hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 50 results in 46 document sections:

1 2 3 4 5
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Verres married a sister of a Roman eques, Vettius Chilo (Verrin. 2.3. 71, 72), by whom he had a son, whom, at fifteen years of age, he admitted as the spectator and partner of his vices (lb. 9. 68 ; Pseudo Ascon. in loc.), and a daughter, who was married at the time of her accompanying Verres to Sicily. (Sen. Suas. p. 43, Bip. ed.; Lactant. Div. Inst. 2.4.) Prosecution of Verres by Cicero The trial of Verres was a political as well as a judicial cause. From the tribunate of the Gracchi (B. C. 133-123), when the judicia were transferred to the equites, to the dictatorship of Sulla (B. C. 81-79), who restored them to the senate, there had been an eager contest at Rome for the judicial power. The equites and the senators had proved equally corrupt, and the Marian party, supported by the Italians and the provincials, clamoured loudly for a reform of the courts. Verres was a criminal whose condemnation might justify Sulla's law, whose acquittal would prove the unfitness of the senate fo
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Vespillo (search)
Vespillo the name of a family of the Lucretia gens. 1. Lucretius Vespillo, aedile B. C. 133, is said to have thrown the corpse of Tib. Gracchus into the Tiber and thus to have obtained the surname of Vespillo. (Aurel. Vict. de Vir. Ill. 64; respecting the Vespillones, see Dict. of Antiq. p. 559a, 2d ed.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Vi'llius (search)
Vi'llius 2. C. Villius, a friend of Tib. Gracchus, was cruelly put to death by the ruling party after the murder of Gracchus in B. C. 133. He is said to have been shut up in a vessel with snakes and vipers, which was the manner in which parricides were put to death. (Plut. TG 20.)
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller), Tiberius Gracchus (search)
Tiberius Gracchus Sempronius, son of the foregoing; a persuasive orator; friend of the people and helper of the poor and oppressed; murdered for attempting as tribune (133) to reform agrarian abuses and build up a class of small farmers, 1.76, 109; 2.80. his death applauded by Cicero, 2.43.
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller), Publius Scaevola (search)
Publius Scaevola Mucius, father of the pontifex maximus consul (133) and friend of Tiberius Gracchus, an expert in the pontifical law, 2.47.
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller), Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Minor (search)
Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Minor son of Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus, 1.116, 121. adopted son of Publius Africanus's son, 1.121. friend and pupil of Panaetius, 1.90. intimate friend of Laelius (q.v.) and devoted to literature; serious, earnest, 1.108. self-control, 2.76. a great soldier, 1.76, 116. at Pydna (168) with his father; captured and destroyed Carthage (146) and Numantia (133), 1.35; 2.76. a statesman of high ideals, a bitter rival and yet a friend of Quintus Metellus, 1.87.
1 2 3 4 5