73;
in a scholion (ad Ilom.
in a scholion (ad Ilom.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
) Co-
same as that which Pausanias (i. 23. & 2) describes non (Narrat. 41) calls her the mother of Anjus
at great length. It was an excellent work of by Apollo. When Aeneias fled from Troy, she
bronze, placed in the eastern portico within the followed him ; but she was unable to discover his
Propylaea, and dedicated by Hermolycus to the traces, and disappeared. Aeneias then returned to
memory of his father, Diitrephes, who fell pierced seek her. She then appeared to him as a shade,
with arrows, B. C. 413, at the head of a body of consoled him, revealed to him bis future fate, and
Thracians, near Mycalessos in Boeotia. (Thuc. informed him that she was kept back by the great
vii. 29, 30. ) Besides these two celebrated works, mother of the gods, and was obliged to let him de-
Cresilas executed a statue of Pericles the Olym- part alone. (Virg. Aen. ii. 725, 738, 752, 769,
pian, from which, perhaps, the bust in the Va- 775, &c. ) In the Lesche of Delphi she was repre-
tican is a copy. (Ross, Kunstblatt, 1840, No. sented by Polygnotus among the captive Trojan
12 and 38. )
[L. U. ] women. (Paus. X. 26. § 1. ) A fourth personage
CREʻSIUS (Kpňoios), a surname of Dionysus of this name is mentioned by Hyginus. (Fa). 25;
at Argos, where he had a temple in which Ariadne comp. Creon, No. 1. )
(L. S. )
was said to be buried. (Paus. ii. 23. $7. ) (L. S. ] CRINAGORAS (Kpivayopas), a Greek epi-
CRESPHONTES (Kpnopoutns), a Heracleid, grammatic poet, the author of about fifty epigrams
a son of Aristomachus, and one of the conquerors in the Greek Anthology, was a native of Mytilene,
of Peloponnesus, who obtained Messenia for his among the eminent men of which city he is men-
share. But during an insurrection of the Messe- tioned by Strabo, who speaks of him as a contem-
nian nobles, he and two of his sons were slain. porary. (xiii. p. 617, sub fin. ) There are several
A third son, Aepytus, was induced by his mother, allusions in his epigrams, which refer to the reign
Merope, to avenge his father. (Apollod. ii. 8. 94, of Augustus, and on the authority of which Jacobs
&c. ; Paus. ii. 18. § 6, iv. 3. $ 3, 31. $ 9, viii. 5. believes him to have flourished from B. C. 31 to
4; comp. A EPYTUS. )
[L. S. ] A. D. 9. We may also collect from his epigrams
CRETE (Kphin), a daughter of Asterion, and that he lived at Rome (Ep. 24), and that he was
wife of Minos. According to others, she was the richer in poems than in worldly goods. (Ep. 33. )
mother of Pasiphae by Helios. (Apollod. in. 1. $ 2; He mentions a younger brother of his, Eucleides.
Diod. iv. 60. ) There are two other mythical (Ep. 12. ) From the contents of two of his epi-
personages of this name. (Apollod. iii. 3. $ 1; grams Reiske inferred, that they must have been
Diod. iii. 71. )
[L. S. ] written by a more ancient poet of the same name,
CRETEUS or CATREUS (KPNteus), a son of but this opinion is refuted by Jacobs. Crinagoras
Minos by Pasiphae or Crete, and king of Crete. often shews a true poetical spirit. He was in-
He is renowned in ancient story on account of his cluded in the Anthology of Philip of Thessalonica.
tragic death by the hand of his own son, Althe- (Jacobs, Anth. Graec. pp. 876—878; Fabric.
menes. (Apollod. ii. 1. $ 2, ii. 1. & 2; Diod. iv. Bill. Graec. iv. p. 470. )
[P. S. ]
59; Paus. viii. 53. § 2; ALTHEMENES. ) [L. S. ] CRINAS, a physician of Marseilles who prac-
CRETHEUS (Konteús), a son of Aeolus and tised at Rome in the reign of Nero, A. D. 54-68,
Enarete, was married to Tyro, the daughter of and introduced astrology into his medical practice.
