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Μοκκωνώσις, Μολγώ, Φυλατός), but | other persons of the same name.
Junius Blaesus,
without mentioning the names of his plays. Ca- proconsul of Africa in A. D. 22, was probably some-
saubon supposed that Blaesus lived under the Ro- what later than the jurist. (Majansius, vol. ii. p.
man empire; but he must have lived as early as the 162; G. Grotii, Vita Ictorum, c. 9. § 18. ) (J. T. G. ]
3rd century B. C. , as Valckenär (ad Theocr. p. 290, BLAESUS, JU'NIUS. 1. The governor of
a. ) has shewn, that Athenaeus took bis quotations Pannonia at the death of Augustus, A. v. 14, when
of Blaesus from the racoval of Pamphilus of Alex- the formidable insurrection of the legions broke
andria, who was a disciple of Aristarchus; and out in that province, which was with difficulty
also that Pamphilus borrowed a part of his work quelled by Drusus himself. The conduct of Blae-
explaining the words in Blaesus and similar poets sus in allowing the soldiers relaxation from their
from the ramooai ’Italikal of Diodorus, who was ordinary duties was the immediate cause of the in-
a pupil of Aristophanes of Alexandria. (Comp. surrection, but the real causes lay deeper. Through
Schweigh. ad Athen. iii. p. 111, c. )
the influence of Sejanus, who was his uncle, Blae-
BLAESUS, “a stammerer," was the name of sus obtained the goverment of Africa in 21, where
a plebeian family of the Sempronia gens under he gained a victory over Tacfarinas in 22, in con-
the republic. It also occurs as a cognomen of the sequence of which Tiberius granted him the insig-
Junii and of one Pedius under the empire. nia of a triumph, and allowed him the title of
1. C. SEMPRONIUS Tı. F. T. N. BLAEsus, con- Imperator--the last instance of this honour being
sul in B. c. 253 in the first Punic war, sailed with conferred upon a private person.
We learn from
his colleague, Cn. Servilius Caepio, with a fleet of Velleius Paterculus, who says that it was difficult
260 ships to the coast of Africa, which they laid to decide whether Blaesus was more useful in the
waste in frequent descents, and from which they camp or distinguished in the forum, that he also
obtained great booty. They did not, howerer, commanded in Spain. (Dion Cass. Ivii. 4 ; Tac.
accomplish anything of note; and in the lesser Ann. i. 16, &c. , iii. 35, 58, 72-74; Vell. Pat. ii.
Syrtis, through the ignorance of the pilots, their 125. ) It appears from the Fasti, from which we
ships ran aground, and only got off, upon the re- learn that his praenomen was Quintus, that Blae
turn of the tide, by throwing everything over- sus was consul suffectus in 28 ; but he shared in
board. This disaster induced them to return to the fall of Sejanus in 31, and was deprived, as was
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492
BLASIO.
BLASTARES.
INOMA
also his son, of the priestly offices which he held. | bassador with two others to the Carni, Istri, and
His life, however, was spared for the time; but lapydes, in B. C. 170. In 168 he was one of the
when Tiberius, in 36, conferred these offices upon five commissioners appointed to settle the disputes
other persons, Blaesus and his son perceived that between the Pisani and Lunenses respecting the
their fate was sealed, and accordingly put an end boundaries of their lands. (Liv. xlij. 7, xlv. 13. )
to their own lives. (Tac. Ann. v. 7, vi. 40. ) There are several coins belonging to this family.
2. The son of the preceding, was with his father The obverse of the one annexed has the inscription
in Pannonia when the legions mutinied in A. D. 14, Blasio CN. F. , with what appears to be the head
and was compelled by the soldiers to go to Tiberius of Mars: the reverse represents Dionysus, with
with a statement of their grievances. He was sent Pallas on his left hand in the act of crowning him
a second time to Tiberius after the arrival of Dru- and another female figure on his right. (Eckhel,
bus in the camp.
He also served under his father | v. p. 180. )
in 22 in the war against Tacfarinas in Africa;
and he put an end to his own life, as mentioned
above, in 36. (Tac. Ann. i. 19, 29, iii. 74, vi. 40. )
3. Probably the son of No. 2, was the governor
of Gallia Lugdunensis in a. D. 70, and espoused
the party of the emperor Vitellius, whom he sur-
plied when in Gaul with everything necessary to
support his rank and state. This liberality on the
part of Blaesus excited the jealousy of the emperor,
who shortly after had hiin poisoned on the most
II. Helvää Blasiones.
trumpery accusation, brought against him by L. 1. M. Helvius Blasio, plebeian acdile in B. C.
