Punic and
Numidian
camps (Polyb.
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Q.
Muc.
Scaevola, 7.
Mucia maj.
married 8.
Mucia iala.
Augur, B. G. 48. L. Licinius Crassus,
1
2. M. , a senator and a leading member of the
the orator.
6. Mucia tertia,
Catilinarian conspiracy. It was at his house that
married
1. Cn. Pompeius Magnus. 9. Licinia maj.
the conspirators met in November, B. C. 63. (Sall. 2: M. Aemilius Scaurus.
10. Licinia malo.
married
Cat. 17, 37 ; Cic. in Cat. i. 4, ii. 16, pro Sull. 2,
P. Com. Scipio Nasica.
praet. B. c. 93.
18 ; Flor. iv. 1. & 3. )
LAEDUS, silver-chaser. [LEOSTRATIDES. )
11. L. Scipio,
12. P. Com. Scipio Nasica,
LAELAPS (Maînay), i. e. the storm-wind,
by adoption,
by adoption,
L. Licin. Crassus Scipio. Q. Caec. Metellus Pius Scipio,
which is personified in the legend of the dog of
Cos ). c. 52.
Procris which bore this name. Procris had re-
1
lo. Netella, married
ceived this extremely swift animal as a present,
Cn. Pompeius Magnus.
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LAELIUS.
705
LAELIUS.
anus.
LAELIA'NUS, U'LPIUS CORNE’LIUS. / governor of the city, fifteen members of the great
Trebellius Pollio assigns the fourth place in his list council of Carthage, and two members of the
of the thirty tyrants [AUREOLUS) to a certain council of elders, he rejoined Scipio at Tarraco.
Lollianus, who, according to the narrative of the (Polyb. x. 18, 19, 37 ; Liv. xxvi. 48, 51, xxvii.
Angustan historian, was the leader of the insurrec 7). Throughout the war in Spain, Sicily, and
tion by which Postumus [POSTUMUS) was over- Africa, Laelius acted as confidential legatus to his
thrown; and after gallantly defending Gaul from friend, nor until B. C. 202, when the senate ap-
the incursions of the Germans, was himself slain pointed him Scipio's quaestor extraordinary, had
by his own soldiers, who mutinied on account of | he any official rank or station. (Liv. xxx. 33. )
the severe toils which he imposed, and proclaimed At the battle of Baecula, in the upper valley of
Victorinus (VICTORINUS] in his stead. These the Guadalquivir, he commanded Scipio's left wing,
events took place, it would appear, in the course of B. C. 208 (Polyb. x. 39; Liv. xxvii. 18; Appian,
A. D. 267. Victor, in his Caesars (c. 33), calls the Hispan. 25, 26); and in B. C. 206, a storming-
same individual Laelianus; Victor, in his Epitome party, when Illiturgi, on the right bank of the
(c. 32), Aelianus ; and Eutropius (ix. 7) L. Aeli- Baetis, was taken (Liv. xxviii. 19, 20); a detach-
ment of the fleet, when Gades was expected to re-
But coins are extant in all the three metals, exe- volt, with which he defeated the Punic admiral
cuted apparently by the same workmen as those of Adherbal in the straits (Liv. xxviii. 23, 30); and
Postumus, bearing on the obverse the legend IMP. C. the cavalry, when Indibilis was routed (Polyb. xi.
LAELIANUS. P. P. AUG. , or IMP. C. ULP. COR. 32, 33 ; Liv. xxviii. 33). Twice he visited the
LAELIANUS, which would lead us at once to con- court of Syphax, king of the Masaesylians, and
clude that the name placed at the head of this the most powerful of the African princes, whose
article was the real designation of this pretender to alliance was of equal importance to Carthage and
the purple. A solitary medal, however, believed to Rome. The first time he went as Scipio's
to be genuine, was once contained in the collection envoy, the next as his companion ; and, many
of the prince of Waldeck, from whence it was years afterwards, he related to their common friend,
stolen, which exhibited iMP. C. LOLLIANUS P. F. the historian Polybius (Polyb. x. 3), the particulars
AUG. ; and to complete the confusion, many numis- of that memomble banquet at which Syphax en-
matologists refer to this epoch a small brass, with tertained at one table and on one couch two suc-
IMP. C. Q. VALENA. AELIANUS. P. AUG. on the ob cessive conquerors of Spain, the Punic Hasdrubal
verse, and on the reverse sovi. CONSER. AUGG. , and the Roman Scipio. (Polyb. xi. 24 ; Lir.