Salmoneus, by whom he became the father of He acquired a large fortune, and is said by Pliny
Aeson, Pheres, Anythaon, and Hippolyte. He is (H. N. xxix. 5) to have left at his death to lis
called the founder of the town of Tolcus. (Hom. native city the immense sum of ten million ses-
Od. xi. 236, 258; Apollod. i. 9. $ 11; comp. Paus. terces (centics II. S. ) or about 78,1251. , after hav-
viii. 25. $ 5. ) According to another tradition, ing spent nearly the same sum during his life in
Cretheus was married to Demodice or Biadice, / building the walls of the city. [W. A G. ]
## p. 891 (#911) ############################################
CRISPINILLA.
891
CRISPINUS.
stances.
CRINIPPUS (Kpivianos) is the name which, I took largely in the general corruption among fe
from a comparison of Diodorus (xv. 47), it has males of that period. She lived with Nero and
been proposed to substitute for Anippus in Xen. his eunuch Porus, and was entrusted with the su-
1/ell. ri. 2. $ 36. He was sent by Dionysius I. perintendence of the latter's wardrobe. She is said
of Syracuse to Corcyra to the aid of the Spartans to have been given to stealing and to have secreted
with a squadron of ten ships, B. C. 373; but all on which she could lay her hand. Iler inter-
through his imprudence he fell, together with nine course with Nero was of such a kind, that Tacitus
of his ships, into the hands of Iphicrates. The calls her the instructor of Nero in voluptuousness.
latter, in the hope of extorting from him a large In A. D. 68, shortly after the death of Nero, she
sum of money, threatened to sell him for a slave, went to Africa to urge Claudius Macer to take up
and Crinippus slew himself in despair. (Xen. I}ell. aims to avenge the death of the emperor. She
vi. 2. $$ 4, 33, &c. ; comp. Schneid. ad loc. ; Wes- thus intended to cause a famine at Rome, by pre-
seling, ad Dio. l. c. ; Diod. xvi. 57. ) [E. E. ] venting grain being imported from Africa. Clo-
CRINIS (Kpivis), a Stoic philosopher who is dius Macer was put to death by the command of
referred to several times by Diogenes Laërtius Galbi, and the general indignation of the people
(vii. 62, 68, 76), and seems to have founded an demanded that Crispinilla also should pay for her
independent school within the boundaries of the guilt with her life, but she escaped the danger by
Stoic system, since the authority of his followers various intrigues and a cunning use of circun-
(oi nepi Kpívi) is sometimes quoted. Ile wrote
Afterwards she rose very high in public
a work called SadeKTIKT téxun, from which Dio- favour through her marriage with a man who had
genes Laërtius (vii. 71) quotes an opinion. He been consul; she was spared by Galba, Otho, and
is mentionod also by Arrian. (Diss. Epict. iii. 2. ) Vitellius, and her wealth, together with the circum-
Suidas speaks of a Crinis who was a priest of stance of her having no children, procured her
Apollo, and may be the same as the one mentioned great influence at the time. (Tacit. Hist. i.
73;
in a scholion (ad Ilom. Il. i. 396). [L. S. ) Dion. Cass. lxiii. 12. )
[L. S. ]
CRINISUS. [ACESTES. ]
CRISPI'NUS. 1. A person ridiculed by Ho-
CRINON (Kpívwv), an officer of Philip V. of race (Sat. i. 1. 120), was, according to the state-
Macedon, joined Leontius and Megaleas in their ment of the scholiasts on that passage, a bad poet
treason, and took part in the tumult at Limnaca in and philosopher, who was surnamed Aretulogus,
Acarnania, in which they assailed Aratus and and wrote verses upon the Stoics. This is all
threatened his life, irritated as they were by the that is known aboui him, and it is not improba-
successful campaign of Philip in Aetolia, B. c. 218. ble that the name may be a fictitious one, under
For this offence Crinon and Megaleas were thrown which Horace intended to ridicule some philoso-
into prison till they should find security for a fine phical poetaster.
