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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lycortas (search)
Lycortas （*Luko/rtas), of Megalopolis, was the father of Tolybius, the historian, and the close friend of Philopoemen, to whose policy, prudent at once and patriotic, we find him adhering throughout. In B. C. 189, he was sent as ambassador to Rome, with his rival Diophanes, to receive the senate's decision on the question of the war which 1000 the Achaean League had declared against Lacedaemon; and, while Diophanes expressed his willingness to leave every thing to the senate, Lycortas urged the right of the league to free and independent action. (Liv. 38.30-34.) In B. C. 186, he was one of the three ambassadors sent to Ptolemy V. (Epiphanes), to effect a new alliance between Egypt and the Achaeans; but, at an assembly held at Megalopolis in the next year, when Aristaenus was strategus, neither Lycortas and his colleagues nor the Egyptian envoys, who had accompanied them from Ptolemy's court, could specify which of the several treaties made in former times with Egypt had now been ren
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
he conquest of the important town of Comum. Besides this, in conjunction with his colleague, Purpureo, he obtained some advantages over the Boians and Ligurians: and on his return to Rome was, by unanimous consent, honoured with a triumph. (Liv. 33.25, 36, 37; Plb. 18.25.) In the same year he was appointed pontifex, in the room of C. Sempronius Tuditanus. (Liv. 33.42.) In B. C. 193 he again served in Cisalpine Gaul as one of the lieutenants of the consul L. Cornelius Merula, and took part in the great victory he obtained over the Boians. (Id. 35.5, 8.) In B. C. 189 he obtained the censorship in conjunction with T. Flamininus, an honour which was enhanced in this instance by the number of distinguished competitors over whom they obtained the preference. Their census was marked by the first admission of the people of Formiae, Fundi, and Arpinum, to the full rights of Roman citizens. (Liv. 37.58, 38.28, 36.) From this time we hear no more of him till his death, in B. C. 177. (Id. 41.13.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Moa'getes (search)
Moa'getes tyrant of the Cibyrates, in Upper Phrygia, had made himself conspicuous by his enmity to IRome during the war with Antiochus the Great. In B. C. 189, the consul Cn. Manlius Vulso, condemned Moagetes to pay a fine of 100 talents and to furnish 10,000 medimni of wheat for the use of the legions. (Plb. 22.17; Liv. 38.14.) [W.B.D]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Morzes (search)
Morzes or, according to Polybius, MO'RZIAS (*Morzi/as), a king of Paphlagonia, who fought against the Romans in the Gallo-Graecian war, B. C. 189. Morzes had been conquered by Pharnaces, king of Pontus, and was indemnified in the treaty of peace imposed on the latter prince by Eumenes II. king of Pergamus, in B. C. 189-188. (Plb. 26.6.9; Liv. 38.26; Strab. xii. p.562.) [W.B.D]Morzes or, according to Polybius, MO'RZIAS (*Morzi/as), a king of Paphlagonia, who fought against the Romans in the Gallo-Graecian war, B. C. 189. Morzes had been conquered by Pharnaces, king of Pontus, and was indemnified in the treaty of peace imposed on the latter prince by Eumenes II. king of Pergamus, in B. C. 189-188. (Plb. 26.6.9; Liv. 38.26; Strab. xii. p.562.) [W.B.D]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nero (search)
Nero 4. APP. CLAUDIUS NERO was praetor B. C. 195 (Liv. 33.43), with Hispania Ulterior as his province. Nothing is recorded of his operations in Spain, and it is doubtful if he went there, for the fear of a Spanish war soon subsided. In B. C. 189, he was one of ten commissioners (legali) who were sent into Asia to settle affairs. (Liv. 37.55.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nobi'lior (search)
