185 he was one of the
triumviri
appointed for 5.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
N.
vii.
hundred and twenty children of the senators of the
17). A work by Tubero, “ De Officio Judicis' Next year (B. C. 207) Tubulus was sent
is mentioned by Gellius (xiv. 2); and another from Etruria to Tarentum, and in the course of the
“Ad C. Oppium” is mentioned by Gellius (vii. 19). same year from the latter place to Capua ; but
Like his father Q. Tubero wrote a history (Liv. while marching to Capua he fell upon Hannibal's
iv. 23 ; Suet. Caes. 83), but whether the quota- army, killed four thousand men, and took nine
tions of A. Gellius (vi. 3, 4) are taken from the standards. He continued in the command at Capua
history of the father or the son cannot be determined. till the end of B. c. 203. (Liv. xxvii. 6, 7, 11, 22,
Tubero the jurist, who is often cited in the Digest, / 24, 35, 40, xxviii. 10, xxix. 13. )
19
town.
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TUDITANUS.
1181
TUDITANUS.
&
'L'HA
COIN OP L. HOSTILIUS TUBULUS.
2. L. Hostilius TUBULU8, praetor & c. 142, consul B. c. 240 with C. Claudius Centho, and cen-
received bribes in such an open manner, when he Bor B. c. 230 with Q. Fabius Maximus. (Gell. xvii.
was presiding at a trial for murder, that in the 21 ; Cic. Brut. 18, Tusc. i. I, de Senect. 14 ; Pasti
following year P. Scaevola, the tribune of the plebs, Capit. )
proposed and carried a plebiscitum for an inquiry 2. P. SEMPRONIUS TUDITANUS, was a tribune
into his conduct; whereupon Tubulus forth with of the soldiers at the battle of Cannae in B. c. 216,
went into exile. Cicero more than once speaks of and one of the few Roman officers who survived
him as one of the vilest of men, and quotes a pas- that fatal day. When the smaller of the two
sage of Lucilius, in which the name of Tubulus Roman camps in which he had taken refuge was
occurs as an instance of a sacrilegious wretch. (Cic. besieged by the Carthaginians, he bravely cut his
ad Alt. xii. 5. § 3, de Fin. ii. 16, iv. 28, v. 22, de way through the enemy with six hundred men,
Nat. Deor. i. 23, i. 30, pro Scaur. 1. ) Accord reached the larger camp, and from thence marched
ing to Asconius (in Scaur. p. 23, ed. Orelli) Tu-to Canusium, where he arrived in safety. Two
bulus was brought back from exile on account of years afterwards (B. c. 214) Tuditanus was curule
his numerous crimes, and took poison of his own aedile, and in the next year (B. C. 213) praetor,
accord, to escape being put to death in prison. with Ariminum as his province. He took the
The following coin was struck by a L' Hostilius town of Aternum, and was continued in the same
Tubulus, but it is doubtful whether by the same command for the two following years (B. C. 212,
person as the preceding. It has on the obverse 211). He was censor in B. c. 209 with M. Cornelius
the head of Pallas, and on the reverse a laurel Cethegus, although neither he nor his colleague
wreath with the legend L. H. TVB. (i. e. L. Hosti- had yet held the consulship. In B. C. 205 he was
lius Tubulus), and underneath ROMA. (Eckbel, sent into Greece with the title of proconsul, and at
vol. v. p. 227. )
the head of a military and naval force, for the
purpose of opposing Philip, with whom however
he concluded & preliminary treaty, which was
readily ratified by the Romans, who were anxious
to give their undivided attention to the war in
Africa. Tuditanus had, during his absence, been
elected consul for the year 204 together with M.
Cornelius Cethegus, his colleague in the censorship.
Roma
He received Bruttii as his province with the con-
duct of the war against Hannibal. In the neigh-
bourhood of Croton Tuditanus experienced a re-
pulse, with a loss of twelve hundred men; but he
TUCCA, PLOʻTIUS, a friend of Horace and shortly afterwards gained a decisive victory over
Virgil. The latter poet leſt Tucca one of his heirs, Hannibal, who was obliged in consequence to shut
and bequeathed his unfinished writings to him and himself up within the walls of Croton. It was in
Varius, who afterwards published the Aeneid by this battle that he vowed a temple to Fortuna
order of Augustus. (Hor. Sat. i. 5. 40, i. 10. 81; Primigenia, if he should succeed in routing the
Donat. Vit. Virgil. $$ 52, 53, 56 ; Schol. ad Pers. enemy. In B. C. 201 Tuditanus was one of the
Sat. ii. 42; Weichert, Poëtarum Latinorum Reli- three ambassadors sent to Ptolemy, king of Egypt.
quiae, p. 217, foll. )
(Liv. xxii. 50, 60 ; Appian, Annib. 26, Liv. xxiv.