of twenty talents. The fine was confirmed, on 2. A late Greek rhetorician, concerning whom
their trial, by the king's council, and Crinon was nothing is known, but a sentiment of his, taken
detained in prison, while Leontius became security from a work Kata Alovvolov, is preserved in Sio-
for Megaleas. (Polyb. v. 15, 16. ) [E. E. ) baeus. (Flor. xlvii. 21. )
CRISAMIS (Kpioauis). ' 1. The fifth in des 3. Of Lampsacus, wrote a life of St. Parthenius
cent from Aesculapius, the son of Dardanus, and of Lampsacus, who is said to have been a bishop
the father of Cleomyttades I. , who probably lived in the time of Constantine the Great. A Latin
in the eleventh and tenth centuries B. C. (Jo. version of that Life is printed in the collections of
Tzetzes, Chil. vii. Hist. 155, in Fabric. Bill. Graec. the lives of the Saints by Surius and Bollandus
vol. xii. p. 680, ed. vet. )
under the 7th of February. A MS. containing the
2. The ninth of the family of the Asclepiadae, Greek original exists in the imperial library at
the son of Sostratus II. , and the father of Cleo- Vienna. (Fabric. Bill. Gr. xi. p. 597. ) [L. S]
myttades 11. , who probably lived in the ninth T. CRISPI'NUS was quaestor about B. c. 69,
and eighth centuries B. C. (Id. ibid. ) He is called but is otherwise unknown. (Cic. pro Fonteio, loci
“king Crisamis" (Paetus, Epist. ad artar. , in Niebuhr. 1. )
[L. S. ]
Hippocr. Opera, vol. iii. p. 770), but the country CRISPINUS, L. BRU'TTIUS QUINTIUS,
over which he reigned is not mentioned. By some was consul a. D. 224, and fourteen years after-
writers he is said to have been the father, not of wards (A. D. 238) persuaded the inhabitants of
Cleomyttades 11. , but of Theodorus II. (W. A. G. ] Aquileia to shut their gates and defend their
CRISPINA, daughter of Bruttius Praesens walls against the savage Maximin, whose rage
[PRAESENS), was married to Commodus (A. D. when he found his attacks upon the city baffled
177), and, having proved unfaithful to her husband, led to those excesses which caused his assassina-
was divorced a few years after his accession to the tion. [MAXIMINUS. ) (Capitolin. Nar. duo, c.
throne, banished to Caprene, and there put to 21; Herodian. viii. 4. )
[W. R. )
death. (Dion Cass. lxxi. 33, lxxii. 4; Capitolin. CRISPINUS CAE'PIO. (Carrio, p. 535, b). ]
M. Aurel. 27; Lamprid. Commod. 5. ) (W. R. ] CRISPINUS, QUINCTIUS. Crispinus oc-
curs as an agnomen in the family of the Penni
Capitolini of the Quinctia gens. [CAPITOLINUS,
p. 600, a. ] The full name of the L. Quinctius
Crispinus, who was praetor in B. c. 186, and whe
triumplied in B. c. 184, on account of his victories
in Spain, was probably L. Quinctius Pennus Capi-
tolinus Crispimus. (Liv. xxxix. 6, 8, 30, 42. ) (L. S. )
CRISPISTS. RUFIUS, a Roman eques and
contemporary of the chuperors Claudius and Nero.
CRISPINILLA, CA'LVIA, a Roman lady of He was praefectus praetorio under Claudius, who
rank, of the time of the emperor Nero. She par- | employed him in arresting and dragging to Rome
COIN OF CRISPIXA.
