)
Cicero says that Domitius was not to be reckoned
among the orators, but that he spoke well enough,
siu; had sufficient talent to maintain liis high rank.
Cicero says that Domitius was not to be reckoned
among the orators, but that he spoke well enough,
siu; had sufficient talent to maintain liis high rank.
Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary
--Lobeck, Aglaopli.
, p.
89.
--
Diet, of Ant. , t. v. Agraulia) According to Porphyry
(De Abitin. ab animal. , 1, 2), she was also worship-
ped in Cyprus, where human sacrifices were offer-
ed to her down to a very late time.
AGYRRIIIUS ('Aytl/fyiiof), a native of Collytus in
Attica, whom Andocides ironically calls TOV /co
xa-yaOov (De Mi/. -t. . p. 65, ed. Reiske), after being
in prison many years for embezzlement of public
money, obtained, about B. C. 395, tlie restoration of
the Theoricon, and also tripled the pay for attend-
ing the assembly, though he reduced the allowance
previously given to the comic writers. (Harpocrat. ,
*. v. BcuptKa, 'A; i ,'j;"'"'---Suidat, i. r. ///i>/ //T/I/U ,-<
KOV. --Schol. ad Arittoph. , Eccl. , 102. --Dem. , c. Ti-
iii,:, i-. , p. 742. ) By this expenditure of the public
revenue Agyrrhius became so popular, that he was
appointed general in B. C. 389. (Xen. , Hell. , 4, S.
4 31. --DM. , 14, 99. --Bockh, Publ. Econ. of Athens.
p. 223, 224, 316, &c. , 2d ed. , Engl. traml. -- Schff-
mmiH, De Ciniiiiiix, p. 65, &c. )
AHALA, the name of a patrician family of the
Servilia gens. There were also several persons of
this gens with the name of Stntctus Ahala, who
may have formed a different family from the Aba-
te; but as the Ahalae and Structi Ahala; are fre-
quently confounded, all the persons of these names
are given here. --I. C. SERYILIUS STRUCTUB, consul
B C. 478, died in his year of office, as appears from
the Fasti. (lav. , 2,49. )--II. C. SKBVILIUB STRUCTUS,
magister equitum B. C. 439, when L. Cincinhalus
was appointed dictator on the pretence that Sp.
Maslius was plotting against the state. In the night
in which the dictator was appointed, the Capitol and
al the strong posts were garrisoned by the part i-
saus of the patricians. In the morning, when the
people assembled in the forum, and Sp. Maelius
among them, Ahala summoned the latter to appear
before the dictator; and upon Meelius disobeying
and taking refuge in the crowd, Ahala rushed into
the throng and killed him. (Liv. , 4, 13, 14. --Zona-
rtu, 7, 20. -- Dionyt. , Exc. Mai, 1, p. 3. ) This act
is mentioned by later writers as an example of an-
cient heroism, and is frequently referred to by Ci-
cero in terms of the highest admiration (in Catil. ,
1, 1 j Pro Mil. , 3; Calo, 16); but it was, in reality,
a case of murder, and was so regarded at the time.
Ahala was brought to trial, and only escaped con-
iiemnation by a voluntary exile. ( Vol. Max. , 5,3,
4 3. --Cie. , De Rep. , 1,3; Pro Dem. , 32. ) Livy pass-
es over this, and only mentions (4, 21) that a bill
? ? was brought in three years afterward, B. C. 436, by
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? SUPPLEMENT
>>n elephant. He triumphed in 120. (Liv. , Epit. ,
91. -- Florua, 3, 2. -- Slrab. , 4, p. 191. -- Cie. , Pro
Font, 12; Brut. , 26. -- Vellei. , 2, 10, 39. --Oros. , 6,
13. - ? ? fuel. , Ner. , 2, who confounds him with his
Bon ) lie was censor in 135 with, Caecih'us Metel-
Iu8, and expelled twenty-two persons from the sen-
ate. (Liti. , Epit. , 62. --Cic. , Pro Cluent. , 42*) He
was also pontifex. (Sue/. , 1. r. . ) The Via Domitia
in Gaul was made by him. (Cic. , Pro Font. , 8. )--
IV. CN. DOMITICS CM. F. CN. N. , son of the prece-
ding, was tribune of the plebs B. C. 104, in the sec-
ond consulship of Marius. (Ascon. , in Cornel. , p.