words which indicate a divided sovereignty. This xxviii. 17, 18 ; Appian, Hispan. 29. ). After the
last medal, may, however, be assigned, with Carthaginians had evacuated Spain, Laelius re-
more probability, to that Aelianus who, along turned with Scipio to Rome, and was present at
with Amandus, headed the rebellion of the Ba- bis consular comitia, in the autumn of BC. 206.
gaudae in the reign of Diocletian. (AELIANUS, (Polyb. xi. 33 ; Liv. xxviii. 38. )
MAXIMLANUS HERCULIUS. ) (Eckhel, vol. vii. The completion of the second Punic war was
pp. 448450. )
[W. R. ] naturally assigned to the conqueror of Spain ; but
while Scipio was assembling his forces in Sicily,
Laelius, with a portion of the fleet, was despatched
to the African coast. He disembarked at Hippo
Regius ; the farms and vineyards of a populous and
unguarded district afforded abundant spoil ; the
high road to Carthage was thronged with fugitives,
and it was believed that Scipio himself, whose pre-
parations were known and dreaded, had landed
with the main army. At Hippo the Massylian
COIN OP LAELIANUS.
chief Masinissa renewed his overtures to Rome.
LAEʻLIUS. 1. C. LAELIUS, was from early He urged Laelius to hasten Scipio's invasion, and
manhood the friend and companion of P. Corn. warned him to return without delay, since the
Scipio Africanus, and their actions are so interwoven, Carthaginians had discovered their errni, and were
that it is difficult to relate them separately. (Polyb. preparing to cut off his retreat. Laelius accord-
x. 3 ; Vell. Pat. ï. 127. ) Laelius first appears ingly returned to Messana. His booty betrayed
in history as the commander of the Roman fleet in the wealth and weakness of Carthage, and whetted
the attack on New Carthage, B. c. 210. To him the appetite of the legions for the plunder of
alone was confided the destination of the armament, Africa. (Liv. xxix. 1, 4, 6. ).
which, in correspondence with the movements of In the spring of B. C. 204, Laelius, with twenty
the land forces, he conducted from the mouth of war-gallies, convoyed the left division of transports
the Ebro to the haven of the Carthaginian capital from the harbour of Lilybaeum to the Fair Pro-
of Spain. Laelius, during the assault, blockaded montory. (Liv. xxix. 24–27. ). On the main-
the port, after its capture occupied the city with land he again ably seconded his friend. 'To him
his marines, and, for his services, received from and Masinissa was entrusted the burning of the
Scipio a golden wreath and thirty oxen. (Polyb.
Punic and Numidian camps (Polyb. xiv. 4 ; Liv.
1. 3, 9 ; Liv. xxvi, 42, 48 ; Appian, Hispan. 20. ) xxx. 3—6); the pursuit of Hasdrubal and Syphax
Having assisted in distributing the booty, the far into the arid wastes of Numidia (Polyb. xiv. 9;
hostages, and the prizes of valour to the soldiers, Liv. xxx. 9, comp ib. 17 ; Appian. Pun. 26—28);
he was dispatched to Rome with the captives and and the capture of the Masaesylian king and his
the tidings of victory. He arrived thither early capital Cirta, for which services Laelius received
in B. C. 209, and, after reporting to the senate and for the second time a golden crown (Liv. xxx. 11
the people the fall of New Carthage, and delivering –16). At Cirta he asserted the severe discipline
up his prisoners-among whom were Mago, the of Rome towards its most faithful allies, by tearing
T
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AD
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706
LAELIUS.
LAELIUS.