## p. 892 (#912) ############################################
692
CRISPUS.
CRITIAS.
Valerius Asiaticus. For this service he was re- “ Scilicet, ut Turno contingat regia conjux,
warded by a large sum of money and the insignia Nos, animae viles, inhumata infletaque turba,
of the quacstorship. In A. D. 52 he was removed Sternamur campis . . . .
from his office at the instigation of Agrippina, who a fact of no great importance in itself, except in
believed him to be attached to the children of Mes so far as it corroborates the accounts of Spartianus,
salina. Crispinus was married to the notorious regarding the vindictive cruelty of Severus in all
Poppaea Sabina, who had a son by him, bearing matters affecting his personal dignity. (Dion Cass.
the same name as his father. She afterwards be- lxxv. 10; comp. Spartinn. Sever. 14. ) (W. R. ]
came the mistress of Nero, and the circumstance, CRISPUS, MA’RCIUS, served as tribune in
that she had once been the wife of Crispinus, was Caesar's army during the African war. (Hirtius,
a sufficient reason for the tyrant to send Crispinus Bell. Afr. 77. ) He is probably the same as the
into exile to Sardinia, A. D. 66, under the pretext Q. Marcius Crispus, who is frequently mentioned
of his being an accomplice in a conspiracy. Shortly by Cicero as a brave and experienced soldier. In
after when Crispinus received the sentence of B. C. 43, he was in Bithynia as proconsul, and
death, he put an end to his own life. (Tacit. Ann. when L. Murcus solicited his assistance against
xi. I, 4, xii. 42, xiii. 45, xv. 71, xvi. 17; Senec. Bassus, Crispus came with his three legions to
Octavia, 728 &c. ; Plut. Galva, 19. ) His son, Syria. When C. Cassius came to the East, both
Rufius Crispinus, was likewise put to death by Crispus and L. Murcus surrendered their legions
Nero. (Suet. Nero, 35. )
[L. S.
same as that which Pausanias (i. 23. & 2) describes non (Narrat. 41) calls her the mother of Anjus
at great length. It was an excellent work of by Apollo. When Aeneias fled from Troy, she
bronze, placed in the eastern portico within the followed him ; but she was unable to discover his
Propylaea, and dedicated by Hermolycus to the traces, and disappeared. Aeneias then returned to
memory of his father, Diitrephes, who fell pierced seek her. She then appeared to him as a shade,
with arrows, B. C. 413, at the head of a body of consoled him, revealed to him bis future fate, and
Thracians, near Mycalessos in Boeotia. (Thuc. informed him that she was kept back by the great
vii. 29, 30. ) Besides these two celebrated works, mother of the gods, and was obliged to let him de-
Cresilas executed a statue of Pericles the Olym- part alone. (Virg. Aen. ii. 725, 738, 752, 769,
pian, from which, perhaps, the bust in the Va- 775, &c. ) In the Lesche of Delphi she was repre-
tican is a copy. (Ross, Kunstblatt, 1840, No. sented by Polygnotus among the captive Trojan
12 and 38. )
[L. U. ] women. (Paus. X. 26. § 1. ) A fourth personage
CREʻSIUS (Kpňoios), a surname of Dionysus of this name is mentioned by Hyginus. (Fa). 25;
at Argos, where he had a temple in which Ariadne comp. Creon, No. 1. )
(L. S. )
was said to be buried. (Paus. ii. 23. $7. ) (L. S. ] CRINAGORAS (Kpivayopas), a Greek epi-
CRESPHONTES (Kpnopoutns), a Heracleid, grammatic poet, the author of about fifty epigrams
a son of Aristomachus, and one of the conquerors in the Greek Anthology, was a native of Mytilene,
of Peloponnesus, who obtained Messenia for his among the eminent men of which city he is men-
share. But during an insurrection of the Messe- tioned by Strabo, who speaks of him as a contem-
nian nobles, he and two of his sons were slain. porary. (xiii. p. 617, sub fin. ) There are several
A third son, Aepytus, was induced by his mother, allusions in his epigrams, which refer to the reign
Merope, to avenge his father. (Apollod. ii. 8. 94, of Augustus, and on the authority of which Jacobs
&c. ; Paus. ii. 18. § 6, iv. 3. $ 3, 31. $ 9, viii. 5. believes him to have flourished from B. C. 31 to
4; comp. A EPYTUS. )
[L. S. ] A. D. 9. We may also collect from his epigrams
CRETE (Kphin), a daughter of Asterion, and that he lived at Rome (Ep. 24), and that he was
wife of Minos. According to others, she was the richer in poems than in worldly goods. (Ep. 33. )
mother of Pasiphae by Helios. (Apollod. in. 1. $ 2; He mentions a younger brother of his, Eucleides.
