Sulpicius Rufus in the praetor who accompanied
Saturninus
in his flight to
government of Achaia.
government of Achaia.
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C.
67, and in the fold Glabrio fought as a gladiator in the amphitheatre
lowing year proconsul of Cilicia (Schol. Gronov. in attached to the emperor's villa at Alba, and slew a
Cic. pro Leg. Man. pp. 438, 442, Orelli), to which, lion of unusual size. Glabrio was first banished
by the Gabinian law (GABINIUS), Bithynia and and afterwards put to death by Domitian. (Suet.
Pontus were added. (Sal. Hist. v, p. 243, ed. Ger | Dom. 10; Dion Cass. lxvii. 12, 14 ; Juv, Sat.
lach ; Plut. Pomp. 30. ) He succeeded L. Lucullus iv. 94. )
(W. B. D. )
in the direction of the war against Mithridates GLA'PHYRA (raapúpa), an hetaera, whose
(Dion Cass. xxxv. 14; Cic. pro Leg. Man. 2. charms, it is said, chiefly induced Antony to give
$ 5), but his military career was not answerable the kingdom of Cappadocia to her son Archelaus,
to his civil reputation. Glabrio hurried to the in B. c. 34. (Dion Cass. xlix. 32 ; App. Bell. Civ.
East, thinking that Mithridates was already con- v. 7; comp. Vol. I. p. 263. )
(E. E. )
quered, and that he should obtain an easy triumph. GLAUCE (raaikn). 1. One of the Nereides,
But when, instead of a vanquished enemy, he the name of Glauce being only a personification of
found a mutinous army and an arduous campaign the colour of the sea (Hom. Il. xvii. 39. )
awaiting him, he remained inactive within the 2. One of the Danaides. (Apollod. ii. 1. $ 5. )
frontiers of Bithynia. (Dion Cass. xxxv. 17 ; Cic. 3. An Arcadian nymph. (Paus. viii. 47. $ 2. )
pro Leg. Man. l. c. ) Glabrio was indeed worse 4. The wife of Upis, the mother of what Cicero
than inefficient. He directly fomented the insub-|(de Nat. Deor. ii. 23) calls the third Diana.
ordination in the legions of Lucullus by issuing, 5. A daughter of king Creon of Corinth. Jason,
Boon after his arrival in Asia, a proclamation after deserting Medeia, engaged himself to her,
releasing Lucullus's soldiers from their military but Medeia took vengeance by sending her a wed-
obedience to him, and menacing them with punish- ding garment, the magic power of which burnt the
ment if they continued under bis command. (App. wearer to death. Thus Glauce and even her
Mithrid. 90. ) Lucullus resigned part of his father perished. (A pollod. i. 9. § 28 ; Diod. iv.
army to Glabrio (Cic. pro Leg. Man. 9), who 55 ; Hygin. Fab. 25 ; comp. Eurip. Med. )
allowed Mithridates to ravage Cappadocia, and to 6. A daughter of Cychreus of Salamis, who mar-
regain the greater portion of the provinces which ried Actaeus, and became by him the mother of
the Romans had stripped him of. (Dion Cass. l. c. ) | Telamon. (Apollod. iii. 12. $ 7. )
Glabrio was himself superseded by Cn. Pompey, 7. A daughter of Cycnus, who was slain by the
as soon as the Manilian law had transferred to him Greeks in the Trojan war, whereupon Glauce be
the war in the East. In the debate on the doom came the slave of the Telamonian Ajax. (Dich
of Catiline's accomplices in December, B. C. 63, Cret. ii. 12, &c. ).
