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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
T. A'ccius
a native of Pisaurum in Umbria and a Roman knight, was the accuser of A. Cluentius, whom Cicero defended B. C. 66.
He was a pupil of Hermagoras, and is praised by Cicero for accuracy and fluency. (Brut. 23, pro Cluent. 23, 31, 57.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Phraates III.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
M. Caeso'nius
one of the judices at Rome, an upright man, who displayed his integrity in the inquiry into the murder of Cluentius, B. C. 74, when C. Junius presided over the court.
He was aedile elect with Cicero in B. C. 70, and consequently would not have been able to act as judex in the following year, as a magistrate was not allowed to discharge the duties of judex during his year of office.
This was one reason among others why the friends of Verres were anxious to postpone his trial till B. C. 69.
The praetorship of Caesonius is not mentioned, but he must have obtained it in the same year as Cicero, namely, B. C. 66, as Cicero writes to Atticus in 65, that there was some talk of Caesonius becoming a candidate with him for the consulship. (Cic. Verr. Act. 1.10 ; Pseudo-Ascon. in loc. ; Cic. Att. 1.1.) This Caesonius is probably the one whom Cicero speaks of in B. C. 45. (Ad Att. 12.11.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Calvus, C. Lici'nius Macer
who, as a forensic speaker, was considered by his countrymen generally as not unworthy of being ranked with Caesar, Brutus, Pollio, and Messalla, while by some he was thought to rival even Cicero himself, and who as a poet is commonly placed side by side with Catullus, was born on the 28th of May, B. C. 82, on the same day with M. Coelius Rufus. (Plin. Nat. 7.50.)
He was the son of C. Licinius Macer, a man of praetorian dignity, who, when impeached (B. C. 66) of extortion by Cicero, finding that the verdict was against him, forthwith committed suicide before the formalities of the trial were fully completed, and thus averted the dishonour and ruin which would have been entailed upon his family by a public condemnation and by the confiscation of property which it involved. (V. Max. 9.12.7; Plut. Cic. 9; Cic. Att. 1.4.) This Licinius Macer was very probably the same person with the annalist of that name so frequently quoted by Livy and others, and with the or
Ci'cero
8. Q. Tullius Cicero, son of No. 6, and of Pomponia, sister of Atticus, must have been born about B. C. 66 or 67, for we find that it was proposed to invest him with the manly gown in the year B. C. 51 (ad Att. 5.20).
He passed a considerable portion of his boyhood with his cousin Marcus, under the eye of his uncle, whom he accompanied to Cilicia, and who at an early period remarked his restless vehemence and self-confidence, observing that he required the curb, while his own son stood in need of the spur (ad Att. 6.1, 3, 7), although he at the same time had formed a favourable opinion of his disposition from the propriety with which he conducted himself amidst the wrangling of his parents (ad Att. l.c.).
Before leaving Cicilia, however, he appears to have begun to entertain some doubts of his nephew's uprightness, and these suspicions were fully verified by a letter which the youth, tempted it would seem by the prospect of a great reward, despatched to Caesar soon after the o
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), P. COMINIUS L. COMINIUS C. COMINIUS
P. COMINIUS and L. COMINIUS or C. COMINIUS
5, 6. two brothers, who are described by Cicero as men of character and eloquence, accused Staienus, about B. C. 74. (Cic. Clu. 36.) In B. C. 66, these two brothers accused of majestas C. Cornelius, the tribune of the preceding year [C. CORNELIUS], but on the day appointed for the trial, the praetor, L. Cassius, did not appear, and the Cominii were driven away by a mob, and were eventually obliged to quit the city. They renewed the accusation in the following year, B. C. 65; Cornelius was defended by Cicero, who was then praetor, and acquitted.
The speech which P. Cominius delivered on this occasion was extant in the time of Asconius, who says that it was worth reading, not only because of Cicero's speech, bat for its own merits. P. Cominius was a native of Spoletium.
He died shortly before Cicero composed his "Brutus," namely B. C. 45, in which he calls Cominius his friend, and praises his wellarranged, lively, and clear style of speaking. (