а
prort of the policy of the imperial government to with a double l in the Capitoline Fasti, this form is
publish such reports, we may reasonably question the to be preferred.
prort of the policy of the imperial government to with a double l in the Capitoline Fasti, this form is
publish such reports, we may reasonably question the to be preferred.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
ii.
12, or Cic.
Frag.
p.
235, swore, in the name of the republic, to a humiliating
ed. Orelli. )
peace. The Roman state however refused to ratify
2. Detected in adultery, and dreadfully pu- the treaty, and sent back the consuls and the other
nished by the husband, P. Cernius. (Val. Max. vi. conimanders to Pontius, who, however, refused to
1. & 13. )
accept them. The name of Pontius does not occur
3. T. PONTIUS, a centurion possessing great again for nearly thirty years, but as Livy rarely
bodily strength, mentioned by Cicero (de Senect. mentions the names of the Samnite generals, it is
10), is perhaps the same as the Pontius of whom not improbable that Pontius may have commanded
Lucilius speaks (ap. Cic. de Fin. i. 3).
them on many other occasions. At all events
4. Pontius, one of Caesar's soldiers, was taken we find him again at the hend of the Samnite
prisoner by Scipio, the father-in-law of Pompey, forces in B. c. 292, in which year he defeated the
but preferred death rather than deserting his old Roman army under the command of the consul
general. (Val. Max. iii. 8. $ 7. )
Q. Fabius Gurges. This disaster, when nothing
5. Pontius, one of the companions of Antony but victory was expected, so greatly exasperated
in his revels. (Cic. Phil. xiii. 2. $ 3. )
the people that Fabius would have been deprived
PO'NTIUS, a deacon of the African Church, of his imperium, had not his father, the celebrated
the tried friend and constant companion of Cyprian, Fabius Maxinus, offered to serve as his legate during
drew up a narrative of the lite and sufferings of the the remainder of the war. It was in the same year
martyred bishop, which is styled an excellent pro- that the decisive battle was fought, which brought
duction (egregium volumen) by Jerome. If the the war to a conclusion. The Samnites were en-
piece extant under the name of Pontius, entitled tirely defeated, and Pontius was taken prisoner.
De Vita et Passione S. Cypriani, be genuine, it in the triumph of the consul, Pontius was led in
certainly does not merit such high commendation, chains, and afterwards beheaded, an act which
since it is composed in an ambitious declamatory Niebuhr characterises as “the greatest stain in the
style, full of affectation and rhetorical ornaments. Roman annals," and for which the plea of custom
Perhaps the original work may have formed the can be offered as the only palliation. (Liv. ix. ,
basis of what we now possess, which has probably &c. , Epit. xi. ; Appian, Samn. iv. &c. ; Cic. de
been built up into its present form by the labour of Senect. 12, de Off. ii. 21 ; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome,
various hands. It will be found attached to all the vol. iii. pp. 215, &c. , 397, &c. )
most important editions of Cyprian, and is con- M. PO'NTIUS LAELIANUS, consul A. D.
tained also in the Acta Primorum Martyrum of 163 with Pastor.
Ruinart, 4to. Paris, 1690, and fol. Amst. 1713. PONTIUS LUPUS, a Roman eques, who
The Acta Pontii are preserved in the Miscellanea continued to plead in the courts after he had lost
of Baluze, 8vo. Par. 1678, vol. ii. p. 121, and in his sight. (Val. Max. viii. 7. $ 5. )
the Acta Sanctorum under 8th March, the day PO'NTIUS NIGRI'NUS. (NIGRINUS. )
marked as his festival in the Roman Martyrologies. POʻNTIUS PAULI'NUS. [PAULINUS, p.
