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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Thea'rides
(*Qeari/dhs), a Syracusan, son of Hermocrates and brother of Dionysius the elder, tyrant of Syracuse.
He is first mentioned in B. C. 390, when he was appointed by Dionysius to succeed his brother Leptines in the command of the fleet.
The next year he commanded an expedition to the Liparaean islands, where he captured ten ships belonging to the Rhegians. Again in B. C. 388 he was chosen by his brother to conduct the magnificent procession which Dionysius sent to the Olympic festival. (Diod. xiv 102, 103, 109.) [E.H.B
Theri'machus
(*Qhri/maxos), was the Spartan harmost at Methymna in Lesbos, when the city was attacked by Thrasybulus, the Athenian, in B. C. 390. Therimachus gave battle to the enemy, and was defeated and slain.
These events are placed by Diodorus in B. C. 392. (Xen. Hell. 5.8. §§ 28, 29; Diod. 14.94.) [
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Vibula'nus
5. M. Fabius Vibulanus, Q. F. M. N., eldest son of No. 4, was consul B. C. 442 with Postumus Aebutius Elva Cornicen, in which year a colony was founded at Ardea. In B. C. 437 he served as legatus of the dictator Mam. Aemilius Mamercinus in the war against the Veientes and Fidenates. In B. C. 433 he was one of the consular tribunes; and in B. C. 431 he served as legatus of the dictator A. Postumius Tubertus in the great war against the Aequians and Volscians.
He lived till the capture of Rome by the Gauls, B. C. 390, where he is spoken of as pontifex maximus, and is said to have rehearsed the solemn formula, which was repeated after him by the aged senators who had resolved to await the entrance of the Gauls into the city, and who accordingly dedicated themselves to death. (Liv. 4.11; Diod. 12.34; Liv. 4.17, 19, 25 ; Diod. 12.58; Liv. 4.27, 28, 5.41.)