Diod. iv. 60. ) There are two other mythical (Ep. 12. ) From the contents of two of his epi-
personages of this name. (Apollod. iii. 3. $ 1; grams Reiske inferred, that they must have been
Diod. iii. 71. )
[L. S. ] written by a more ancient poet of the same name,
CRETEUS or CATREUS (KPNteus), a son of but this opinion is refuted by Jacobs. Crinagoras
Minos by Pasiphae or Crete, and king of Crete. often shews a true poetical spirit. He was in-
He is renowned in ancient story on account of his cluded in the Anthology of Philip of Thessalonica.
tragic death by the hand of his own son, Althe- (Jacobs, Anth. Graec. pp. 876—878; Fabric.
menes. (Apollod. ii. 1. $ 2, ii. 1. & 2; Diod. iv. Bill. Graec. iv. p. 470. )
[P. S. ]
59; Paus. viii. 53. § 2; ALTHEMENES. ) [L. S. ] CRINAS, a physician of Marseilles who prac-
CRETHEUS (Konteús), a son of Aeolus and tised at Rome in the reign of Nero, A. D. 54-68,
Enarete, was married to Tyro, the daughter of and introduced astrology into his medical practice.
Salmoneus, by whom he became the father of He acquired a large fortune, and is said by Pliny
Aeson, Pheres, Anythaon, and Hippolyte. He is (H. N. xxix. 5) to have left at his death to lis
called the founder of the town of Tolcus. (Hom. native city the immense sum of ten million ses-
Od. xi. 236, 258; Apollod. i. 9. $ 11; comp. Paus. terces (centics II. S. ) or about 78,1251. , after hav-
viii. 25. $ 5. ) According to another tradition, ing spent nearly the same sum during his life in
Cretheus was married to Demodice or Biadice, / building the walls of the city. [W. A G. ]
## p. 891 (#911) ############################################
CRISPINILLA.
891
CRISPINUS.
stances.
CRINIPPUS (Kpivianos) is the name which, I took largely in the general corruption among fe
from a comparison of Diodorus (xv. 47), it has males of that period. She lived with Nero and
been proposed to substitute for Anippus in Xen. his eunuch Porus, and was entrusted with the su-
1/ell. ri. 2. $ 36. He was sent by Dionysius I. perintendence of the latter's wardrobe. She is said
of Syracuse to Corcyra to the aid of the Spartans to have been given to stealing and to have secreted
with a squadron of ten ships, B. C. 373; but all on which she could lay her hand. Iler inter-
through his imprudence he fell, together with nine course with Nero was of such a kind, that Tacitus
of his ships, into the hands of Iphicrates. The calls her the instructor of Nero in voluptuousness.