(Hieron. de Viris IV. 68 ; Schönemann, Bibl. Pa- 114. )
trum Lat. vol. i. c. iii. $ 6. )
[W. R. ) PO'NTIUS PILATUS, was the sixth procu-
PO'NTIUS AUFIDIA'NUS, a Roman eques, rator of Judaea, and the successor of Valerius
killed his daughter when she had been guilty of a Gratus. He held the office for ten years in the
breach of chastity. (Val. Max. vi. 1. $ 3. ) reign of Tiberius, and it was during his government
POʻNTIUS COMI'NIUS. (COMINIUS. ) that Christ taught, suffered, and died. By his tyran-
PO’NTIUS FREGELLA'NUS, was deprived nical conduct he excited an insurrection at Jerusalem,
of his rank as senator, a. D. 36, as one of the and at a later period commotions in Simaria also,
agents of the notorious Albucilla in her adulteries. which were not put down without the loss of life.
(Tac. Ann. vi. 48. )
The Samaritans complained of his conduct to
POʻNTIUS, HERE'NNIUS, the father of C. Vitellius, the governor of Syria, who deprived him
Pontius, was an old man living at Caudium, when of his office, and sent him to Rome to answer be-
his son defeated the Roman army in the neigh- fore the emperor the accusations that were brought
bourhood of that town in B. C. 321. The Samnites against him. As Pilatus reached Rome shortly
sent to ask his advice how they should avail them after the death of Tiberius, which took place on
selves of their extraordinary good fortune. The the 15th of March, 4. D. 37, he was probably de-
reply which
gave is related at length by Livy posed in the preceding year A. D. 36, and would
(ix. 1, 3 ; comp. Appian, Samn. iv. 3. ) It would therefore have entered upon his duties as procura-
appear from Cicero (de Senect. 12), that there was tor in A. D. 26. Eusebius states that Pilatus put
a tradition which supposed Herennius Pontius and an end to his own life at the commencement of the
Archytas of Tarentum to have been friends ; and reign of Caligula, worn out by the many misfor-
Niebuhr supposes that Nearchus had written a tunes he had experienced. (Tac. Ann. xv. 44 ;
dialogue in which Archytas, the Samnite Pontius, Matthew, xxvii ; Mark, xr; Luke, iii. 1, xxiii. ;
and Plato, were speakers. (Hist. of Rome, vol. iii. John, xviii. xix. ; Joseph. Antiq. xviii. 3. § 1, &c. ,
note 373. )
xviii. 4. § 1, &c. , B. Jud. ii. 9. 2; Euseb. H. E.
C. PO'NTIUS, son of HERE'NNIUS, the ii. 7. ) The early Christian writers refer frequently
general of the Samnites in B. c. 321, defeated the to an official report, made by Pilatus to the empe-
Roman army under the two consuls T. Veturius ror Tiberius, of the condemnation and death of
Calvinus and Sp. Postumius Albinus in one of the Christ. (Just. Mart. Apol. i. pp. 76, 84 ; Tertull.
mountain passes in the neighbourhood of Caudium. A pol. 5 ; Euseb. H. E. ii. 2 ; Oros. vii. 4 ; Chry-
The survivors, who were completely at the mercy sost. Homil
. VIII. in Pasch. ) It is not at all impro-
of the Samnites, were dismissed unhurt by Pon- bable that such a report was made ; but considering,
tius. They had to surrender their arms, and to on the one hand, the frequency of forgeries in the early
pass under the yoke ; and as the price of their Christian Church, and on the other, that it was no
## p. 497 (#513) ############################################
POPILLIA.
497
PORCIA.
а
prort of the policy of the imperial government to with a double l in the Capitoline Fasti, this form is
publish such reports, we may reasonably question the to be preferred. There are no coins to decide the
genuineness of the document At all events there question ; for those which Goltzius has published,
can be no doubt that the acts of Pilate, as they are spurious. The Popillia gens is one of the great
are called, which are extant in Greek (Fabric. plebeian gentes that rose into eminence after the
Apocr. vol. i. pp. 237, 239, vol. iii. p. 456, &c. ), as passing of the Licinian laws, which threw open
well as his two Latin letters to the emperor (Fabric. the consulship to the plebeian order. The first
Apocr, vol. i. p. 298, &c. ), are the productions of member of it who obtained the consulship was M.
a later age. (Comp. Winer, Biblisches Rcalwör- Popillius Laenas, in 1. c. 359, and he was the first
terbuch, art. Pilatus. )
plebeian who obtained the honour of a triumph.