3
Masinisba from the arms of Sophonisba, the beau- | be, enfeebled the younger Laelius, who, though not
tiful and unfortunate daughter of Hasdrubal Barca devoid of military talents, as his campaign against
(Liv. xxx. 12). A second time also he was the the Lusitanian guerilla-chief Viriatus proved
usher of victory and of a train of illustrious captives (Cic. de off. ii. 11), was more of a statesman than
--Syphax and his Masaesylian nobles to the a soldier, and more a philosopher than a statesman.
senate and people of Rome (xxx, 16, 17). He From Diogenes of Babylon [DIOGENES, literary, 3},
was detained in Italy until the last Carthaginian and afterwards from Panaetius, he imbibed the
envoys had received their final answer, and rejoined doctrines of the stoic achool (Cic. de Fin. ii. 8);
Scipio in Africa in the latter months of B. C. 203 his father's friend Polybius was his friend also ;
(xxx. 22, 25). At the battle of Zama in the fol- the wit and idiom of Terence were pointed and
lowing year, he commanded the Italian horse that polished by his and Scipio's conversation. (Suet.
formed the extreme left of the Roman line. His vit. Terent. 2 ; Prolog. Terent Adelph. 15; Cic.
repulse and pursuit of the Numidian cavalry ex- ad Att. vii. 3 ; comp. Quint. Inst. x. 1. § 99); the
posed the enemy's flank, and his charge at the close satirist Lucilius was his faniliar companion (Cic.
of the day, on Hannibal's reserve, determined de Fin. ii. 8; Hor. Sat. ii. 1, 65 ; Schol. Vet. in
Scipio's victory (Polyb. xv. 9, 12, 14 ; Liv. XXX. Ifor. loc. ); and Caelius Antipater dedicated to him
33-35 ; Appian, Pun. 41, 44). A third time his history of the Punic war (Cic. Orat. 69). *
Laelius was despatched to Rome: but he then Laelius was so distinguished also for his augural
announced not the fall of a city or of a single host, science, that, according to Cicero (Phil. ii. 33),
but the consummation of a war, which for sixteen “Laelius” and “bonus augur” were convertible
years had swept over Italy, and risen to the barriers terms. (Id. De Nat. Deor. iii. 2. )
of Rome itself. (Liv. xxx. 35, 40. )
The political opinions of Laelius were different
The civil career of Laelius began after his at different periods of his life. At first he inclined
military life had comparatively closed. It was less to the party which aimed at renovating the plebs
brilliant, but his influence with the senate was at by making the again land-owners, and at raising
all times great. (Liv. xxxvii. 1. ) If, as seems the equites into an efficient middle-class. He en-
probable, he was nearly of the same age with his deavoured, probably during his tribunate, to procure
illustrious friend, Laelius was born about B. c. 235 a re-division of the state-demesnes, but, either
and may have been in his fortieth year when chosen alarmed at the hostility it excited, or convinced of
praetor in 196. His province was Sicily (Liv. its impracticability, he desisted from the attempt,
xxxii. 24, 26). He failed in his first trial for the and for his forbearance received the appellation of
consulship. Scipio's popularity was on the wane, the Wise or the Prudent (Plut. Tib. Gracch. 8).
and the old patrician party in the ascendant (xxxv. Laelius indeed had neither the steady principles of
10). He was, however, elected consul in B. C. Tiberius, nor the fervid genius of C. Gracchus. He
190, two years after his rejection (Liv. xxxvi. 45). could discern, but he could not apply the remedy
Whether time and the accidents of party had for social evils. And after the tribunate of the
wrought any change in their ancient friendship, we elder Gracchus, B. C. 133, his sentiments under-
are not told ; but it was through Scipio Afri- went a change. He assisted the consuls of B. C.
canus that Laelius lost his appointment to the pro- | 132 in examining C. Blossius of Cumae and the
vince of Greece, and the command of the war other partizans of Tib. Gracchus (Cic. de Amic. 11;
against Antiochus the Great [ANTIOCHUS III. ] comp. Plut. Tib. Gracch. 20), and in B. C. 130, he
(Liv. xxxvii. 1 ; Cic. Philipp. xi. 7), which he spoke against the Papirian Rogation, which would
probably desired as much for wealth as for glory, have enabled the tribunes of the plebs to be re-
since the Laelii were not rich (Cic. Cornel. ii
. elected from year to year (Cic. de Amic. 25 ; Liv.