TUCCA, C. SERVI’LIUS, consul B. c. 284 43, 44, 47, xxv. 3, xxvi. 1, xxvii. 11, 38, xxix.
with L. Caecilius Metellus Denter. (Fasti. ) 11, 12; Cic. Brut. 15, de Senect. 4; Liv. xxix. 13,
· TU'CCIA, a Vestal Virgin, accused of incest, 36, xxxi. 2. )
appealed to the goddess to prove her innocence, and 3. M. SEMPRONIUS TUDITANUS, one of the
had power given to her to carry a sieve full of water officers of Scipio at the capture of New Carthage
from the Tiber to the temple. (Val Max. viii. 1. in Spain. (Liv. xxvi. 48. )
absol. 5; Plin. H. N. xxviii. 2 ; Dionys. ii. 69; Au- 4. C. SEMPRUNIUS Tuditanus, plebeian aedile
gustin. de Civ. Dei, x. 16. ) This miracle is comme- B. C. 198 and praetor B. c. 197, when he obtained
morated on an ancient gem, of which an engraving Nearer Spain as his province. He was defeated
is given in the Dict. of Antiq. p. 1191, a, 2d ed.
p
by the Spaniards with great loss, and died shortly
TU'CCIUS. 1. M. Tuccius, curule aedile afterwards in consequence of a wound which he
B. C. 192, and praetor B. c. 190, with Apulia and had received in the battle. He was pontifex at
Bruttii as his province, where he also remained the time of his death. (Liv. xxxii. 27, 28, xxxiii.
for the two following years as propraetor. In 25, 42; Appian, Hisp. 39. )
B. c.
185 he was one of the triumviri appointed for 5. M. SEMPRONIUS M. p. C. N. TUDITANUS, tri-
founding colonies at Sipontum and Buxentum. bune of the plebs B. c. 193, proposed and carried a
(Liv. xxxv. 41, xxvi. 45, xxxvii. 2, 50, xxxviii. plebiscitum, which enacted that the law about
36, xxxix. 23. )
money lent should be the same for the Socii and
2. M. Tuccius, accused C. Sempronius Rufus the Latini as for the Roman citizens. (Dict. of
of vis in B. c. 61, and was in his turn accused by Antiq. 8. v. Lex Sempronia de Fenore. ) He was
Rufus of the same offence. (Cael. ap. Cic. ad Fam. praetor B. c. 189, when he obtained Sicily as his
viii. 8. )
province, and consul B. c. 185 with Ap. Claudius
TUDITANUS, the name of a plebeian family Pulcher. In his consulship he carried on war in
of the Sempronia gens. The name was supposed Liguria, and defeated the Apuani, while his col-
by Ateius the philologist to have been originally league was equally successful against the Ingauni.
given to one of the Sempronii, because he had a Tuditanus was an unsuccessful candidate for the
head like a tudes (ludit-is) or mallet. (Festus, consulship in B. c. 184, but was elected one of the
p. 352, ed. Müller. )
pontifices in the following year. He was carried
1. M. SEMPRONIUS C. F. M. N. TUDITANUS, I off by the great pestilence which devastated Rome
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1182
TULLIA.
TULLIA.
in B. c. 174. (Liv. Xxxv. 7, xxxvii. 47, 50, xxxix. B. c. 63 during the consulship of her father. At
23, 32, 40, 46, xli. 21. )
the time of Cicero's exile (B. C. 58), Tullia dis-
6. C. SEMPRONIUS C. P. TUDITANUS, was one played a warm interest in his fate. She and her
of the ten commissioners sent to L. Mummius in husband threw themselves at the feet of the consul