POʻNTIUS TELESI'NUS. 1. A Samnite, The only family of the Popillii mentioned under
appears to have been appointed general of the the republic, is that of Laenas: the majority of
Samnite forces in the Social war after the death of the few Popillii, who occur without a surname, and
Pompaedius Silo. At all events he was at the who are given below, may have belonged to the
head of the Samnite army in B. C. 82, in which same family, and their cognomen is probably omitted
year Carbo and the younger Marius were con- through inadvertence.
buls. Marius and the brother of Telesinus were POPI'LLIUS. 1. T. POPILLIUS, a legatus in
besieged in Praeneste by Sulla. Telesinus him- the Roman army engaged in the siege of Capua,
self, at the head of an army of 40,000 men, B. c. 211. (Liv. xxvi. 6. )
had marched to the neighbourhood of Praeneste, 2. P. POPILLIUS, one of the three ambassadors
apparently with the intention of relieving the sent to king Syphax in Africa, in B. c. 210. (Liv.
town, but in reality with another object, which xxvii. 4. )
he kept a profound secret. In the dead of the night 3. C. POPILLIUS, surnamed SABELLUS, a Roman
he broke up from his quarters, and marched eques, distinguished himself by his bravery in the
straight upon Rome, which had been left without campaign against the Istri in B. c. 178. (Liv. xli.
any army for its protection. The Samnites were 4. )
upon the point of avenging the many years of op- 4. M. POPILLIUS, one of the ambassadors sent
pression which they had experienced from the to the Aetolians, in B. c. 174. (Liv. xli. 25. )
Romans. Sulla scarcely arrived in time to save 5. P. POPILLIUS, the son of a freedman, is said
the city. Near the Colline gate the battle was by Cicero to have been condemned for bribery.
fought, the most desperate and bloody of all the (Cic. pro Cluent. 36, 47. )
contests during the civil war. Pontius fell in the POPLI'COLA. (PUBLICOLA. ]
fight ; his head was cut off, and carried under the POPPAEA SABI'NA. (SABINA. ]
walls of Praeneste, to let the younger Marius POPPAEUS SABI'NUS. (SABINUS. ]
know that his last bope of succour was gone.
POPPAEUS SECUNDUS. (SECUNDUS. ]
(Appian, B. C. i. 90–93 ; Vell. Pat. ii. 27. ) POPPAEUS SILVANUS. (SILVANUS. )
2. A brother of the preceding, commanded the POPPAEUS VOPISCUS. (VOPISCUS. ]
Samnite forces which had been sent to the assistance POPULO'NIA, a surname of Juno among
of the younger Marius, and shared in the defeat of the Romans, by which she seems to have been
the latter by Sulla, and with him took refuge in characterized as the protectress of the whole
Praeneste, where they were besieged by the con- Roman people. This opinion is confirmed by the
queror, B. C. 82. After the defeat of the Samnites fact that in her temple there was a small table,
and the death of the elder Telesinus, which have the symbol of political union. (Macrob. Sat. iii.
