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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
us Brutus the Accuser. [BRUTUS, No. 14.] Brutus, in allusion to his fine house and effeminate manners, called him the Palatine Venus, and taunted him with political inconsistency for depreciating the senate in his speech for the Narbonese colony, and flattering that body in his speech for the lex Servilia. The successful repartee of Crassus is well known from being recorded by Cicero (Cic. de Orat. 2.54, pro Cluent. 51) and Quintilian (6.3.44). His last speech was delivered in the senate in B. C. 91, against L. Marcius Philippus, the consul, an enemy of the optimates. Philippus, in opposing the measures of M. Livius Drusus, imprudently asked how, with such a senate, it was possible to carry on the government of the commonwealth. Crassus fixed upon this expression, and on that day seemed to excel himself in the vehemence of his assault upon the consul. Philippus was so irritated by his bitter words, that he ordered his lictor to seize some of the goods of Crassus by way of pledge,--a st
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Cu'rius (search)
Cu'rius 2. M'. Curius, is known only through a lawsuit which he had with M. Coponius about an inheritance, shortly before B. C. 91. A Roman citizen, who was anticipating his wife's confinement, made a will to this effect, that if the child should be a son and die before the age of maturity, M'. Curious should succeed to his property. Soon after, the testator died, and his wife did not give birth to a son. M. Coponius, who was the next of kin to the deceased, now came forward, and, appealing to the letter of the will, claimed the property which had been left. Q. Mucius Scaevola undertook to plead the cause of Coponius, and L. Licinius Crassus spoke for Curius. Crassus succeeded in gaining the inheritance for his client. This trial (Curiana causa), which attracted great attention at the time, on account of the two eminent men who conducted it, is often mentioned by Cicero. (De Orat. 1.39, 56, 57, 2.6, 32, 54, Brut. 39, 52, 53, 73, 88, pro Caecin. 18, Topic. 10.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Drusus (search)
o survived Drusus. (Liv. Epit. lxxiii.) As Cato of Utica was born B. C. 95 (Plut. Cat. Mi. 2, 3, 73; Liv. Epit. 114; Sallust. Catil. 54), and as Drusus, who died B. C. 91, survived his sister, we must suppose, unless her first marriage was to Caepio, that an extraordinary combination of events was crowded into the years B. C. 95-991 : viz. 1st. the birth of Cato; 2nd. the death of his father; 3rd. the second marriage of Livia; 4th. the births of at least three children by her second husband; 5th. her death; 6th. the rearing of her children in the house of Drusus; 7th. the death of Drusus. Q. Servilius Caepio was the rival of Drusus in birth, fortune, and d by bribery and corrupt influence. The recent unjust condemnation of Rutilius Rufus had weakened the senate and encouraged the violence of the equites, when, in B. C. 91, Drusus was made tribune of the plebs in the consulate of L. Marcius Philippus and Sex. Julius Caesar. (Flor. l.c.） Under the plea of an endeavour to strengthe
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
e charges that were brought against him at the time were not established by evidence; but he was of a bolder and more determined character than C. Gracchus. Cicero mentions him among the orators of the time, but states that he did not rise above mediocrity, although his orations were still extant in the time of Cicero. A daughter of his, Fulvia, was married to P. Lentulus, by whom she became the mother of Lentulus Sura. Cicero (pro Dom. 43) calls him the father-in-law of a brother of Q. Catulus, whence we may infer that he had a second daughter. A third daughter was married to L. Caesar, consul in B. C. 91; so that M. Fulvius Flaccus was the grandfather of L. Caesar, who was consul in B. C. 64. (Liv. Epit. 59, 61; Appian, App. BC 1.18, &c.; Plut. Tib. Gracch. 18, C. Gracch. 10-16 ; Veil. Pat. 2.6; Cic. Brut. 28, de Orat. 2.70, in Cat. 1.2, 12, 4.6; Schol. Gronov. ad Catil. p. 413 ; Cic. pro Dom. 38, Phil. 8.4; V. Max. 5.3.2, 6.3.1, 9.5.1; comp. Meyer, Frag. Orat. Rom. p. 219, 2d edit.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Gra'nius (search)
