A king of Bosporus, son of Leucon, suc- most ancient family of the Aelia gens, and some of
ceeded his brother Spartacus in B.
ceeded his brother Spartacus in B.
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) But
tarch (Thes. 20).
we are told, in general terms, that he was a mild
2. À son of Antilochus, and grandson of Nestor. and equitable ruler, and was so much beloved
(Paus. ii. 18. $ 7. )
by his subjects as to obtain divine honours after
3. A son of Endymion, and brother of Epeius, his death. (Strab. vii. p. 310. ) He left three
Aetolus, and Eurycyde ; from whom the district sons, Satyrus, Eumelus and Prytanis. (Diod. XX.
of Paeonia, on the Axius in Macedonia, was be- 22. )
lieved to have derived its name. (Paus. v. 1. & 2, He is probably the same person as the Biri-
&c. )
(L. S. ) sades mentioned by Deinarchus (c. Dem. p. 95),
PAEON (Nalwr). 1. A son of Poseidon by to whom Demosthenes had proposed that a statue
Helle, who fell into the Hellespont. In some
should be erected at Athens. (See Wesseling ud
legends he was called Edonus. (Hygin. Poch. Astr. Diod. xiv. 93 ; Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. p. 284. )
ii. 20. )
2. Son of Satyrus, and grandson of the pre-
PAEOʻNIA (Tlauwvla), i. e. the healing goddess, ceding. He was the only one of the children of
was a surname of Athena, under which she had a Satyrus who escaped from the designs of his uncle
statue at Athens, and an altar in the temple of Eumelus, and took refuge at the court of Agarus
Amphiaraus at Oropus. (Paus. i. 2. § 4, 34. king of Scythia, B. c. 308. (Diod. xx. 24. )
§ 2. )
(L. S. ] 3. A second king of Bosporus, and the last
PAEOʻNIUS, instructed the two young Ciceros, monarch of the first dynasty that ruled in that
Marcus and Quintus, in rhetoric, B. C. 54 (Cic. ad country. He was probably a descendant of No. 1,
Qu. Fr. iii. 3. & 4).
but the history of the kingdom of Bosporus,
PAEOʻNIUS (Naravos). 1. Of Ephesus, an during the period previous to his reign, is wholly
architect, whose time is uncertain ; most probably lost. We only know that the pressure of the
he lived between B. C. 420 and 380. In con- Scythian tribes from without, and their constantly
junction with Demetrins, he finally completed the increasing demands of tribute, which he was
great temple of Artemis, at Ephesus, which Cher- unable to resist, at length induced Paerisades
siphron had begun (CHERSIPHRON); and, with voluntarily to cede his sovereignty to Mithridates
Daphnis the Milesian, he began to build at the Great. (Strab. vii. pp. 309, 310. ) The date of
Miletus a temple of Apollo, of the Ionic order. this event is wholly unknown, but it cannot be
(Vitruv. vii. Praef. Ø 16. ) The latter was the placed earlier than B. C. 112, nor later than
famous Didymacum, or temple of Apollo Didymus, B. C. 88. It is uncertain whether an anecdote
the ruins of which are still to be seen near related by Polyaenus (vii. 37) refers to this Pae-
Miletus. The former temple, in which the Bran- risades or to No. 1.
(E. H. B. )
chidae had an oracle of Apollo (from which the PAETI'NCS, a lengthened form of Paetus
place itself obtained the name of Branchidae), was [PAETUS), like Albinus of Albus, was a family
burnt at the capture of Miletus by the army of name of the Fulvia Gens. It superseded the family
Dareius, B. C. 498. (Herod. vi. 19; see Bähr's Note. ) name of Curvus, of which it was originally an ag-
The new temple, which was on a scale only nomen, and was superseded in its turn by the name
inferior to that of Artemis, was never finished. of Nobilior.
