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ASCULUM PICENUM (Ancient city) MARCHE
Judacilius, a native of Asculum in Picenum, was one of the chief generals of the allies in the Social War, B. C. 90. He first commander in Apulia where he was very successful: Canusium and Venusia, with many other towns, opened their gates to him, and some which refused to obey him he took by storm; the Roman nobles who were made prisoners he put to death, and the common people and slaves he enrolled among his troops. In conjunction with T. Afranius (also called Lafrenius) and P. Ventidius, Judacilius defeated Cn. Pompeius Strabo; but when the latter had in his turn gained a victory over Afranius and laid siege to Picenum, Judacilius, anxious to save his native town, cut his way through the enemy's lines, and threw himself into the city with eight cohorts. Finding, however, that it could not possibly hold out much longer, and resolved not to survive its fall, he first put to death all his enemies, and then erected a funeral pyre within the precincts of the chief temple in the city, where he banquetted with his friends, and, after taking poison, he laid himself down on the pile, and commanded his friends to set it on fire. (Appian, B. C. i. 40, 42, 47, 48; Oros. v. 18.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
FERMO (Town) MARCHE
Firmanus, Tarutius, a mathematician and astrologer, contemporary with M. Varro
and Cicero, and an intimate friend of them both. At Varro's request Firmanus took
the horoscope of Romulus, and from the circumstances of the life and death of
the founder determined the era of Rome. According to the scheme of Firmanus, Romulus
was born on the 23d day of September, in the 2d year of the 2d Olympiad = B. C.
771, and Rome was founded on the 9th of April, between the second and third hour
of the day. (Plut. Rom. 12; Cic. de Divin. ii. 47.) Plutarch does not say in what
year Firmanus placed the foundation of Rome, but the day is earlier than the Palilia
(April 21st), the usual point from which the years of Rome are reckoned. The name,
Firmanus, denotes a native of Firmum, in Picenum, the modern town of Fermo, in
the Marca d' Ancona, but Tarutius is an Etruscan appellation (Plut. Rom. 5, Quaest.
Rom. 35; Licinius Macer, ap. Macrob. Saturn. i. 10; Augustin. de Civ. Dei, vi.
7), and from his Etruscan ancestors he may have inherited his taste for mathematical
studies.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ASCULUM PICENUM (Ancient city) MARCHE
Barrus, T. Betucius, of Asculum, a town in Picenum, is described by Cicero (Brut. 46), as the most eloquent of all orators out of Rome. In Cicero's time several of his orations delivered at Asculum were extant, and also one against Caepio, which was spoken at Rome. This Caepio was Q. Servilius Caepio, who perished in the social war, B. C. 90.
PISAURON (Ancient city) MARCHE
Attius, Lucius. An early Roman poet of distinction, who forms a link between the ante-classical and classical periods of Latin literature; for Cicero, when a boy, had met him, and in after-life admired his verse. Attius was, like Horace, the son of a freedman, settled at Pisaurum. He began his career with a tragedy, the Atreus, and was the author of thirty-six more, besides Annales in hexameter verse, a history of Greek and Roman poetry (Didascalia), and two praetextae. His literary characteristics are dignity, vigour, and much rhetorical skill in the choice of words. Considerable fragments of his works remain to us, and can be found in Ribbeck's Tragicorum Romanorum Fragmenta (Leipzig, 1874); and L. Muller's Lucilius (1872). He is the author of the famous maxim of the tyrant, Oderint dum metuant, quoted by Cicero. He is said to have introduced some changes into the received forms of spelling, such as doubling the vowels when long, as in modern Dutch--thus aara, vootum. He died B.C. 94. See Boissier, Le Poete Attius (Paris, 1857).
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
L. Attius was born at Pisaurum, a Roman colony in Umbria, in 170 B.C. The forms Attius and Accius are equally well-attested; but in the Imperial age the form with tt became predominant; and the Greeks always wrote Attios (Teuffel, Hist. Rom. Lit. § 119, 1). The aged Pacuvius, having left Rome in ill-health, was spending the evening of his days at Brundusium, when Attius, then a young man, passed through that place on his way to Asia. Attius was entertained by Pacuvius, and read to him his tragedy Atreus. The old man found it sonorous and elevated, but somewhat harsh and crude; and the younger poet, admitting the defect, expressed his hope that the mellowing influence of time would appear in his riper work. The excellences which Pacuvius recognised must have been present in the maturer writings of Attius, whom Horace calls altus, and Cicero, gravis et ingeniosus poeta. The harshness of his earlier style was due, perhaps, to a youthful excess of that nervous and impetuous character, as Cicero calls it (de Orat. iii. 58, 217), which afterwards distinguished him, and which Ovid expresses by the epithet animosus. Attius was far the most productive of the Roman tragic dramatists. The extant notices and fragments indicate, according to one estimate, about 37 pieces; according to another, about 50. Two of these were praetextatae;--the Brutus, on the downfall of the Tarquins and the Aeneeadae, dealing with the legend of the Decius who devoted himself at the battle of Sentinum. There are indications that Attius was a student of Sophocles, though Euripides was probably his chief model. Thus the verse in his Armorum indicium (fr. 10), virtuti sis par, dispar fortunis patris, is translated from Soph. Ai. 550 f. Among his other celebrated tragedies were the Atreus, Epigoni, Philocteta, Anstigona, Telephus. Cicero, in his youth, had. often listened to the reminiscences of Attius (Brutus, 28, 107). The poet, who was sixty-four at the date of the orator's birth (106 B.C.), must therefore have lived to an advanced age.
This extract is from: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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