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UTIQUE (Village) TUNISIA
Apollonides. A stoic philosopher, with whom Cato the Younger conversed on the subject of suicide shortly before he committed this act at Utica. (Plut. Cat. Min. 65, 66, 69)
Hadrianus V. Fabius, was legatus, praetor, or propraetor in the Roman province of Africa, about B.
C. 87-84. His government was so oppressive to the Roman colonists and merchants
at Utica, that they burnt him to death in his own praetorium. Notwithstanding
the outrage to a Roman magistrate, no proceedings were taken at Rome against the
perpetrators of it. For besides his oppressions, Hadrianus was suspected of secretly
instigating the slaves at Utica to revolt, and of aspiring, with their aid, to
make himself independent of the republic, at that time fluctuating between the
parties of Cinna and Sulla (Cic. in Verr. i. 27, v. 36; Pseud. Ascon. in Verr.;
Diod. fr. vat.; Liv. Epit. 86; Val. Max. ix. 10.2). Orosius (v. 20) gives Hadrianus
the nomen Fulvius
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