81, ed. Orelli. } When the college of pontiffs did
not elect him in place of his father, he brought for-
ward the law (Lei Domitia), by which the right of
election was transferred from the priestly colleges
to the people. ( Diet, oj Ant. , p. 790, . b; 791, a. )
The people afterward elected him Pontifex Maxi-
mus out of gratitude. (Liv. , Epit. , 67. --Cic. , Pro
Deiot. , 11. -- Vol. Max, 6, 5, $ 5. ) He prosecuted,
in his tribunate and afterward, several of his pri-
vate enemies, as jEmilius Scaurus and Junius Sila-
nus. (Vol. Max. , 1. c. --Dion Cass. , FT. , 100. --Cic. ,
Din. in Caccil, 20; For. , 2, 47; Cornel. , 2; Pro
Scaur. , I. ) He was consul B. C. 96 with C. Cas-
sius, and censor B. C. 92 with Licinius Crassus, the
orator. In his censorship he and his colleague shut
up the schools of the Latin rhetoricians (Cic. , De
Oral. , 3, 24. -- Gell. , 15, 11), but this was the only
thing in which they acted in concert. Their cen-
sorship was long celebrated for their disputes. Do-
mitius was of a violent temper, and was, moreover,
in favour of the ancient simplicity of living, while
Crassus loved luxury and encouraged art. Among
the many sayings recorded of both, we are told that
Crassus observed, "that it was no wonder that a
man had a beard i -'brass, who had a mouth of iron
and a heart of le:*l. " (Plin. , H. N. , 18, I. --Suet. ,
I c. --Val. Max. , 9, 1, $4. -- Macrob. , Sat. , 2, 11.
)
Cicero says that Domitius was not to be reckoned
among the orators, but that he spoke well enough,
siu; had sufficient talent to maintain liis high rank.
(Cic. , Br<<<. ,44. )--V. L. DOMITIUS CN. F. CN. N. , son
of No. III. and brother of No. IV. , was prater in
Sicily, probably in B. C. 96, shortly after the Ser-
vile war, when slaves had been forbidden to carry
arms. He ordered a slave to be crucified for kill-
ing a wild hoar with a hunting-spear. (Ctc. , Verr. ,
5, 8. --Vol. Max. , 6, 3, 1) 5. ) He was consul in 94.
In the civil war between Marius and Sulla, he es-
poused the side of the latter, and was murdered at
Kome, by order of the younger Marius, by the prse-
tor Damasippus. (Appian, B. C. , 1, 88. -- Vellei. , 2,
26. --Oros. , 5,20. --VI. CN. DOMIWOS CN. p. CN. N. ,
apparently a son of No. IV. , married Cornelia, daugh-
ter of L. Cornelius Cinna, consul in B. C. 87, and in
the civil war between Marius and Sulla espoused
the side of the former. When Sulla obtained the
supreme power in 82, Ahenobarbus was proscribed,
and fled to Africa, where he was joined by many
who were in the same condition as himself. With
the assistance of the Numidian king, Hiarbas, he
collected an army, but was defeated near Utica by
Cn. Pompeius, whom Sulla had sent against him,
ant was afterward killed in the storming of his
camp, B. C. 81. According to some accounts, he
was killed aftaikthe battle by command of Pompey.
(Lin. , Epit. , Sfff-Plul. , Pomp, 10,12. --Zonaras, 10,
? ? 2. --Pro*. , 5, 21. --Vol. Max. , 6, 2, </ 8. )--VII. L.
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? SUPPLEMENT
Mr,
nwn of great energy of character; he remained firm
to ! ib political principles, but was little scrupulous
in the means he employed to maintain them. (The
passages of Cicero in which Ahenobarhus is men-
tioned are given in Orclli't Onomastieon Tullicmum.
--Suetonius, Pier. , 2. . --Won Cassius, lib. 39, 41.
--Caaar, Bell. Civ. ) -- VIII. CN. DOMITIUS L F.