It was dipteral, decastyle, hypaethral : among its 1. M. Fulvius Curvus PAETINUs, consul B. C.
extensive ruins two columns are still standing. 305. [Fulvius, No. 2. )
(Strab. xiv. p. 634 ; Paus. vii. 5. § 4 ; Chandler, 2. M. FULVIUS PAETINUS, consul B. C. 299
p. 151; Ionian Antiq. vol. i. c. 3. p. 27 ; Hirt, with T. Manlius Torquatus. (Liv. x. 9. )
Gesch. d. Baukunst, vol. ii. p. 62, and pl. ix. x. ) 3. SER. Fulvius PAETINUS NOBILIOR, consul
2. Of Mende, in Thrace, a statuary and B. c. 255. (Nobilior, No. 1. )
sculptor, of whom we have but little information, PAETUS, a cognomen in many Roman gentes,
but whose celebrity may be judged of from the was indicative, like many other Roman cognomens,
fact, that he execuied the statues in the pediment of a bodily defect or peculiarity; as for instance,
of the front portico of the temple of Zeus at Cupilo, Fronto, Naso, Varus, &c. It signified a
Olympia, those in the pediment of the portico of person who had a slight cast in the eye, and is ac-
the opisthodomus being entrusted to Alcamenes cordingly classed by Pliny with the word Strabo
(Paus. v. 10). He also made the bronze statue (H. N. xi. 37. 8. 55); but that it did not indicate
of Nike, which the Messenians of Naupactus such a complete distortion of vision as the latter
dedicated at Olympia. (Paus. x. 26. § 1. ) He word is clear from Horace, who describes a father
must have flourished about the 86th Olympiad, calling a son that was Strabo by the name of Pac-
B. C. 435. (See further, Sillig, Catal. Art. 8. v. ; tus, when he wished to extenuate the defect (Sat.
Müller, Archäol, de Kunst, Š 112. n. 1. $ 119, | i. 3. 45). Indeed, the slight cast implied in the
n. 2. )
[P. S. ] word Pactus was considered attractive rather than
PAERI'SADES or PARI'SADES (Taipioaons otherwise, and we accordingly find it given as an
or Παρισάδης). The latter forin is the more epithet to Venus. (Ov. Ar. Am. ii. 659 ; Auctor,
common : but the former, which is that used by Priupeia, 36).
Strabo, is confirmed by the evidence of coins. PAETUS, AE'LIUS. The Paeti were the
1.
A king of Bosporus, son of Leucon, suc- most ancient family of the Aelia gens, and some of
ceeded his brother Spartacus in B. C. 349, and reigned them were celebrated for their knowledge of the
thirty-eight years. (Diod. xvi. 52. ) No events of Roman law. See below.
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PAETUS.
PAETUS.
1. P. Aelius PaetUs, consul B c. 337, with | with the Boii, and made a treaty with the Inganni
C. Sulpicius Longus, and magister equitum 321, to Ligures. He was also in the same year appointed
the dictator Q. Fabius Ambustus. He was one a decemvir for the distribution of lands among the
of the first plebeian augurs, B. C. 300. (Liv, viii. veteran soldiers of Scipio, who had fought in Africa,
15, ix. 7, x. 9. )
(Liv. xxxi. 4. ) He was afterwards appointed a
2. P. Arlius Paet us, plebeian aedile B. c. 296. commissioner (triumvir) with his brother Sextus
(Liv. x. 23. )
and Cn. Cornelius Lentulus to settle the affairs of
3. C. Aelius Paetus, consul B. c. 286, with Narnia, the people of which place complained that
M. Valerius Maximus Potitus (Fasti).
there was not the proper number of colonists (co-
4. Q. Aelius Paetus, a pontifex who fell in loni), and that certain persons, who were not coloni,
the battle of Cannae, B. C. 216. He had been a were passing themselves off as such. (Liv. xxxii. 2. )
candidate for the consulship for this year. (Liv. In B. C. 199, he was censor with P. Cornelius
xxiii. 21, comp. xxii. 35. )
Scipio Africanus. He afterwards became an
5. P. AELIUS Paetus, consul B. C. 201, a augur, and died B. c. 174, during a pestilence at
jurist. See below.
