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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pompeius (search)
or T. Albucius, against whom he collected materials for an accusation, although the Romans regarded the relation between praetor and quaestor as a sacred one, like that between father and son. For that reason he was not allowed to conduct the accusation, which was assigned to C. Caesar instead (Cic. Div. in Caecil. 19). He was probably praetor in B. C. 94, and obtained in the following year the government of Sicily (Cic. Ver. 3.16, 5.66). On the breaking out of the Social or Marsic war, in B. C. 90, Pompeius served as legate under the consul P. Rutilius Lupus. Pompeius was at first defeated, and obliged to take refuge at Firmun, where he was besieged by Afranius, one of the Italian generals. But when Sulpicius came to his assistance, Afranius was attacked at once by the two Roman armies, and lost his life in the battle: his troops fled in confusion to Asculum. To this town Pompeius proceeded to lay siege; and as he seems to have been regarded as a general of no mean abilities, he was
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ponti'dius (search)
Ponti'dius 1. C. Pontidius, is mentioned by Velleius Paterculus (2.16) as one of the leaders in the Social or Marsic war, B. C. 90. There can be no doubt that he is the same person as Appian calls (B. C. 1.40) C. Pontilius; and as the name of Pontidius occurs elsewhere, the orthography in Velleius seems preferable.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
P. Presenteius one of the commanders of the allies in the Marsic war, defeated the legate Perperna in B. C. 90. (Appian, App. BC 1.41.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Ptolemaeus Alexander i. (search)
ve remained content with the possession of Cyprus till B. C. 107, when Cleopatra, having expelled Ptolemy Lathyrus, recalled her favourite son to occupy the vacant throne of Egypt. Alexander reigned conjointly with his mother from this time till B. C. 90: but it is probable that her haughty and imperious character left him little real part in the administration of affairs. The only occasion on which we meet with his name in this interval is in B. C. 102, when he commanded the Egyptian fleet whicassy to Alexander to entreat his return. With this request he was induced to comply; but soon found reason to suspect that she was forming designs against his life, and immediately determined to anticipate them by causing her to be assassinated, B. C. 90. But he did not long enjoy the fruits of this crime. Cleopatra had been popular with the army, and the soldiers in consequence hated Alexander, who had not reigned alone a year, when he was compelled by a general sedition of the populace and mil
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pylae'menes (search)
Pylae'menes 2. A son of Nicomedes II., king of Bithynia, who was placed by his father on the throne of Paphlagonia, and made to assume the name of Pylaemenes, in order that he might appear to belong to the rightful line of the kings of that country. (Just. 37.4.) He was afterwards expelled by Mithridates the Great, in B. C. 90 (Eutrop. 5.5), and it does not appear that he himself ever recovered his throne: but after the final overthrow of Mithridates, the sons of Pylaemenes were reinstated by Pompey in the possession of some part of their father's dominions with the title of king. (Strab. xii. p.541.) There are extant coins bearing the titles *B*A*S*I*L*E*W*S *P*U*L*A*I*M*E*N*O*U *E*U*E*R*G*E*T*O*U, which may probably be ascribed to one of the two preceding kings, but it is impossible to say to which they belong. (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 394.) [E.H.B]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ruti'lia Gens plebeian. No persons of this name are mentioned till the second century before the Christian aera; for instead of Sp. Rutilius Crassus, who occurs in many editions of Livy (4.47) as one of the tribunes of the plebs in B. C. 417, we ought undoubtedly to read Sp. Veturius Crassus. (See Alschefski, ad Liv. l.c.) The first member of the gens who obtained the consulship was P. Rutilius Lupus, who perished during his consulship, B. C. 90, in the Social war. Under the republic the Rutilii appear with the cognomens CALVUS, LUPUS, and RUFUS; but in the imperial period we find several other surnames, of which a list is given below. The persons of this name who are mentioned without a cognomen are spoken of under RUTILIUS, under which head the Rutilii with the cognomens of Calvus and Rufus are also given. The only coins of this gens extant bear on them the cognomen FLACCUS, which does not occur in writers. [FLACCUS, p. 157a.]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
work which, as Le Clerc supposes, comprised a period of twelve years before the Tumultus Lepidi in B. C. 78. The commencement of such a work would coincide with B. C. 90, or the outbreak of the Social War, but the twelve years may be referred with equal probability to the period from B. C. 78 to B. C. 66. However, Sallust seems tr chronological order, which may not have been the order in which they were written: -- the war of Jugurtha ; the period from the commencement of the Marsic war, B. C. 90, to the death of Sulla, B. C. 78; the tumults caused by the consul M. Aemilius Lepidus upon the death of Sulla; the war of Sertorius, which ended B. C. 72; the Mse striking periods and events, and to write in piecemeal. Some grammarian probably arranged into the form of a history the works which comprised the period from B. C. 90 to B. C. 16, and this arrangement may have been made at a very early period. Plutarch (Lucullus, 10, 33) twice refers to Sallustius in his history of the campaig
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ola, who was then an old man, and that lie kept as close to him as he could, in order to profit by his remarks (Lael. 100.1). It does not appear how long the Augur survived B. C. 88, the year in which the quarrel of Marius and Sulla began. After his death Cicero became a hearer of Q. Mucius Scaevola, the pontifex. The Augur was distinguished for his knowledge of the law, and his activity was continued to the latest period of his life. Cicero (Philipp. 8.10) says, that during the Marsic war (B. C. 90), though he was a very old man, and in bad health, he was ready to give his opinion to those who wished to hear it as soon it was light, and during that time no one ever saw him in bed, and he was the first man to come to the curia. Valerius Maximus (3.8) records, that when L. Cornelius Sulla, after driving Marius out of the city (B. C. 88), proposed that the senate should declare him an enemy, Scaevola affirmed that he would never consent to declare him an enemy who had saved Rome. Probabl
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Scato (search)
Scato or CATO, VE'TTIUS, one of the Italian generals in the Marsic war, B. C. 90. He defeated the consul L. Julius Caesar, and then advanced against Aesernia, which was obliged to surrender through failure of provisions. He also defeated the other consul, P. Rutilius Lupus, who fell in the battle (Appian, App. BC 1.40, 41, 43). Cicero speaks of an interview at which he was present, between Vettius and Cn. Pompey (Phil. 12.11); and it is therefore not improbable that the P. Ventidius, who is said by Appian to have been one of the Italian generals that defeated the army of Cn. Pompey, is the same person as the subject of this article. (Appian, App. BC 1.47, with the note of Schweigh.) We learn from Seneca (de Benef. 3.23), that Vettius was taken prisoner, and was stabbed to death by his own slave as he was being dragged before the Roman general, and that he was thus delivered from the ignominy and punishment that awaited him. There is some difficulty respecting the orthography of the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
publica at Lavinium had, through his fault, not been properly observed ; but thirty-three tribes out of the thirty-five voted for his acquittal. In B. C. 91, he was accused of repetundae by Q. Servilius Caepio, who alleged that he had appropriated to his own use some public money, during an embassy to Asia; but he secured himself by bringing a counter-accusation against Caepio. The latter, out of revenge, induced Q. Varius, the tribune of the people, to accuse Scaurus in the following year, B. C. 90, of having excited the Italian allies to revolt. Scaurus boldly met the charge; and going into the forum, put it to the people whether they would give credence to Q. Varius, the Spaniard, or M. Scaurus, the princeps senatus; whereupon there was such an unequivocal demonstration of popular feeling in his favour, that the tribune himself withdrew the accusation. Scaurus was then seventy-two years of age, and died soon afterwards; since, in B. C. 88, his widow Caecilia was married to Sulla. [C
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