(L. S. )
Glabrio declared in favour of capital punishment, GLAUÄCIA (rlaukia), a daughter of the river-
before the speech of Cato determined the majority god Scamander. When Heracles went to war
of the senate (Cic. ad Att. xii. 21), and he ap- against Troy, Deimachus, a Boeotian, one of the
proved generally of Cicero's consulship (Phil. ii. 5). companions of Heracles, fell in love with Glaucia
He was a member of the college of pontiffs in But Deimachus was slain in battle before Glaucia
B. c. 57. (Har. Resp. 6, ad Q. fr. ii. 1. )
had given birth to the child she had by him. She
6. M'. Acilius GLABRIO, son of the preceding fled for refuge to Heracles, who took her with him
and of Aemilia, daughter of M. Aemilius Scaurus, to Greece, and entrusted her to the care of Cleon,
consul in B. c. 115. Glabrio addressed the ju- the father of Deimachus. She there gave birth to
dices in behalf of his father-in-law, who was im- a son, whom she called Scamander, and who after-
peached for extortion in B. C. 54. [SCAURUS. ] wards obtained a tract of land in Boeotia, tra-
(Ascon. in Cic. Scaurian, p. 29, Orelli. ) Glabrio versed by two streams, one of which he called
was born in the house of Cn. Pompey, B. c. 81, who Scamander and the other Glaucia. He was mar-
married his mother after her compulsory divorce ried to Acidusa, from whom the Boeotian well,
from the elder Glabrio (No. 5). Aemilia died in | Acidusa, derived its name, and had three daughters,
giving birth to him. (Plut. Sull
. 33, Pomp. 9. ) who were worshipped under the name of “the
În the civil wars, B. C. 48, Glabrio was one of three maidens. ” (Plut. Quaest. Gr. 41. (LS. )
Caesar's lieutenants, and commanded the garrison GLAU'CIA, C. SERVI'LIUS. praetor in B. C.
of Oricum in Epeirus (Caes. B. C. ii. 15, 16, 39). 100, co-operated with C. Marius, then consul for
During the African war Glabrio was stationed in the sixth time, and with L. Appuleius Saturninus,
Sicily, and at this time, B. C. 46, Cicero addressed tribune of the plebs in the same year. Glaucia
to him nine letters (ad Fam. xiii. 30—39) in held the comitia of the tribes at an irregular time
behalf of friends or clients to whom their affairs in and place, and thus procured the election of Satur-
Sicily, or the casualties of the civil war, rendered ninus to the tribuneship. He was candidate for
protection important. When Caesar, in B. c. 44, the consulship in the year immediately succeeding
was preparing for the Parthian wars, Glabrio was his praetorship, although the laws appointed an in-
sent forward into Greece with a detachment of the terval of at least two years. Glaucia was the only
army, and succeeded P.
Sulpicius Rufus in the praetor who accompanied Saturninus in his flight to
government of Achaia. He was twice defended on the Capitol, and when the fugitives were compelled
capital charges by Cicero, and acquitted ; and by want of water to surrender, he perished with him
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273
GLAUCIPPUS.
Cicero says (in Cal. ij. 6) that although Glaucia | sent secret orders to Glaucias to put both his cap-
was not included by the senate in their decree for tives to death, which instructions he immediately
the execution of Saturninus and his partisans, obeyed. (Diod. xix. 52, 105. ) (E. H. B. ]
Marius put him to death on his own authority. GLAU'CIAS (Tlavalas), a rhetorician of
(Cic. Brut. 62, pro C. Rabir. perd. 7, in Cat. i. 2, Athens, who appears to have lived in the first
Philipp. viii. 5, de Harusp. Resp. 24 ; Schol. Bob. century of our acra, but he is mentioned only by
in Milonian. p. 277, Orelli ; App. B. C. i. 28, 32 ; Plutarch (Sympos. i. 10, 3, ii. 2). (L. S. )
Val. Max. ix. 7 ; Plut. Mar. 27, 30 ; Vell. Pat. GLAUCIAS (raauklas), á Greek physician,
ii. 12; Flor. iii. 16. & 4. ) Cicero compares Glau- belonging to the sect of the Empírici (Galen, De
cia to the Athenian demagogue Hyperbolus (Brut. Meth. Med. ii. 7, vol. X. p. 142, Cominent. in
62), and says that he was the worst of men. He Hippocr. “ Epid. VI. " iii. 29, vol. xvii. pt. ii. p.