Vitellius. Blaesus was a man of large property | 198 and praetor in 197. He obtained the pro-
and high integrity, and had steadily refused the so vince of further Spain, which he found in a very
licitations of Caecina and others to desert the cause disturbed state upon his arrival. After handing
of Vitellius. (Tac. Hist. i. 59, ii. 59, iii. 38, 39. ) over the province to his successor, he was detained
BLAESUS, PE’DIUS, was expelled the senate in the country a year longer by a severe and
in A. D. 60, on the complaint of the Cyrenians, for tedious illness. On his return home through
robbing the temple of Aesculapius, and for corrup- nearer Spain with a guard of 6000 soldiers, which
tion in the military levies; but he was re-admitted the praetor Ap. Claudius had giren him, he was
in 70. (Tac. Ann. xiv. 18, Hist. i. 77. )
attacked by an army of 20,000 Celtiberi, near the
BLANDUS, a Roman knight, who taught elo town of Miturgi. These he entirely defeated,
quence at Rome in the time of Augustus, and was slew 12,000 of the enemy, and took Illiturgi. This
the instructor of the philosopher and rhetorician, at least was the statement of Valerius Antias. For
Fabianus. (Senec. Controv. ii. prooem. p. 136, ed. this victory he obtained an ovation (B. C. 195), but
Bip. ) He is frequently introduced as a speaker not a triumph, because he had fought under the
in the Suasoriae (2, 5) and Controversiae (i. 1, 2, auspices and in the province of another. In the
4, &c. ) of the elder Seneca. He was probably the following year (194) he was one of the three com-
father or grandfather of the Rubellius Blandus missioners for founding a Roman colony at Sipon-
mentioned below.
tum in Apulia. (Liv. xxxii. 27, 28, xxxii. 21,
BLANDUS, RUBEʼLLIUS, whose grand- xxxiv. 10, 45. )
father was only a Roman knight of Tibur, married 2. Helvius Blasio, put an end to his own life
in A. D. 33 Julia, the daughter of Drusus, the son to encourage his friend D. Brutus to meet his death
of the emperor Tiberius, whence Blandus is called firmly, when the latter fell into the bands of his
the progener of Tiberius. (Tac. Ann. vi. 27, 45. ) enemies, in R. c. 43. (Dion Cass. xlvi. 53. )
Rubellius Plautus, who was put to death by Nero, BLA'SIUS, BLA'TIUS, or BLA'TTIUS, one
was the offspring of this marriage. [PLAUTUS] of the chief men at Salapia in Apulia, betrayed the
There was in the senate in A. D. 21 a Rubellius town to the Romans in B. c. 210, together with a
Blandus, a man of consular rank (Tac. Ann. iii. strong Carthaginian garrison that was stationed
23, 51), who is probably the same as the husband there. The way in which he outwitted his rival
of Julia, though Lipsius supposes him to be the Dasius, who supported the Carthaginians, is related
father of the latter. We do not, however, find in somewhat differently by the ancient writers. (Ap-
the Fasti any consul of this name.
pian, Annib. 45–47 ; Liv. xxvi. 38; Val. Max.
There is a coin, struck under Augustus, bearing iii. 8, extern. 1. )
the inscription c.
BLA'STARES, MATTHAEUS, a hieromo-
A. A. A. F. F. , that is, Auro Argento deri Flando nachus, or monk in holy orders, eminent as a Greek
Feriundo, which is probably to be referred to the canonist, who composed, about the year 1335 (as
father of the above-mentioned Blandus. (Eckhel, Bishop Beveridge satisfactorily makes out from the
v. p. 295. )
author's own enigmatical statement) an alphabetical
BLA'SIO, a surname of the Cornelia and Hel- compendium of the contents of the genuine canons.
It was intended to supply a more convenient
I. Corneli Blasiones.
repertory for ordinary use than was furnished by
1. Cn. Cornelius L. f. Cs. N. Blasio, who is the collections of Photius and his commentators.
mentioned nowhere but in the Fasti, was consul in The letters refer to the leading word in the rubrics
B. c. 270, censor in 265, and consul a second time of the titles, and under each letter the chapters
in 257. He gained a triumph in 270, but we do begin anew in numerical order. In cach chapter
not know over what people.
there is commonly an abstract, first of the ecclesi.
