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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
T. Lafre'nius the name of one of the leaders of the allies in the Marsic war, B. C. 90. He is called by other writers Afranius. [AFRANIUS, No. 8.]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
M. Lampo'nius a Lucanian, was one of the principal captains of the Italians in the war of the allies with Rome, B. C. 90-88. He commanded in his native province at the breaking out of the war, since he drove P. Licinius Crassus [CRASSUS, LICINIUS, No. 14] with great loss into Grumentum. (Frontin. Strat. 2.4, 16.) In the last war with Sulla, B. C. 83-2, when the Samnites and Lucanians had become the allies of the Marian party at Rome, Lamponius was the companion of Pontius of Telesia in his march upon the capital. After victory finally declared for Sulla at the Colline gate, Lamponius disappeared with the herd of fugitives. (Appian, App. BC 1.40, 41, 90, 93; Plut. Sull. 29; Flor. 3.21; Eutrop. 5.8.) *)Apw/nios in Diodorus (xxxvii. Eclog. i.) is a misreading for Lamponius. [W.B.D]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Lupus, Ruti'lius 1. P. Rutilius Lupus, L. F. L. N., consul, with L. Julius Caesar, in B. C. 90, the year in which the Social or Marsic war broke out. [CAESAR, No. 9.] While his colleague was engaged against the Samnites, Lupus was to prosecute the war against the Marsi. He had chosen as his legate Marius, who was his relation, but he refused to listen to the advice of the veteran, who recommended him to accustom his soldiers to a little more training before he ventured to fight a battle. The enemy had taken up their position on the Liris under the command of Vettius Scato. Lupus divided his army into two bodies, one under his own command and the other under that of Marius, and threw two bridges across the river without experiencing any opposition from the enemy. Vettius Scato, with the main body of his forces, encamped opposite Marius, but during the night he concealed a strong detachment in some broken ground near the bridge of Lupus. Accordingly, when Lupus crossed the river on the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ma'gius (search)
Ma'gius 3. MINATIUS MAGIUS ASCULANENSIS, grandson of No. 1, and atavus of the historian Velleius Paterculus, distinguished himself in the Social or Marsic war (B. C. 90) by his fidelity to the Romans. He levied a legion among the Hirpini, and was of no small assistance to T. Didius and L. Sulla. So great were his services, that the Roman people bestowed upon him the Roman franchise, and elected two of his sons to the praetorship. (Vell. 2.16.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ma'ncia, He'lvius a Roman orator (about B. C. 90), who was remarkably ugly, and whose name is recorded chiefly in consequence of a laugh being raised against him on account of his deformity by C. Julius Caesar Strabo [CAESAR, No. 10], who was opposed to him on one occasion in some law-suit. (Cic. de Orat. 2.66; Quint. Inst. 6.3.38; Plin. Nat. 35.4 : the last writer mentions the orator Crassus as the person who raised the laugh against Mancia.) Cicero further relates a smart saying of Mancia on another occasion (de Orat. 2.68).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
6. M. Claudius Marcellus, called by Cicero, for distinction's sake, the father of Aeserninus. (Brut. 36.) We have no account of his connection with the main branch of the Marcelli, the family of the conqueror of Syracuse: the pedigree, as made out by Drumann, though not in itself improbable, is wholly without authority. He is first mentioned as serving under Marius in Gaul in B. C. 102, when he bore an important part in the defeat of the Teutones near Aquae Sextiae. (Plut. Marc. 20, 21.) In B. C. 90 his name occurs as one of the lieutenants of L. Julius Caesar in the Marsic war: and it appears that after the defeat of the consul by Vettius Cato, Marcellus threw himself, with a body of troops, into the strong fortress of Aesernia in Samnium, where he held out for a considerable time, but was at length compelled to surrender for want of provisions. (Appian, App. BC 1.40, 41; Liv. Epit. lxxiii.) It is doubtless from some circumstance connected with this siege that his son derived the surn
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ma'rius (search)
2. The disappointment which Marius felt at losing his influence in the state was still further exasperated by the growing popularity and power of Sulla; and when Bocchus erected in the capitol gilded figures, representing the surrender of Jugurtha to Sulla, Marius was so inflamed with rage, that he resolved to pull them down by force. Sulla was making preparations to resist him; and both parties would probably have come to open violence, had not the Social War broken out just at that time (B. C. 90). This war required all the services of all the generals that Rome possessed, and, accordingly, both Marius and Sulla were actively employed in it. But although Marius showed great military abilities in the manner in which he conducted his share of the war, yet he was considered to be over cautious and too slow; and his achievements were thrown into the shade by the superior energy and activity of Sulla. Marius was now in his sixty-seventh year: his body had grown stout and unwieldy, and he
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Messalla (search)
Messalla 5. -- VALERIUS MESSALLA was a legatus of the consul P. Rutilius lupus at the breaking out of the Marsic or Social War, B. C. 90. (Appian. B. C. 1.40.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus (search)
tances, we are led to conclude that they were brothers and not first-cousins. The only difficulty in this supposition is, that they both bear the praenomen Quintus; but the ingenious hypothesis of Manutius (ad Cic. l. c ) removes this difficulty. He supposes that the elder Nepos [No. 16] may have had two sons, one called Quintus and the other perhaps Lucius: that the latter, the subject of this notice, was adopted by the Q. Metellus Celer, who is mentioned by Cicero as one of the orators in B. C. 90, and that he received in consequence the praenomen Quintus and the cognomen Celer. Manutius further supposes that after the death of the elder son Quintus, the wife of Nepos bore him a third son, to whom he again gave the names of Quintus and Nepos. This supposition accounts not only for the two brothers bearing the same praenomen, but also for the younger, and not the elder, having the cognomen of his father. In B. C. 66, Metellus Celer served as legate in the army of Pompey in Asia, an
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Mithridates Eupator or Mithridates Magnus or Mithridates the Great (search)
5.) But this state of things did not last long; and the death of Nicomedes II., king of Bithynia, by opening a new field to the ambition of Mithridates, at length brought matters to a crisis. That monarch was succeeded by his eldest son Nicomedes III., but Mithridates took the opportunity, on what pretext we know not, to set up a rival claimant in the person of Socrates, a younger brother of Nicomedes, whose pretensions he supported with an army, and quickly drove Nicomedes out of Bithynia, B. C. 90. It appears to have been about the same time that he openly invaded Cappadocia, and for the second time expelled Ariobarzanes from his kingdom, establishing his own son Ariarathes in his place. Both the fugitive princes had recourse to Rome, where they found ready support: a decree was passed that Nicomedes and Ariobarzanes should be restored to their respective kingdoms, and the execution of it was confided to two consular legates, the chief of whom was M'. Aquillius, while L. Cassius, who
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