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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Meherda'tes (search)
Meherda'tes the grandson of Phraates IV., king of Parthia, lived at Rome as a hostage, but was sent by the emperor Claudius, about A. D. 50, into Parthia at the request of the inhabitants, who were disgusted at the cruelty of their reigning sovereign Gotarzes. Cassius Longinus, the governor of Syria, received orders to support Meherdates in his attempt to gain the crown; but Meherdates was defeated in battle, and taken prisoner by Gotarzes, who spared his life but cut off his ears. (Tac. Ann. 11.10, 12.10-14.) The name Meherdates is merely another form of Mithridates.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nero (search)
Nero Roman emperor, A. D. 54-68. The emperor Nero was the son of Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, and of Agrippina, daughter of Germanicus Caesar, and sister of Caligula. Nero's original name was L. Domitius Ahenobarbus, but after the marriage of his mother with her uncle, the emperor Claudius, he was adopted by Claudius A. D. 50, and was called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus. Claudius had a son, Britannicus, who was three or four years younger than Nero. Nero was born at Antium, a favourite residence of many of the Roman families, on the coast of Latium on the 15th of December A. D. 37 (comp. Suet. Nero 100.6, ed. Burmann; Tac. Ann. 12.25, ed. Oberlin, and the notes in both). Shortly after his adoption by Claudius, Nero being then sixteen years of age, married Octavia, the daughter of Claudius and Messallina. Among his early instructors was Seneca. Nero had some talent and taste. He was fond of the arts, and made verses; but he was indolent and given to pleasure, and had no inclin
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Neruli'nus (search)
Neruli'nus the son of P. Suillius, one of the chief instruments of the tyranny of Claudius, escaped accusation when his father was tried and condemned at the beginning of Nero's reign, A. D. 59, because the emperor thought that sufficient punishment had been inflicted on the family (Tac. Ann. 13.43). On the coins of Smyrna, struck in the time of Vespasian, we find the name of M. Suillius Nerulinus, proconsul (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 556), and it is not improbable that this is the same person as the Nerulinus mentioned above. He may also be the same as the M. Suillius who was consul with L. Antistius, in the reign of Claudius, A. D. 50. (Tac. Ann. 12.50.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pallas (search)
t after the execution of the empress, the influence of Narcissus became superior to that of Callistus and Pallas, but the latter soon recovered his former power. The question now was, whom the weak-minded emperor should marry, and each of the three freedmen had a different person to propose. Pallas was fortunate enough to advocate the claims of Agrippina, who actually admitted the freedman to her embraces in order to purchase his support; and upon the marriage of Agrippina to the emperor in A. D. 50, Pallas shared in the good fortune of his candidate. He was now leagued with the empress in order to oppose Narcissus; and Pallas and Agrippina became the real rulers of the Roman world. It was Pallas who persuaded Claudius to adopt the young Domitius (afterwards the emperor Nero), the son of Agrippina, and he thus paved the way for his accession to the throne. This important service did not go unrewarded. In A. D. 52, Claudius proposed a law in the senate respecting the punishment of wome
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Sca'pula, Osto'rius 1. P. Scapula Ostorius, succeeded A. Plautius as governor of Britain, about A. D. 50, with the title of propraetor. He had previously held the consulship, and his name is inserted in some of the Fasti as consul suffectus in A. D. 46. He is characterised by Tacitus as bello egregius, and carried on the war with success against several of the British tribes. Among others, he defeated the powerful tribe of the Silures, took prisoner their king Caractacus, and sent him in chains to Rome [CARACTACUS]. In consequence of this success he received the insignia of a triumph, but died soon afterwards in the province, worn out by the toils and anxieties of war. (Tac. Ann. 12.31-39, Agr. 14.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
iberius, Caligula, and Claudius. He was one of the friends of Sejanus, and on the fall of that minister in A. D. 31 was thrown into prison, where he remained till the accession of Caligula in A. D. 37, by whom he was released, and who raised him to the consulship in A.D. 41. Dio Cassius says (59.6), that he had been consul seven years before the accession of Caligula; but his name does not occur in the Fasti. In the reign of Claudius he was appointed the emperor's legatus in Germany, and in A. D. 50 defeated the Chatti, and obtained the honour of the triumphal ornaments. Secundus was an intimate friend of the elder Pliny, who showed his affection for him by writing his life in two books. Tacitus speaks of him (Ann. 5.8) as a man " multa morum elegantia et ingenio illustri." It was by his tragedies that Secundus obtained the most celebrity. They are spoken of in the highest terms by Tacitus, Quintilian, and the younger Pliny, and were read even in a much later age, as one of them is quo
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Valens, Ma'nlius legatus of a legion in Britain in the reign of Claudius, A. D. 50. He is afterwards mentioned as the legatus of the Italica legion in the civil wars in A. D. 69, and is probably the same as the C. Manlius Valens, who was consul with C. Antistius Vetus in the last year of Domitian's reign, and who died in the same year in the ninetieth year of his age. (Tac. Ann. 12.40, Hist. 1.64; D. C. 67.14.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Va'nnius (search)
Va'nnius a chief of the Quadi, was made king of the Suevi by Germanicus in A. D. 19 but after holding the power for thirty years he was driven out of his kingdom in the reign of Claudius, A. D. 50, by Vibillius the king of the Hermunduri, and his own nephews Vangio and Sido, the sons of his sister. Vannius received from Claudius a settlement in Pannonia, and his kingdom was divided between Vangio and Sido. (Tac. Ann. 2.63, 12.29, 30; Vannianum regnum, Plin. Nat. 4.25.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Venti'dius Cuma'nus *ou)enti/dios, procurator of Judaea about A. D. 50, is spoken of more at length under Antonius Felix. [Vol. II. p. 143a.]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Vetus (search)
Vetus 6. C. Antistius Vetus, probably son of No. 4, was consul under Claudius A. D. 50 with M. Suilius Nerulinus. (Tac. Ann. 12.25.)
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