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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philophron (search)
Philophron （*Filo/frwn), a Rhodian, who was sent ambassador together with Theaetetus to the ten Roman deputies appointed to settle the affairs of Asia after the defeat of Antiochns, B. C. 189. They succeeded in obtaining the assignment of Lycia to the Rhodians as a reward for their services in the late contest (Plb. 23.3). At the commencement of the war between Rome and Perseus, the Rhodians were divided into two parties, the one disposed to favour the Macedonian king, the other to adhere closely to the Roman alliance. Philophron was one of the principal leaders of the latter; and we find him (together with Theaetetus) taking a prominent part in opposing all concessions to Perseus. But though in B. C. 169 they were still able to carry a decree for sending ambassadors to the senate at Rome, as well as to the consul Q. Marcius, to renews and strengthen the friendly relations between the two powers, the ill success of the Roman arms in the ensuing campaign gave the preponderance to the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ce healed the divisions that had broken out there; so that when the Achaean army arrived before the gates, Diophanes found no pretext for interfering. The Spartans were so grateful for the services which he had rendered them on this occasion, that they offered him a present of a hundred and twenty talents, which he at once declined, bidding them keep it for the purpose of gaining over bad men to their side, and not attempt to corrupt with money good men who were already their friends. In B. C. 189 Philopoemen was again elected general of the league. He introduced in this year a change of some importance in the constitution of the league, by transferring the place of assembly from Aegium, which had hitherto possessed this privilege exclusively, to the other cities of the league in rotation. This innovation was intended to deprive the old Achaean towns of their exclusive privileges, and to diffuse the power more equally among the other cities of the league. Meantime, fresh disturbance
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pictor (search)
Pictor 5. Q. Fabius Pictor, probably son of No. 4, was praetor B. C. 189. The lot gave him Sardinia as his province, but as he had been consecrated flamen Quirinalis in the preceding year, the pontifex maximus, P. Licinius, compelled him to remain in Rome. Fabius was so enraged at losing his province that he attempted to abdicate, but the senate compelled him to retain his office, and assigned to him the jurisdiction inter peregrines. He died B. C. 167. (Liv. 37.47, 50, 51, 45.44.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pleuratus (search)
8.5, 29.12; Polyb 10.41.) But after this period that of Pleuratus appears alone, and he seems to have become sole ruler. On the renewal of the war with Macedonia by the Romans (B. C. 201) he hastened to offer his assistance to the consul Sulpicius, but his services were declined for the moment, and were not subsequently called for. But though he rendered no active assistance, his fidelity to the Roman cause was rewarded by Flamininus at the peace of 196, by the addition to his territories of Lychnidus and the Parthini, which had been previously subject to Macedonia. (Liv. 31.28, 33.34; Plb. 18.30, 21.9, 22.4.) During the war of M. Fulvius in Aetolia, B. C. 189, he again came to the assistance of the Romans with a fleet of 60 ships, with which he laid waste the coasts of Aetolia, but did not effect any thing of moment. (Liv. 38.7.) The date of his death is unknown, but it must have occurred previous to B. C. 180, at which time we find his son Gentius already on the throne. (Id. 40.42.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
obtained in the latter year Bruttii as his province. Here he carried on an investigation respecting the robbery of the temple of Proserpine at Locri, and likewise discovered a conspiracy that had been formed in that part of Italy; and as he had not completed his inquiries at the end of the year, his imperium was prolonged for another year. In B. C. 197 he was consul with C. Cornelius Cethegus, and carried on war against the Boii with success; but as the senate refused him the honour of a triumph, he celebrated one on the Alban Mount. In B. C. 189 he was one of the ten commissioners sent into Asia after the conquest of Antiochus the Great; and his name occurs in the Senatusconsultum de Bacchanalibus (B. C. 186), as one of the senators present at the time it was written out. In B. C. 183 he was one of the three ambassadors sent into Gaul, and this is the last time that his name is mentioned. (Liv. 31.4, 6, 12, 13, 32.1, 27-31, 33.22, 23; Zonar. 9.16; Cic. Brut. 18 ; Liv. 37.55, 39.54.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sci'pio Africanus (search)