Rome. (Liv. xli. 26. ) Paetus is mentioned by
6. Sex. Aelius Paetus Catus, consul B. C. Pomponius (Dig. 1. tit. 1. s. 2. $ 37) as one of
198, a jurist. See below.
those who proſessed the law (maximam scientiam
7. Q. Aelius P. F. Q. n. Paetus (Fasti Capit. ), in profitendo habuerunt), in the Roman sense of
con apparently of No. 5, and grandson of No. 4. that period.
He was elected augur B. c. 174, in place of his 2. Sex. AELIUS PAETUS, the brother of Publing,
father P. Aelius Paetus (Liv. xli, 21), and was was curule aedile B. c. 200, consul B. c. 198, with
consul B. C. 167, with M. Junius Pennus. He T. Quinctius Flamininus (Liv. xxxii. 7), and censor
obtained Gallia as his province, and his colleague B. c. 193 with Cn. Cornelius Cethegus. (Liv. xxxis.
Pisae, but the two consuls performed nothing of 44, xxxv. 9. ) During their censorship, the censors
importance, and returned to Rome after laying gave orders to the curule aediles to appoint distinct
waste the territory of the Ligurians. (Liv. xlv. 16, seats at the Ludi Romani for the senators, who up
44 ; Cic. Brut. 28. ) This is the Aelius of whom to that time had sat promiscuously with others.
it is related by Valerius Maximus (iv. 3. $ 7) and The Atrium of Libertas and the Villa Publica
Pliny (H. N. xxxiii. 11, s. 50), that the Aetolians were also repaired and enlarged by the censors.
sent him in his consulship magnificent presents of Sextus had a reputation as a jurist and a prudent
silver plate, since they had in a former embassy man, whence he got the cognomen Catus.
found him eating out of earthenware, and that he
refused their gift. Valerius calls him Q. Aelius
Egregie cordatus homo Catus Aelius Sextus
Tubero Catus, and Pliny Catus Aelius ; they both (Cic. de Orat. i 45), which is a line of Ennius,
seem to have confounded him with other persons Sextus was a jurist of eminence, and also a
of the same name, and Pliny commits the further ready speaker. (Cic. Brut. c. 20. ) He is enu-
error of calling him the son in-law of L. Aemilius merated among the old jurists who collected or
Paullus, the conqueror of Macedonia. [Tubero. ] arranged the matter of law (juris antiqui conditor ;
8. Aelius Partus Tubero. [TUBERO. ) Cod. 7. tit. 7. s. 1), which he did in a work en-
The annexed coin belongs to P. Aelius Paetus, titled Tripartita or Jus Aelianum. This was a
but it is uncertain to which person of the name. work on the Twelve Tables, which contained the ori-
It bears on the obverse the head of Pallas, and on ginal text, an interpretation, and the Legis actio
the reverse the Dioscuri.
subjoined. It still existed in the time of Pom-
ponius (Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. 2. & 38); and was probably
the first commentary written on the Twelve
Tables. Cicero (de Or. i. 56) speaks of his Com-
mentarii, which may or may not be a different
work from the Tripartita. Gellius (ir. l) quotes
Servius Sulpicius, as citing an opinion of Catus
Aelius (or Sextus Aelius) on the meaning of the
word Penus. The same passage is quoted by Ul.
pian, De Penu legata (33. tit. 9. s. 3. 89), where
COIN OF P. AELIUS PAETUS.
the common reading is Sextus Caecilius, which, as
Grotius contends, ought to be Sextus Aelius. He
PAETUS, AE’LIUS, jurists. I. P. ARLIUS is also cited by Celsus (Dig. 19. tit. 1. s. 38), as
PAETUS, was probably the son of Q. Aelius Paetus, the text stands. The Aelius quoted by Cicero
a pontifex, who fell in the battle of Cannae. (Liv. (Top. c. 2) as authority for the meaning of “ assi-
xxiii, 21. ) Publius was plebeian aedile B. c. 204, duus,” is probably Sextus Aelius.
