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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Hirtuleius (search)
Hirtuleius quaestor after the year B. C. 86, was the author of an amendment on the law of L. Valerius Flaccus, consul in the same year. [ L. VALERIUS FLACCUS, No. 11.] The Valerian law had cancelled debts by decreeing that only a quadrans should be paid to the creditor. The amendment of Hirtuleius, by tripling the dividend to be paid, rendered the law almost nugatory. (Cic. Font. 1.) It is doubtful whether this Hirtuleius were the same with the quaestor and legatus of Sertorius in Spain (Plut. Sert. 12; Frontin. Strat. 1.5.8), who in B. C. 79, on the banks of the Anas, defeated L. Domitius Ahenobarbus [AHENOBARBUS, No. 15], ---- Therius, legatus of Q. Metellus Pius, and L. Manilius, praetor of Narbonne, in the neighbourhood of Lerida. But early in the following spring Hirtuleius was himself routed and slain near Italica in Baetica by Metellus. Hirtuleius was so highly esteemed as an officer by Sertorius, that the latter is said to have stabbed the messenger who brought the news of his
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Horte'nsius (search)
Horte'nsius 11. L. Hortensius, legate of Sulla in the first Mithridatic war. He distinguished himself at Chaeroneia in the year B. C. 86(. (Memnon, Fr. 32, 34, Orelli; Plut. Sull. 15, 17, 19; Dio Cass. Fr. 125.) [H.G.L]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lici'nius (search)
Lici'nius 3. SEX. LICINIUS, a senator, whom Marius ordered to be hurled down the Tarpeian rock, on the 1st of January, B. C. 86, the day on which lie entered upon his seventh consulship. (Liv. Epit. 80; Plut. Mar. 45; Dio Cass. Fragm. 120.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Luci'lius (search)
Luci'lius 1. SEXT. LUCILIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 86, a partizan of Sulla, was in the following year thrown down the Tarpeian rock by his successor P. Laenas, who belonged to the Marian party. (Vell. 2.24.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lucullus (search)
lut. Luc. 1; Cic. Acad. pr. 2.1.) While yet quite a young man, he served with distinction in the Marsic or Social War; and at this time attracted the attention of Sulla, whom he afterwards accompanied as his quaestor into Greece and Asia on the breaking out of the Mithridatic war, B. C. 88. During the prolonged siege of Athens, Sulla found himself labouring under the greatest disadvantage from the want of a fleet, and of he in consequence despatched Lucullus in the middle of winter (B. C. 87-86), with a squadron of only six ships, to endeavour to collect assistance from the allies of Rome. With considerable difficulty he raised a fleet, and expelled the forces of the king from Chios and Colophon. These operations extended far on into the summer of 85 : meanwhile, Fimbria, who had assumed the command of the army in Asia, which had been sent out by the Marian party at Rome, had expelled Mithridates from Pergamus, and was besieging him in Pitane, where he had taken refuge. Had Lucullus
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ma'rius (search)
pare the victims of his vengeance. The great orator M. Antonius fell by the hands of his assassins; and his former colleague Q. Catulus, who had triumphed with him over the Cimbri, was obliged to put an end to his own life. Cinna was soon tired of the butchery; but the appetite of Marius seemed only whetted by the slaughter, and daily required fresh victims for its gratification. Without going through the form of an election, Marius and Cinna named themselves consuls for the following year (B. C. 86), and thus was fulfilled the prediction that Marius should be seven times consul. But he did not long enjoy the honour: he was now in his seventy-first year; his body was quite worn out by the fatigues and sufferings he had recently undergone; and on the eighteenth day of his consulship he died of an attack of pleurisy, after seven days' illness. According to Plutarch, his last illness was brought on by dread of Sulla's return, and he is said to have been troubled with terrific dreams; but
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Menalippus (search)
Menalippus *Mena/lippos, (an equivalent form to *Mela/nippos), an architect, probably of Athens, who, in conjunction with the Roman architects, C. and M. Stallius, was employed by Ariobarzanes II. (Philopator), king of Cappadocia, to restore the Odeum of Pericles, which had been burnt in the Mithridatic war, in Ol. 173, 3, B. C. 86-5. The exact date of the restoration is unknown; but Ariobarzanes reigned from B. C. 63 to about B. C. 51. (Böckh, Corp. Insc. vol. i. No. 357; Vitr. 9. 1.) [P.S
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mi'nio (search)
Mi'nio 2. Q. MYNNIO (*Munni/wn), was a native of Smyrna, who, conspiring against Mithridates VI. king of Pontus, in B. C. 86, was betrayed by one of his confederates, and put to death. (Appian, App. Mith. 48.) [W.B.D]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Mithridates Eupator or Mithridates Magnus or Mithridates the Great (search)
B. C. 87 he was able to send Archelaus to Greece with a powerful fleet and army. During the subsequent operations of that general [ARCHELAUS], Mithridates was continually sending fresh reinforcements both by land and sea to his support; besides which he entrusted the command of a second army to his son Arcathias, with orders to advance through Thrace and Macedonia, to co-operate in the war against Sulla. The intended diversion was prevented by the death of Arcathias; but the following year (B. C. 86) Taxiles followed the same route with an army of 110,000 men; and succeeded in uniting his forces with those of Archelaus. Their combined armies were totally defeated by Sulla at Chaeronea; but Mithridates, on receiving the news of this great disaster, immediately set about raising fresh levies, and was soon able to send another army of 80,000 men, under Dorylaus to Euboea. Meanwhile, his severities in Asia, coupled with the disasters of his arms in Greece, seem to have produced a general s
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mure'na (search)
Mure'na 4. L. Licinius Murena, the brother of the preceding, was praetor probably before he served under Sulla in Greece. He was in the battle of Chaeroneia, B. C. 86, in which Sulla defeated Archelaus, the general of Mithridates. Murena had the command of the left wing, and was opposed to Taxiles. (Plut. Sull. 17, &c.) Murena accompanied Sulla into the Troad, where peace was made with Mithridates (B. C. 84), and Murena was left as propraetor in Asia, with the command of the two legions of Fimbria which had deserted their commander and come over to Sulla (Appian, App. Mith. 64). Murena, who wished to have a triumph, sought a quarrel with Mithridates, took Comana in Cappadocia, and robbed the rich temple. His answer to Mithridates, who complained of the infraction of the treaty, was that he could see no treaty; and, in fact, there was no written treaty between Sulla and Mithridates. Mithridates sent to Rome to complain, and in the mean time Murena crossed the swollen Halys, ravaged the
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