been related above, Marius and the younger Tele- 11. )
(L. S. ]
sinus attempted to escape by a subterraneous pas- PORCIA. 1. The sister of Cato Uticensis,
sage, which led from the town into the open country; was brought up with her brother in the house of
but finding that the exit was guarded, they resolved their uncle M. Livius Drusus, as they lost their
to die by one another's hands. Telesinus fell first, parents in childhood. She married L. Domitius
and Marius accordingly put an end to his own life, Ahenobarbus, who was consul in B. c. 54, and, like
or was stabbed by his slave. (Liv. Epit. 88 ; Vell. her brother, one of the leaders of the aristocratical
Pat. ii. 27. )
party. We learn from Cicero that she was at
POʻNTIUS TITINIA'NUS, the son of Q. Naples in B. c. 49, when her husband was besieged
Titinius, adopted by Pontius, joined Caesar through at Corfinium by Caesar. (Cic. ad Att. ix. 3. ) 'In
fear, in B. C. 49. (Cic. ad Att. ix. 19. & 2. ) the following year, B. C. 48, she lost her husband,
PONTUS (Móvtos), a personification of the sea, who fell in the battle of Pharsalia. She herself
is described in the ancient cosmogony as a son of died towards the end of B. C. 46, or the beginning of
Gaea, and as the father of Nereus, Thaumas, the next year, and her funeral panegyric was pro-
Phorcys, Ceto, and Eurybia, by his own mother. nounced by Cicero, and likewise by M. Varro and
(Hes. Theog. 132, 233, &c. ; Apollod. i. 2. $ 6. ) Lollius. (Plut. Cat. 1, 41; Cic. ad Att. xiii. 37,
Hyginus (Fab. praef. p. 3, ed. Staveren) calls him 48. )
a son of Aether and Gaea, and also assigns to him 2. The daughter of Cato Uticensis by his first
Bomewhat different descendants. (L. S. ] wife Atilia. She was married first to M. Bibulus,
POPI'LLIA, was twice married, and had by who was Caesar's colleague in the consulship B. C.
her former husband Q. Lutatius Catulus, by her 59, and to whom she bore three children. Bibu-
second C. Julius Caesar Strabo. Her son Catulus lus died in B. C. 48 ; and in B. C. 45 she married M.
delivered a funeral oration over her grave, which Brutus, the assassin of Julius Caesar. She inherited
was the first time that this honour had been paid all her father's republican principles, and likewise
to a female at Rome. (Cic. de Orat. ii. 11. ) bis courage and firmness of will. She induced her
POPI'LLIA GENS, plebeian. In manuscripts husband on the night before the 15th of March to
the name is sometimes written with one l, and disclose to her the conspiracy against Caesar's life,
sometimes with two ; but as it always appears and she is reported to have wounded herself in the
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PORPHYRIUS.
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1
died young
thigh in order to show that she had a courgeons according to others, attempted to throw the island
soul and could be trusted with the secret. At the of Delos against the gods, Zeus hurled a thunder-
same time her affection for her husband was stronger bolt at him, and Heracles completed his destruction
than her stoicism, and on the morning of the 15th, with his arrows. (A pollod. i. 6.
ed. Orelli. )
peace. The Roman state however refused to ratify
2. Detected in adultery, and dreadfully pu- the treaty, and sent back the consuls and the other
nished by the husband, P. Cernius. (Val. Max. vi. conimanders to Pontius, who, however, refused to
1. & 13. )
accept them. The name of Pontius does not occur
3. T. PONTIUS, a centurion possessing great again for nearly thirty years, but as Livy rarely
bodily strength, mentioned by Cicero (de Senect. mentions the names of the Samnite generals, it is
10), is perhaps the same as the Pontius of whom not improbable that Pontius may have commanded
Lucilius speaks (ap. Cic. de Fin. i. 3).
them on many other occasions. At all events
4. Pontius, one of Caesar's soldiers, was taken we find him again at the hend of the Samnite
prisoner by Scipio, the father-in-law of Pompey, forces in B. c. 292, in which year he defeated the
but preferred death rather than deserting his old Roman army under the command of the consul
general. (Val. Max. iii. 8. $ 7. )
Q. Fabius Gurges. This disaster, when nothing
5. Pontius, one of the companions of Antony but victory was expected, so greatly exasperated
in his revels. (Cic. Phil. xiii. 2. $ 3. )
the people that Fabius would have been deprived
PO'NTIUS, a deacon of the African Church, of his imperium, had not his father, the celebrated
the tried friend and constant companion of Cyprian, Fabius Maxinus, offered to serve as his legate during
drew up a narrative of the lite and sufferings of the the remainder of the war. It was in the same year
martyred bishop, which is styled an excellent pro- that the decisive battle was fought, which brought
duction (egregium volumen) by Jerome. If the the war to a conclusion. The Samnites were en-
piece extant under the name of Pontius, entitled tirely defeated, and Pontius was taken prisoner.