adinits, however, that he was eloquent, acute, and 94), who lived after Serapion of Alcxandria, and
witty. (de Or. ii. 61, 65. ) An anecdote related by before Heracleides of Tarentum, and therefore pro-
Cicero (pro Rub. Post. 6. & 14) conveys some notion bably in the third or second century B. C. (Celsus,
of Glaucia's manner. He used to tell the plebs, De Medic. i. Prac. p. 5. ) Galen mentions him as one
when a rogatio was read to them, to mind whether of the earliest commentators on the whole of the
the words “ dictator, consul, praetor, or magister works of Hippocrates (Comment, in Hippocr. “ De
equitum" occurred in the preamble. If so, the Humor. " i. 24, vol. xvi. p. 196), and he also wrote
rogatio was no concern of theirs : but if they heard an alphabetical glossary on the difficult words oc-
the words “and whosoever after this enactment," curring in the Hippocratic collection. (Erot. Gloss.
then to look sharp, for some new fetter of law was Hippocr. p. 16, ed. Franz. ) His commentaries on
going to be forged. Glaucia was the author of a Hippocrates are several times quoted and referred
law de Repetundis of which the fragments are col- to by Galen. (Comment. in Hippocr. “ De Hu-
lected by Orelli (Index Legum, p. 269), and he in- mor. " i. Praef. ii. 30, vol. xvi. , pp. 1, 324, 327 ;
troduced a change in the form of comperendinatio. Comment. in Hippocr. “ Epid. VI. " i. Praef. ii. 65,
(Cic. in Verr. i. 9. )
(W. B. D. ) vol. xvii. pt. i. pp. 794, 992. ) It is uncertain
GLAU'CIAS (Taavklas). 1. King of the Illy- whether he is the person quoted by Pliny. (H. N.
rians, or rather of the Taulantians, one of the Illy- xx. 99, xxi. 102, xxii. 47, xxiv. 91. ) Fabricius
rian tribes. He is first mentioned as bringing a says he was the master of Heracleides of Tarentum,
considerable force to the assistance of Cleitus, ano and Apollonius, but for this statement the writer
ther Illyrian prince, against Alexander the Great, Las not been able to find any authority. (Bill.
B. C. 335. They were, however, both defeated, Graec. vol. xiii. p. 171, ed. Vet. ) (W. A. G. )
and Cleitus forced to take refuge within the Tau- GLAU'CIAS (Tlavklas), a statuary of Aegina,
lantian territories, whither Alexander did not who made the bronze chariot and statue of Gelon,
pursue him, his attention being called elsewhere by the son of Deinomenes, afterwards tyrant of Syra-
the news of the revolt of Thebes. (Arrian, i. 5, cuse, in commemoration of his victory in the cha-
6. ) We next hear of Glaucias, nearly 20 years riot race at Olympia, OL. 73, B. C. 488. The fol-
later, as affording an asylum to the infant Pyrrhus, lowing bronze statues at Olympia were also by
when his father Acacides was driven out of Epeirus. Glaucias : Philon, whose victory was recorded in
(Plut. Pyrrh. 3; Justin. xvii. 3. ) By this measure the following epigram by Simonides, the son of
he gave offence to Cassander, who sought to gain Leoprepes,
possession of Epeirus for himself, and who in vain Πατρίς μέν Κορκύρα, Φίλων δ' όνομ', είμι δε
offered Glaucias 200 talents to give up the child. Γλαύκου
Not long after, the Macedonian king invaded his Yίος, και νίκη πυξ δύ' ολυμπιάδας:
territories, and defeated him in battle ; but though Glaucus of Carystus, the boxer, practising strokes
Glaucias bound himself by the treaty which ensued (okiauaxwv); and Theagenes of Thasos, who con-
to refrain from hostilities against the al'ies of Cas- quered Euthymus in boxing in Ol. 75, B. C. 480
sander, he still retained Pyrrhus at his court, and, (Paus. vi. 6. & 2). Glaucias therefore flourished
in B. c. 307, took the opportunity, after the death B. C. 488—480 (Paus. vi. 9. § 3, 10. § 1, 1).
of Alcetas, king of Epeirus, to invade that country & 3).
(P. S. )
with an army, and establish the young prince, GLAU'CIDES (riaukions), one of the chief
then 12 years old, upon the throne. (Diod. xix. men of Abydus when it was besieged by Philip V.