2. CN. CORNELIUS Blasio, was praetor in Sicily astical, then of the secular laws which relate to
in B. c. 194. (Liv. xxxiv. 42, 43. )
the subject; but the sources whence the secular
3. P. CORNELIUS BLASIO, was sent as an am- laws are cited are not ordinarily referred to, and
RVBELLIVS BLANDVS
IIIVIR
via gentes.
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BLOSIUS.
493
BOADICEA.
cannot always be determined. The ecclesiastical | Antipater of Tarsus. (Cic. de Amic. 11, de Leg.
constitutions are derived from the common canoni- Agr. ii. 34 ; Val. Max. iv. 7. § l; Plut. Të
cal collections. This compilation, as the numerous Gracch. 8, 17, 20. )
extnnt manuscripts provc, became very popular BOADICE'A (some MSS. of Tacitus have Bou-
among ecclesiastics. The preface to the Syntagma dicea, Boodicia or Voudica, and Dion Cassius calls
Alphabeticum of Blastares contains some historical her Bouvôovika), was the wife of Prasutagus, king
particulars, mingled with many errors, concerning of the Iceni, a tribe inhabiting the eastern coasi
the canon and imperial Inw. As an example of of Britain. Her husband, who died about a. D.
the errors, it may be stated that the formation of 60 or 6), made his two daughters and the emperor
Justinian's Digest and Code is attributed to
Nero the heirs of his private property, hoping
Hadrian. In most MSS. a small collection of thereby to protect his kingdom and his fansily
minor works, probably due to Blastares, is ap- from the oppression and the rapacity of the Rö-
pended to the Syntagma. As to unpublished mans stationed in Britain. But these expectations
works of Blastares in MS. , see Fabric. Bibl. Graec. were not realized; for Boadicea, who succeeded
xii. p. 205. A portion of the Syntagma (part of him, saw her kingdom and her house robbed and
B and r), which was probably found copied in a plundered by the Roman soldiers, as if they had
detached form, is printed in Leunclav. Jur. Grueco- been in a country conquered by force of arms.
Rom. vol. i. lib. viii. ; but the only complete edition The queen herself was maltreated even with blows,
of the work is that which is given by Beveridge and Romans ravished her two daughters. The
in his Synodicon, vol. ii. part. 2. The "matrimonial most distinguished among the Iceni were deprived
questions” of Blastares, printed in Leunclar. Jur. of their property, and the relatives of the late king
Graeco-Rom. , are often enumerated as a distinct treated as slaves. These outrages were com-
work from the Syntagma, but in reality they come mitted by Roman soldiers and veterans under the
under the head rámos. At the end of the Pèrc connivance of their officers, who not only took no
Goar's edition of Codinus is a treatise, written in measures to stop their proceedings, but Catus De-
popular verses ( FOMITIKOL orixou), concerning cianus was the most notorious of all by his extor-
the offices of the Palace of Constantinople, by tion and avarice. At last, in A. D 62, Boadicca, a
Matthaeus, monk, fúrns, and physician. The woman of manly spirit and undaunted courage,
author may possibly be no other than Blastares. was roused to revenge. She induced the Iceni to
(Biener, Gesch. der Novv. pp. 218–222 ; Walter, take up arms against their oppressors, and also
Kirchenrecht. $ 79. )
(J. T. G. ] prevailed upon the Trinobantes and other neigh-
BLEMMIDAS. [NICEPHORUS BLEMMIVAS. ) bouring tribes to join them. While the legate
BLEPAEUS (BAeraios ), a rich banker at Paulinus Suetonius was absent on an expedition
Athens in the time of Demosthenes, who was also to the island of Mona, Camalodunum, a recently
mentioned in one of the comedies of Alexis. (Dem. established colony of veterans, was attacked by
c. Meid.