s fought near Mount Sipylus, in which the Syrian king was totally defeated. Antiochus now applied again to Africanus, who used his influence in the king's favour with his brother Lucius and his council of war. The terms of peace were severe, but they did not appear sufficiently severe to the Roman senate, who imposed much harder conditions upon the conquered monarch in the treaty which was finally made. Africanus returned to Rome with his brother Lucius after the completion of the war in B. C. 189, but his remaining years were embittered by the attacks of his old enemies. Shortly after his return, he and his brother Lucius were accused of having received bribes from Antiochus to let the monarch off too leniently, and of having appropriated to their own use part of the money which had been paid by Antiochus to the Roman state. The glory of his African victory had already grown dim; and his enemies availed themselves of the opportunity to crush their proud antagonist. The accusation w
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Seleucus Philopator (search)
r of Achaean mercenaries, who had thrown himself into the place, compelled him to raise the siege and retire (Liv. 37.8, 11, 18, 20, 21 ; Plb. 21.4; App. Syr. 26). In the great battle against the Romans near Magnesia, in the same year, Seleucus was entrusted by his father with the command of the left wing of his army, but was totally defeated by Attalus, to whom he was opposed, and fled from the field of battle to Apamea in Phrygia (Liv. 37.40, 43; App. Syr. 33, 36). In the following year (B. C. 189), after the conclusion n of peace with Rome, he was sent by Antiochus to the support of the consul Cn. Manlius, and not only furnished him with abundant supplies of corn, but rendered him active assistance on more than one occasion during his expedition against the Galatians. (Liv. 38.13, 15.) On the death of Antiochus III. in B. C. 187, Seleucus ascended the throne without opposition. But the defeat of his father by the Romans, and the ignominious peace which followed it, had greatly di
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Theaete'tus (search)
Theaete'tus （*Qeai/thtos), a Rhodian, who was one of the leaders of the party in his native city favourable to the Roman cause. He is first mentioned as accompanying Philophron on an embassy to the ten Roman deputies, who after the defeat of Antiochus settled the affairs of Asia, B. C. 189. (Plb. 23.3.) During the war between the Romans and Perseus, his name is again repeatedly associated with that of Philophron : their efforts to oppose all concessions to the Macedonian king and his partisans, have been already related. [PHILOPHRON.] Hence when the defeat of Perseus gave the decided preponderance to the Roman party, the Rhodians hastened to appoint Theaetetus their admiral, an office of the highest rank in that naval republic, and at the same time sent him as their ambassador to Rome, to intercede in favour of his native city. But the advanced age of their deputy frustrated their intentions : Theaetetus, who was above 80 years old, dying at Rome before the senate had come to a decis
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
en freemen in his province, and of having in his petition for the triumph invented many false battles, and exaggerated the number of the enemy that had been slain (Liv. 34.54, 55, 35.3, 11, 20, 21, 36.38, 38.46; Gel. 10.3, 13.24; Meyer, Oratorum Romanorum Fragmenta, pp. 40-44, 2d ed. ). There was also an oration of Cato intitled De suis Virtutibus contra Thermum, which is cited by Festus (pp. 182, 234), and other grammarians. Meyer (Ibid. p. 45, foll.) supposes that Cato accused Thermus in B. C. 189, and that this oration was spoken in this year; but this is improbable, as we know that Thermus served under Scipio Asiaticus in this year in the war against Antiochus. He and his brother Lucius were sent by Scipio to receive the oath of Antiochus to the treaty which was concluded at the end of the war. In the course of the same year he was nominated by the senate one of the ten commissioners to settle the affairs of Asia. He was killed in the following year, B. C. 188, while fighting unde
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Thermus, Minu'cius 2. L. Minucius Thermus, brother of the preceding, served under Scipio Asiaticus, and along with his brother received the oath of Antiochus to the treaty concluded in B. C. 189. In B. C. 178 he served as legatus under the consul A. Manlius Vulso, in Istria. (Plb. 22.26; Liv. 41.8.)
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