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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ple'nnius (search)
Ple'nnius one of the chief legates of Sex. Pompeius in the war of the year B. C. 36, which ended in the defeat of the latter. Plennius was stationed near Lilybaeum to oppose Lepidus. (Appian, App. BC 5.97, &c., 122.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
on, the orator of Laodiceia, and it was as a reward for the services rendered by his father as well as himself that he was appointed by Antony in B. C. 39 to the government of a part of Cilicia. (Appian, App. BC 5.75; Strab. xii. p.578.) At a subsequent period he obtained from the triumvir in exchange for this principality the more important government of Pontus with the title of king. The precise date of this change is unknown, but Polemon is already called by Dio Cassius king of Pontus in B. C. 36, in which year he co-operated with Antony in his campaign against the Parthians. On this occasion he shared in the defeat of Appius Statianus, and was taken prisoner by the Parthian king, but allowed to ransom himself, and restored to liberty. (D. C. 49.25; Plut. Ant. 38.) In B. C. 35 he was employed by Antony to negotiate with the Median king Artavasdes, whom he succeeded in detaching from the alliance of Parthia, and gaining over to that of Rome: a service for which he was subsequently re
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pompeia (search)
Pompeia 5. Daughter of Sex. Pompeins Magnus, the son of the triumvir and of Scribonia. At the peace of Misenum in B. C. 39 she was betrothed to M. Claudius Marcellus, the son of Octavia, the sister of Octavian, but was never married to him. She accoimpanied her father in his flight to Asia, B. C. 36. (Appian, App. BC 5.73; D. C. 48.38, 49.11.) She is not mentioned after this time, but it has been conjectured by commentators, with much probability, that she may have married Scribonius Libo, and had by him a son, Scribonius Libo Drusus; since Tacitus (Tac. Ann. 2.27) calls Pompeius, the triumvir, the proavus of Libo Drusus ; Scribonia, the wife of Augustus, his amita; and the two young Caesars his consobrini. The descent of Libo Drusus would then be, 1. Cn. Pompeius, the triumvir, proavus. 2. Sex. Pomlpeius, avus. 3. Pompeia, mater. 4. Libo Drusus.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pompeius (search)
the supreme command of the whole fleet. Just before the breaking out of hostilities, Menas again played the deserter and returned to his old master's service, dissatisfied at having merely a subordinate command assigned to him. By the summer of B. C. 36, all the preparations of Octavian were completed, and the war commenced. He had three large fleets at his disposal; his own, stationed in the Julian harbour, which he had constructed near Baiae; that of Antony, under the command of Statilins Tauitor and went over to Octavian. As soon as the fleet had been repaired, Octavian again set sail for Sicily. Agrippa defeated Pompey's fleet off Mylae, destroying thirty of his chips; but the decisive battle was fought on the third of September (B. C. 36), off Naulochus, a seaport between Mylae and the promontory of Pelorum. The Pompeian fleet was commanded by Demochares, and that of Octavian by Agrippa, each consisting of about 300 ships. Agrippa gained a brilliant victory; most of the Pompeian
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pomp'nia (search)
Pomp'nia 3. The daughter of T. Pomponius Atticus. She is also called Caecilia, because her father was adopted by Q. Caecilius, and likewise Attica. She was born in B. C. 51, after Cicero had left Italy for Cilicia. She is frequently mentioned in Cicero's letters to Atticus, and seems at an early age to have given promise of future excellence. She was still quite young when she was married to M. Vipsanius Agrippa. The marriage was negotiated by M. Antony, the triumvir, probably in B. C. 36. She was afterwards suspected of improper intercourse with the grammarian Q. Caecilius Epirota, a freedman of her father, who instructed her. Her subsequent history is not known. Her husband Agrippa married Marcella in B. C. 28, and accordingly she must either have died or been divorced from her husband before that year. Her daughter Vipsania Agrippina married Tiberius, the successor of Augustus. (Cic. Att. 5.19, 6.1, 2, 5, 7.2, et alibi; Corn. Nep. Att. 12 ; Suet. Tib. 7, de Illustr. Gramm. 16.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
