record of his praetorship.
57 BC (search for this): entry milo-t-annius-papianus-bio-1
nd for his lawless and ferocious life, a by-name has probably superseded his birth-names. The year of his quaestorship is unknown. He was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 57, when his memorable and fatal contest with P. Clodius began. The history of his tribunate and of the succeeding events until the murder of Clodius in B. C. 52, iing his election for the curule-aedileship in B. C. 56, and was thus during his year of office exempt from impeachment. Milo, whose tribunate expired in December B. C. 57, was on the other hand open to legal proceedings, and Cicero from dread of Crassus, who favoured Clodius, refused to undertake his defence. It was, therefore, neents, and retreated into Lucania, where he was met by the praetor Q. Pedius, and slain under the walls of an obscure fort in the district of Thurii. Milo, inll B. C. 57, married Fausta, a daughter of the dictator Sulla. She proved a faithless wife, and Sallust the historian was soundly scourged by Milo for an intrigue with her.