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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Dece'balus (search)
ed a triumph, and assumed the title of Dacicus. The war having been, however, soon renewed (A. D. 104), he resolved upon the permanent occupation of the regions beyond the Danube, threw a bridge of stone across the river about six miles below the rapid, now known as the Iron Gates, and being thus enabled to maintain his communications with ease and certainty, succeeded, after encountering a desperate resistance, in subjugating the whole district, and reducing it to the form of a province. (A. D. 105.) Decebalus, having seen his palace captured and his country enslaved, perished by his own hands, that he might not fall alive into those of the invaders. His head was sent to Rome, and his treasures, which had been ingeniously concealed beneath the bed of the river Sargetia, (now the Isfrig, a tributary of the Marosch,) which flowed beneath the walls of his mansion, were discovered and added to the spoil. （D. C. 67.6, and note of Reimarus, 7, 10, 68.6-15; Tacit. Agric. 41; Juven. iv. an
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
He was successively invested with various offices at Rome, such as the quaestorship in A. D. 101. In this capacity he delivered his first speech in the senate, but was laughed at on account of the rudeness and want of refinement in its delivery. This induced him to study more carefully his mother tongue and Latin oratory, which he had hitherto neglected. Soon after the expiration of his quaestorship he appears to have joined Trajan, who was then carrying on the war against the Dacians. In A. D. 105 he obtained the tribuneship of the people, and two years later the praetorship. In Trajan's second expedition against the Dacians, he entrusted to Hadrian the command of a legion, and took him with him. Hadrian distinguished himself so much by his bravery, that Trajan rewarded him with a diamond which he himself had received from Nerva, and which was looked upon as a token that Trajan designated him as his successor. In A. D. 108 Hadrian was sent as legatus praetorius into Lower Pannonia;
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
eased the popularity of Trajan by repressing the exactions of the procurators. As she had no children, she persuaded her husband to adopt Hadrian, to whom she was much attached; but the statement of Dio Cassius, that her intercourse with Hadrian was of a criminal character, is opposed to all that we know of her character. Plotina survived her husband and died in the reign of Hadrian, who honoured her memory by mourning for her nine days, by building a temple in her honour, and by composing hymns in her praise. Hadrian likewise erected in honour of her a magnificent temple at Nemausus in Gaul. (D. C. 68.5, 69.1, 10; Plin. Paneg. 83, 84 ; Aur. Vict. Epit. 42.21; Spartian. Hadr. 4, 12.) In the coin annexed Plotina is called Augusta, but in what year she received that title is uncertain. When Pliny pronounced his Panegyric, that is, in A. D. 100, she had not yet obtained it (Pang. 84); but an ancient inscription informs us that she was so called in A. D. 105. (Eckhel, vol. vi. p. 465.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
QUADRA'TUS, C. A'NTUIS AULUS JU'LIUS consul A. D. 105, with Ti. Julius Candidus, in the reign of Trajan (Fasti). Spartianus (Hadr. 3) mentions these consuls under the names of Candidus and Quadratus.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Trajan had a triumph, and he exhibited games to the people for one hundred and twenty-three days, a time long enough to satisfy the avidity of the Romans for these spectacles. Eleven thousand animals were slaughtered during these amusements; and an army of gladiators, ten thousand men, gratified the Romans by killing one another. We must assume that there was at least another army as large to prevent the outbreak of so many desperate men. Probably many of these gladiators were prisoners. (A. D. 105.) About this time Arabia Petraea was subjected to the empire by A. Cornelius Palma, the governor of Syria; and an Indian embassy came to Rome. Trajan constructed a road across the Pomptine marshes, and built magnificent bridges across the streams. Buildings, probably mansiones, were constructed by the side of this road. He also called in all the old money, and issued a new coinage. In the autumn of B. C. 106 Trajan left Rome to make war on the Armenians and the Parthians. The pretext
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Valenti'nus (search)
e writers assign to him an earlier date, chiefly on the authority of the tradition, preserved by Clemens Alexandrinus (Strom. vii. p. 764), that he had heard Theodas, a disciple of St. Paul : hence Cave places him at the year A. D. 120. The two opinions may be reconciled by supposing, with Clinton, that Valentinus did not begin to propagate his heresy till late in life; and, supposing him to have been seventy years of age in A. D. 150, the first year of Anicetus, he would be twenty-five in A. D. 105, when it was quite possible that a disciple of St. Paul might be still alive. (Clinton, Fast. Rom. s. aa. 140, 144.) Valentinus was one of the boldest and most influential heresiarchs of the Gnostic sect. A minute account of his doctrines, into which it is not consistent with the plan of this work to enter, will be found in the works quoted below : perhaps, for general readers, the brief but clear exposition of Valentinianism by Mosheim will be found the most useful. There is also a go