B. c. 146 in order to form Southern Greece into a Piso to implore his pity on behalf of their father.
Roman province. He bas been confounded by During Cicero's banishment Tullia lost her first
Drumann (Geschichte Roms, vol. iii. p. 81) with the husband: he was alive at the end of B. c. 58, but
following (No. 7), as he had been by Cicero, she was a widow when she welcomed her father
whose mistake was corrected by Atticus. This at Brundusium on his return from exile, in August
Tuditanus was the proavus or great grandfather of of the following year. She was married again in
the orator Hortensius. (Cic. ad Ati. xiii. 6. § 4, B. c. 56 to Furius Crassipes, a young man of rank
xiii. 33. & 3. )
and large property ; but she did not live with him
7. C. SEMPRONIUS C. F. C. N. TUDITANUS, the long, though the time and the reason of her di-
son of No. 6, was praetor B. C. 132, fourteen years vorce are alike unknown. (CRASSIPES, No. 2. )
after his father had been sent as one of the ten In B. C. 50 she was married to her third husband,
commissioners into Greece. (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 30. P. Cornelius Dolabella, one of the most profligate
§ 3, xiii. 32. § 3. ) He was consul in B. c. 129, young men of a most profligate age. Cicero was
with M'. Aquilius. On the proposition of Scipio well acquainted with the scandalous private life of
Africanus, the decision of the various disputes, his future son-in-law, for although the latter was
which arose respecting the public land in carrying still only twenty, he had been already twice de
the agrarian law of Gracchus into effect, was trans- fended by the orator in a court of justice when
ferred from the triumvirs who had been appointed accused of the most abominable crimes. But the
under the law, to the consul Tuditanus ; but the patrician birth, high connections, and personal
latter, perceiving the difficulty of the cases that beauty of Dolabella, covered a multitude of sins
were brought before him, avoided giving any deci- as well in Cicero's eyes as in those of his wife and
sion by pleading that the Illyrian war compelled daughter. Dolabella had been previously married
him to leave the city. In Illyricum he carried on and divorced his wife Fabia for the purpose of
war against the lapydes, and at first unsuccess- marrying Tullia. The marriage took place during
fully, but he afterwards gained a victory over them Cicero's absence in Cilicia. The connection, as
chiefly through the military skill of his legate, might have been anticipated, was not a happy one.
D. Junius Brutus, who had previously earned on the breaking out of the civil war in B. C. 49,
great glory by his conquests in Spain. (BRUTUS, the husband and the father of Tullia espoused op-
No. 15. ] On his return to Rome, Tuditanus was posite sides. While Dolabella fought for Caesar,
allowed to celebrate a triumph over the lapydes. and Cicero took refuge in the camp of Pompey,
(Vell. Pat. ii. 4; Cic. de Nat. Deor. ii. 5; Appian, Tullia remained in Italy. She was pregnant at
B. C. i. 19, Nyr. 10; Liv. Epit. 59; Fasti Capit. ) the commencement of the war, and on the 19th of
Tuditanus was an orator and an historian, and in May, B. C. 49, was delivered of a seven months'
both obtained considerable distinction. Cicero says child, which was very weak, and died soon after-
of him (Brut. 25): – “ Cum omni vita atque victu wards. After the battle of Pharsalia, Dolabella
excultus atque expolitus, tum ejus elegans est ha- returned to Rome, but brought no consolation to
bitum etiam orationis genus. ” Dionysius (i. 11) his wife. He carried on numerous intrigues with
classes him with Cato the Censor as among Aoyla various Roman ladies ; and the weight of his debts
TÁTOUS Tūv 'Pwualwv ourypapéwv. His historical had become so intolerable that he caused himself
work is likewise quoted by some of the other an- to be adopted into a plebeian family, in order to
cient writers. (Ascon. in Cornel. p. 76, ed. Orelli ; obtain the tribuneship of the people, and thus be
Gell. vi. 4, xiii. 15; Macrob. i. 16; Krause, Vitae able to bring forward a measure for the abolition
et Frag. Histor. Roin. p. 178, foll. ) This Tudita- of debts. He was elected tribune at the end of
nus was the maternal grandfather of the orator B. C. 48, and forth with commenced to carry his
Hortensius, since his daughter Sempronia married schemes into execution. But Antony took up
L. Hortensius, the father of the orator.
arms, and Dolabella was defeated. In the midst
8. SEMPRONIUS TUDITANUS, was the maternal of these tumults Tullia, who had been long suffer-
grandfather of Fulvia, the wife of Antonius the ing from ill health, set out to join her father at
triumvir. He is described by Cicero as a mad- Brundusium, which place she reached in June,
man, who was accustomed to scatter his money B. C. 47. Cicero, however, was unwilling that
among the people from the Rostra. (Cic. Phil. iii. even his own daughter should be a witness of his
6, Acad. ii. 28 ; Val. Max.
