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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Crassus, Clau'dius 14. P. Licinius Crassus Dives, M. F. P. N., brother of No. 13 and father of the triumvir. He was the proposer of the lex Licinia, mentioned by Gellius (2.24), to prevent excessive expense and gluttony in banquets. The exact date of this law is uncertain, but it was alluded to by the poet Lucilius, who died before the consulship of Crassus, which took place B. C. 97. The sumptuary law of Crassus was so much approved of, that it was directed by a decree of the senate to take effect immediately after its publication, and before it had been actually passed by the populus. (Macrob. 2.13.) It was abolished at the proposition of Duronius in B. C. 98. (V. Max. 2.9.5.) The extravagance of the games and shows given by the aediles had now become unreasonably great, and Crassus during his aedileship yielded to the prevailing prodigality. (Cic. de Of. 2.16.) During the consulship of Crassus, the senate made a remarkable decree, by which it was ordained " no homo immolaretur,"--a
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Duro'nia Gens 3. M. Duronius, a Roman senator, who was ejected from the senate in B. C. 97 by the censors, M. Antonius, the orator, and L. Valerius Flaccus; for Duronius in his tribuneship (probably in the year B. C. 98) had abolished a lex sumptuaria, and had used very frivolous and reckless expressions on that occasion. In revenge he brought an accusation for ambitus against the censor M. Antonius. (V. Max. 2.9.5; Cic. de Orat. 2.68; comp. 64.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Favori'nus (search)
Crassus Dives, and which is, in all probability, the one which was supported by Favorinus. The exact year in which this law was promulgated is uncertain; some assign it to the censorship of Licinius Crassus, B. C. 89, others to his consulship in B. C. 97, and others, again, to his tribuneship, B. C. 110, or his praetorship, B. C. 104. The poet Lucilius is known to have mentioned this law in his Satires; and as that poet died in B. C. 103, it is at any rate clear that the law must have been carrited is uncertain; some assign it to the censorship of Licinius Crassus, B. C. 89, others to his consulship in B. C. 97, and others, again, to his tribuneship, B. C. 110, or his praetorship, B. C. 104. The poet Lucilius is known to have mentioned this law in his Satires; and as that poet died in B. C. 103, it is at any rate clear that the law must have been carried previous to the consulship of Licinins Crassus, i. e. previous to B. C. 97. (H. Meyer, Fragm. Orat. Rom. p. 207, &c., 2d edit.) [L.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
tribune, Decianus, brought an accusation against him. In B. C. 100 he was the colleague of C. Marius, in his sixth consulship. During the disturbances of L. Appuleius Saturninus, the consuls were ordered by the senate to avail themselves of the assistance of the tribunes and praetors, for the purpose of maintaining the dignity of the republic. In consequence of this, Valerius Flaccus put to death Saturninus, Glaucia, and others of the revolutionary party. Four years after these occurrences, B. C. 97, he was censor with M. Antonius, the orator. In B. C. 86, when Marius had died, in his seventh consulship, L. Valerius Flaccus was chosen by Cinna as his colleague, in the place of Marius, and received the commission to go into Asia, to resist Sulla, and to bring the war against Mithridates to a close. He was accompanied on this expedition by C. Flavius Fimbria. Flaccus was avaricious, and very cruel in his punishments, whence he was so unpopular with the soldiers, that many of them deserte
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Horte'nsius (search)
Horte'nsius 5. L. Hortensius, father of the orator, praetor of Sicily in B. C. 97, and remembered there for his just and upright conduct. (Cic. Ver. 3.16.) He married Sempronia, daughter of C. Sempr. Tuditanus (Cic. Att. 13.6, 30, 32).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lentulus (search)
Lentulus 15. Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, consul in B. C. 97. (Fasti; Plin. Nat. 10.2, 30.3 (1); Cassiod.) He was probably father by adoption of No. 24.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
t attained to the age of seventeen. (See Stevech. ad Veget. 1.7; Liv. 25.5; Sigon. de Jure Civ. Rom. 1.15; Manut. de Leg. 12.) 2. It is here taken for granted that the Lex Licinia sumpnuaria was passed in the year B. C. 98, or rather, perhaps, B. C. 97, in the consulship of Cn. Cornelius Lentulus and P. Licinius Crassus. But the learned have been long at variance with regard to the date of this enactment; Pighius, in his Annals, and Freinsheim, in his Supplement to Livy (64.52), refer it to B. C. 112; Wuillner, in his treatise " De Laevio Poeta," to the praetorship of Licinius Crassus, B. C. 104, relying chiefly on the words of Macrobius (Macr. 2.13); Bach, in his history of Roman jurisprudence, to B. C. 97; Gronovius, on A. Gellius, to B. C. 88; Meyer, in his Collection of the Fragments of Roman Orators, to the second consulship of Pompey and Crassus, B. C. 55. It is evident that no conclusion can be drawn from a matter on which such a remarkable diversity of opinion prevails. 3.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Pla'ncius, Cn. 1. Defended by Cicero in an oration still extant, was descended from a respectable equestrian family at Atina, a praefectura not far from Arpinum in Latium. His father was a Roman eques, and one of the most important and influential farmers of the public revenue (publicani); he served under M. Crassus, who was consul B. C. 97, and he subsequently earned the hatred of the aristocracy by the energy with which he pressed for a reduction of the sum which the publicani had agreed to pay for the taxes in Asia, and by the support which he gave in B. C. 59 to Julius Caesar, who granted the demands of the equites. The younger Plancius, the subject of this notice, first served in Africa under the propraetor A. Torquatus, subsequently in B. C. 68 under the proconsul Q. Metellus in Crete, and next in B. C. 62. as military tribune in the army of C. Antonius in Macedonia. In B. C. 58 he was quaestor in the last-mentioned province under the propraetor L. Appuleits, and here he showed
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
n the Rhone (B. C. 105), in which the proconsul, Q. Servilius Caepio, was defeated by the Germans; and though wounded, Sertorius saved his life by swimming across the river in his armour. He was with Marius, B. C. 102, at Aix (Aquae Sextiae), and before the battle he entered the camp of the Teutones in disguise as a spy, for which hazardous undertaking his intrepid character and some knowledge of the Gallic language well qualified him. He served as tribunus militum in Spain under T. Didius (B. C. 97). During his residence in winter quarters at Castulo, which was probably on the Guadalquivr, he was expelled by the inhabitants on account of the oppressive conduct of the Roman garrison; but as the Spaniards left their gate unguarded, Sertorius made his way into the town again, and massacred all who were capable of bearing arms. He then distributed the dresses and armour of the barbarians who had been killed among his men, and under this guise obtained admission into a town which had sent
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Venuleia (search)
Venuleia the wife apparently of P. Licinius Crassus Dives, consul B. C. 97. (Cic. Att. 12.24.)
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