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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Sp. A'ntius a Roman ambassador, was sent with three others to Lar Tolumnius, the king of the Veientes, in B. C. 438, by whom he was killed. Statues of all four were placed on the Rostra. (Liv. 4.16; Cic. Phil. 9.2.) In Pliny (Plin. Nat. 34.6. s. 11) the reading is Sp. Nautius, which ought, however, to be changed into Antius. (Comp. Drakenborch, ad Liv. l.c.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Archaeana'ctidae (search)
Archaeana'ctidae （*)Arxaianakti/dai), the name of a race of kings who reigned in the Cimmerian Bosporus forty-two years,, B. C. 480-438. (Diod. 12.31, with Wesseling's note
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Cincinna'tus (search)
Cincinna'tus 2. L. Quinctius Cincinnatus, L. F. L. N., son of No. 1, was consular tribune in B. C. 438. In the following year he was appointed master of the horse by the dictator Aemilius Mamercus. (Liv. 4.16, 17; Diod. 12.38.) In 425 he was a second time elected consular tribune (Liv. 4.35; Diod. 12.81), and, according to Livy (4.44), a third time in 420.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Cloe'lius Tullus a Roman ambassador, who was killed with his three colleagues by the Fidenates, in B. C. 438, upon the instigation of Lar Tolumnius, king of the Vcientes. Statues of all four were placed on the Rostra. Cicero calls him Tullus Cluilius. (Liv. 4.17; Cic. Phil. 9.2; Plin. Nat. 34.6. s. 11.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Euri'pides (search)
hor, however, or to what period it should be assigned, is a disputed point. (Valeken. Diatr. 9, 10; Hermann, de Riheso tragoedia, Opusc. vol. iii.; Müller, Gr. Lit. p. 380, note.) A list is subjoined of the extant plays of Euripides, with their dates, ascertained or probable. For a fuller account the reader is referred to Miüller (Gr. Lit. p. 367, &c.) and to Fabricius (Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 239, &c.), the latter of whom gives a catalogue also of the lost dramas. Alcestis. Alcestis. B. C. 438. This play was brought out as the last of a tetralogy, and stood therefore in the place of a satyric drama, to which indeed it bears, in some parts, great similarity, particularly in the representation of Hercules in his cups. This circumstance obviates, of course, the objection against the scene alluded to, as a " lamentable interruption to our feelings of commiseration for the calamities of Admetus,"--an objection which, as it seems to us, would even on other grounds be unenable. (See He
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Fulci'nius (search)
Fulci'nius 1. C. FULCINIUS. When, in B. C. 438, the Fidenates had revolted against Rome, and joined Lars Tolumnius of Veii, the Romans sent C. Fulcinius and three others as ambassadors to inquire into the cause of the revolt. But the Fidenates, on the advice of Tolumnius, put the Roman ambassadors to death; and the Romans afterwards honoured the ambassadors with statues on the Rostra. (Liv. 4.17; Cic. Phil. 9.2.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ici'lius (search)
made great efforts to secure the consular tribunate next year for the plebeians, but they were defeated and patricians elected. (Liv. 4.54-56.) ICTI'NUS (*)Ikti=nos), a contemporary of Pericles, was the architect of two of the most celebrated of the Greek temples, namely, the great temple of Athene, in the acropolis of Athens, called the Parthenon, and the temple of Apollo Epicurius, near Phigalia in Arcadia. The former was built under the administration of Pericles, and was completed in B. C. 438: Callicrates was associated with Ictinus in the work. The latter is thought to have been completed before B. C. 431, on the ground that it is not likely that Ictinus built it after the breaking out of the Peloponnesian war, an argument by no means conclusive. Ictinus was also the architect of the shrine (mustiko\s shko/s) at Eleusis, in which the mysteries were celebrated : it was a very large building, without external porticoes, and so contrived as to accommodate a vast number of person
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Julus (search)
Julus 5. L. Julius, VOP. F. C. N., JULUS, son of No. 3, one of the three consular tribunes in B. C. 438. (Liv. 4.16; Diod. 12.38.) He was magister equitum in B. C. 431 to the dictator, A. Postumius Tubertus, who left him and the consul for the year, C. Julius Mento, in charge of the city, while he marched against the Aequians and Volscians. (Liv. 4.26, 27; Diod. 12.64, who places the dictatorship in the preceding year.) In the following year, B. C. 430, L. Julius (erroneously called by Cicero C. Julius) was consul with C. Papirius Crassus. Having learnt from the treachery of one of the tribunes, that the latter intended to bring forward a law which was much wished for by the people, imposing a pecuniary fine instead of the one in cattle, which had been fixed by the Aternia Tarpeia lex., B. C. 454, the consuls anticipated their purpose, and proposed a law by which a small sum of money was to be paid in place of each head of cattle (multarum aestimatio). This law was occasioned, accord
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mamerci'nus (search)
Mamerci'nus 3. MAM. AEMILIUS MAMERCINUS, M. F., consular tribune in B. C. 438. (Liv. 4.16; Diod. 12.38.) In B. C. 437 he was nominated dictator, to prosecute the war against the Veientines and Fidenates, because Fidenae had revolted. in the previous year to Lar Tolumnius, the king of Veii. He appointed L. Quinctius Cincinnatus his magister equitum, and gained a brilliant victory over the forces of the enemy, and obtained a triumph in consequence. (Liv. 4.17-20; Eutrop. 1.19 ; Lydus, de Magistr. 1.38.) It was in this battle that Lar Tolumnius is said by Livy to have been killed in single combat by Cornelius Cossus; but it is very doubtful whether this event happened in this year. [See Cossus, No. 2.] Indeed the conquest of the Fidenates and the death of Lar Tolumnius is referred by Niebuhr to B. C. 426, in which year Aemilius Mamercinus is stated to have been dictator for the third time. And it is not improbable, as Niebuhr remarks, that " some member of the Aemilian house found matte
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Phei'dias (search)
st, under twenty-five years of age. This would place his birth in B. C. 515. Therefore, at the time when he finished his great statue of Athena in the Parthenon (B. C. 438), he must have been 77; and after reaching such an age he goes to Elis, and undertakes the colossal statue of Zeus, upon completing which (B. C. 433, probably), er his own preference for the latter, the were the most costly should be employed. (V. Max. 1.1.7.) The statue was dedicated in the 3d year of the 85th Olympiad, B. C. 438, in the be described presently, with the other works of Pheidias; but there are certain stories respecting it, which require notice here, as bearing upon the life latter archon is not mentioned elsewhere. Pythodorus was archon in Ol. 87. 1, B. C. 432, and seven years before him was the archonship of Theodorus, Ol. 85. 3, B. C. 438. In the latter year, therefore, the statue was dedicated; and this date is confirmed by Diodorus (12.31), and by Eusebius, who places the making of the statue in
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