Fragm. 8, p. 453, Orelli). He obtained instead the Epit. 59). But although Laelius was the strenuous
province of Cisalpine Gaul, where he remained two opponent of the popular leaders of his age—the
years, engaged in colonising the ancient territory of tribunes C. Licinius Crassus, B. c. 145, C. Papirius
the Boians (Liv. Xxxvii. 47, 50). In B. c. 174, he Carbo, B. c. 131, and C. Gracchus B. c. 123-122
was one of a commission of three, sent into Mace-1-nature had denied him the qualities of a great
donia to counteract the negotiations of Carthage orator. His speeches read better than those of his
(Liv. xli. and in B. c. 170 he as despatched contemporary and rival C. Servius Galba, yet
by the senate to inquire into certain charges brought Galba was doubtless the more eloquent. (Cic.
against C. Cassius, consul in B. c. 171, by some of Brut. 24. ) Laelius in his own age was the model,
the Gaulish tribes of the Grisons. The date of and in history is the representative of the Greek
Laelius' death is unknown. (Zonar. ix. 13 ; Fron-culture which sprang up rapidly at Rome in the
tin. Strat. i. 1. § 3, i. 2. § 1, ii. 3. § 16. ) seventh century of the city. Serene and philoso-
2. C. Laelius Sapiens, was son of the pre- phical by temperament (Cic. de off. i. 26 ; Sen.
ceding. His intimacy with the younger Scipio Ep. 11), erudite and refined by education, Laelius
Africanus was as remarkable as his father's friend- was among the earliest examples of that cosmopolite
ship with the elder (Vell. ii. 127 ; Val. Max. iv. character (Cic.
Augur, B. G. 48. L. Licinius Crassus,
1
2. M. , a senator and a leading member of the
the orator.
6. Mucia tertia,
Catilinarian conspiracy. It was at his house that
married
1. Cn. Pompeius Magnus. 9. Licinia maj.
the conspirators met in November, B. C. 63. (Sall. 2: M. Aemilius Scaurus.
10. Licinia malo.
married
Cat. 17, 37 ; Cic. in Cat. i. 4, ii. 16, pro Sull. 2,
P. Com. Scipio Nasica.
praet. B. c. 93.
18 ; Flor. iv. 1. & 3. )
LAEDUS, silver-chaser. [LEOSTRATIDES. )
11. L. Scipio,
12. P. Com. Scipio Nasica,
LAELAPS (Maînay), i. e. the storm-wind,
by adoption,
by adoption,
L. Licin. Crassus Scipio. Q. Caec. Metellus Pius Scipio,
which is personified in the legend of the dog of
Cos ). c. 52.
Procris which bore this name. Procris had re-
1
lo. Netella, married
ceived this extremely swift animal as a present,
Cn. Pompeius Magnus.
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LAELIUS.
705
LAELIUS.
anus.
LAELIA'NUS, U'LPIUS CORNE’LIUS. / governor of the city, fifteen members of the great
Trebellius Pollio assigns the fourth place in his list council of Carthage, and two members of the
of the thirty tyrants [AUREOLUS) to a certain council of elders, he rejoined Scipio at Tarraco.
Lollianus, who, according to the narrative of the (Polyb. x. 18, 19, 37 ; Liv. xxvi. 48, 51, xxvii.
