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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.
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