583. 17, c. Boeot. de Dot. p. 1023. 19; the Britons. The colony solicited the aid of Catus
Athen. vi. p. 241, b. )
Decianus, who however was unable to send them
BLESAMIUS, & Galatian, a friend and more than 200 men, and these had not even regular
minister of Deiotarus, by whom he was sent as arms. Camalodunum was taken and destroyed by
ambassador to Rome, where he was when Cicero fire, and the soldiers, who took refuge in a temple
defended his master, B. C. 45. (Cic. pro Deiot. 12, which formed the arx of the place, were besieged
14, 15. ) Blesamius was also in Rome in the fol- for two days, and then made prisoners. Petilius
lowing year, 44. (Cic. ad Att. xvi. 3. )
Cerealis, the legate of the ninth legion, who was
BLITOR (BAITWp), satrap of Mesopotamia, was advancing to relieve Camalodunum, was met by
deprived of his satrapy by Antigonus in B. c. 316, the Britons, and, after the loss of his infantry,
because he had allowed Seleucus to escape from escaped with the cavalry to his fortified camp.
Babylon to Egypt in that year. (Appian, Syr. Catus Decianus, who in reality bore all the guilt,
53. )
made bis escape to Gaul; but Suetonius Paulinus,
BLO'SIUS or BLO'SSIUS, the name of a who had been informed of what was going on, had
noble family in Campania.
returned by this time, and forced his way through
1. F. Marius BLosius, was Campanian praetor the midst of the enemies as far as the colony of
when Capua revolted from the Romans and joined Londinium. As soon as he had left it, it was
Hannibal in B. c. 216. (Liv. xxiii. 7. )
taken by the Britons, and the municipium of Ve
2. Blosii, two brothers in Capua, were the rulamium soon after experienced the same fate : in
ringleaders in an attempted revolt of Capua from these places nearly 70,000 Romans and Roman
the Romans in B. c. 210 ; but the design was dis- allies were slain with cruel tortures. Suetonius
covered, and the Blosii and their associates put to saw that a battle could no longer be deferred. His
death. (Liv. xxvii. 3. )
forces consisted of only about 10,000 men, while
3. C. BLosius, of Cumae, a hospes of Scaerola's those of the Britons under Boadicea are said to
family, was an intimate friend of Ti. Gracchus, have amounted to 230,000. On the day of the
whom he is said to have urged on to bring forward battle, the queen rode in a chariot with her two
his agrarian law. After the death of Ti. Gracchus daughters before her, and commanded her army in
he was accused before the consuls in B. C. 132, on person. She harangued her soldiers, reminded
account of his participation in the schemes of them of the wrongs inflicted upon Britain by the
Gracchus, and fearing the issue he fled to Aristo- Romans, and roused their courage against the com-
nicus, king of Pergamus, who was then at war mon enemy.
But the Britons were conquered by
with the Romans. When Aristonicus was con- the greater military skill and the favourable posi-
quered shortly afterwards, Blosius put an end to tion of the Romans. About 80,000 Bri:ons are
his own life for fear of falling into the hands of the said to have fallen on that day, and the Romans
Romans. Blosius had paid considerable attention to have lost no more than 400. Boadicca would
to the study of philosophy, and was a disciple of not survive this irreparable loss, and put an end ic
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494
BOCCITUS.
BOEDROMIUS.
her life by poison. Her body was interred with they proceeded to Rome, where hopes of an alli-
great soleninity by the Britons, who then dispersed. ance and the friendship of the Roman people were
This victory, which Tacitus declares equal to the held out to them. When Bocchus was informed
great victories of ancient times, finally established of this, he requested an interview with Sulla.
the Roman dominion in Britain. (Tac. Ann. xiv. This being granted, Sulla tried to persuade Boc-
31-37, Agric. 15, 16; Dion Cass. lxii. 1-12. ) [L. S. ) chus to deliver up Jugurtha into the hands of
BOCCHAR. 1. A king of the Mauri in the the Romans. At the same time, however, Ju-
time of MASINISSA, B. C. 204. (Liv. xxix. 30. ) gurtha also endcavoured to induce him to betray
2. A general of Syphax, who sent him against Sulla, and these clashing proposals made Bocchus
Masinissa, B. c. 204. (Liv. xxix. 32. ) [P. S. ] hesitate for a while ; but he at last determined to
BO'CCHORIS (Bók xopus), an Egyptian king comply with the wish of Sulin. Jugurtha was ac-
and legislator, who was distinguished for his wiscordingly invited to negotiate for peace, and when
dom, avarice, and bodily weakness. His laws he arrived, was treacherously taken prisoner, and
related chiefly to the prerogatives of the king and delivered up to Sulla, B. C.