ON. N. , son of the preceding, was taken with his
father at Oorfinium (B. C. 49), and was present at
ilie battle of Pharsalia (48), but did not take any
lai (her part in the war. He did not, however, return
lo Italy till 46, when he was pardoned by Ceesar.
He probably had no share in the murder of Cesar
(44), though some writers expressly assert that he
was one of the conspirators; but he followed Bru-
tus into Macedonia after Cesar's death, and was
condemned by the Lex Pedia, in 43, as one of the
murderers of Gu;sar. In 42 he commanded a fleet
of fifty ships in the Ionian Sea, anil completely de-
feated Domitius Calvinus on the day of the first
battle of Philippi, as the latter attempted to sail out
of Brundisium. He was saluted imperator in con-
sequents, and a record of this victory is preserved
in a coin, which represents a trophy placed upon the
prow of a vessel. The head on the other side of
the coin has a beard, in reference to the reputed
origin of the family.
After the battle of Philippi (43), Ahenobarbus
conducted the war independently of Sex. Pompeius,
'>>nd with a fleet of seventy ships and two legions
plundered the coasts of the Ionian Sea.
In 40, Ahfiuobarbus became reconciled to Antony,
which gave great offence to Octavianus, and was
placed over Bilhynia by Antony. In the peace con-
cluded with Sex. Pompeius in 39, Antony provided
lor the safety of Ahenobarbus, and obtained for him
the promise of the consulship for 32. Ahenobarbus
remained a considerable time in Asia, and accom-
panied Antony in his unfortunate campaign against
the Parthians in 36. He became consul, according
to agreement, in 33, in which year the open rupture
look place between Antony and Augustus. Aheno-
oarbus fled from Rome to Antony at Ephesus, where
he found Cleopatra with him, and endeavoured, in
'? . 1 in, to obtain her removal from the army. Many
of the soldiers, disgusted with the conduct of An-
tony, offered the command to him; but he preferred
deserting the party altogether, and accordingly went
over to Augustus, shortly before the battle of Acti-
um. He was not, however, present at the battle,
as he died a few days after joining Augustus. Sue-
tonius says that he was the best of his family. (Cic. .
Phil. , a, 11; 10, 6; Brut. , 25; ail Fam. , 6, 22. -
Apptan, B. C. , 5, 55, 63, 65. --Plut. , Anton. , 70, 71.
--Dim Cassius, lib. 47, \. -i-VeUeius, 2, 76, 84. --
Suetonius, Ner. , 3. --Tacitus, Ann. , 4, 44. )--IX. L.
DoiiiTiua CN. p. L. N. , son of the preceding, was
betrothed in B. C. 39, at the meeting of Octavianus
and Antony at Tarentum, to Antonia, the daughter
of the latter by Octavia. He was aidile in B. C. 22,
and consul in B. C. 16. Alter his consulship, and
probably as the successor of Tiberius, he command-
ed the Roman army in Germany, crossed the Elbe,
and penetrated farther into the country than any of
his predecessors had done. He received, in conse-
quence, the insignia of a triumph. He died A. D. 25.
Suetonius describes him as haughty, prodigal, and
? ? cruel, and relates that in his sedileship he com-
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? 1488
SUPPLEMENT.
Postumius as commander in consequence of the
name. Livy (30, 45) elates expressly, that Scipio
Africanus was the first Roman who obtained a sur-
name from his conquests. (Nitbuhr, Hist, of Rome,
1, p. 556. )--II. SP. POSTUMIUS A. p. P. N. ALBUS RE-
aiLLKNsis, apparently, according to the Fasti, the
>>on of the preceding (though it must be observed,
that in these early times no dependance can be pla-
ted upon these genealogies), was consul B. C. 466.
(Liv. , 3, 2. --Dionys, 9, GO. ) He was one of the
hreo commissioner* sent into Greece to collect in-
formation about the <>>ws of that country, and was
? member of the first decemvirate in 451. (Lit. , 3,
31, 33. --Vimya. , 10, 52, 66. ) He commanded, as
legatus, the centre of the Roman army in the battle
in which the ^Equians and Volscians were defeated
in 446. (Liv. , 3, 70. )--III. A. POSTUMIUS A. F. P. N.
