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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mu'mmius (search)
Mu'mmius 8. MUMMIUS, was a writer of farces, Atellanae, after the year B. C. 90. He is mentioned by Charisius (p. 118) and Priscian (10.9, p. 514, ed. Krehle). In Macrobius (Macr. 1.10) and Gellius (19.9) he is called MEMMIUS. [W. B. D.]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Mu'tilus, C. Pa'pius one of the principal Samnite generals in the Marsic or Social war, B. C. 90-89. At the head of the greater part of the Samnite forces, he invaded Campania, took several of its towns, and obliged almost all the rest to surrender to him; but having made an attack upon the camp of the consul, Sex. Caesar, he was repulsed with a loss of 6000 men, B. C. 90. In the following year hé had to resist Sulla, who had penetrated into Samnium, but he experienced a total defeat, was badlB. C. 90. In the following year hé had to resist Sulla, who had penetrated into Samnium, but he experienced a total defeat, was badly wounded in the engagement, and fled with a few troops to Aesernia. (Appian, App. BC 1.40, 42, 51; Oros. 5.18; Vell. 2.16; Diod. xxxvii. Ecl. 1.) The name of this Samnite leader is given differently; but C. Papius Mutilus seems to have been his real name. Orosius calls him Papius Mutilus; Velleius terms him Papius Mutilius ; and Appian styles him in two passages (1.40, 42) C. Papius, and in the third (1.51) Motilus, who is evidently the same person as the one he had previously called C. Papius.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
tes. Nicomedes was unable to cope with a competitor thus supported, and was quickly driven out of Bithynia; but lie now had recourse to the protection of the Roman senate, who, it seems, had already ackowledged his. title to the throne, and who now immediately issued a decree for his restoration, the execution of which was confided to L. Cassius and M'. Aquilius. To this Mithridates did not venture to offer any open opposition, and Nicomedes was quietly reseated on the throne of his father, B. C. 90 (Appian, App. Mith. 7,10, 11, 13; Memnon, 100.30; Just. 38.3, 5; Liv. Epit. lxxiv.). But, not satisfied with this, the Roman deputies urged Nicomedes to make reprisals, by plundering excursions into the territories of Mithridates himself; and the king, however unwilling to provoke so powerful an adversary, was compelled to listen to their suggestions, in order to gratify the avarice of his Roman allies. Mithridates at first sent ambassadors to complain of these aggressions, but, as may be s
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Norba'nus (search)
accordingly accused of majestas under the lex Appuleia. The accusation was conducted by P. Sulpicius Rufus ; and the defence by the celebrated orator M. Antonius, under whom Norbanus had formerly served as quaestor, and who gives in the De Oratore of Cicero a very interesting account of the line of argument which he adopted on the occasion. Norbanus .was acquitted. (Cic. de Orat. ii. 48, 49, 3.21, 25, 39, 40, Orat. Part. 30; V. Max. 8.5.2; Meyer, Fragm. Rom. Orator p. 287, &c., 2d ed.) In B. C. 90 or 89, Norbanus was praetor in Sicily during the Social or Marsic war, but no attempt at insurrection occurred in the island. (Cic. Ver. 5.4, comp. 3.49.) In B. C. 88 he came to the assistance of the town of Rhegium, which was very nearly falling into the hands of the Samnites, who, taking advantage of the civil commotions at Rome, had formed the design of invading Sicily. (Diod. Eclog. xxxvii. p. 540, ed. Wesseling. The text of Diodorus has *Ga/i+os *)Orbano/s for which we ought undoubted
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Oxyntas (search)