rtius was not descended from a family of any distinction (2.24. 37), nor can the inference that it was equestrian be sustained from the mention of the area bulla (4.1. 131), which was the common ornament of all children who were ingenui. (Cic. in Verr. 2.1, 58, with the note of Asconius ; Macrob. 1.6.) The paternal estate, however, seems to have been sufficiently ample (Nam tua versarent cum multi rura juvenci, 4.1. 129); but of this he was deprived by an agrarian division, probably that in B. C. 36, after the Sicilian war, and thus thrown into comparative poverty (in tenues cogeris ipse Lares, Ib. 128). At the time of this misfortune he had not yet assumed the toga virilis, and was therefore under sixteen years of age. He had already lost his father, who, it has been conjectured, was one of the victims sacrificed after the taking of Perusia; but this notion does not rest on any satisfactory grounds. The elegy on which it is founded (1.21) refers to a kinsman named Gallus. We have no a
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
of Brutus but was pardoned at the intercession of his brother, M. Valerius Messalla. Shortly afterwards he entered into a conspiracy to take away the life of Cassius, but again escaped unpunished, through the intercession of his mother Polla. It would hence appear that Polla had been divorced from her first husband Gellius, and had subsequently married Messalla. Gellius, however, showed no gratitude for the leniency which had been shown him, but deserted to the triumvirs, Octavian and Antony; and while in their service he had coins struck, on which he appears with the title of Q. P., that is, Quaestor Propraetore (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 223). He was rewarded for his treachery by the consulship in B. C. 36. In the war between Octavian and Antony, he espoused the side of the latter, and commanded the right wing of Antony's fleet at the battle of Actium. As he is not mentioned again, he probably perished in the action. (D. C. 47.24; Liv. Epit. 122; D. C. 49.24; Plut. Ant. 65, 66; Vell. 2.85.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Quiri'nus, P. Sulpi'cius 1. Censor B. C. 42 with L. Antonius Pietas, and consul suffectus B. C. 36 in the place of M. Cocceius Nerva (Fasti).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
frica, as the senate, after the departure of Antony for Mutina, conferred it upon Q. Cornificius (Cic. Phil. 3.10, ad Fam. 12.25). Sabinus was consul B. C. 39 with L. Marcius Censorinus, and in the following year he commanded the fleet of Octavian in the war with Sex. Pompey. In conjunction with Menas, who had deserted Pompey, he fought against Menecrates, Pompey's admiral, and sustained a defeat off Cumae. When Menas went over to Pompey again, just before the breaking out of hostilities in B. C. 36, Sabinus was deprived of the command of the fleet, because he had not kept a sufficient watch over the renegade. This, at least, is the reason assigned by Appian; but Octavian had for other reasons determined to entrust the conduct of the war to Agrippa. It is evident moreover that Sabinus was not looked upon with suspicion by Octavian, for at the close of the war the latter gave him the task of clearing Italy of robbers, He is mentioned too at a later time, shortly before the battle of Act
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ti'tius (search)
aesar, but was taken prisoner in B. C. 40 off the coast of Gallia Narbonensis by Menas, the admiral of Sex. Pompeius. He was, however, spared by Sex. Pompeius, chiefly for the sake of his father, who was then living with Pompeius in Sicily. By the peace of Misenum, concluded in the following year (B. C. 39) between Pompeius and the triumvirs, Titius returned to Italy (D. C. 48.30). Titius now entered the service of Antonius and served as his quaestor in the campaign against the Parthians in B. C. 36 (Plut. Ant. 42). In the following year (B. C. 35), Titius received the command of some troops from L. Munatius Plancus, the governor of Syria, in order to oppose Sex. Pompeius, who had fled from Sicily to Asia. Pompeius was shortly after taken prisoner and brought to Miletus, where he was murdered by Titius, although the latter owed his life to him. Titius, however, had probably received orders from Plancus or Antonius to put him to death [POMPEIUS, p. 491a]. (Appian, App. BC 5.134, 136, 14
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