without mentioning the names of his plays. Ca- proconsul of Africa in A. D. 22, was probably some-
saubon supposed that Blaesus lived under the Ro- what later than the jurist. (Majansius, vol. ii. p.
man empire; but he must have lived as early as the 162; G. Grotii, Vita Ictorum, c. 9. § 18. ) (J. T. G. ]
3rd century B. C. , as Valckenär (ad Theocr. p. 290, BLAESUS, JU'NIUS. 1. The governor of
a. ) has shewn, that Athenaeus took bis quotations Pannonia at the death of Augustus, A. v. 14, when
of Blaesus from the racoval of Pamphilus of Alex- the formidable insurrection of the legions broke
andria, who was a disciple of Aristarchus; and out in that province, which was with difficulty
also that Pamphilus borrowed a part of his work quelled by Drusus himself. The conduct of Blae-
explaining the words in Blaesus and similar poets sus in allowing the soldiers relaxation from their
from the ramooai ’Italikal of Diodorus, who was ordinary duties was the immediate cause of the in-
a pupil of Aristophanes of Alexandria. (Comp. surrection, but the real causes lay deeper. Through
Schweigh. ad Athen. iii. p. 111, c. )
the influence of Sejanus, who was his uncle, Blae-
BLAESUS, “a stammerer," was the name of sus obtained the goverment of Africa in 21, where
a plebeian family of the Sempronia gens under he gained a victory over Tacfarinas in 22, in con-
the republic. It also occurs as a cognomen of the sequence of which Tiberius granted him the insig-
Junii and of one Pedius under the empire. nia of a triumph, and allowed him the title of
1. C. SEMPRONIUS Tı. F. T. N. BLAEsus, con- Imperator--the last instance of this honour being
sul in B. c. 253 in the first Punic war, sailed with conferred upon a private person.
We learn from
his colleague, Cn. Servilius Caepio, with a fleet of Velleius Paterculus, who says that it was difficult
260 ships to the coast of Africa, which they laid to decide whether Blaesus was more useful in the
waste in frequent descents, and from which they camp or distinguished in the forum, that he also
obtained great booty. They did not, howerer, commanded in Spain. (Dion Cass. Ivii. 4 ; Tac.
accomplish anything of note; and in the lesser Ann. i. 16, &c. , iii. 35, 58, 72-74; Vell. Pat. ii.
Syrtis, through the ignorance of the pilots, their 125. ) It appears from the Fasti, from which we
ships ran aground, and only got off, upon the re- learn that his praenomen was Quintus, that Blae
turn of the tide, by throwing everything over- sus was consul suffectus in 28 ; but he shared in
board. This disaster induced them to return to the fall of Sejanus in 31, and was deprived, as was
## p. 492 (#512) ############################################
492
BLASIO.
BLASTARES.
INOMA
also his son, of the priestly offices which he held. | bassador with two others to the Carni, Istri, and
His life, however, was spared for the time; but lapydes, in B. C. 170. In 168 he was one of the
when Tiberius, in 36, conferred these offices upon five commissioners appointed to settle the disputes
other persons, Blaesus and his son perceived that between the Pisani and Lunenses respecting the
their fate was sealed, and accordingly put an end boundaries of their lands. (Liv. xlij. 7, xlv. 13. )
to their own lives. (Tac. Ann. v. 7, vi. 40. ) There are several coins belonging to this family.
2. The son of the preceding, was with his father The obverse of the one annexed has the inscription
in Pannonia when the legions mutinied in A. D. 14, Blasio CN. F. , with what appears to be the head
and was compelled by the soldiers to go to Tiberius of Mars: the reverse represents Dionysus, with
with a statement of their grievances. He was sent Pallas on his left hand in the act of crowning him
a second time to Tiberius after the arrival of Dru- and another female figure on his right. (Eckhel,
bus in the camp.
He also served under his father | v. p. 180. )
in 22 in the war against Tacfarinas in Africa;
and he put an end to his own life, as mentioned
above, in 36. (Tac. Ann. i. 19, 29, iii. 74, vi. 40. )
3. Probably the son of No. 2, was the governor
of Gallia Lugdunensis in a. D. 70, and espoused
the party of the emperor Vitellius, whom he sur-
plied when in Gaul with everything necessary to
support his rank and state. This liberality on the
part of Blaesus excited the jealousy of the emperor,
who shortly after had hiin poisoned on the most
II. Helvää Blasiones.
trumpery accusation, brought against him by L. 1. M. Helvius Blasio, plebeian acdile in B. C.