latter, in the hope of extorting from him a large In A. D. 68, shortly after the death of Nero, she
sum of money, threatened to sell him for a slave, went to Africa to urge Claudius Macer to take up
and Crinippus slew himself in despair. (Xen. I}ell. aims to avenge the death of the emperor. She
vi. 2. $$ 4, 33, &c. ; comp. Schneid. ad loc. ; Wes- thus intended to cause a famine at Rome, by pre-
seling, ad Dio. l. c. ; Diod. xvi. 57. ) [E. E. ] venting grain being imported from Africa. Clo-
CRINIS (Kpivis), a Stoic philosopher who is dius Macer was put to death by the command of
referred to several times by Diogenes Laërtius Galbi, and the general indignation of the people
(vii. 62, 68, 76), and seems to have founded an demanded that Crispinilla also should pay for her
independent school within the boundaries of the guilt with her life, but she escaped the danger by
Stoic system, since the authority of his followers various intrigues and a cunning use of circun-
(oi nepi Kpívi) is sometimes quoted. Ile wrote
Afterwards she rose very high in public
a work called SadeKTIKT téxun, from which Dio- favour through her marriage with a man who had
genes Laërtius (vii. 71) quotes an opinion. He been consul; she was spared by Galba, Otho, and
is mentionod also by Arrian. (Diss. Epict. iii. 2. ) Vitellius, and her wealth, together with the circum-
Suidas speaks of a Crinis who was a priest of stance of her having no children, procured her
Apollo, and may be the same as the one mentioned great influence at the time. (Tacit. Hist. i.
73;
in a scholion (ad Ilom. Il. i. 396). [L. S. ) Dion. Cass. lxiii. 12. )
[L. S. ]
CRINISUS. [ACESTES. ]
CRISPI'NUS. 1. A person ridiculed by Ho-
CRINON (Kpívwv), an officer of Philip V. of race (Sat. i. 1. 120), was, according to the state-
Macedon, joined Leontius and Megaleas in their ment of the scholiasts on that passage, a bad poet
treason, and took part in the tumult at Limnaca in and philosopher, who was surnamed Aretulogus,
Acarnania, in which they assailed Aratus and and wrote verses upon the Stoics. This is all
threatened his life, irritated as they were by the that is known aboui him, and it is not improba-
successful campaign of Philip in Aetolia, B. c. 218. ble that the name may be a fictitious one, under
For this offence Crinon and Megaleas were thrown which Horace intended to ridicule some philoso-
into prison till they should find security for a fine phical poetaster.
of twenty talents. The fine was confirmed, on 2. A late Greek rhetorician, concerning whom
their trial, by the king's council, and Crinon was nothing is known, but a sentiment of his, taken
detained in prison, while Leontius became security from a work Kata Alovvolov, is preserved in Sio-
for Megaleas. (Polyb. v. 15, 16. ) [E. E. ) baeus. (Flor. xlvii. 21. )
CRISAMIS (Kpioauis). ' 1. The fifth in des 3. Of Lampsacus, wrote a life of St. Parthenius
cent from Aesculapius, the son of Dardanus, and of Lampsacus, who is said to have been a bishop
the father of Cleomyttades I. , who probably lived in the time of Constantine the Great. A Latin
in the eleventh and tenth centuries B. C. (Jo. version of that Life is printed in the collections of
Tzetzes, Chil. vii. Hist. 155, in Fabric. Bill. Graec. the lives of the Saints by Surius and Bollandus
vol. xii. p. 680, ed. vet. )
under the 7th of February. A MS. containing the
2. The ninth of the family of the Asclepiadae, Greek original exists in the imperial library at
the son of Sostratus II. , and the father of Cleo- Vienna. (Fabric. Bill. Gr. xi. p. 597. ) [L. S]
myttades 11. , who probably lived in the ninth T. CRISPI'NUS was quaestor about B. c. 69,
and eighth centuries B. C. (Id. ibid. ) He is called but is otherwise unknown. (Cic. pro Fonteio, loci
“king Crisamis" (Paetus, Epist. ad artar. , in Niebuhr. 1. )
[L. S. ]
Hippocr. Opera, vol. iii. p. 770), but the country CRISPINUS, L. BRU'TTIUS QUINTIUS,
over which he reigned is not mentioned. By some was consul a. D. 224, and fourteen years after-
writers he is said to have been the father, not of wards (A. D. 238) persuaded the inhabitants of
Cleomyttades 11. , but of Theodorus II. (W. A. G. ] Aquileia to shut their gates and defend their
CRISPINA, daughter of Bruttius Praesens walls against the savage Maximin, whose rage
[PRAESENS), was married to Commodus (A. D. when he found his attacks upon the city baffled
177), and, having proved unfaithful to her husband, led to those excesses which caused his assassina-
was divorced a few years after his accession to the tion. [MAXIMINUS. ) (Capitolin. Nar. duo, c.