tarch (Thes. 20).
we are told, in general terms, that he was a mild
2. À son of Antilochus, and grandson of Nestor. and equitable ruler, and was so much beloved
(Paus. ii. 18. $ 7. )
by his subjects as to obtain divine honours after
3. A son of Endymion, and brother of Epeius, his death. (Strab. vii. p. 310. ) He left three
Aetolus, and Eurycyde ; from whom the district sons, Satyrus, Eumelus and Prytanis. (Diod. XX.
of Paeonia, on the Axius in Macedonia, was be- 22. )
lieved to have derived its name. (Paus. v. 1. & 2, He is probably the same person as the Biri-
&c. )
(L. S. ) sades mentioned by Deinarchus (c. Dem. p. 95),
PAEON (Nalwr). 1. A son of Poseidon by to whom Demosthenes had proposed that a statue
Helle, who fell into the Hellespont. In some
should be erected at Athens. (See Wesseling ud
legends he was called Edonus. (Hygin. Poch. Astr. Diod. xiv. 93 ; Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. p. 284. )
ii. 20. )
2. Son of Satyrus, and grandson of the pre-
PAEOʻNIA (Tlauwvla), i. e. the healing goddess, ceding. He was the only one of the children of
was a surname of Athena, under which she had a Satyrus who escaped from the designs of his uncle
statue at Athens, and an altar in the temple of Eumelus, and took refuge at the court of Agarus
Amphiaraus at Oropus. (Paus. i. 2. § 4, 34. king of Scythia, B. c. 308. (Diod. xx. 24. )
§ 2. )
(L. S. ] 3. A second king of Bosporus, and the last
PAEOʻNIUS, instructed the two young Ciceros, monarch of the first dynasty that ruled in that
Marcus and Quintus, in rhetoric, B. C. 54 (Cic. ad country. He was probably a descendant of No. 1,
Qu. Fr. iii. 3. & 4).
but the history of the kingdom of Bosporus,
PAEOʻNIUS (Naravos). 1. Of Ephesus, an during the period previous to his reign, is wholly
architect, whose time is uncertain ; most probably lost. We only know that the pressure of the
he lived between B. C. 420 and 380. In con- Scythian tribes from without, and their constantly
junction with Demetrins, he finally completed the increasing demands of tribute, which he was
great temple of Artemis, at Ephesus, which Cher- unable to resist, at length induced Paerisades
siphron had begun (CHERSIPHRON); and, with voluntarily to cede his sovereignty to Mithridates
Daphnis the Milesian, he began to build at the Great. (Strab. vii. pp. 309, 310. ) The date of
Miletus a temple of Apollo, of the Ionic order. this event is wholly unknown, but it cannot be
(Vitruv. vii. Praef. Ø 16. ) The latter was the placed earlier than B. C. 112, nor later than
famous Didymacum, or temple of Apollo Didymus, B. C. 88. It is uncertain whether an anecdote
the ruins of which are still to be seen near related by Polyaenus (vii. 37) refers to this Pae-
Miletus. The former temple, in which the Bran- risades or to No. 1.
(E. H. B. )
chidae had an oracle of Apollo (from which the PAETI'NCS, a lengthened form of Paetus
place itself obtained the name of Branchidae), was [PAETUS), like Albinus of Albus, was a family
burnt at the capture of Miletus by the army of name of the Fulvia Gens. It superseded the family
Dareius, B. C. 498. (Herod. vi. 19; see Bähr's Note. ) name of Curvus, of which it was originally an ag-
The new temple, which was on a scale only nomen, and was superseded in its turn by the name
inferior to that of Artemis, was never finished. of Nobilior.
