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Appian, Mithridatic Wars (ed. Horace White), CHAPTER XI (search)
Mithridates began to think of flight. He fled by night, going himself with his fleet to Parius, and his army by land to Lampsacus. Many lost their lives in crossing the river Æsepus, which was then greatly swollen, and where Lucullus attacked them. Thus the Cyziceans escaped the vast siege preparations of the king by means of their own bravery and of the famine that Lucullus brought upon the enemy. They instituted games Y.R. 681 in his honor, which they celebrate to this day, called the B.C. 73 Lucullean games. Mithridates sent ships for those who had taken refuge in Lampsacus, where they were besieged by Lucullus, and carried them away, together with the Lampsaceans themselves. Leaving 10,000 picked men and fifty ships under Varius (the general sent to him by Sertorius), and Alexander the Paphlagonian, and Dionysius the eunuch, he sailed with the bulk of his force for Nicomedia. A storm came up in which many of both divisions perished. When Lucullus had accomplished this resul
Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White), THE CIVIL WARS, CHAPTER XIII (search)
ich had fallen and then attacked his enemies who were encamped around the castle of Calagurris and killed 3000 of them. And so this year went by in Spain. A letter from Pompey to the Senate describing his desperate condition and threatening, unless supplied with money, to return to Italy, with Sertorius probably in close pursuit, is preserved in the writings of Sallust. Y.R. 681 In the following year the Roman generals plucked B.C. 73 up rather more courage and advanced in an audacious manner against the towns that adhered to Sertorius, drew many away from him, assaulted others, and were much elated by their success. No great battle was fought, but again Schweighäuser detects a lacuna here which he fills with the words "there were skirmishes here and there." . . . until the following year, when they advanced again even more audaciously. Sertorius was now Y.R. 682 evidently misled by a g
Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White), THE CIVIL WARS, CHAPTER XIV (search)
ar with Spartacus--He defeats the Romans in Several Engagements--Crassus appointed to the Command--He defeats and kills Spartacus--End of the War--Rivalry of Pompey and Crassus--Their Reconciliation Y.R. 681 At the same time Spartacus, a Thracian by birth, who had once served as a soldier with the Romans, but had since been a prisoner and sold for a gladiator, and was in the gladiatorial training-school at Capua, persuaded about B.C. 73 seventy of his comrades to strike for their own freedom rather than for the amusement of spectators. They overcame the guards and ran away. They armed themselves with clubs and daggers that they took from people on the roads and took refuge on Mount Vesuvius. There many fugitive slaves and even some freemen from the fields joined Spartacus, and he plundered the neighboring country, having for subordinate officers two gladiators named Œnomaus and Crixus. As h
Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 7 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.), chapter 9 (search)
returning thence, the men of Tibur closed their gates against them. Many complaints had before this been bandied back and forth between the two peoples, but this new offence made the Romans finally determine that after sending the fetials to demand redress they would declare war on the Tiburtine people. It is well established that Titus Quinctius Poenus was dictator that year and that Servius Cornelius Maluginensis was master of the horse. Licinius MacerTribune of the plebs in 73 B.C. and author of annals written from the democratic standpoint (Introd. p. xxix). states that the appointment was for the purpose of holding an election and was made by Licinius the consul, who, because his colleague was in haste to hold the election before the campaign, so that he might succeed himself in the consulship, felt obliged to thwart his evil designs. But the praise which he seeks to bestow on his own family makes the testimony of Licinius less weighty, and since I find no ment
Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 45 (ed. Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D.), chapter 27 (search)
f kings sought passage to Troy for his ships by bringing his daughter as a victim to the altar. Thence Paulus went to Oropus in Attica, where an ancient prophet is worshipped as a god, and there is an old temple made charming by springs and streams around it.The ancient prophet was Amphiaraüs, of the Seven against Thebes. His sanctuary was established, according to archaeological evidence, near the end of the fifth century, and became a modest spa, which was favoured by the Romans; in 73 B.C., Amphiaraüs was officially recognized as a god by the consuls, with Cicero's assistance, and his lands were therefore tax-exempt, see Pausanias I. xxxiv and Fraser's note. Thence he went to Athens, which is also replete with ancient glory, but nevertheless has many notable sights, the Acropolis, the harbours, the walls joining Piraeus to the city, the shipyards, the monuments of great generals, and the statues of gods and men —statuesB.C. 167 notable for every sort of material and artistry.