De Vita et Passione S. Cypriani, be genuine, it in the triumph of the consul, Pontius was led in
certainly does not merit such high commendation, chains, and afterwards beheaded, an act which
since it is composed in an ambitious declamatory Niebuhr characterises as “the greatest stain in the
style, full of affectation and rhetorical ornaments. Roman annals," and for which the plea of custom
Perhaps the original work may have formed the can be offered as the only palliation. (Liv. ix. ,
basis of what we now possess, which has probably &c. , Epit. xi. ; Appian, Samn. iv. &c. ; Cic. de
been built up into its present form by the labour of Senect. 12, de Off. ii. 21 ; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome,
various hands. It will be found attached to all the vol. iii. pp. 215, &c. , 397, &c. )
most important editions of Cyprian, and is con- M. PO'NTIUS LAELIANUS, consul A. D.
tained also in the Acta Primorum Martyrum of 163 with Pastor.
Ruinart, 4to. Paris, 1690, and fol. Amst. 1713. PONTIUS LUPUS, a Roman eques, who
The Acta Pontii are preserved in the Miscellanea continued to plead in the courts after he had lost
of Baluze, 8vo. Par. 1678, vol. ii. p. 121, and in his sight. (Val. Max. viii. 7. $ 5. )
the Acta Sanctorum under 8th March, the day PO'NTIUS NIGRI'NUS. (NIGRINUS. )
marked as his festival in the Roman Martyrologies. POʻNTIUS PAULI'NUS. [PAULINUS, p.
(Hieron. de Viris IV. 68 ; Schönemann, Bibl. Pa- 114. )
trum Lat. vol. i. c. iii. $ 6. )
[W. R. ) PO'NTIUS PILATUS, was the sixth procu-
PO'NTIUS AUFIDIA'NUS, a Roman eques, rator of Judaea, and the successor of Valerius
killed his daughter when she had been guilty of a Gratus. He held the office for ten years in the
breach of chastity. (Val. Max. vi. 1. $ 3. ) reign of Tiberius, and it was during his government
POʻNTIUS COMI'NIUS. (COMINIUS. ) that Christ taught, suffered, and died. By his tyran-
PO’NTIUS FREGELLA'NUS, was deprived nical conduct he excited an insurrection at Jerusalem,
of his rank as senator, a. D. 36, as one of the and at a later period commotions in Simaria also,
agents of the notorious Albucilla in her adulteries. which were not put down without the loss of life.
(Tac. Ann. vi. 48. )
The Samaritans complained of his conduct to
POʻNTIUS, HERE'NNIUS, the father of C. Vitellius, the governor of Syria, who deprived him
Pontius, was an old man living at Caudium, when of his office, and sent him to Rome to answer be-
his son defeated the Roman army in the neigh- fore the emperor the accusations that were brought
bourhood of that town in B. C. 321. The Samnites against him. As Pilatus reached Rome shortly
sent to ask his advice how they should avail them after the death of Tiberius, which took place on
selves of their extraordinary good fortune. The the 15th of March, 4. D. 37, he was probably de-
reply which
gave is related at length by Livy posed in the preceding year A. D. 36, and would
(ix. 1, 3 ; comp. Appian, Samn. iv. 3. ) It would therefore have entered upon his duties as procura-
appear from Cicero (de Senect. 12), that there was tor in A. D. 26. Eusebius states that Pilatus put
a tradition which supposed Herennius Pontius and an end to his own life at the commencement of the
Archytas of Tarentum to have been friends ; and reign of Caligula, worn out by the many misfor-
Niebuhr supposes that Nearchus had written a tunes he had experienced. (Tac. Ann. xv. 44 ;
dialogue in which Archytas, the Samnite Pontius, Matthew, xxvii ; Mark, xr; Luke, iii. 1, xxiii. ;
and Plato, were speakers. (Hist. of Rome, vol. iii. John, xviii. xix. ; Joseph. Antiq. xviii. 3. § 1, &c. ,
note 373. )
xviii. 4. § 1, &c. , B. Jud. ii. 9. 2; Euseb. H. E.