Vitellius. Blaesus was a man of large property | 198 and praetor in 197. He obtained the pro-
and high integrity, and had steadily refused the so vince of further Spain, which he found in a very
licitations of Caecina and others to desert the cause disturbed state upon his arrival. After handing
of Vitellius. (Tac. Hist. i. 59, ii. 59, iii. 38, 39. ) over the province to his successor, he was detained
BLAESUS, PE’DIUS, was expelled the senate in the country a year longer by a severe and
in A. D. 60, on the complaint of the Cyrenians, for tedious illness. On his return home through
robbing the temple of Aesculapius, and for corrup- nearer Spain with a guard of 6000 soldiers, which
tion in the military levies; but he was re-admitted the praetor Ap. Claudius had giren him, he was
in 70. (Tac. Ann. xiv. 18, Hist. i. 77. )
attacked by an army of 20,000 Celtiberi, near the
BLANDUS, a Roman knight, who taught elo town of Miturgi. These he entirely defeated,
quence at Rome in the time of Augustus, and was slew 12,000 of the enemy, and took Illiturgi. This
the instructor of the philosopher and rhetorician, at least was the statement of Valerius Antias. For
Fabianus. (Senec. Controv. ii. prooem. p. 136, ed. this victory he obtained an ovation (B. C. 195), but
Bip. ) He is frequently introduced as a speaker not a triumph, because he had fought under the
in the Suasoriae (2, 5) and Controversiae (i. 1, 2, auspices and in the province of another. In the
4, &c. ) of the elder Seneca. He was probably the following year (194) he was one of the three com-
father or grandfather of the Rubellius Blandus missioners for founding a Roman colony at Sipon-
mentioned below.
tum in Apulia. (Liv. xxxii. 27, 28, xxxii. 21,
BLANDUS, RUBEʼLLIUS, whose grand- xxxiv. 10, 45. )
father was only a Roman knight of Tibur, married 2. Helvius Blasio, put an end to his own life
in A. D. 33 Julia, the daughter of Drusus, the son to encourage his friend D. Brutus to meet his death
of the emperor Tiberius, whence Blandus is called firmly, when the latter fell into the bands of his
the progener of Tiberius. (Tac. Ann. vi. 27, 45. ) enemies, in R. c. 43. (Dion Cass. xlvi. 53. )
Rubellius Plautus, who was put to death by Nero, BLA'SIUS, BLA'TIUS, or BLA'TTIUS, one
was the offspring of this marriage. [PLAUTUS] of the chief men at Salapia in Apulia, betrayed the
There was in the senate in A. D. 21 a Rubellius town to the Romans in B. c. 210, together with a
Blandus, a man of consular rank (Tac. Ann. iii. strong Carthaginian garrison that was stationed
23, 51), who is probably the same as the husband there. The way in which he outwitted his rival
of Julia, though Lipsius supposes him to be the Dasius, who supported the Carthaginians, is related
father of the latter. We do not, however, find in somewhat differently by the ancient writers. (Ap-
the Fasti any consul of this name.
pian, Annib. 45–47 ; Liv. xxvi. 38; Val. Max.
There is a coin, struck under Augustus, bearing iii. 8, extern. 1. )
the inscription c.
BLA'STARES, MATTHAEUS, a hieromo-
A. A. A. F. F. , that is, Auro Argento deri Flando nachus, or monk in holy orders, eminent as a Greek
Feriundo, which is probably to be referred to the canonist, who composed, about the year 1335 (as
father of the above-mentioned Blandus. (Eckhel, Bishop Beveridge satisfactorily makes out from the
v. p. 295. )
author's own enigmatical statement) an alphabetical
BLA'SIO, a surname of the Cornelia and Hel- compendium of the contents of the genuine canons.
It was intended to supply a more convenient
I. Corneli Blasiones.
repertory for ordinary use than was furnished by
1. Cn. Cornelius L. f. Cs. N. Blasio, who is the collections of Photius and his commentators.
mentioned nowhere but in the Fasti, was consul in The letters refer to the leading word in the rubrics
B. c. 270, censor in 265, and consul a second time of the titles, and under each letter the chapters
in 257. He gained a triumph in 270, but we do begin anew in numerical order. In cach chapter
not know over what people.
there is commonly an abstract, first of the ecclesi.