It was dipteral, decastyle, hypaethral : among its 1. M. Fulvius Curvus PAETINUs, consul B. C.
extensive ruins two columns are still standing. 305. [Fulvius, No. 2. )
(Strab. xiv. p. 634 ; Paus. vii. 5. § 4 ; Chandler, 2. M. FULVIUS PAETINUS, consul B. C. 299
p. 151; Ionian Antiq. vol. i. c. 3. p. 27 ; Hirt, with T. Manlius Torquatus. (Liv. x. 9. )
Gesch. d. Baukunst, vol. ii. p. 62, and pl. ix. x. ) 3. SER. Fulvius PAETINUS NOBILIOR, consul
2. Of Mende, in Thrace, a statuary and B. c. 255. (Nobilior, No. 1. )
sculptor, of whom we have but little information, PAETUS, a cognomen in many Roman gentes,
but whose celebrity may be judged of from the was indicative, like many other Roman cognomens,
fact, that he execuied the statues in the pediment of a bodily defect or peculiarity; as for instance,
of the front portico of the temple of Zeus at Cupilo, Fronto, Naso, Varus, &c. It signified a
Olympia, those in the pediment of the portico of person who had a slight cast in the eye, and is ac-
the opisthodomus being entrusted to Alcamenes cordingly classed by Pliny with the word Strabo
(Paus. v. 10). He also made the bronze statue (H. N. xi. 37. 8. 55); but that it did not indicate
of Nike, which the Messenians of Naupactus such a complete distortion of vision as the latter
dedicated at Olympia. (Paus. x. 26. § 1. ) He word is clear from Horace, who describes a father
must have flourished about the 86th Olympiad, calling a son that was Strabo by the name of Pac-
B. C. 435. (See further, Sillig, Catal. Art. 8. v. ; tus, when he wished to extenuate the defect (Sat.
Müller, Archäol, de Kunst, Š 112. n. 1. $ 119, | i. 3. 45). Indeed, the slight cast implied in the
n. 2. )
[P. S. ] word Pactus was considered attractive rather than
PAERI'SADES or PARI'SADES (Taipioaons otherwise, and we accordingly find it given as an
or Παρισάδης). The latter forin is the more epithet to Venus. (Ov. Ar. Am. ii. 659 ; Auctor,
common : but the former, which is that used by Priupeia, 36).
Strabo, is confirmed by the evidence of coins. PAETUS, AE'LIUS. The Paeti were the
1.
A king of Bosporus, son of Leucon, suc- most ancient family of the Aelia gens, and some of
ceeded his brother Spartacus in B. C. 349, and reigned them were celebrated for their knowledge of the
thirty-eight years. (Diod. xvi. 52. ) No events of Roman law. See below.
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PAETUS.
PAETUS.
1. P. Aelius PaetUs, consul B c. 337, with | with the Boii, and made a treaty with the Inganni
C. Sulpicius Longus, and magister equitum 321, to Ligures. He was also in the same year appointed
the dictator Q. Fabius Ambustus. He was one a decemvir for the distribution of lands among the
of the first plebeian augurs, B. C. 300. (Liv, viii. veteran soldiers of Scipio, who had fought in Africa,
15, ix. 7, x. 9. )
(Liv. xxxi. 4. ) He was afterwards appointed a
2. P. Arlius Paet us, plebeian aedile B. c. 296. commissioner (triumvir) with his brother Sextus
(Liv. x. 23. )
and Cn. Cornelius Lentulus to settle the affairs of
3. C. Aelius Paetus, consul B. c. 286, with Narnia, the people of which place complained that
M. Valerius Maximus Potitus (Fasti).
there was not the proper number of colonists (co-
4. Q. Aelius Paetus, a pontifex who fell in loni), and that certain persons, who were not coloni,
the battle of Cannae, B. C. 216. He had been a were passing themselves off as such. (Liv. xxxii. 2. )
candidate for the consulship for this year. (Liv. In B. C. 199, he was censor with P. Cornelius
xxiii. 21, comp. xxii. 35. )
Scipio Africanus. He afterwards became an
5. P. AELIUS Paetus, consul B. C. 201, a augur, and died B. c. 174, during a pestilence at
jurist. See below.