17). A work by Tubero, “ De Officio Judicis' Next year (B. C. 207) Tubulus was sent
is mentioned by Gellius (xiv. 2); and another from Etruria to Tarentum, and in the course of the
“Ad C. Oppium” is mentioned by Gellius (vii. 19). same year from the latter place to Capua ; but
Like his father Q. Tubero wrote a history (Liv. while marching to Capua he fell upon Hannibal's
iv. 23 ; Suet. Caes. 83), but whether the quota- army, killed four thousand men, and took nine
tions of A. Gellius (vi. 3, 4) are taken from the standards. He continued in the command at Capua
history of the father or the son cannot be determined. till the end of B. c. 203. (Liv. xxvii. 6, 7, 11, 22,
Tubero the jurist, who is often cited in the Digest, / 24, 35, 40, xxviii. 10, xxix. 13. )
19
town.
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TUDITANUS.
1181
TUDITANUS.
&
'L'HA
COIN OP L. HOSTILIUS TUBULUS.
2. L. Hostilius TUBULU8, praetor & c. 142, consul B. c. 240 with C. Claudius Centho, and cen-
received bribes in such an open manner, when he Bor B. c. 230 with Q. Fabius Maximus. (Gell. xvii.
was presiding at a trial for murder, that in the 21 ; Cic. Brut. 18, Tusc. i. I, de Senect. 14 ; Pasti
following year P. Scaevola, the tribune of the plebs, Capit. )
proposed and carried a plebiscitum for an inquiry 2. P. SEMPRONIUS TUDITANUS, was a tribune
into his conduct; whereupon Tubulus forth with of the soldiers at the battle of Cannae in B. c. 216,
went into exile. Cicero more than once speaks of and one of the few Roman officers who survived
him as one of the vilest of men, and quotes a pas- that fatal day. When the smaller of the two
sage of Lucilius, in which the name of Tubulus Roman camps in which he had taken refuge was
occurs as an instance of a sacrilegious wretch. (Cic. besieged by the Carthaginians, he bravely cut his
ad Alt. xii. 5. § 3, de Fin. ii. 16, iv. 28, v. 22, de way through the enemy with six hundred men,
Nat. Deor. i. 23, i. 30, pro Scaur. 1. ) Accord reached the larger camp, and from thence marched
ing to Asconius (in Scaur. p. 23, ed. Orelli) Tu-to Canusium, where he arrived in safety. Two
bulus was brought back from exile on account of years afterwards (B. c. 214) Tuditanus was curule
his numerous crimes, and took poison of his own aedile, and in the next year (B. C. 213) praetor,
accord, to escape being put to death in prison. with Ariminum as his province. He took the
The following coin was struck by a L' Hostilius town of Aternum, and was continued in the same
Tubulus, but it is doubtful whether by the same command for the two following years (B. C. 212,
person as the preceding. It has on the obverse 211). He was censor in B. c. 209 with M. Cornelius
the head of Pallas, and on the reverse a laurel Cethegus, although neither he nor his colleague
wreath with the legend L. H. TVB. (i. e. L. Hosti- had yet held the consulship. In B. C. 205 he was
lius Tubulus), and underneath ROMA. (Eckbel, sent into Greece with the title of proconsul, and at
vol. v. p. 227. )
the head of a military and naval force, for the
purpose of opposing Philip, with whom however
he concluded & preliminary treaty, which was
readily ratified by the Romans, who were anxious
to give their undivided attention to the war in
Africa. Tuditanus had, during his absence, been
elected consul for the year 204 together with M.
Cornelius Cethegus, his colleague in the censorship.
Roma
He received Bruttii as his province with the con-
duct of the war against Hannibal. In the neigh-
bourhood of Croton Tuditanus experienced a re-
pulse, with a loss of twelve hundred men; but he
TUCCA, PLOʻTIUS, a friend of Horace and shortly afterwards gained a decisive victory over
Virgil. The latter poet leſt Tucca one of his heirs, Hannibal, who was obliged in consequence to shut
and bequeathed his unfinished writings to him and himself up within the walls of Croton. It was in
Varius, who afterwards published the Aeneid by this battle that he vowed a temple to Fortuna
order of Augustus. (Hor. Sat. i. 5. 40, i. 10. 81; Primigenia, if he should succeed in routing the
Donat. Vit. Virgil. $$ 52, 53, 56 ; Schol. ad Pers. enemy. In B. C. 201 Tuditanus was one of the
Sat. ii. 42; Weichert, Poëtarum Latinorum Reli- three ambassadors sent to Ptolemy, king of Egypt.
quiae, p. 217, foll. )
(Liv. xxii. 50, 60 ; Appian, Annib. 26, Liv. xxiv.