2. CN. CORNELIUS Blasio, was praetor in Sicily astical, then of the secular laws which relate to
in B. c. 194. (Liv. xxxiv. 42, 43. )
the subject; but the sources whence the secular
3. P. CORNELIUS BLASIO, was sent as an am- laws are cited are not ordinarily referred to, and
RVBELLIVS BLANDVS
IIIVIR
via gentes.
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BLOSIUS.
493
BOADICEA.
cannot always be determined. The ecclesiastical | Antipater of Tarsus. (Cic. de Amic. 11, de Leg.
constitutions are derived from the common canoni- Agr. ii. 34 ; Val. Max. iv. 7. § l; Plut. Të
cal collections. This compilation, as the numerous Gracch. 8, 17, 20. )
extnnt manuscripts provc, became very popular BOADICE'A (some MSS. of Tacitus have Bou-
among ecclesiastics. The preface to the Syntagma dicea, Boodicia or Voudica, and Dion Cassius calls
Alphabeticum of Blastares contains some historical her Bouvôovika), was the wife of Prasutagus, king
particulars, mingled with many errors, concerning of the Iceni, a tribe inhabiting the eastern coasi
the canon and imperial Inw. As an example of of Britain. Her husband, who died about a. D.
the errors, it may be stated that the formation of 60 or 6), made his two daughters and the emperor
Justinian's Digest and Code is attributed to
Nero the heirs of his private property, hoping
Hadrian. In most MSS. a small collection of thereby to protect his kingdom and his fansily
minor works, probably due to Blastares, is ap- from the oppression and the rapacity of the Rö-
pended to the Syntagma. As to unpublished mans stationed in Britain. But these expectations
works of Blastares in MS. , see Fabric. Bibl. Graec. were not realized; for Boadicea, who succeeded
xii. p. 205. A portion of the Syntagma (part of him, saw her kingdom and her house robbed and
B and r), which was probably found copied in a plundered by the Roman soldiers, as if they had
detached form, is printed in Leunclav. Jur. Grueco- been in a country conquered by force of arms.
Rom. vol. i. lib. viii. ; but the only complete edition The queen herself was maltreated even with blows,
of the work is that which is given by Beveridge and Romans ravished her two daughters. The
in his Synodicon, vol. ii. part. 2. The "matrimonial most distinguished among the Iceni were deprived
questions” of Blastares, printed in Leunclar. Jur. of their property, and the relatives of the late king
Graeco-Rom. , are often enumerated as a distinct treated as slaves. These outrages were com-
work from the Syntagma, but in reality they come mitted by Roman soldiers and veterans under the
under the head rámos. At the end of the Pèrc connivance of their officers, who not only took no
Goar's edition of Codinus is a treatise, written in measures to stop their proceedings, but Catus De-
popular verses ( FOMITIKOL orixou), concerning cianus was the most notorious of all by his extor-
the offices of the Palace of Constantinople, by tion and avarice. At last, in A. D 62, Boadicca, a
Matthaeus, monk, fúrns, and physician. The woman of manly spirit and undaunted courage,
author may possibly be no other than Blastares. was roused to revenge. She induced the Iceni to
(Biener, Gesch. der Novv. pp. 218–222 ; Walter, take up arms against their oppressors, and also
Kirchenrecht. $ 79. )
(J. T. G. ] prevailed upon the Trinobantes and other neigh-
BLEMMIDAS. [NICEPHORUS BLEMMIVAS. ) bouring tribes to join them. While the legate
BLEPAEUS (BAeraios ), a rich banker at Paulinus Suetonius was absent on an expedition
Athens in the time of Demosthenes, who was also to the island of Mona, Camalodunum, a recently
mentioned in one of the comedies of Alexis. (Dem. established colony of veterans, was attacked by
c. Meid.
