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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
twithstanding this alliance, we find him, during the war between Seleucus and Antiochus Hierax, taking part against the former, whom he defeated in a great battle, in which Seleucus lost 20,000 of his troops, and narrowly escaped with his own life. (Euseb. Arm. p. 165.) In B. C. 222, Mithridates gave his daughter Laodice in marriage to Antiochus III.: another of his daughters, also named Laodice, was married about the same time to Achaens, the cousin of Antiochus. (Plb. 5.43, 74, 8.22.) In B. C. 220 Mithridates made war upon the wealthy and powerful city of Sinope, but it appears that he was unable to reduce it, and it did not fall into the power of the kings of Pontus until long afterwards. (Id. 4.56.) At an earlier period we find him vying with the other monarchs of Asia in sending magnificent presents to the Rhodians, after the subversion of their city by an earthquake. (Id. 5.90.) The date of his death is unknown, but Clinton assigns it conjecturally to about B. C. 190. He was su
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Molon (search)
his attempts to pass that river; but Xenoetas, the general of Antiochus, who was now sent against him with a large force, having ventured to cross it in his turn, was surprised by Molon, and his whole army cut to pieces. The rebel satrap now crossed the Tigris, and made himself master of the city of Seleuceia together with the whole of Babylonia and Mesopotamia. But the formidable character which the insurrection had thus assumed, at length determined Antiochus to march in person against the rebels. After wintering at Nisibis, he crossed the Tigris, B. C. 220, and advanced southwards against Molon, who marched front Babylon to meet him. A pitched battle ensued, in which the desertion of the left wing of the rebel army at once decided the victory in favour of the king. Molon himself put an end to his own life, to avoid falling into the hands of the eneny: but his body was crucified by order of Antiochus, or rather of his minister Hermeias. (Plb. 5.40-54; Trog. Pomp. Prol. xxx.) [E.H.B]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nicippus (search)
Nicippus 3. One of the ephors of the Messenians in B. C. 220. With some other leading men amongst them, who held oligarchical views, he was a strenuous supporter of peace, even to the detriment of the public interests. When the envoys from the congress held at Corinth, at which war had been resolved on against the Aetolians, came to Messenia, Nicippus and his party, contrary to the feelings and wishes of the people generally, by means of some degree of compulsion got the reply returned to the envoys, that the Messenians would not enter into the war until Phigalea, a town on their borders, had been wrested from the Aetolians. Polybius, in a digression, finds great fault with the policy of this faction among the Messenians. (Plb. 4.31; Thirlwall, Hist. of Greece, vol. viii. p. 233, &c.) [C.P.M]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Omias (search)
Omias （*)Wmi/as), a Lacedaemonian, was the chief of the ten commissioners who were sent to Philip V., king of Macedon, tlen at Tegea (B. C. 220), to give assurances of fidelity, and to represent the recent tumult at Sparta. in which the Ephor Adeimantus and others of the Macedonian party had been murdered, as having originated with Adeimantus himself. Philip, having heard Oenias and his colleagues, rejected the advice of some of his counsellors, to deal severely with Sparta, and sent Petraeus, one of his friends, to accompany the commissioners back, and to exhort the Lacedaemonians to abide steadfastly by their alliance with him. (Plb. 4.22-25.) [E.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
M. Pacu'vius one of the most celebrated of the early Roman tragedians, was born about B. C. 220, since he was fifty years older than the poet Accius or Attius (Cic. Brut. 64), who was born in B. C. 170 [ACCIUS]. This agrees with the statement of Jerome (in Euseb. Chron. Olymp. 156. 3) that Pacuvius flourished about B. C. 154, since we know from various sources that Pacuvius attained a great age, and accordingly the time understood by the indefinite term flourished may properly be placed in B. C. 154, though Pacuvius was then about sixty-five years old. Jerome further relates that Pacuvius was almost ninety years of age at the time of his death, which would therefore fall about B. C. 130. Pacuvius was a native of Brundisium, and accordingly a countryman of Ennius, with whom he was connected by ties of blood, and whom he is also said to have buried. According to the accounts of most ancient writers he was the son of the sister of Ennius, and this is more probable than the statement of
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Papus (search)
hey were obliged to fight, and though they had every disadvantage on their side, the battle was long contested. One of the consuls, Regulus, fell in the engagement; but the Gauls were at length totally defeated with great slaughter. Forty thousand of the enemy are said to have perished and ten thousand to have been taken prisoners, among whom was one of their kings, Concolitanns. Aemilius followed up his victory by marching through Liguria and invading the country of the Boii, which he laid waste in every direction. After remaining there a few days he returned to Rome and triumphed. (Polyb. ii. 23-31; Oros. 4.13; Eutrop. 3.5; Zonar. 8.20; Flor. 2.4; Appian, Celt. 2.) Aemilius Papus was censor B. C. 220, with C. Flaminius, two years before the breaking out of the second Punic War. In the census of that year there were 270,213 citizens. (Liv. Epit. 20, 23.22.) In B. C. 216 Papus was one of the triumviri, who were appointed in that year on account of the dearth of money. (Liv. 23.23).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pa'sias (search)
Pa'sias an eminent Greek painter, brother of the modeller Aegineta, and disciple of Erigonus, who had been originally colour-grinder to the painter Nealces (Plin. Nat. 35.11. s. 40.41). He belonged to the Sicyonian school, and flourished about B. C. 220. [AEGINETA; ERIGONUS; NEALCES.] [P.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Petraeus (search)
Petraeus （*Petrai=os), a friend of Philip V., king of Macedonia, who was sent by that monarch to Sparta in B. C. 220, to receive the submission of the Lacedaemonians, and confirm them in their allegiance to Macedonia. We subsequently find him commanding a military force in Thessaly, where he successfully opposed the invasion of that country by the Aetolian general Dorimachus, B. C. 218. (Plb. 4.24, 5.17.) [E.H.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Philippus V. (search)
s one of the ablest and most eminent of the Macedonian monarchs. It appears that he was born in the year B. C. 237, and he was thus only eight years old at the death of his father Demetrius. The sovereign power was consequently assumed by his uncle Antigonus Doson, who, though he certainly ruled as king rather than merely as guardian of his nephew, was faithful to the interests of Philip, whom he regarded as his natural successor, and to whom he transferred the sovereignty at his death, in B. C. 220, to the exclusion of his own children. (Plb. 2.45, 70, 4.2; Paus. 8.8.9; Just. 28.4; Porphyr. ap. Euseb. Arm. p. 158.) He was careful however to appoint friends of his own to all the more important offices of the state; one of whom, Apelles, bore the title of guardian of the young king (Plb. 4.87), though the latter seems to have in fact assumed the administration of affairs into his own hands from the very beginning of his reign. The prudent and vigorous administration of Antigonus had gr
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Philo, Vetu'rius 1. L. Veturius Post. N. Philo, L. F., was consul B. C. 220, with C. Lutatius Catulus, two years before the commencement of the second Punic war. The two consuls are stated to have advanced as far as the Alps, and to have gained many people for the Romans without fighting; but we have no particulars of their expedition. In the second year of the Punic war, B. C. 217, Philo was appointed dictator for the purpose of holding the comitia, and in B. C. 210 he was censor with P. Licinius Crassus Dives, and died while he held this office. (Zonar. 8.20, p. 405a.; Liv. 22.33, 27.6).
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