Rome. (Liv. xli. 26. ) Paetus is mentioned by
6. Sex. Aelius Paetus Catus, consul B. C. Pomponius (Dig. 1. tit. 1. s. 2. $ 37) as one of
198, a jurist. See below.
those who proſessed the law (maximam scientiam
7. Q. Aelius P. F. Q. n. Paetus (Fasti Capit. ), in profitendo habuerunt), in the Roman sense of
con apparently of No. 5, and grandson of No. 4. that period.
He was elected augur B. c. 174, in place of his 2. Sex. AELIUS PAETUS, the brother of Publing,
father P. Aelius Paetus (Liv. xli, 21), and was was curule aedile B. c. 200, consul B. c. 198, with
consul B. C. 167, with M. Junius Pennus. He T. Quinctius Flamininus (Liv. xxxii. 7), and censor
obtained Gallia as his province, and his colleague B. c. 193 with Cn. Cornelius Cethegus. (Liv. xxxis.
Pisae, but the two consuls performed nothing of 44, xxxv. 9. ) During their censorship, the censors
importance, and returned to Rome after laying gave orders to the curule aediles to appoint distinct
waste the territory of the Ligurians. (Liv. xlv. 16, seats at the Ludi Romani for the senators, who up
44 ; Cic. Brut. 28. ) This is the Aelius of whom to that time had sat promiscuously with others.
it is related by Valerius Maximus (iv. 3. $ 7) and The Atrium of Libertas and the Villa Publica
Pliny (H. N. xxxiii. 11, s. 50), that the Aetolians were also repaired and enlarged by the censors.
sent him in his consulship magnificent presents of Sextus had a reputation as a jurist and a prudent
silver plate, since they had in a former embassy man, whence he got the cognomen Catus.
found him eating out of earthenware, and that he
refused their gift. Valerius calls him Q. Aelius
Egregie cordatus homo Catus Aelius Sextus
Tubero Catus, and Pliny Catus Aelius ; they both (Cic. de Orat. i 45), which is a line of Ennius,
seem to have confounded him with other persons Sextus was a jurist of eminence, and also a
of the same name, and Pliny commits the further ready speaker. (Cic. Brut. c. 20. ) He is enu-
error of calling him the son in-law of L. Aemilius merated among the old jurists who collected or
Paullus, the conqueror of Macedonia. [Tubero. ] arranged the matter of law (juris antiqui conditor ;
8. Aelius Partus Tubero. [TUBERO. ) Cod. 7. tit. 7. s. 1), which he did in a work en-
The annexed coin belongs to P. Aelius Paetus, titled Tripartita or Jus Aelianum. This was a
but it is uncertain to which person of the name. work on the Twelve Tables, which contained the ori-
It bears on the obverse the head of Pallas, and on ginal text, an interpretation, and the Legis actio
the reverse the Dioscuri.
subjoined. It still existed in the time of Pom-
ponius (Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. 2. & 38); and was probably
the first commentary written on the Twelve
Tables. Cicero (de Or. i. 56) speaks of his Com-
mentarii, which may or may not be a different
work from the Tripartita. Gellius (ir. l) quotes
Servius Sulpicius, as citing an opinion of Catus
Aelius (or Sextus Aelius) on the meaning of the
word Penus. The same passage is quoted by Ul.
pian, De Penu legata (33. tit. 9. s. 3. 89), where
COIN OF P. AELIUS PAETUS.
the common reading is Sextus Caecilius, which, as
Grotius contends, ought to be Sextus Aelius. He
PAETUS, AE’LIUS, jurists. I. P. ARLIUS is also cited by Celsus (Dig. 19. tit. 1. s. 38), as
PAETUS, was probably the son of Q. Aelius Paetus, the text stands. The Aelius quoted by Cicero
a pontifex, who fell in the battle of Cannae. (Liv. (Top. c. 2) as authority for the meaning of “ assi-
xxiii, 21. ) Publius was plebeian aedile B. c. 204, duus,” is probably Sextus Aelius.