583. 17, c. Boeot. de Dot. p. 1023. 19; the Britons. The colony solicited the aid of Catus
Athen. vi. p. 241, b. )
Decianus, who however was unable to send them
BLESAMIUS, & Galatian, a friend and more than 200 men, and these had not even regular
minister of Deiotarus, by whom he was sent as arms. Camalodunum was taken and destroyed by
ambassador to Rome, where he was when Cicero fire, and the soldiers, who took refuge in a temple
defended his master, B. C. 45. (Cic. pro Deiot. 12, which formed the arx of the place, were besieged
14, 15. ) Blesamius was also in Rome in the fol- for two days, and then made prisoners. Petilius
lowing year, 44. (Cic. ad Att. xvi. 3. )
Cerealis, the legate of the ninth legion, who was
BLITOR (BAITWp), satrap of Mesopotamia, was advancing to relieve Camalodunum, was met by
deprived of his satrapy by Antigonus in B. c. 316, the Britons, and, after the loss of his infantry,
because he had allowed Seleucus to escape from escaped with the cavalry to his fortified camp.
Babylon to Egypt in that year. (Appian, Syr. Catus Decianus, who in reality bore all the guilt,
53. )
made bis escape to Gaul; but Suetonius Paulinus,
BLO'SIUS or BLO'SSIUS, the name of a who had been informed of what was going on, had
noble family in Campania.
returned by this time, and forced his way through
1. F. Marius BLosius, was Campanian praetor the midst of the enemies as far as the colony of
when Capua revolted from the Romans and joined Londinium. As soon as he had left it, it was
Hannibal in B. c. 216. (Liv. xxiii. 7. )
taken by the Britons, and the municipium of Ve
2. Blosii, two brothers in Capua, were the rulamium soon after experienced the same fate : in
ringleaders in an attempted revolt of Capua from these places nearly 70,000 Romans and Roman
the Romans in B. c. 210 ; but the design was dis- allies were slain with cruel tortures. Suetonius
covered, and the Blosii and their associates put to saw that a battle could no longer be deferred. His
death. (Liv. xxvii. 3. )
forces consisted of only about 10,000 men, while
3. C. BLosius, of Cumae, a hospes of Scaerola's those of the Britons under Boadicea are said to
family, was an intimate friend of Ti. Gracchus, have amounted to 230,000. On the day of the
whom he is said to have urged on to bring forward battle, the queen rode in a chariot with her two
his agrarian law. After the death of Ti. Gracchus daughters before her, and commanded her army in
he was accused before the consuls in B. C. 132, on person. She harangued her soldiers, reminded
account of his participation in the schemes of them of the wrongs inflicted upon Britain by the
Gracchus, and fearing the issue he fled to Aristo- Romans, and roused their courage against the com-
nicus, king of Pergamus, who was then at war mon enemy.
But the Britons were conquered by
with the Romans. When Aristonicus was con- the greater military skill and the favourable posi-
quered shortly afterwards, Blosius put an end to tion of the Romans. About 80,000 Bri:ons are
his own life for fear of falling into the hands of the said to have fallen on that day, and the Romans
Romans. Blosius had paid considerable attention to have lost no more than 400. Boadicca would
to the study of philosophy, and was a disciple of not survive this irreparable loss, and put an end ic
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BOCCITUS.
BOEDROMIUS.
her life by poison. Her body was interred with they proceeded to Rome, where hopes of an alli-
great soleninity by the Britons, who then dispersed. ance and the friendship of the Roman people were
This victory, which Tacitus declares equal to the held out to them. When Bocchus was informed
great victories of ancient times, finally established of this, he requested an interview with Sulla.
the Roman dominion in Britain. (Tac. Ann. xiv. This being granted, Sulla tried to persuade Boc-
31-37, Agric. 15, 16; Dion Cass. lxii. 1-12. ) [L. S. ) chus to deliver up Jugurtha into the hands of
BOCCHAR. 1. A king of the Mauri in the the Romans. At the same time, however, Ju-
time of MASINISSA, B. C. 204. (Liv. xxix. 30. ) gurtha also endcavoured to induce him to betray
2. A general of Syphax, who sent him against Sulla, and these clashing proposals made Bocchus
Masinissa, B. c. 204. (Liv. xxix. 32. ) [P. S. ] hesitate for a while ; but he at last determined to
BO'CCHORIS (Bók xopus), an Egyptian king comply with the wish of Sulin. Jugurtha was ac-
and legislator, who was distinguished for his wiscordingly invited to negotiate for peace, and when
dom, avarice, and bodily weakness. His laws he arrived, was treacherously taken prisoner, and
related chiefly to the prerogatives of the king and delivered up to Sulla, B. C.
