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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Fabri'cius (search)
Fabri'cius 3. Q. Fabricius was tribune of the people in B. C. 57, and well disposed towards Cicero, who was then living in exile. He brought before the people a motion that Cicero should be recalled, as early as the month of January of that year. But the attempt was frustrated by P. Clodius by armed force. (Cic. ad Qu. Frat. 1.4, post Red. in Sen. 8, pro Sext. 35, &c., pro Milon. 14.) In the Monumentum Ancyranum and in Dio Cassius (48.35), he is mentioned as consul suffectus of the year B. C. 36. [L.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Fa'nnius (search)
Fa'nnius 5. C. Fannius, one of the persons who signed the accusation which was brought against P. Clodius in B. C. 61. A few years later, B. C. 59, he was mentioned by L. Vettius as an accomplice in the alleged conspiracy against Pompey. (Cic. Att. 2.24.) Orelli, in his Onolmasticon, treats him as identical with the C. Fannius who was tribune in B. C. 59; but if this were correct, Cicero (l.c.) would undoubtedly have described him as tribune. He may, however, be the same as the Fannius who was sent in B. C. 43 by M. Lepidus as legate to Sex. Pompeius, and who, at the close of the same year, was outlawed, and took refuge with Sex. Pompeius in Sicily. In B. C. 36, when Sex. Pompeius had gone to Asia, Fannius and others deserted him, and went over to M. Antonius. (Cic. Philipp. 13.6; Appian, App. BC 4.84, 5.139.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
efended Sentinum in Umbria against Augustus, and shared the sufferings of the " Perusina Fames." Furnius was one of three officers commissioned by L. Antonius to negotiate the surrender of Perusia, and his reception by Augustus was such as to awaken in the Antonian party suspicions of his fidelity. (Appian, App. BC 5.30, 40, 41; D. C. 48.13, 14.) In B. C. 35 he was prefect of Asia Minor, under M. Antony, where he took prisoner Sex. Pompeius, who had fled thither after his defeat by Agrippa, B. C. 36. (Appian, App. BC 5.137-142.) After the battle of Actium, B. C. 31, Furnius, through the mediation of his son C. Furnius, was reconciled to Augustus (Senec. De Benef. 2.25), and received from him the rank of a consular senator (D. C. 52.42), and was afterwards appointed one of the supplementary consuls, in B. C. 29, which is the first time the name of Furnius appears on the consular Fasti. He was prefect of Hither Spain in B. C. 21. (D. C. 54.5; Flor. 4.12.) Furnius is probably mentioned by
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Gallus, Fla'vius was tribune of the soldiers under Antony in his unfortunate campaign against the Parthians in B. C. 36. During Antony's retreat Flavius Gallus made an inconsiderate attack upon the enemy, for which he paid with his life. (Plut. Ant. 42, 43.) [L.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Gallus, Tisie'nus a Roman general belonging to the party of L. Antonius and Fulvia in their war with Octavianus in B. C. 41. When Octavianus made an attack upon Nursia he was repulsed by Tisienus, who had the command in the place. In B. C. 36 he joined Sex. Pompeius in Sicily with reinforcements; but after the defeat of Sextus, he surrendered, with his army, to Octavianus. (D. C. 48.13, 49.8, 10; Appian, App. BC 4.32, 5.104, 117, 121.) [L.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ischola'us (search)
Ischola'us or I'SCHOLAS (*)Isxo/laos, *)Isxo/las), a Spartan, who, when the Peloponnesus was invaded by the Thebans and their allies in B. C. 36(9, was stationed at the village of Ium or Oium, in the district of Sciritis, with a body of neodamw/deis and about 400 Tegean exiles. By occupying the pass of the Sciritis, he might, according to Xenophon, have succeeded in repelling the Arcadians, by whom the invasion was made in that quarter: but he chose rather to make his stand in the village, where he was surrounded and slain, with almost all his men. Diodorus, who lauds his valour somewhat rhetorically, and compares him with Leonidas at Thermopylae, tells us that, when he saw that the number of the Arcadians rendered resistance hopeless, he disdained to leave his post,but sent away the young soldiers of his force to Sparta to serve her in her impending danger, while he himself and the older men remained behind, and died fighting bravely. (Xen. Hell. 6.5. ยงยง 24-26; Diod. 15.64; comp. Pl
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Laro'nius (search)
Laro'nius an officer of Augustus in the Sicilian war with Sext. Pompey, B. C. 36. He was despatched with three legions by M. Agrippa to relieve L. Cornificius from his perilous situation at Tauromenium, in Sicily [L. CORNIFICIUS, No 5]. (Appian, App. BC 5.12, 15.) [W.B.D]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Le'pidus (search)
it even then, had not Octavian been anxious to attach Lepidus to his interests, in case of a rupture between himself and Antony. Lepidus remained in Africa till B. C. 36. On the renewal of the triumvirate in B. C. 37, for another five years, Lepidus had been included, though he had now lost all real power. In the following year, B. C. 36, Octavian summoned him to Sicily to assist him in the war against Sex. Pompey. Lepidus obeyed, but tired of being treated as a subordinate, he resolved to make an effort to acquire Sicily for himself and regain his lost power. He left Africa on the 1st of July, B. C. 36, and on his arrival in Sicily proceeded to act on hiB. C. 36, and on his arrival in Sicily proceeded to act on his own account, without consulting Octavian. He first subdued Lilybaeum and the neighbouring towns, and then marched against Messana, which he also conquered. The eight Pompeian legions, which formed the garrison of the latter town, joined him, so that his army now amounted to twenty legions. Lepidus, therefore, felt himself strong
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Le'pidus (search)
dus Paullus, but Paullus Aemilius Lepidus seems to be the more correct form. He probably fled with his father to Brutus, and seems to have been entrusted by the latter with the defence of Crete; for we find him after the death of Brutus joining the remnants of the republican party with the Cretan troops, and sailing with them into the Ionian sea. He must subsequently have made his peace with the triumvirs, as we find him accompanying Octavian in his campaign against Sex. Pompey in Sicily in B. C. 36. In B. C. 34 he obtained the consulship, but only as consul suffectus, on the 1st of July, and dedicated the basilica Aemilia, which had been originally erected by his father [see p. 766], but which he had rebuilt. In B. C. 22 he was censor with L. Munatius Plancus, with whom he could not agree, and died while holding this dignity. Dio Cassius seems to have confounded him with his father in saying that the censor had been formerly proscribed; it is not impossible, however, that the son may
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
s mission alarmed Octavian. He feared that Pompey, who was now decidedly master of the sea, should unite with Antony to crush him; and, in order to gain the favour of the former and of his father-in-law Libo, he proposed, on the advice of Maecenas, to marry Libo's sister, Scribonia, although she was much older than himself, and had been married twice before. The marriage shortly after took place, and paved the way for a peace between the triumvirs and Pompey. This was negotiated in the following year (B. C. 39) by Libo, who crossed over from Sicily to Italy for the purpose, and it was finally settled at Misenum. When the war was renewed in B. C. 36, Libo for a time continued faithful to Pompey, but, seeing his cause hopeless, he deserted him in the following year. In B. C. 34, he was consul with M. Antony, as had been agreed at the peace of Misenum. As his name does not occur again in history, he probably died soon afterwards. (Appian, App. BC 5.52, 53. 69-73, 139; D. C. 48.16, 49.38.)
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