.], suspended all public business, that the levies for the war with Jugurtha might proceed without interruption. Scipio, seeing Granius idle in the forum, asked him " whether he grieved at the auctions being put off? " " No," was the clerk's reply ; "but I am at the legations being put off." The point of the reply lies in the double meaning of " rejectae" in the original; the senate had sent more than one fruitless embassy (legatio) to Jugurtha, who bribed both the legati and the senate. In B. C. 91, the celebrated tribune of the plebs, M. Livius Drusus [DRUSUS, No. 6.], meeting Granius, asked him " How speeds your business? " "Nay, Drusus," rejoined the auction-clerk, "how speeds yours ?" Drusus being at the time unable to perform his promises to the Italian allies and subjects of Rome. Catulus, Crassus, and Antonius, and the leading men of all parties at Rome in the seventh century of the city, were in turn the objects of Granius' licence of speech. (Cic. pro Planc. 14.) 2, 3. CN.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Horte'nsius (search)
tor, the latter the first jurist of the day. Crassus also heard his second speech for Nicomedes, king of Bithynia, who had been expelled by his brother Chrestus. His client was restored (Cic. de Orat. 3.61). By these speeches Hortensius at once rose to eminence as an advocate. Q. Hortensius, says Cicero, ad modum adolescentis ingenium simul spectatum et probatum est (Brut. 64). But his forensic pursuits were soon interrupted by the Social War, in which he was obliged to serve two campaigns (B. C. 91, 90), in the first as a legionary, in the second as tribunus militum (Brut. 89). In the year 86 B. C. he defended young Cn. Pompeius, who was accused of having embezzled some of the public booty taken at Asculum in the course of the war (Brut. (64). But, for the most part, the courts were silent during the anarchy which followed the Marian massacres, up to the return of Sulla, B. C. 83. But these troubles, though they checked the young orator in his career, left him complete master of the c
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Li'via (search)
Li'via 1. Daughter of M. Livius Drusus, consul B. C. 112, and sister of M. Livius Drusus, the celebrated tribune of the plebs, who was killed B. C. 91. [See the genealogical table, Vol. I. p. 1076.] She was married first to M. Porcius Cato, by whom she had Cato Uticensis (Cic. Brut. 62; V. Max. 3.1.2; Aur. Vict. de Vir. Ill. 80; Plut. Cat. Mi. 1.2), and subsequently to Q. Servilius Caepio, by whom she had a daughter, Servilia, who was the mother of M. Brutus, who killed Caesar. (Plut. Brut. 2, Caes. 62, Cat. Min. 24.) Some writers suppose that Caepio was her first husband, and Cato her second.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
cur on Etruscan cinerary urns, but always separately, a fact from which Müller, in his Etrusker, has inferred that the union of the two families did not take place till a late period. Be that as it may, the first notice that occurs of any of the family, as a citizen of Rome, is in Cicero's speech for Cluentius (§ 56), where a knight named C. Maecenas is mentioned among the robora populi Romoani, and as having been instrumental in putting down the conspiracy of the tribune, M. Livius Drusus, B. C. 91. This person has been generally considered the father of the subject of this memoir; but Frandsen, in his life of Maecenas, thinks, and perhaps with more probability, that it was his grandfather. About the same period we also find a Maecenas mentioned by Sallust, in the fragments of his history (Lib. iii.) as a scribe. Although it is unknown where Maecenas received his education, it must doubtless have been a careful one. We learn from Horace that he was versed both in Greek and Roman lit
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Marcellus Clau'dius 10. M. Claudius Marcellus, curule aedile in B. C. 91. (Cic. de Or. 1.13.) He is supposed by Drumann to be the father of the following, and brother of No. 12.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Metellus Numidicus (search)
of his friends; and the popular party received such a severe blow in consequence of their death, that very little opposition was offered to the recall of Metellus, which was proposed in the following year (B. C. 99) by the tribune Q. Calidius. The son of Metellus exerted himself so strongly in support of the rogation of Calidius, that he obtained from his contemporaries the surname of Pius. According to a tale preserved by Cicero (de Nat. Deor. 3.33), Q. Varius, who was tribune of the plebs B. C. 91, and a violent enemy of the aristocracy, poisoned a Metellus, and as Cicero mentions him without any surname, he probably means the great Metellus Numidicus. The tale, however, may have been invented by the hatred of party. The general character of Metellus has been already pourtrayed. He was certainly one of the best specimens of his class, and probably one of the most virtuous citizens of his time. He was not ignorant of literature and art, and was a generous patron of both. In his yout
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