throne, banished to Caprene, and there put to 21; Herodian. viii. 4. )
[W. R. )
death. (Dion Cass. lxxi. 33, lxxii. 4; Capitolin. CRISPINUS CAE'PIO. (Carrio, p. 535, b). ]
M. Aurel. 27; Lamprid. Commod. 5. ) (W. R. ] CRISPINUS, QUINCTIUS. Crispinus oc-
curs as an agnomen in the family of the Penni
Capitolini of the Quinctia gens. [CAPITOLINUS,
p. 600, a. ] The full name of the L. Quinctius
Crispinus, who was praetor in B. c. 186, and whe
triumplied in B. c. 184, on account of his victories
in Spain, was probably L. Quinctius Pennus Capi-
tolinus Crispimus. (Liv. xxxix. 6, 8, 30, 42. ) (L. S. )
CRISPISTS. RUFIUS, a Roman eques and
contemporary of the chuperors Claudius and Nero.
CRISPINILLA, CA'LVIA, a Roman lady of He was praefectus praetorio under Claudius, who
rank, of the time of the emperor Nero. She par- | employed him in arresting and dragging to Rome
COIN OF CRISPIXA.
## p. 892 (#912) ############################################
692
CRISPUS.
CRITIAS.
Valerius Asiaticus. For this service he was re- “ Scilicet, ut Turno contingat regia conjux,
warded by a large sum of money and the insignia Nos, animae viles, inhumata infletaque turba,
of the quacstorship. In A. D. 52 he was removed Sternamur campis . . . .
from his office at the instigation of Agrippina, who a fact of no great importance in itself, except in
believed him to be attached to the children of Mes so far as it corroborates the accounts of Spartianus,
salina. Crispinus was married to the notorious regarding the vindictive cruelty of Severus in all
Poppaea Sabina, who had a son by him, bearing matters affecting his personal dignity. (Dion Cass.
the same name as his father. She afterwards be- lxxv. 10; comp. Spartinn. Sever. 14. ) (W. R. ]
came the mistress of Nero, and the circumstance, CRISPUS, MA’RCIUS, served as tribune in
that she had once been the wife of Crispinus, was Caesar's army during the African war. (Hirtius,
a sufficient reason for the tyrant to send Crispinus Bell. Afr. 77. ) He is probably the same as the
into exile to Sardinia, A. D. 66, under the pretext Q. Marcius Crispus, who is frequently mentioned
of his being an accomplice in a conspiracy. Shortly by Cicero as a brave and experienced soldier. In
after when Crispinus received the sentence of B. C. 43, he was in Bithynia as proconsul, and
death, he put an end to his own life. (Tacit. Ann. when L. Murcus solicited his assistance against
xi. I, 4, xii. 42, xiii. 45, xv. 71, xvi. 17; Senec. Bassus, Crispus came with his three legions to
Octavia, 728 &c. ; Plut. Galva, 19. ) His son, Syria. When C. Cassius came to the East, both
Rufius Crispinus, was likewise put to death by Crispus and L. Murcus surrendered their legions
Nero. (Suet. Nero, 35. )
[L. S.