67 ; Plut. Pyrrh. 3; Justin. xvii. 3 ; Paus. i. 11. of Macedon, in B.
lowing year proconsul of Cilicia (Schol. Gronov. in attached to the emperor's villa at Alba, and slew a
Cic. pro Leg. Man. pp. 438, 442, Orelli), to which, lion of unusual size. Glabrio was first banished
by the Gabinian law (GABINIUS), Bithynia and and afterwards put to death by Domitian. (Suet.
Pontus were added. (Sal. Hist. v, p. 243, ed. Ger | Dom. 10; Dion Cass. lxvii. 12, 14 ; Juv, Sat.
lach ; Plut. Pomp. 30. ) He succeeded L. Lucullus iv. 94. )
(W. B. D. )
in the direction of the war against Mithridates GLA'PHYRA (raapúpa), an hetaera, whose
(Dion Cass. xxxv. 14; Cic. pro Leg. Man. 2. charms, it is said, chiefly induced Antony to give
$ 5), but his military career was not answerable the kingdom of Cappadocia to her son Archelaus,
to his civil reputation. Glabrio hurried to the in B. c. 34. (Dion Cass. xlix. 32 ; App. Bell. Civ.
East, thinking that Mithridates was already con- v. 7; comp. Vol. I. p. 263. )
(E. E. )
quered, and that he should obtain an easy triumph. GLAUCE (raaikn). 1. One of the Nereides,
But when, instead of a vanquished enemy, he the name of Glauce being only a personification of
found a mutinous army and an arduous campaign the colour of the sea (Hom. Il. xvii. 39. )
awaiting him, he remained inactive within the 2. One of the Danaides. (Apollod. ii. 1. $ 5. )
frontiers of Bithynia. (Dion Cass. xxxv. 17 ; Cic. 3. An Arcadian nymph. (Paus. viii. 47. $ 2. )
pro Leg. Man. l. c. ) Glabrio was indeed worse 4. The wife of Upis, the mother of what Cicero
than inefficient. He directly fomented the insub-|(de Nat. Deor. ii. 23) calls the third Diana.
ordination in the legions of Lucullus by issuing, 5. A daughter of king Creon of Corinth. Jason,
Boon after his arrival in Asia, a proclamation after deserting Medeia, engaged himself to her,
releasing Lucullus's soldiers from their military but Medeia took vengeance by sending her a wed-
obedience to him, and menacing them with punish- ding garment, the magic power of which burnt the
ment if they continued under bis command. (App. wearer to death. Thus Glauce and even her
Mithrid. 90. ) Lucullus resigned part of his father perished. (A pollod. i. 9. § 28 ; Diod. iv.
army to Glabrio (Cic. pro Leg. Man. 9), who 55 ; Hygin. Fab. 25 ; comp. Eurip. Med. )
allowed Mithridates to ravage Cappadocia, and to 6. A daughter of Cychreus of Salamis, who mar-
regain the greater portion of the provinces which ried Actaeus, and became by him the mother of
the Romans had stripped him of. (Dion Cass. l. c. ) | Telamon. (Apollod. iii. 12. $ 7. )
Glabrio was himself superseded by Cn. Pompey, 7. A daughter of Cycnus, who was slain by the
as soon as the Manilian law had transferred to him Greeks in the Trojan war, whereupon Glauce be
the war in the East. In the debate on the doom came the slave of the Telamonian Ajax. (Dich
of Catiline's accomplices in December, B. C. 63, Cret. ii. 12, &c. ).
