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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lycon (search)
Lycon 2. A Syracusan, who, when the Zacynthian assassins had entered the house of Dion unarmed, and were in want of a weapon to despatch him, handed a dagger to one of them through the window, B. C. 353. (Plut. Dio 57; Diod. 16.31; Corn. Nep. Dion, 9.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mamerci'nus (search)
Mamerci'nus 8. L. Aemilius Mamercinius, L. F. L. N., Son of No. 7, was interrex in B. C. 353, and magister equitum to C. Julius Julus in B. C. 352. (Liv. 7.17, 21.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mauso'lus (search)
ds of his own friends. (Dem. de Rhod. Lib. pp. 191, 198.) Shortly after (B. C. 358) he joined with the Rhodians, Byzantians, and Chians in the war waged by them against the Athenians, known by the name of the Social War, of which indeed he was, according to Demosthenes, the prime mover and instigator, though we do not hear of his taking any farther part in it than sending a body of troops to assist in the defence of Chios. (Dem. 1. c.; Diod. 16.7.) He died, according to Diodorus (16.36) in B. C. 353, after a reign of twenty-four years, leaving no children, and was succeeded by his wife and sister Artemisia. The extravagant grief of the latter for his death, and the honours she paid to his memoryespecially by the erection of the costly monument, which was called from him the Mausoleum, and was accounted one of the seven wonders of the world-are well known. [ARTEMISIA.] On occasion of the consecration of that monument, a prize was proposed by Artemisia for the best panegyric of her husb
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Melano'pus (search)
himself the islands on the eastern coast of the Aegean. On their way they fell in with and captured a merchant ship of Naucratis, which was brought into the Peiraeeus, and condemned by the Athenians as an enemy's vessel. The prize-money, however, was retained by Melanopus and his colleagues; and, when the time drew near at which they would have to surrender it on pain of imprisonment, Timocrates proposed a law exempting public debtors from that penalty on their giving security for payment. A prosecution was hereupon instituted against Timocrates by Diodorus and Euctemon (private enemies of Androtion); and for them Demosthenes wrote the speech, still extant, which was delivered by Diodorus in B. C. 353. Before the trial came on, Melanopus and his colleagues paid the money. In the speech against Timocrates Melanopus is mentioned as having been guilty of treason, of embezzlement, of misconduct in an embassy to Egypt, and of injustice towards his own brothers. (Dem. c. Tim. p.740.) [E.E]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Memnon (search)
o the place, lie and Orontobates made their escape, and crossed over to Cos. Memnon now formed the design of carrying the war into Greece, and attacking Macedonia. Dareius had furnished him with large supplies of money. He collected a large force of mercenaries, and a fleet of 300 ships. At the head of this force he attacked and took Chios, and thence proceeded to Lesbos. Here he captured several towns without difficulty, but was delayed for a considerable time in the reduction of Mytilene. At this place he was taken ill and died, B. C. 333. His death was an irreparable loss to the Persian cause; for several Greek states, and in particular the Spartans, hearing of his success and intentions, were prepared to join him, had he carried the war into Greece. According to Polyaenus (5.44.1) he was some time or other engaged in hostilities with Leucon, king of Bosporus, who died B. C. 353. (Arrian, 1.12, 20-23, 2.1; Diod. 16.34, 52, 17.7, 18, 23, 24, 29, 31; Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. p. 284.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mna'seas (search)
Mna'seas （*Mnase/as). 1. A Phocian. who, on the death of Phayllus, B. C. 353, was appointed guardian to the young Phalaecus, the son of Onomarchus, and the successor of Phayllus in the supreme command of the Phocians in the Sacred War. Mnaseas was soon after slain in a nightbattle with the Thebans. He was perhaps the same person whose private quarrel with one Euthycrates about an heiress had, according to Aristotle, given occasion to the war. (Diod. 16.38; comp. Paus. 10.2; Arist. Polit. 5.4, ed. Bekk
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Onomarchus (search)
. He commanded a division of the Phocian army under Philomelus, in the action at Tithorea, in which the latter perished; and after the battle gathered together the remains of the Phocian army, with which he effected his retreat to Delphi. An assembly of the people was now held, in which Onomarchus strongly urged the prosecution of the war, in opposition to the counsels of the more moderate party, and succeeded in obtaining his own nomination to the chief command in the place of Philomelus, B. C. 353. He was, however, far from imitating the moderation of his predecessor: he confiscated the property of all those who were opposed to him, and squandered without scruple the sacred treasures of Delphi. The latter enabled him not only to assemble and maintain a large body of mercenary troops, but to spend large sums in bribing many of the leading persons in the hostile states; by which means he succeeded in prevailing on the Thessalians to abandon their allies, and take up a neutral position
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
58, Peticus was appointed dictator in consequence of the Gauls having penetrated through the Praenestine territory as far as Pedum. The dictator established himself in a fortified camp, but in consequence of the murmurs of the soldiers, who were impatient at this inactivity, he at length led them to battle against the Gauls, whom he eventually conquered, but not without difficulty. He obtained a triumph in consequence of this victory, and dedicated in the Capitol a considerable quantity of gold, which was part of the spoils. In B. C. 35-5 he was one of the interreges for holding the elections, and in the same year was elected consul a third time with a patrician colleague, M. Valeriuls Poplicola, in violation of the Licinian law. In B. C. 353 he was consul a fourth time with the same colleague as in his last consulship. In B. C. 351 he was interrex, and in the same year obtained the consulship for the fifth time with T. Quinctius Pennus Capitolinus. (Liv. 7.2, 7, 9, 12-15, 17-19, 22.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Phileus (search)
rm of the name : most of the modern writers prefer the form Pytheus. From the passages taken together we learn that he was the architect of two of the most magnificent buildings erected in Asia Minor, at one of the best periods of the architecture of that country, the Mausoleum, which he built in conjunction with SATYRUS, and the temple of Athena Polias, at Priene; and also that he was one of the chief writers on his art. The date of the erection of the Mausoleum was soon after 0l. 106. 4, B. C. 353/2, the year in which Mausolus died; that of the temple at Priene must have been about twenty years later, for we learn from an inscription that it was dedicated by Alexander (Ion. Antiq. vol. i. p. 12). This temple was, as its ruins still show, one of the most beautiful examples of the Ionic order. It was peripteral, and hexastyle, with propylaea, which have on their inner side, instead of Ionic pillars, pilasters, the capitals of which are decorated with gryphons in relief. Further Info
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ited at Athens, no suspicion of them, no apprehension of real danger appears to have been felt there; and even Demosthenes, in his speech against war with Persi (peri\ summoriw=n), delivered in B. C. 354, as also in that for the Megalopolitans (B. C. 353), makes no mention at all of the Macedonian power or projects (comp. Dem. Philipp. iii. p. 117; Clint. F. H. vol. ii. sub annis 353, 341.) In B. C. 354, the application made to Philip by Callias, the Chalcidian, for aid against Plutarchus, tyrans by CERSOBLEPTES, and the possession of which would be of the utmost importance to the Macedonian king in his struggle with Athens, even if we doubt whether he had yet looked beyond to a wider field of conquest in Asia. It was then perhaps in B. C. 353, that he marched as far westward as Maroneia, where Cersobleptes opened a negotiation with him for a joint invasion of the Chersonesus,--a design which was stopped only by the refusal of Amadocus to allow Philip a passage through his territory.
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