Angustan historian, was the leader of the insurrec 7). Throughout the war in Spain, Sicily, and
tion by which Postumus [POSTUMUS) was over- Africa, Laelius acted as confidential legatus to his
thrown; and after gallantly defending Gaul from friend, nor until B. C. 202, when the senate ap-
the incursions of the Germans, was himself slain pointed him Scipio's quaestor extraordinary, had
by his own soldiers, who mutinied on account of | he any official rank or station. (Liv. xxx. 33. )
the severe toils which he imposed, and proclaimed At the battle of Baecula, in the upper valley of
Victorinus (VICTORINUS] in his stead. These the Guadalquivir, he commanded Scipio's left wing,
events took place, it would appear, in the course of B. C. 208 (Polyb. x. 39; Liv. xxvii. 18; Appian,
A. D. 267. Victor, in his Caesars (c. 33), calls the Hispan. 25, 26); and in B. C. 206, a storming-
same individual Laelianus; Victor, in his Epitome party, when Illiturgi, on the right bank of the
(c. 32), Aelianus ; and Eutropius (ix. 7) L. Aeli- Baetis, was taken (Liv. xxviii. 19, 20); a detach-
ment of the fleet, when Gades was expected to re-
But coins are extant in all the three metals, exe- volt, with which he defeated the Punic admiral
cuted apparently by the same workmen as those of Adherbal in the straits (Liv. xxviii. 23, 30); and
Postumus, bearing on the obverse the legend IMP. C. the cavalry, when Indibilis was routed (Polyb. xi.
LAELIANUS. P. P. AUG. , or IMP. C. ULP. COR. 32, 33 ; Liv. xxviii. 33). Twice he visited the
LAELIANUS, which would lead us at once to con- court of Syphax, king of the Masaesylians, and
clude that the name placed at the head of this the most powerful of the African princes, whose
article was the real designation of this pretender to alliance was of equal importance to Carthage and
the purple. A solitary medal, however, believed to Rome. The first time he went as Scipio's
to be genuine, was once contained in the collection envoy, the next as his companion ; and, many
of the prince of Waldeck, from whence it was years afterwards, he related to their common friend,
stolen, which exhibited iMP. C. LOLLIANUS P. F. the historian Polybius (Polyb. x. 3), the particulars
AUG. ; and to complete the confusion, many numis- of that memomble banquet at which Syphax en-
matologists refer to this epoch a small brass, with tertained at one table and on one couch two suc-
IMP. C. Q. VALENA. AELIANUS. P. AUG. on the ob cessive conquerors of Spain, the Punic Hasdrubal
verse, and on the reverse sovi. CONSER. AUGG. , and the Roman Scipio. (Polyb. xi. 24 ; Lir.
words which indicate a divided sovereignty. This xxviii. 17, 18 ; Appian, Hispan. 29. ). After the
last medal, may, however, be assigned, with Carthaginians had evacuated Spain, Laelius re-
more probability, to that Aelianus who, along turned with Scipio to Rome, and was present at
with Amandus, headed the rebellion of the Ba- bis consular comitia, in the autumn of BC. 206.
gaudae in the reign of Diocletian. (AELIANUS, (Polyb. xi. 33 ; Liv. xxviii. 38. )
MAXIMLANUS HERCULIUS. ) (Eckhel, vol. vii. The completion of the second Punic war was
pp. 448450. )
[W. R. ] naturally assigned to the conqueror of Spain ; but
while Scipio was assembling his forces in Sicily,
Laelius, with a portion of the fleet, was despatched
to the African coast. He disembarked at Hippo
Regius ; the farms and vineyards of a populous and
unguarded district afforded abundant spoil ; the
high road to Carthage was thronged with fugitives,
and it was believed that Scipio himself, whose pre-
parations were known and dreaded, had landed
with the main army. At Hippo the Massylian
COIN OP LAELIANUS.
chief Masinissa renewed his overtures to Rome.
