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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sci'pio (search)
Sci'pio 22. P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica, that is, " Scipio with the pointed nose," was the son of Cn. Scipio Calvus, who fell in Spain in B. C. 211. [No. 10.] He is first mentioned by Livy in B. C. 204 as a young man who was not yet of sufficient age to obtain the quaestorship, but was nevertheless judged by the senate to be the best citizen in the state, and was therefore sent to Ostia along with the Roman matrons to receive the statue of the Idaean Mother, which had been brought from Pessinus. In B. C. 200 he was one of the triumvirs, for the purpose of settling new colonists at Venusia; he was curule aedile in B. C. 196, praetor in 194, and in this year as well as in the following fought with great success in Further Spain, which was assigned to him as his province. But, notwithstanding these victories, and the powerful support of his cousin, the great Africanus, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the consulship for B. C. 192, and did not obtain it till the following year, when h
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Scopas (search)
me to the city. Meanwhile, however, he neglected the defence of Aetolia itself, and left it open to Philip to obtain important advantages on the side of Acarnania (Id. 4.27, 62, 5.11). The next year (218) he was sent by Dorimachus (who had succeeded him in the supreme command) with a mercenary force to the assistance of the Eleans (Id. 5.3), but we have no farther account of his operations in that year, or during the remainder of the Social War. His name does not again occur until the year B. C. 211, when we find him again holding the office of general, and in that capacity presiding in the assembly of the Aetolians, which concluded the alliance with the Roman praetor, M. Valerius Laevinus. The conquest of Acarnania was the bait held out to allure the Aetolians into this league, and Scopas immediately assembled his forces for the invasion of that country. But the determined resistance of the Acarnanians themselves, and the advance of Philip to their relief, rendered his efforts aborti
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Se'ppius Le'sius held the office of meddix tuticus at Capua, in B. C. 211, being the last of the Campanians who obtained this dignity. (Liv. 26.6, 13.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Se'ptimus, L. Ma'rcius （Liv. 32.2), usually called by Livy simply L. Marcius, was a Roman eques, and served for many years under Cn. Scipio in Spain. On the defeat and death of the two Scipios in Spain, in B. C. 211, L. Marcius, who had already gained great distinction by his military abilities, was called by the soldiers to take the command of the surviving troops, and by his prudence and energy preserved them from total destruction. He appears indeed to have gained some advantage over the Carthaginian army commanded by Hasdrubal, son of Gisco, which the Roman annalists magnified into a brilliant victory. The details of the history of the Roman war in Spain are not deserving of much credit, as has been already remarked [Vol. III. p. 742, a.]; and on this particular occasion the authorities which Livy followed appear to have indulged in more than their usual mendacity. A memorial of his victory was preserved in the Capitol, under the name of the Marcian shield, containing a likeness
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sosis (search)
turned their arms against the traitors Hippocrates and Epicydes, who had taken refuge at Herbessus. Their object was, however, again frustrated by the mutiny of their mercenary troops, who declared in favour of the two Carthaginians, and the latter, following up their advantage, quickly made themselves masters of Syracuse itself. (Id. ib. 30-32.) Sosis on this occasion escaped the fate of most of his colleagues, and fled for refuge to the camp of Marcellus, with whom he continued throughout the longprotracted siege of his native city. In the course of these operations he rendered important assistance to the Roman general by carrying on negotiations with the Syracusan officers, and by leading the party which effected the surprise of the Epipolae. For these services he was rewarded by a conspicuous place in the ovation of Marcellus, B. C. 211, besides obtaining the privileges of a Roman citizen and an extensive grant of lands in the Syracusan territory. (Id. 25.25, 26.21, 30.). [E.H.B]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Tau'rea, Jube'llius a Campanian of high rank and distinguished bravery in the second Punic war. He fought with Claudius Asellus in single combat in B. C. 215, and put an end to his own life on the capture of Capua by the Romans in B. C. 211. (Liv. 23.8, 46, 47, 26.15; comp. Cic. in Pis. 11.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Vi'bius Vi'rrius of Capua, induced his countrymen to revolt from the Romans and to espouse the cause of Hannibal after the battle of Cannae, B. C. 216. When Capua, after its long siege by the Romans, could hold out no longer, B. C. 211, Vibius recommended the senators to put themselves to death, rather than fall into the power of the Romans. Twenty-seven of the senators resolved to follow his advice, and accompanied him to his house, where after a sumptuous banquet they all took poison. (Liv. 23.6, 26.13, 14.)
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