TUCCA, C. SERVI’LIUS, consul B. c. 284 43, 44, 47, xxv. 3, xxvi. 1, xxvii. 11, 38, xxix.
with L. Caecilius Metellus Denter. (Fasti. ) 11, 12; Cic. Brut. 15, de Senect. 4; Liv. xxix. 13,
· TU'CCIA, a Vestal Virgin, accused of incest, 36, xxxi. 2. )
appealed to the goddess to prove her innocence, and 3. M. SEMPRONIUS TUDITANUS, one of the
had power given to her to carry a sieve full of water officers of Scipio at the capture of New Carthage
from the Tiber to the temple. (Val Max. viii. 1. in Spain. (Liv. xxvi. 48. )
absol. 5; Plin. H. N. xxviii. 2 ; Dionys. ii. 69; Au- 4. C. SEMPRUNIUS Tuditanus, plebeian aedile
gustin. de Civ. Dei, x. 16. ) This miracle is comme- B. C. 198 and praetor B. c. 197, when he obtained
morated on an ancient gem, of which an engraving Nearer Spain as his province. He was defeated
is given in the Dict. of Antiq. p. 1191, a, 2d ed.
p
by the Spaniards with great loss, and died shortly
TU'CCIUS. 1. M. Tuccius, curule aedile afterwards in consequence of a wound which he
B. C. 192, and praetor B. c. 190, with Apulia and had received in the battle. He was pontifex at
Bruttii as his province, where he also remained the time of his death. (Liv. xxxii. 27, 28, xxxiii.
for the two following years as propraetor. In 25, 42; Appian, Hisp. 39. )
B. c.
185 he was one of the triumviri appointed for 5. M. SEMPRONIUS M. p. C. N. TUDITANUS, tri-
founding colonies at Sipontum and Buxentum. bune of the plebs B. c. 193, proposed and carried a
(Liv. xxxv. 41, xxvi. 45, xxxvii. 2, 50, xxxviii. plebiscitum, which enacted that the law about
36, xxxix. 23. )
money lent should be the same for the Socii and
2. M. Tuccius, accused C. Sempronius Rufus the Latini as for the Roman citizens. (Dict. of
of vis in B. c. 61, and was in his turn accused by Antiq. 8. v. Lex Sempronia de Fenore. ) He was
Rufus of the same offence. (Cael. ap. Cic. ad Fam. praetor B. c. 189, when he obtained Sicily as his
viii. 8. )
province, and consul B. c. 185 with Ap. Claudius
TUDITANUS, the name of a plebeian family Pulcher. In his consulship he carried on war in
of the Sempronia gens. The name was supposed Liguria, and defeated the Apuani, while his col-
by Ateius the philologist to have been originally league was equally successful against the Ingauni.
given to one of the Sempronii, because he had a Tuditanus was an unsuccessful candidate for the
head like a tudes (ludit-is) or mallet. (Festus, consulship in B. c. 184, but was elected one of the
p. 352, ed. Müller. )
pontifices in the following year. He was carried
1. M. SEMPRONIUS C. F. M. N. TUDITANUS, I off by the great pestilence which devastated Rome
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1182
TULLIA.
TULLIA.
in B. c. 174. (Liv. Xxxv. 7, xxxvii. 47, 50, xxxix. B. c. 63 during the consulship of her father. At
23, 32, 40, 46, xli. 21. )
the time of Cicero's exile (B. C. 58), Tullia dis-
6. C. SEMPRONIUS C. P. TUDITANUS, was one played a warm interest in his fate. She and her
of the ten commissioners sent to L. Mummius in husband threw themselves at the feet of the consul