(L. S. )
Glabrio declared in favour of capital punishment, GLAUÄCIA (rlaukia), a daughter of the river-
before the speech of Cato determined the majority god Scamander. When Heracles went to war
of the senate (Cic. ad Att. xii. 21), and he ap- against Troy, Deimachus, a Boeotian, one of the
proved generally of Cicero's consulship (Phil. ii. 5). companions of Heracles, fell in love with Glaucia
He was a member of the college of pontiffs in But Deimachus was slain in battle before Glaucia
B. c. 57. (Har. Resp. 6, ad Q. fr. ii. 1. )
had given birth to the child she had by him. She
6. M'. Acilius GLABRIO, son of the preceding fled for refuge to Heracles, who took her with him
and of Aemilia, daughter of M. Aemilius Scaurus, to Greece, and entrusted her to the care of Cleon,
consul in B. c. 115. Glabrio addressed the ju- the father of Deimachus. She there gave birth to
dices in behalf of his father-in-law, who was im- a son, whom she called Scamander, and who after-
peached for extortion in B. C. 54. [SCAURUS. ] wards obtained a tract of land in Boeotia, tra-
(Ascon. in Cic. Scaurian, p. 29, Orelli. ) Glabrio versed by two streams, one of which he called
was born in the house of Cn. Pompey, B. c. 81, who Scamander and the other Glaucia. He was mar-
married his mother after her compulsory divorce ried to Acidusa, from whom the Boeotian well,
from the elder Glabrio (No. 5). Aemilia died in | Acidusa, derived its name, and had three daughters,
giving birth to him. (Plut. Sull
. 33, Pomp. 9. ) who were worshipped under the name of “the
În the civil wars, B. C. 48, Glabrio was one of three maidens. ” (Plut. Quaest. Gr. 41. (LS. )
Caesar's lieutenants, and commanded the garrison GLAU'CIA, C. SERVI'LIUS. praetor in B. C.
of Oricum in Epeirus (Caes. B. C. ii. 15, 16, 39). 100, co-operated with C. Marius, then consul for
During the African war Glabrio was stationed in the sixth time, and with L. Appuleius Saturninus,
Sicily, and at this time, B. C. 46, Cicero addressed tribune of the plebs in the same year. Glaucia
to him nine letters (ad Fam. xiii. 30—39) in held the comitia of the tribes at an irregular time
behalf of friends or clients to whom their affairs in and place, and thus procured the election of Satur-
Sicily, or the casualties of the civil war, rendered ninus to the tribuneship. He was candidate for
protection important. When Caesar, in B. c. 44, the consulship in the year immediately succeeding
was preparing for the Parthian wars, Glabrio was his praetorship, although the laws appointed an in-
sent forward into Greece with a detachment of the terval of at least two years. Glaucia was the only
army, and succeeded P.
Sulpicius Rufus in the praetor who accompanied Saturninus in his flight to
government of Achaia. He was twice defended on the Capitol, and when the fugitives were compelled
capital charges by Cicero, and acquitted ; and by want of water to surrender, he perished with him
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GLAUCIAS.
273
GLAUCIPPUS.
Cicero says (in Cal. ij. 6) that although Glaucia | sent secret orders to Glaucias to put both his cap-
was not included by the senate in their decree for tives to death, which instructions he immediately
the execution of Saturninus and his partisans, obeyed. (Diod. xix. 52, 105. ) (E. H. B. ]
Marius put him to death on his own authority. GLAU'CIAS (Tlavalas), a rhetorician of
(Cic. Brut. 62, pro C. Rabir. perd. 7, in Cat. i. 2, Athens, who appears to have lived in the first
Philipp. viii. 5, de Harusp. Resp. 24 ; Schol. Bob. century of our acra, but he is mentioned only by
in Milonian. p. 277, Orelli ; App. B. C. i. 28, 32 ; Plutarch (Sympos. i. 10, 3, ii. 2). (L. S. )
Val. Max. ix. 7 ; Plut. Mar. 27, 30 ; Vell. Pat. GLAUCIAS (raauklas), á Greek physician,
ii. 12; Flor. iii. 16. & 4. ) Cicero compares Glau- belonging to the sect of the Empírici (Galen, De
cia to the Athenian demagogue Hyperbolus (Brut. Meth. Med. ii. 7, vol. X. p. 142, Cominent. in
62), and says that he was the worst of men. He Hippocr. “ Epid. VI. " iii. 29, vol. xvii. pt. ii. p.