LAEʻLIUS. 1. C. LAELIUS, was from early He urged Laelius to hasten Scipio's invasion, and
manhood the friend and companion of P. Corn. warned him to return without delay, since the
Scipio Africanus, and their actions are so interwoven, Carthaginians had discovered their errni, and were
that it is difficult to relate them separately. (Polyb. preparing to cut off his retreat. Laelius accord-
x. 3 ; Vell. Pat. ï. 127. ) Laelius first appears ingly returned to Messana. His booty betrayed
in history as the commander of the Roman fleet in the wealth and weakness of Carthage, and whetted
the attack on New Carthage, B. c. 210. To him the appetite of the legions for the plunder of
alone was confided the destination of the armament, Africa. (Liv. xxix. 1, 4, 6. ).
which, in correspondence with the movements of In the spring of B. C. 204, Laelius, with twenty
the land forces, he conducted from the mouth of war-gallies, convoyed the left division of transports
the Ebro to the haven of the Carthaginian capital from the harbour of Lilybaeum to the Fair Pro-
of Spain. Laelius, during the assault, blockaded montory. (Liv. xxix. 24–27. ). On the main-
the port, after its capture occupied the city with land he again ably seconded his friend. 'To him
his marines, and, for his services, received from and Masinissa was entrusted the burning of the
Scipio a golden wreath and thirty oxen. (Polyb.
Punic and Numidian camps (Polyb. xiv. 4 ; Liv.
1. 3, 9 ; Liv. xxvi, 42, 48 ; Appian, Hispan. 20. ) xxx. 3—6); the pursuit of Hasdrubal and Syphax
Having assisted in distributing the booty, the far into the arid wastes of Numidia (Polyb. xiv. 9;
hostages, and the prizes of valour to the soldiers, Liv. xxx. 9, comp ib. 17 ; Appian. Pun. 26—28);
he was dispatched to Rome with the captives and and the capture of the Masaesylian king and his
the tidings of victory. He arrived thither early capital Cirta, for which services Laelius received
in B. C. 209, and, after reporting to the senate and for the second time a golden crown (Liv. xxx. 11
the people the fall of New Carthage, and delivering –16). At Cirta he asserted the severe discipline
up his prisoners-among whom were Mago, the of Rome towards its most faithful allies, by tearing
T
gy
AD
1
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፣ ሂ
## p. 706 (#722) ############################################
706
LAELIUS.
LAELIUS.
3
Masinisba from the arms of Sophonisba, the beau- | be, enfeebled the younger Laelius, who, though not
tiful and unfortunate daughter of Hasdrubal Barca devoid of military talents, as his campaign against
(Liv. xxx. 12). A second time also he was the the Lusitanian guerilla-chief Viriatus proved
usher of victory and of a train of illustrious captives (Cic. de off. ii. 11), was more of a statesman than
--Syphax and his Masaesylian nobles to the a soldier, and more a philosopher than a statesman.
senate and people of Rome (xxx, 16, 17). He From Diogenes of Babylon [DIOGENES, literary, 3},
was detained in Italy until the last Carthaginian and afterwards from Panaetius, he imbibed the
envoys had received their final answer, and rejoined doctrines of the stoic achool (Cic. de Fin. ii. 8);
Scipio in Africa in the latter months of B. C. 203 his father's friend Polybius was his friend also ;
(xxx. 22, 25). At the battle of Zama in the fol- the wit and idiom of Terence were pointed and
lowing year, he commanded the Italian horse that polished by his and Scipio's conversation. (Suet.
formed the extreme left of the Roman line. His vit. Terent. 2 ; Prolog. Terent Adelph. 15; Cic.
repulse and pursuit of the Numidian cavalry ex- ad Att. vii. 3 ; comp. Quint. Inst. x. 1. § 99); the
posed the enemy's flank, and his charge at the close satirist Lucilius was his faniliar companion (Cic.