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero , Allen and Greenough's Edition., Life of Cicero. (search)
ment of Verres for plunder and oppression in Sicily. Six Orations (1) Actio Prima: The general charge. (2) De Praetura Urbana: earlier political crimes of Verres. (3) De Jurisdictione Siciliana: his administration in Sicily. (4) De Frumento: peculation and fraud as to the supplies of grain. (5) De Signis: the plunder of works of art. (6) De Supliciis: cruelties of his government. 69Pro M. FONTEIODefence of Fonteius' administration of Gaul during Pompey's campaign against Sertorius, about B.C. 73. 69Pro A. CAECINADefence against Aebutius of Caecina's right to an estate received by inheritance from his wife Caesennia, widow of a rich money-lender, M. Fulcinius. 66Pro LEGE MANILIA, vel De IMPERIO CN. POMPEI Defence of the proposal of Manilius to invest Pompey with the command of the war against Mithridates. Pro A. CLUENTIO HABITODefence of Cluentius against the charge of poisoning his stepfather Oppianicus, brought by the younger Oppianicus, instigated by Sassia, the mother of Clue
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter V: ad Atticum 1.16 (search)
deration, and de summa republica dicere. Cf. Willems, II. 186. ille locus, etc., the following point was developed by me with telling effect. Lentulum: Catiline's fellow-conspirator, who was accused de peculatu in 60 B.C. , and at a later date underwent a similar experience. Catilinam: tried on a charge of 'repetundae' in 65 B.C. (cf. intr. to Ep. II.). He was again on trial, in 64 B.C. , for the murder of M. Marius Gratidianus. No mention is made here of the charge of incest brought in 73 B.C. against the Vestal Fabia, sister of Cicero's wife Terentia, in which Catiline was implicated. Cicero regarded the charge as unfounded, and wished, furthermore, to spare the good name of Terentia's family. immissum: properly used of wild beasts. Catiline is Compared to a wolf, Cic. in Cat. 2.2. reservarunt: Cicero addressed Catiline in 64 B.C. in almost the same language: O miser, qui non sentias illo iudicio te non absolutum, verum ad aliquod severius iudicium ac maius supplicium reserva
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter VII: ad Atticum 2.19 (search)
ing the taxes (Att. 1.17.9; 2.16.2) was calculated to win their favor. Capuam: Pompey was at Capua as a member of the commission appointed under Caesar's agrarian laws. Rosciae legi: the lex Roscia, proposed by L. Roscius Otho in 67 B.C. , set apart 14 rows of seats for the knights immediately behind the orchestra, where the senators sat. This law had been threatened in Cicero's consulship also; cf. Att. 2.1.3 and Mommsen, St. N. III. 520. frumentariae: the lex Terentia et Cassia passed in 73 B.C. fixed a low price for corn. Cf. Cic. Verr. 2.3.163, 174. The repeal of this law would be aimed at the poor people, as the repeal of the Roscian law would injure the equites. quam prae sidio: i.e. than by power of resistance. noster: the possessive is often thus used ironically in the letters of one whom the writer dislikes or despises. Cf. Intr. 88b. impendet negotium: Clodius wished to take vengeance upon Cicero for the latter's evidence on the trial for sacrilege, and for the discomfitu
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Anti'ochus Asiaticus (search)
Anti'ochus Xiii. or Anti'ochus Asiaticus king of SYRIA, surnamed ASIATICUS (*)Asiatiko/s), and on coins Dionysus Philopator Callinicus (*Dio/nusos *Filopa/twr *Kalli/nikos), was the son of Antiochus X. and Selene, an Egyptian princess. He repaired to Rome during the time that Tigranes had possession of Syria, and passed through Syria on his return during the government of Verres. (B. C. 73-71.) On the defeat of Tigranes in B. C. 69, Lucullus allowed Antiochus Asiaticus to take possession of the kingdom; but he was deprived of it in B. C. 65 by Pompey, who reduced Sicily to a Roman province. In this year the Seleucidae ceased to reign. (Appian, App. Syr. 49, 70; Cic. in Verr. 4.27, 28, 30; Justin, 40.2.) Some writers suppose, that Antiochus Asiaticus afterwards reigned as king of Commagene, but there are not sufficient reasons to support this opinion. [ANTIOCHUS I., king of Commagene.] For the history and chronology of the Syrian kings in general, see Fröhlich, Annales Syria, &c.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Apro'nius (search)
Apro'nius 2. Q. Apronius, the chief of the decumani in Sicily during the government of Verres (B. C. 73-71), was one of the most distinguished for rapacity and wickedness of every kind. (Cic. Ver. 2.44, 3.9, 12, 21, 23.)
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