Oxyntas （*)Ocu/ntas), son of Jugurtha, was led captive, together with his father, before the triumphal car of Marius (B. C. 104); but his life was spared, and he was placed in custody at Venusia. Here he remained till B. C. 90, when he was brought forth by the Samnite general, C. Papius Mutilus, and adorned with the insignia of royalty, in order to produce a moral effect upon the Numidian auxiliaries in the service of the Roman general L. Caesar. The device was successful, and the Numidians deserted in great numbers ; but of the subsequent fortunes of Oxyntas we know nothing. (Eutrop. 4.27; Oros. 15; Appian, App. BC 1.42.) [E.H.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Pa'pia Gens plebeian, was originally a Salmnite family. In the Samnite wars a Papius Brutulus is mentioned, who endeavoured to persuade his countrymen to renew the struggle against the Romans, in B. C. 322 [BRUTULUS], and in the great Social War, B. C. 90, Papius Mutilus was the leader of the Samnites against Rome [MUTILUS]. Some of the Papii probably settled at Rome soon after this event, and one of them finally obtained the consulship in A. D. 9. The Roman Papii were divided into two families, the Celsi and Mutili: the former are given under CELSUS, the latter are spoken of under PAPIUS
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pasi'teles (search)
Pasi'teles 2. A statuary, sculptor, and silver-chaser, of the highest distinction (in omnibas his summus, Plin. Nat. 35.12. s. 45), flourished at Rome, in the last years of the republic. He was a native of Magna Gr.iecia, and obtained the Itoman franchise, with his couitrymen, in B. C. 90, when he must have been very young, since he made statues for the temple of Juno, in the portico of Octavia, which was built out of the Dalmatic spoils, in B. C. 33; so that he must have flourished from about B. C. 60 to about B. C. 30 (Plin. H. N. xxxvi. .5. s. 4. §§ 10, 12). This agrees very well with Pliny's statement, in another place, that he flourished about the time of Pompey the Great (H. N. 33.12. s. 55). Pasiteles was evidently one of the most distinguished of the Greek artists who flourished it Rome during the period of the revival of art. It is recorded of him, by his contemporary Varro, that he never executed any work of which he had not previously made a complete model, and that he ca
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
s, C. Velleius a Roman historian, contemporary with Augustus and Tiberius. He is not mentioned by any ancient writer, with the exception of a solitary passage of Priscian, but his own work supplies us with the leading events of his life. He was descended from one of the most distinguished Campanian families. Decius Magius, the leader of the Roman party at Capua in the second Punic war, was one of his ancestors, and Minatius Magius, who did such good service to the Romans in the Social war (B. C. 90), and who was rewarded in consequence with the Roman franchise and the election of two of his sons to the praetorship, was the atavus of the historian. The grandfather of Paterculus put an end to his life at Naples, since he was unable, through age and infirmities, to accompany Claudius Nero, the father of the emperor Tiberius, in his flight from Italy in B. C. 40. His father held a high command in the army, in which he was succeeded by his son, as is mentioned below, and his uncle Capito w
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Perperna (search)
died in B. C. 49, the year in which the civil war broke out between Caesar and Pompey. He outlived all the senators who belonged to that body in his consulship, and at the time of his death there were only seven persons surviving, whom he had enrolled in the senate during his censorship. (Plin. Nat. 7.48; V. Max. 8.13.4; D. C. 41.14; the last writer gives the details a little differently.) Perperna took no prominent part in the agitated times in which he lived. In the Social or Marsic war, B. C. 90, he was one of the legates, who served under the consul P. Rutilius Lupus. (Appian, App. BC 1.40.) It was probably the same M. Perperna who was judex in the case of C. Aculeo (Cic. de Orat. 2.65), and also in that of Q. Roscius, for whom Cicero pleaded (pro Rose. Corn.1, 8). In B. C. 54, M. Perperna is mentioned as one of the consulars who bore testimony on behalf of M. Scaurus at the trial of the latter. (Ascon. in Scaur. p. 28, ed. Orelli.) The censorship of Perperna is mentioned by Cicer
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pina'rius (search)
Pina'rius 3. T. Pinarius, is only known from his having been ridiculed by the orator C. Julius Caesar Strabo, who was curule aedile, B. C. 90. (Cic. de Or. 2.66.).
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