B. c. 146 in order to form Southern Greece into a Piso to implore his pity on behalf of their father.
Roman province. He bas been confounded by During Cicero's banishment Tullia lost her first
Drumann (Geschichte Roms, vol. iii. p. 81) with the husband: he was alive at the end of B. c. 58, but
following (No. 7), as he had been by Cicero, she was a widow when she welcomed her father
whose mistake was corrected by Atticus. This at Brundusium on his return from exile, in August
Tuditanus was the proavus or great grandfather of of the following year. She was married again in
the orator Hortensius. (Cic. ad Ati. xiii. 6. § 4, B. c. 56 to Furius Crassipes, a young man of rank
xiii. 33. & 3. )
and large property ; but she did not live with him
7. C. SEMPRONIUS C. F. C. N. TUDITANUS, the long, though the time and the reason of her di-
son of No. 6, was praetor B. C. 132, fourteen years vorce are alike unknown. (CRASSIPES, No. 2. )
after his father had been sent as one of the ten In B. C. 50 she was married to her third husband,
commissioners into Greece. (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 30. P. Cornelius Dolabella, one of the most profligate
§ 3, xiii. 32. § 3. ) He was consul in B. c. 129, young men of a most profligate age. Cicero was
with M'. Aquilius. On the proposition of Scipio well acquainted with the scandalous private life of
Africanus, the decision of the various disputes, his future son-in-law, for although the latter was
which arose respecting the public land in carrying still only twenty, he had been already twice de
the agrarian law of Gracchus into effect, was trans- fended by the orator in a court of justice when
ferred from the triumvirs who had been appointed accused of the most abominable crimes. But the
under the law, to the consul Tuditanus ; but the patrician birth, high connections, and personal
latter, perceiving the difficulty of the cases that beauty of Dolabella, covered a multitude of sins
were brought before him, avoided giving any deci- as well in Cicero's eyes as in those of his wife and
sion by pleading that the Illyrian war compelled daughter. Dolabella had been previously married
him to leave the city. In Illyricum he carried on and divorced his wife Fabia for the purpose of
war against the lapydes, and at first unsuccess- marrying Tullia. The marriage took place during
fully, but he afterwards gained a victory over them Cicero's absence in Cilicia. The connection, as
chiefly through the military skill of his legate, might have been anticipated, was not a happy one.
D. Junius Brutus, who had previously earned on the breaking out of the civil war in B. C. 49,
great glory by his conquests in Spain. (BRUTUS, the husband and the father of Tullia espoused op-
No. 15. ] On his return to Rome, Tuditanus was posite sides. While Dolabella fought for Caesar,
allowed to celebrate a triumph over the lapydes. and Cicero took refuge in the camp of Pompey,
(Vell. Pat. ii. 4; Cic. de Nat. Deor. ii. 5; Appian, Tullia remained in Italy. She was pregnant at
B. C. i. 19, Nyr. 10; Liv. Epit. 59; Fasti Capit. ) the commencement of the war, and on the 19th of
Tuditanus was an orator and an historian, and in May, B. C. 49, was delivered of a seven months'
both obtained considerable distinction. Cicero says child, which was very weak, and died soon after-
of him (Brut. 25): – “ Cum omni vita atque victu wards. After the battle of Pharsalia, Dolabella
excultus atque expolitus, tum ejus elegans est ha- returned to Rome, but brought no consolation to
bitum etiam orationis genus. ” Dionysius (i. 11) his wife. He carried on numerous intrigues with
classes him with Cato the Censor as among Aoyla various Roman ladies ; and the weight of his debts
TÁTOUS Tūv 'Pwualwv ourypapéwv. His historical had become so intolerable that he caused himself
work is likewise quoted by some of the other an- to be adopted into a plebeian family, in order to
cient writers. (Ascon. in Cornel. p. 76, ed. Orelli ; obtain the tribuneship of the people, and thus be
Gell. vi. 4, xiii. 15; Macrob. i. 16; Krause, Vitae able to bring forward a measure for the abolition
et Frag. Histor. Roin. p. 178, foll. ) This Tudita- of debts. He was elected tribune at the end of
nus was the maternal grandfather of the orator B. C. 48, and forth with commenced to carry his
Hortensius, since his daughter Sempronia married schemes into execution. But Antony took up
L. Hortensius, the father of the orator.
arms, and Dolabella was defeated. In the midst
8. SEMPRONIUS TUDITANUS, was the maternal of these tumults Tullia, who had been long suffer-
grandfather of Fulvia, the wife of Antonius the ing from ill health, set out to join her father at
triumvir. He is described by Cicero as a mad- Brundusium, which place she reached in June,
man, who was accustomed to scatter his money B. C. 47. Cicero, however, was unwilling that
among the people from the Rostra. (Cic. Phil. iii. even his own daughter should be a witness of his
6, Acad. ii. 28 ; Val. Max.