of the day, on Hannibal's reserve, determined de Fin. ii. 8; Hor. Sat. ii. 1, 65 ; Schol. Vet. in
Scipio's victory (Polyb. xv. 9, 12, 14 ; Liv. XXX. Ifor. loc. ); and Caelius Antipater dedicated to him
33-35 ; Appian, Pun. 41, 44). A third time his history of the Punic war (Cic. Orat. 69). *
Laelius was despatched to Rome: but he then Laelius was so distinguished also for his augural
announced not the fall of a city or of a single host, science, that, according to Cicero (Phil. ii. 33),
but the consummation of a war, which for sixteen “Laelius” and “bonus augur” were convertible
years had swept over Italy, and risen to the barriers terms. (Id. De Nat. Deor. iii. 2. )
of Rome itself. (Liv. xxx. 35, 40. )
The political opinions of Laelius were different
The civil career of Laelius began after his at different periods of his life. At first he inclined
military life had comparatively closed. It was less to the party which aimed at renovating the plebs
brilliant, but his influence with the senate was at by making the again land-owners, and at raising
all times great. (Liv. xxxvii. 1. ) If, as seems the equites into an efficient middle-class. He en-
probable, he was nearly of the same age with his deavoured, probably during his tribunate, to procure
illustrious friend, Laelius was born about B. c. 235 a re-division of the state-demesnes, but, either
and may have been in his fortieth year when chosen alarmed at the hostility it excited, or convinced of
praetor in 196. His province was Sicily (Liv. its impracticability, he desisted from the attempt,
xxxii. 24, 26). He failed in his first trial for the and for his forbearance received the appellation of
consulship. Scipio's popularity was on the wane, the Wise or the Prudent (Plut. Tib. Gracch. 8).
and the old patrician party in the ascendant (xxxv. Laelius indeed had neither the steady principles of
10). He was, however, elected consul in B. C. Tiberius, nor the fervid genius of C. Gracchus. He
190, two years after his rejection (Liv. xxxvi. 45). could discern, but he could not apply the remedy
Whether time and the accidents of party had for social evils. And after the tribunate of the
wrought any change in their ancient friendship, we elder Gracchus, B. C. 133, his sentiments under-
are not told ; but it was through Scipio Afri- went a change. He assisted the consuls of B. C.
canus that Laelius lost his appointment to the pro- | 132 in examining C. Blossius of Cumae and the
vince of Greece, and the command of the war other partizans of Tib. Gracchus (Cic. de Amic. 11;
against Antiochus the Great [ANTIOCHUS III. ] comp. Plut. Tib. Gracch. 20), and in B. C. 130, he
(Liv. xxxvii. 1 ; Cic. Philipp. xi. 7), which he spoke against the Papirian Rogation, which would
probably desired as much for wealth as for glory, have enabled the tribunes of the plebs to be re-
since the Laelii were not rich (Cic. Cornel. ii
. elected from year to year (Cic. de Amic. 25 ; Liv.
Fragm. 8, p. 453, Orelli). He obtained instead the Epit. 59). But although Laelius was the strenuous
province of Cisalpine Gaul, where he remained two opponent of the popular leaders of his age—the
years, engaged in colonising the ancient territory of tribunes C. Licinius Crassus, B. c. 145, C. Papirius
the Boians (Liv. Xxxvii. 47, 50). In B. c. 174, he Carbo, B. c. 131, and C. Gracchus B. c. 123-122
was one of a commission of three, sent into Mace-1-nature had denied him the qualities of a great
donia to counteract the negotiations of Carthage orator. His speeches read better than those of his
(Liv. xli. and in B. c. 170 he as despatched contemporary and rival C. Servius Galba, yet
by the senate to inquire into certain charges brought Galba was doubtless the more eloquent. (Cic.
against C. Cassius, consul in B. c. 171, by some of Brut. 24. ) Laelius in his own age was the model,
the Gaulish tribes of the Grisons. The date of and in history is the representative of the Greek
Laelius' death is unknown. (Zonar. ix. 13 ; Fron-culture which sprang up rapidly at Rome in the
tin. Strat. i. 1. § 3, i. 2. § 1, ii. 3. § 16. ) seventh century of the city. Serene and philoso-
2. C. Laelius Sapiens, was son of the pre- phical by temperament (Cic. de off. i. 26 ; Sen.
ceding. His intimacy with the younger Scipio Ep. 11), erudite and refined by education, Laelius
Africanus was as remarkable as his father's friend- was among the earliest examples of that cosmopolite
ship with the elder (Vell. ii. 127 ; Val. Max. iv. character (Cic.