C. PO'NTIUS, son of HERE'NNIUS, the ii. 7. ) The early Christian writers refer frequently
general of the Samnites in B. c. 321, defeated the to an official report, made by Pilatus to the empe-
Roman army under the two consuls T. Veturius ror Tiberius, of the condemnation and death of
Calvinus and Sp. Postumius Albinus in one of the Christ. (Just. Mart. Apol. i. pp. 76, 84 ; Tertull.
mountain passes in the neighbourhood of Caudium. A pol. 5 ; Euseb. H. E. ii. 2 ; Oros. vii. 4 ; Chry-
The survivors, who were completely at the mercy sost. Homil
. VIII. in Pasch. ) It is not at all impro-
of the Samnites, were dismissed unhurt by Pon- bable that such a report was made ; but considering,
tius. They had to surrender their arms, and to on the one hand, the frequency of forgeries in the early
pass under the yoke ; and as the price of their Christian Church, and on the other, that it was no
## p. 497 (#513) ############################################
POPILLIA.
497
PORCIA.
а
prort of the policy of the imperial government to with a double l in the Capitoline Fasti, this form is
publish such reports, we may reasonably question the to be preferred. There are no coins to decide the
genuineness of the document At all events there question ; for those which Goltzius has published,
can be no doubt that the acts of Pilate, as they are spurious. The Popillia gens is one of the great
are called, which are extant in Greek (Fabric. plebeian gentes that rose into eminence after the
Apocr. vol. i. pp. 237, 239, vol. iii. p. 456, &c. ), as passing of the Licinian laws, which threw open
well as his two Latin letters to the emperor (Fabric. the consulship to the plebeian order. The first
Apocr, vol. i. p. 298, &c. ), are the productions of member of it who obtained the consulship was M.
a later age. (Comp. Winer, Biblisches Rcalwör- Popillius Laenas, in 1. c. 359, and he was the first
terbuch, art. Pilatus. )
plebeian who obtained the honour of a triumph.
POʻNTIUS TELESI'NUS. 1. A Samnite, The only family of the Popillii mentioned under
appears to have been appointed general of the the republic, is that of Laenas: the majority of
Samnite forces in the Social war after the death of the few Popillii, who occur without a surname, and
Pompaedius Silo. At all events he was at the who are given below, may have belonged to the
head of the Samnite army in B. C. 82, in which same family, and their cognomen is probably omitted
year Carbo and the younger Marius were con- through inadvertence.
buls. Marius and the brother of Telesinus were POPI'LLIUS. 1. T. POPILLIUS, a legatus in
besieged in Praeneste by Sulla. Telesinus him- the Roman army engaged in the siege of Capua,
self, at the head of an army of 40,000 men, B. c. 211. (Liv. xxvi. 6. )
had marched to the neighbourhood of Praeneste, 2. P. POPILLIUS, one of the three ambassadors
apparently with the intention of relieving the sent to king Syphax in Africa, in B. c. 210. (Liv.
town, but in reality with another object, which xxvii. 4. )
he kept a profound secret. In the dead of the night 3. C. POPILLIUS, surnamed SABELLUS, a Roman
he broke up from his quarters, and marched eques, distinguished himself by his bravery in the
straight upon Rome, which had been left without campaign against the Istri in B. c. 178. (Liv. xli.
any army for its protection. The Samnites were 4. )
upon the point of avenging the many years of op- 4. M. POPILLIUS, one of the ambassadors sent
pression which they had experienced from the to the Aetolians, in B. c. 174. (Liv. xli. 25. )
Romans. Sulla scarcely arrived in time to save 5. P. POPILLIUS, the son of a freedman, is said
the city. Near the Colline gate the battle was by Cicero to have been condemned for bribery.
fought, the most desperate and bloody of all the (Cic. pro Cluent. 36, 47. )
contests during the civil war. Pontius fell in the POPLI'COLA. (PUBLICOLA. ]
fight ; his head was cut off, and carried under the POPPAEA SABI'NA. (SABINA. ]
walls of Praeneste, to let the younger Marius POPPAEUS SABI'NUS. (SABINUS. ]
know that his last bope of succour was gone.