, and fought with great success against the nations that still resisted the Roman supremacy. He gained a victory over the united forces of the Vaccaei, Tectones, and Celtiberi, near the town of Toletum (Toledo), and took their king, Hilermus, prisoner. He then obtained possession of the town of Toletum, which is the first time that this place is mentioned in history. On his return to Rome in B. C. 191 he was granted the honour of an ovation. (Liv. 33.42, 34.54, 55, 35.7, 22, 36.21, 39.) In B. C. 189 he was consul with M. Fulvius Nobilior, and received the conduct of the war against the Aetolians. He captured the strong town of Ambracia, and then compelled the Aetolians to sue for peace, which was granted them on favourable terms. Shortly afterwards he obliged the island of Cephallenia, which had been excluded from the terms of the peace, to submit to the dominion of Rome. He remained in his province for the next year as proconsul; and on his return to Rome, in B. C. 187, celebrated a
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ortiagon (search)
Ortiagon （*)Ortia/gwn), one of the three princes of Galatia, when that country was invaded by the Romans under Cn. Manlius Vulso, in B. C. 189. he was defeated on Mount Olympus by the invaders, and compelled to fly home for refuge. Polybius tells us that he cherished the design of uniting all Galatia under his rule, and that he was well qualified to succeed in the attempt, being liberal, magnanimous, possessed of sagacity and winning manners; and above all, brave and skilful in war. (Plb. 22.21; Liv. 38.19, &c.) [CHIOMARA] [E.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Aemi'lius Macedonicus (search)
h he prosecuted the pecuarii. In the following year, B. C. 191, he was praetor, and obtained Further Spain as his province, whither he went with the title of proconsul. Here he had to carry on war with the Lusitani. At first he was unsuccessful, being defeated near Lyco, a town of the Bastetani, with a loss of 6000 of his men; but he subsequently retrieved this misfortune by gaining a great victory over the enemy, by which Spain was for a time rendered more tranquil. He returned to Rome in B. C. 189, and shortly afterwards became a candidate for the consulship. Several times, however, did he sue in vain for this honour (comp. Liv. 39.32; Aur. Vict. de Vir. Ill. 56) ; and it was not till B. C. 182 that he obtained the consulship along with Cn. Baebius Tamphilus. In the following year, B. C. 181, Paulus was sent against the Ingauni, a Ligurian people, who possessed a considerable naval power, with which they were in the habit of plundering the merchantvessels as far as the Atlantic. The
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Perseus (search)
nts him as a supposititious child, and not the son of Philip at all: but it is probable that both these tales were mere inventions of his enemies: at least it is clear that he was from the first regarded both by his father and the whole Macedonian nation as the undoubted heir to the throne. He was early trained to arms, and was still a mere boy when he was appointed by his father to command the army destined to guard the passes of Pelagonia against the Illyrians, B. C. 200 (Liv. 31.28). In B. C. 189 we again find him leading an army into Epeirus, where he besieged Amphilochia, but was compelled by the Aetolians to retire. (Id. 38.5. 7.) The favour shown by the Romans to his younger brother Demetrius had the effect of exciting the jealousy of Perseus, who suspected that the Roman senate intended to set up Demetrius as a competitor for the throne on the death of Philip: and the popularity of the young prince among the Macedonians themselves was ill calculated to allay these apprehension
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ippus was one of the ambassadors sent to the former at Mutina by the senate, and was nuch blamed by Cicero, because, being the ambassador of the senate, he brought back to that body the shameless demands of Antony. (Cic. ad Fam. 12.4, Phil. 8.10, 9.1.) Philippus must have attained a good old age. He lived till his step-son had acquired the supremacy of the Roman world. for we find him mentioned as one of the Roman nobles, who ornamented the city with public buildings at the request of the emperor. He built the temple of Hercules and the Muses, which had been first erected by M. Fulvins Nobilior, consul B. C. 189, and he surrounded it with a colonnade, which is frequently mentioned under the name of Porticus Philippi. (Suet. Ocltv. 29 ; clari monimenta Philippi, Ov. Fast. 6.801; Mart. 5.49. 9; Plin. Nat. 35.10; Becker, Römisch. Alterthum. vol. i. p. 613.) Philippus left two children, a son [No. 7], and a daughter, Marcia, who was the second wife of Cato Uticensis. [MARCIA, No. 4.
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