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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sulla (search)
pro Cluent. 34, de Leg. Agr. 1.4.) Soon after this Faustus accompanied Pompey into Asia, and was the first who mounted the walls of the temple of Jerusalem in B. C. 63, for which exploit he was richly rewarded. (J. AJ 14.4.4, B. J. 1.7.4.) In B. C. 60 he exhibited the gladiatorial games which his father in his last will had enjoined upon him, and at the same time he treated the people in the most sumptuous manner. In B. C. 54 he was quaestor, having been elected augur a few years before. In B. C. 52 he received from the senate the commission to rebuild the Curia Hostilia, which had been burnt down in the tumults following the murder of Clodius, and which was henceforward to be called the Curia Cornelia, in honour of Faustus and his father. The breaking out of the civil war prevented him from obtaining any of the higher dignities of the state. As the son of the dictator Sulla, and the son-in-law of Pompey, whose daughter he had married, he joined the aristocratical party. At the beginni
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
rdly a superior, unless it were Cicero himself. Servius was successively quaestor of the district or provincia of Ostia, in B. C. 74 (Cic. pro Mur. 8); aedilis curulis, B. C. 69; and during his praetorship, B. C. 65, he had the quaestio peculatus (pro Mur. 20). In his first candidateship for the consulship, B. C. 63, Servius was rejected, and Servius and Cato joined in prosecuting L. Murena, who was elected. Murena was defended by Cicero, Hortensius, and M. Crassus (Oratio pro Murena). In B. C. 52, as interrex, he named Pompeius Magnus sole consul. In B. C. 51, he was elected consul with M. Claudius Marcellus; and on this occasion Cato was an unsuccessful candidate. (Plut. Cato, 49.) There is no mention of any decided part that Servius took in the war between Caesar and Pompeius, but he appears to have been a partizan of Caesar, who, after the battle of Pharsalia, made him proconsul of Achaea, B. C. 46 or 45; and Sulpicius held this office at the time when Cicero addressed to him a l
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Torqua'tus, Ma'nlius 11. A. Manlius Torquatus, probably son of No. 10, was praetor in B. C. 52, when he presided at the trial of Milo for bribery. On the breaking out of the civil war he espoused the side of Pompey, and after the defeat of the latter retired to Athens, where he was living in exile in B. C. 45. He was an intimate friend of Cicero, who addressed four letters to him (ad Fam. 6.1-4) while he was in exile. (Ascon. in Cic. Mil. pp. 40, 54, ed. Orelli; Cic. Att. 5.1, 4, 21, 6.1, 7.14, 9.8, de Fin. 2.22.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Varro, Tere'ntius 7. M. Terentius Varro Gibba, in conjunction with Cicero, defended Sanfeius when he was accused of vis in B. C. 52. He was a young man, whom Cicero had trained in oratory; and in the civil war he passed over from Brundusium to Asia in order to carry a letter of Cicero's to Caesar. In B. C. 46, he was quaestor of M. Brutus in Cisalpine Gaul, to whom Cicero gave him a letter of recommendation. He died in the course of this year or the following. (Ascon. in Cic. Mil. p. 55, Orelli; Cic. Fam. 13.10, ad Att. 13.48.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Vera'tius (search)
Vera'tius or NERA'TIUS, P.FU'LVIUS, called by Cicero lectissimus homo, accused Milo in B. C. 52. (Cic. pro Flacc. 20; Ascon. in Mil. pp. 40, 54, ed. Orelli.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Vercingetorix (search)
Vercingetorix the celebrated chieftain of the Arverni, who carried on war with great ability against Caesar in B. C. 52. The history of this war, which occupies the seventh book of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic war, has been related elsewhere. [CAESAR, p. 548.] It is only necessary to mention here that after Vercingetorix fell into Caesar's hands on the capture of Alesia, he was kept in chains and subsequently taken to Rome, where he adorned the triumph of his conqueror in B. C. 45 and was afterwards put to death. (D. C. 40.41, 43.19; Plut. Caes. 27.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Vergasillaunus (search)
Vergasillaunus a chief of the Arverni and a consobrinus of Vercingetorix, was one of the generals of the latter in the war against Caesar in B. C. 52. He was defeated and taken prisoner in the great battle which was fought to relieve the at the siege of Alesia. (Caes. Gal. 7.76, 83, 88.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
C. Vibie'nus a senator, lost his life in the riots which took place at the burial of Clodius in B. C. 52. (Cic. pro Mil. 14; Ascon. in Mil. p. 33, Orelli.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Viridomarus (search)
Viridomarus 2. Or VIRDUMARUS, a chieftain of the Aedui, whom Caesar had raised from a low rank to the highest honour. He and Eporedorix came with the cavalry of the Aedui to the assistance of Caesar in his war against Vercingetorix in B. C. 52, and they at first used their influence to prevent the Aedui from joining the rest of the Gauls in the general revolt from Rome. Shortly afterwards, however, both Viridomarus and Eporedorix revolted themselves, but were much mortified when the Gauls chose Vercingetorix as their commander-in-chief, as they had hoped to obtain that honour for themselves. (Caes. Gal. 7.38-40, 54, 55, 63.)
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller), Marcus Scaurus (search)
Marcus Scaurus Aemilius, son of the preceding, stepson of Sulla, aedile (58) with extraordinary magnificence, 2.57. governor of Sardinia (56), which he plundered outrageously; successfully defended by Cicero and Hortensius; later (52) condemned and banished, 1.138. palace on the Palatine, 1.138.
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