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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Canda'ce (search)
Canda'ce （*Kanda/kh), a queen of that portion of Aethiopia which had Meroe for its metropolis. In B. C. 22, she invaded Egypt, being encouraged by supposing that the unsuccessful expedition of Aelius Gallus against Arabia, in B. C. 24, had weakened the Romans. She advanced into the Thebaid, ravaging the country, and attacked and captured the Roman garrisons at Elephantine, Syene, and Philae; but Petronius, who had succeeded Gallus in the government of the province, compelled her to retreat, and defeated her with great loss in her own territory near the town of Pselcha. This place he took, and also Premnis and Nabata, in the latter of which the son of the queen commanded. After he had withdrawn, Candace attacked the garrison he had left in Premnis; but Petronius hastily returned, and again defeated her. On this she sent ambassadors to Augustus, who was then at Samos, and who received them favourably, and even remitted the tribute which had been imposed on their country. Strabo, who tel
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Eumnestus (search)
Eumnestus （*Eu)/mnhstos), son of Sosicratides, an Athenian sculptor, about B. C. 24. (Böckh, Corp. Inscr. i. p. 430, No. 359, comp. Add. p. 911.) [P
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
and Antony with eight legions into Macedonia, and thence they proceeded to Philippi to operate against Brutus and Cassius. They encamped in the neighbourhood of Philippi, and occupied a position which prevented the republicans advancing any further. By a stratagem of Brutus and Cassius, Norbanus was led to quit his position, but he discovered his mistake in time to recover his former position. The republicans advancing by another and longer road, Norbanus withdrew with his army towards Amphipolis, and the republicans, without pursuing Norbanus, encamped near Philippi. When Antony arrived, he was glad to find that Amphipolis was secured, and having strengthened its garrison under Norbanus, he proceeded to Philippi. In B. C. 38, C. Norbanus Flaccus was consul with App. Claudius Pulcher. The C. Norbanus Flaccus, who was consul B. C. 24 with Octavian, was probably a son of the one here spoken of. (Appian, App. BC 4.87, 103, &c., 106, &c.; D. C. 38.43, 47.35, 49.23, 53.28; Plut. Brut. 38.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Gallus, Ae'lius an intimate friend of the geographer Strabo, was praefect of Egypt in the reign of Augustus, and some time after Cornelius Gallus, with whom he has often been confounded, had been invested with the same office. His prefecture of Egypt belongs to thee years B. C. 24 and 25, and these years have become remarkable in history through a bold expedition into Arabia, in which, however, Aelius Gallus completely filed. Gallus undertook the expedition from Egypt by the command of Augustus, partly with a view to explore the country and its inhabitants, and partly to conclude treaties of friendship with the people, or to subdue them if they should oppose the Romans, for it was believed at the time that Arabia was full of all kinds of treasures. When Aelius Gallus set out with his army, he trusted to the guidance of a Roman called Syllaeus, who deceived and misled him. A long account of this interesting expedition through the desert is given by Strabo (xvi. p.780, &c.; comp. xvii.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
th Tiberius, presiding at the games and spec tacles exhibited by Augustus at the foundation of his new colony of Emerita in Spain. (Id. 53.26.) It was apparently in the same year that Augustus adopted him as his son, at the same time that he gave hin his daughter Julia in marriage (Plut. Ant. 87; Dio Cass. Dii. 27), and caused him to be admitted into the senate with praetorian rank, and with the privilege of suing for the consulship ten years before the legal period. Shortly after wards (in B. C. 24), the young Marcellus was elected curule aedile for the ensuing year, and dis tinguished his magistracy by the magnificence of the games which he exhibited, on occasion of which the whole forum was covered over with an awning, as well as the theatres themselves, which were hung with splendid tapestries. Augustus himself did every thing in his power to contribute to the effect of this display, in which Octavia also bore an importart part. (Dio Cass. Dii. 28, 31; Pro pert. 3.18. 13-20; Plin.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), O'bodas (search)