POPPAEUS SECUNDUS. (SECUNDUS. ]
(Appian, B. C. i. 90–93 ; Vell. Pat. ii. 27. ) POPPAEUS SILVANUS. (SILVANUS. )
2. A brother of the preceding, commanded the POPPAEUS VOPISCUS. (VOPISCUS. ]
Samnite forces which had been sent to the assistance POPULO'NIA, a surname of Juno among
of the younger Marius, and shared in the defeat of the Romans, by which she seems to have been
the latter by Sulla, and with him took refuge in characterized as the protectress of the whole
Praeneste, where they were besieged by the con- Roman people. This opinion is confirmed by the
queror, B. C. 82. After the defeat of the Samnites fact that in her temple there was a small table,
and the death of the elder Telesinus, which have the symbol of political union. (Macrob. Sat. iii.
been related above, Marius and the younger Tele- 11. )
(L. S. ]
sinus attempted to escape by a subterraneous pas- PORCIA. 1. The sister of Cato Uticensis,
sage, which led from the town into the open country; was brought up with her brother in the house of
but finding that the exit was guarded, they resolved their uncle M. Livius Drusus, as they lost their
to die by one another's hands. Telesinus fell first, parents in childhood. She married L. Domitius
and Marius accordingly put an end to his own life, Ahenobarbus, who was consul in B. c. 54, and, like
or was stabbed by his slave. (Liv. Epit. 88 ; Vell. her brother, one of the leaders of the aristocratical
Pat. ii. 27. )
party. We learn from Cicero that she was at
POʻNTIUS TITINIA'NUS, the son of Q. Naples in B. c. 49, when her husband was besieged
Titinius, adopted by Pontius, joined Caesar through at Corfinium by Caesar. (Cic. ad Att. ix. 3. ) 'In
fear, in B. C. 49. (Cic. ad Att. ix. 19. & 2. ) the following year, B. C. 48, she lost her husband,
PONTUS (Móvtos), a personification of the sea, who fell in the battle of Pharsalia. She herself
is described in the ancient cosmogony as a son of died towards the end of B. C. 46, or the beginning of
Gaea, and as the father of Nereus, Thaumas, the next year, and her funeral panegyric was pro-
Phorcys, Ceto, and Eurybia, by his own mother. nounced by Cicero, and likewise by M. Varro and
(Hes. Theog. 132, 233, &c. ; Apollod. i. 2. $ 6. ) Lollius. (Plut. Cat. 1, 41; Cic. ad Att. xiii. 37,
Hyginus (Fab. praef. p. 3, ed. Staveren) calls him 48. )
a son of Aether and Gaea, and also assigns to him 2. The daughter of Cato Uticensis by his first
Bomewhat different descendants. (L. S. ] wife Atilia. She was married first to M. Bibulus,
POPI'LLIA, was twice married, and had by who was Caesar's colleague in the consulship B. C.
her former husband Q. Lutatius Catulus, by her 59, and to whom she bore three children. Bibu-
second C. Julius Caesar Strabo. Her son Catulus lus died in B. C. 48 ; and in B. C. 45 she married M.
delivered a funeral oration over her grave, which Brutus, the assassin of Julius Caesar. She inherited
was the first time that this honour had been paid all her father's republican principles, and likewise
to a female at Rome. (Cic. de Orat. ii. 11. ) bis courage and firmness of will. She induced her
POPI'LLIA GENS, plebeian. In manuscripts husband on the night before the 15th of March to
the name is sometimes written with one l, and disclose to her the conspiracy against Caesar's life,
sometimes with two ; but as it always appears and she is reported to have wounded herself in the
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thigh in order to show that she had a courgeons according to others, attempted to throw the island
soul and could be trusted with the secret. At the of Delos against the gods, Zeus hurled a thunder-
same time her affection for her husband was stronger bolt at him, and Heracles completed his destruction
than her stoicism, and on the morning of the 15th, with his arrows. (A pollod. i. 6.
