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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Servi'lius (search)
Servi'lius 1. C. Servilius, P. F., was one of the triumvirs for settling the colonies of Placentia and Cremona, and was taken prisoner by the Boii in the first year of the second Punic war, B. C. 218. He remained in captivity for fifteen years, and was eventually released by his own son, the consul C. Servilius, in B. C. 203. (Liv. 21.25, 30.19.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Servi'lius (search)
adel of Tarentum, which was then besieged by Hannibal. He succeeded in forcing his way into the harbour, and supplying the garrison with the corn. In B. C. 210 he was elected pontifex in the place of T. Otacilius Crassus, in B. C. 209 plebeian aedile, and in B. C. 208 curule aedile. In the last year, while holding the office of curule aedile, he was appointed magister equitum by the dictator T. Manlius Torquatus. He was praetor B. C. 206, when he obtained Sicily as his province, and consul B. C. 203 with Cn. Servilius Caepio. Livy, in speaking of his consulship (29.38, 30.1), as well as subsequently, calls him C. Servilius Geminus ; but in the Capitoline Fasti his name is given C. SERVILIUS C. F. P. NEPOS. It is therefore probable that his cognomen Geminus is a mistake. C. Servilius obtained Etruria as his province, and front thence marched into Cisalpine Gaul, where he released his father from captivity, as has been already related. Livy mentions that a rogatio was proposed to the pe
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Se'xtius (search)
Se'xtius 2. M. Sextius Sabinus, plebeian aedile B. C. 203, and praetor in the following year, B. C. 202, when he obtained Gaul as his province. (Liv. 30.26, 27.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), So'pater (search)
So'pater 2. A general of Philip V., king of Macedonia, crossed over to Africa in B. C. 203, with a body of 4000 troops and some money, in order to assist the Carthaginians. He was taken prisoner by the Romans, together with many of his soldiers, and Philip sent an embassy to Rome to solicit their release. (Liv. 30.26, 42.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Syphax (search)
acuation of Italy by Hannibal. He in consequence took advantage of the long protracted operations of the siege of Utica, during which his own army and that of Hasdrubal were encamped in the immediate neighbourhood of Scipio, to open negotiations with the Roman general. These were protracted throughout great part of the winter; but Scipio, while he pretended to lend a willing ear to the overtures of the Numidian king, secretly entertained wholly different designs, and early in the spring of B. C. 203, having abruptly broken off the treaty, he suddenly attacked the camp of Syphax in the night. and set fire to the straw huts under which his soldiers were sheltered. The Numidians were taken completely by surprise, and their whole army perished in the conttagration, or was put to the sword in the confusion that ensued. The Carthaginian camp shared the same fate. (Plb. 14.1-5; Liv. 30.3-7 Appian. Pun. 13, 14, 17-22 Zonar. 9.12.) Syphax himself with a few fugitives, made his escape to Numidi
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ta'ppulus, Vi'llius 2. P. Villius Tappulus, plebeian aedile, B. C. 204, and praetor B. C. 203, with Sicily as his province. In B. C. 201, he was one of the decemviri for assigning some of the public land in Samninum and Apulia to the soldiers who had served under P. Scipio in Africa, and in B. C. 199 he was consul with L. Cornelius Lentulus. In his consulship he had the conduct of the war against Philip in Macedonia, but he performed nothing of importance. In the following year he served as legatus under his successor T. Quintius Flamininus, and on the conquest of Philip in B. C. 196, he was one of the ten commissioners appointed by the senate to determine with Flamininus upon the conditions of the peace. After concluding the peace with Philip, Tappulus and one of his colleagues went on a mission to Antiochus in Asia. In B. C. 193 he was again sent to Antiochus, and in the following year was also one of the ambassadors sent to Greece. (Liv. 29.38, 30.1, 31.4, 49, 32.3, 6, 28, 33.24,
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Treme'llius (search)
Treme'llius 1. Cn. Tremellius Flac'cus, of quaestorian rank in B. C. 205, was sent on an embassy, in that year, with four colleagues, to king Attalus, and brought back with him the sacred stone, which represented the Mother of the Gods. He was plebeian aedile in B. C. 203 and praetor in 202, when he obtained Sicily as his province. (Liv. 29.11, 30.26. 27.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tubulus (search)
Tubulus 1. C. Hostilius Tubulus, praetor urbanus B. C. 209, was stationed in Etruria in the following year (B. C. 208) as propraetor with the command of two legions. He received orders from the senate to keep an especial watch upon Arretium, which was suspected of an inclination to revolt to Hannibal, and he therefore took away as hostages one hundred and twenty children of the senators of the town. Next year (B. C. 207) Tubulus was sent from Etruria to Tarentum, and in the course of the same year from the latter place to Capua; but while marching to Capua he fell upon Hannibal's army, killed four thousand men, and took nine standards. He continued in the command at Capua till the end of B. C. 203. (Liv. 27.6, 7, 11, 22, 24, 35, 40, xxviii, 10, 29.13.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
o Cass. Fragm. xlix. p. 24, Reim.) His conduct was appreciated by the senate and the people, and his defeat was forgotten in the services he had lately rendered. On his return to the city all classes went out to meet him, and the senate returned him thanks because he had not despaired of the commonwealth. (Liv. 22.25, 26, 35-61; Plb. 3.106-116; Plut. Fab. 14-18; Appian, Annib. 17-26; Zonar. 9.1; V. Max. 3.4.4; Oros. 4.16; Eutrop. 3.10 ; Cie. Brut. 19, Cato, 20.) Varro continued to be employed in Italy for several successive years in important military commands till nearly the close of the Punic war. In B. C. 203, he was one of the three ambassadors sent to Philip in Macedonia, and three years afterwards (B. C. 200) was again sent on an embassy to Africa to arrange the terms of peace with Vermina, the son of Syphax. On his return in the course of the same year, Varro was appointed one of the triumvirs for settling new colonists at Venusia. (Liv. 23.32, 25.6, 27.35, 30.26, 31.11, 49.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Varus, Quinti'lius 4. P. Quintilius Varus, praetor B. C. 203, with Ariminum as his province. In conjunction with the proconsul M. Cornelius he defeated Mago, the brother of Hannibal, in the territory of the Insubrian Gauls. [Vol. II. p. 904a.] (Liv. 29.38, 30.1, 18.)
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