adinits, however, that he was eloquent, acute, and 94), who lived after Serapion of Alcxandria, and
witty. (de Or. ii. 61, 65. ) An anecdote related by before Heracleides of Tarentum, and therefore pro-
Cicero (pro Rub. Post. 6. & 14) conveys some notion bably in the third or second century B. C. (Celsus,
of Glaucia's manner. He used to tell the plebs, De Medic. i. Prac. p. 5. ) Galen mentions him as one
when a rogatio was read to them, to mind whether of the earliest commentators on the whole of the
the words “ dictator, consul, praetor, or magister works of Hippocrates (Comment, in Hippocr. “ De
equitum" occurred in the preamble. If so, the Humor. " i. 24, vol. xvi. p. 196), and he also wrote
rogatio was no concern of theirs : but if they heard an alphabetical glossary on the difficult words oc-
the words “and whosoever after this enactment," curring in the Hippocratic collection. (Erot. Gloss.
then to look sharp, for some new fetter of law was Hippocr. p. 16, ed. Franz. ) His commentaries on
going to be forged. Glaucia was the author of a Hippocrates are several times quoted and referred
law de Repetundis of which the fragments are col- to by Galen. (Comment. in Hippocr. “ De Hu-
lected by Orelli (Index Legum, p. 269), and he in- mor. " i. Praef. ii. 30, vol. xvi. , pp. 1, 324, 327 ;
troduced a change in the form of comperendinatio. Comment. in Hippocr. “ Epid. VI. " i. Praef. ii. 65,
(Cic. in Verr. i. 9. )
(W. B. D. ) vol. xvii. pt. i. pp. 794, 992. ) It is uncertain
GLAU'CIAS (Taavklas). 1. King of the Illy- whether he is the person quoted by Pliny. (H. N.
rians, or rather of the Taulantians, one of the Illy- xx. 99, xxi. 102, xxii. 47, xxiv. 91. ) Fabricius
rian tribes. He is first mentioned as bringing a says he was the master of Heracleides of Tarentum,
considerable force to the assistance of Cleitus, ano and Apollonius, but for this statement the writer
ther Illyrian prince, against Alexander the Great, Las not been able to find any authority. (Bill.
B. C. 335. They were, however, both defeated, Graec. vol. xiii. p. 171, ed. Vet. ) (W. A. G. )
and Cleitus forced to take refuge within the Tau- GLAU'CIAS (Tlavklas), a statuary of Aegina,
lantian territories, whither Alexander did not who made the bronze chariot and statue of Gelon,
pursue him, his attention being called elsewhere by the son of Deinomenes, afterwards tyrant of Syra-
the news of the revolt of Thebes. (Arrian, i. 5, cuse, in commemoration of his victory in the cha-
6. ) We next hear of Glaucias, nearly 20 years riot race at Olympia, OL. 73, B. C. 488. The fol-
later, as affording an asylum to the infant Pyrrhus, lowing bronze statues at Olympia were also by
when his father Acacides was driven out of Epeirus. Glaucias : Philon, whose victory was recorded in
(Plut. Pyrrh. 3; Justin. xvii. 3. ) By this measure the following epigram by Simonides, the son of
he gave offence to Cassander, who sought to gain Leoprepes,
possession of Epeirus for himself, and who in vain Πατρίς μέν Κορκύρα, Φίλων δ' όνομ', είμι δε
offered Glaucias 200 talents to give up the child. Γλαύκου
Not long after, the Macedonian king invaded his Yίος, και νίκη πυξ δύ' ολυμπιάδας:
territories, and defeated him in battle ; but though Glaucus of Carystus, the boxer, practising strokes
Glaucias bound himself by the treaty which ensued (okiauaxwv); and Theagenes of Thasos, who con-
to refrain from hostilities against the al'ies of Cas- quered Euthymus in boxing in Ol. 75, B. C. 480
sander, he still retained Pyrrhus at his court, and, (Paus. vi. 6. & 2). Glaucias therefore flourished
in B. c. 307, took the opportunity, after the death B. C. 488—480 (Paus. vi. 9. § 3, 10. § 1, 1).
of Alcetas, king of Epeirus, to invade that country & 3).
(P. S. )
with an army, and establish the young prince, GLAU'CIDES (riaukions), one of the chief
then 12 years old, upon the throne. (Diod. xix. men of Abydus when it was besieged by Philip V.
67 ; Plut. Pyrrh. 3; Justin. xvii. 3 ; Paus. i. 11. of Macedon, in B.