O'bodas 2. A king of the Nabathaeans in Arabia Petraea. He appears to have been the successor of Malchus [No. 3], and is mentioned both bv Strabo and Josephus as an indolent man, who left the management of all his affairs to Syllaeus. It was in his reign that the expedition of Aelius Gallus into Arabia took place, in B. C. 24. (Strab. xvi. p.780, &c.; Jos. Ant. 15.9.3, 16.7.6, Bell. Jud. 1.24.6.) [E.E]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Strabo (search)
which happened in the time of Tiberius (p. 626; Tac. Ann. 2.47). The year of his birth is not ascertained; but it has been fixed by some writers by a conjecture founded on several passages in the geography, about B. C. 66. In B. C. 29 Strabo was at Gyaros, and on his voyage to Corinth. Octavianus Caesar was then at Corinth, and on his road to Italy to celebrate the triumph of his victory at Actium (p. 485). Strabo was probably on his way to Italy and Rome, where he spent several years. In B. C. 24, Strabo was with his friend Aelius Gallus in Egypt, and travelled as far as Syene (p. 816). It is assumed that he must have been a man of mature years when he first visited Rome, but there is nothing which justifies the conjecture of making him eight and thirty at the time of this visit, in order to establish B. C. 66 as the year of his birth. A passage in which Strabo says (p. 568) that he saw P. Servilius Isauricus, has given rise to some discussion. This Servilius defeated the Isauri. wh
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Varus, Quinti'lius 12. Quintilius Varus, of Cremona, a friend of Horace and Virgil, died in B. C. 24. (Hieronym. in Enseb. Chron. 189. 1.) We learn from the ancient Scholiasts on Horace that this Quintilius is the same as the Quintilius, who is mentioned as an eminent critic in the De Arte Poütica (438) and whose death Horace laments in one of his odes (1.24). He is perhaps the same as the Varus, to whom Horace addresses the eighteenth ode of the first book, and also as the Varus mentioned in the fifth Epode. (Weichert, De L. Varii et Cassii Parmensis Vita, p. 121, foil.; Estré, Horatiana Prosopographia, p. 202, foll
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
rence that may be derived from a passage of Propertius (Eleg. 2.34, 5.61), in which he speaks of the Iliad as begun and in progress, and from the recent death of Gallus, also mentioned in the same elegy, is that Virgil was engaged on his work in B. C. 24 (Clinton, Fast. B. C. 24). An allusion to the victory of Actium in the same elegy, compared with the passage in Virgil (Aeneid, 8.675 and 704) seems to show that Propertius was acquainted with the poem of Virgil in its progress; and he may have B. C. 24). An allusion to the victory of Actium in the same elegy, compared with the passage in Virgil (Aeneid, 8.675 and 704) seems to show that Propertius was acquainted with the poem of Virgil in its progress; and he may have heard parts of it read. III B. C. 23 died Marcellus, the son of Octavia, Caesar's sister, by her first husband; and as Virgil lost no opportunity of gratifying his patron, he introduced into his sixth book of the Aeneid (5.883) the well-known allusion to the virtues of this youth, who was cut off by a premature death. Heu miserande puer, si qua fata aspera rumpas, Tu Marcellus eris. Octavia is said to have been present when the poet was reciting this allusion to her son and to have fainted fro
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Zenodo'rus (search)
Zenodo'rus （*Zhno/dwros), tetrarch of Trachonitis and the surrounding country, disturbed his neighbours by his predatory incursions, and was in consequence deprived by Augustus of almost all his possessions, which were given to Herod about B. C. 24. When Augustus came to Syria in B. C. 20. Zenodorus appeared before the emperor to beg for a restitution of his dominions, but he died suddenly at Antioch in the course of the same year. and the remainder of his territories was likewise bestowed upon Herod. There are coins extant struck by Zenodorus. The specimen annexed contains on the obverse the head of Augustus, and on the reverse that of Zenodorus. (J. AJ 15.10. §§ 1-3, B. J. 1.15. s. 20.4; D. C. 54.9; Strab. xvi. p.756; Eckhel, vol. iii. p. 496.