ALBUS REOILLENSIS, apparently son of No. I, was
consul B. C. 464, and carried on war against the
j'EqmunR. He was sent as ambassador to the
jEquians in 458, on which occasion he was insulted
by their commander. (Liv. , 3, 4, 5, 25. --Dionys. ,
9, 62, 65. )--IV. SP. POSTUMIUS SP. v. A. N. ALBUS
REOILLENSIS, apparently son of No.
Diet, of Ant. , t. v. Agraulia) According to Porphyry
(De Abitin. ab animal. , 1, 2), she was also worship-
ped in Cyprus, where human sacrifices were offer-
ed to her down to a very late time.
AGYRRIIIUS ('Aytl/fyiiof), a native of Collytus in
Attica, whom Andocides ironically calls TOV /co
xa-yaOov (De Mi/. -t. . p. 65, ed. Reiske), after being
in prison many years for embezzlement of public
money, obtained, about B. C. 395, tlie restoration of
the Theoricon, and also tripled the pay for attend-
ing the assembly, though he reduced the allowance
previously given to the comic writers. (Harpocrat. ,
*. v. BcuptKa, 'A; i ,'j;"'"'---Suidat, i. r. ///i>/ //T/I/U ,-<
KOV. --Schol. ad Arittoph. , Eccl. , 102. --Dem. , c. Ti-
iii,:, i-. , p. 742. ) By this expenditure of the public
revenue Agyrrhius became so popular, that he was
appointed general in B. C. 389. (Xen. , Hell. , 4, S.
4 31. --DM. , 14, 99. --Bockh, Publ. Econ. of Athens.
p. 223, 224, 316, &c. , 2d ed. , Engl. traml. -- Schff-
mmiH, De Ciniiiiiix, p. 65, &c. )
AHALA, the name of a patrician family of the
Servilia gens. There were also several persons of
this gens with the name of Stntctus Ahala, who
may have formed a different family from the Aba-
te; but as the Ahalae and Structi Ahala; are fre-
quently confounded, all the persons of these names
are given here. --I. C. SERYILIUS STRUCTUB, consul
B C. 478, died in his year of office, as appears from
the Fasti. (lav. , 2,49. )--II. C. SKBVILIUB STRUCTUS,
magister equitum B. C. 439, when L. Cincinhalus
was appointed dictator on the pretence that Sp.
Maslius was plotting against the state. In the night
in which the dictator was appointed, the Capitol and
al the strong posts were garrisoned by the part i-
saus of the patricians. In the morning, when the
people assembled in the forum, and Sp. Maelius
among them, Ahala summoned the latter to appear
before the dictator; and upon Meelius disobeying
and taking refuge in the crowd, Ahala rushed into
the throng and killed him. (Liv. , 4, 13, 14. --Zona-
rtu, 7, 20. -- Dionyt. , Exc. Mai, 1, p. 3. ) This act
is mentioned by later writers as an example of an-
cient heroism, and is frequently referred to by Ci-
cero in terms of the highest admiration (in Catil. ,
1, 1 j Pro Mil. , 3; Calo, 16); but it was, in reality,
a case of murder, and was so regarded at the time.
Ahala was brought to trial, and only escaped con-
iiemnation by a voluntary exile. ( Vol. Max. , 5,3,
4 3. --Cie. , De Rep. , 1,3; Pro Dem. , 32. ) Livy pass-
es over this, and only mentions (4, 21) that a bill
? ? was brought in three years afterward, B. C. 436, by
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? SUPPLEMENT
>>n elephant. He triumphed in 120. (Liv. , Epit. ,
91. -- Florua, 3, 2. -- Slrab. , 4, p. 191. -- Cie. , Pro
Font, 12; Brut. , 26. -- Vellei. , 2, 10, 39. --Oros. , 6,
13. - ? ? fuel. , Ner. , 2, who confounds him with his
Bon ) lie was censor in 135 with, Caecih'us Metel-
Iu8, and expelled twenty-two persons from the sen-
ate. (Liti. , Epit. , 62. --Cic. , Pro Cluent. , 42*) He
was also pontifex. (Sue/. , 1. r. . ) The Via Domitia
in Gaul was made by him. (Cic. , Pro Font. , 8. )--
IV. CN. DOMITICS CM. F. CN. N. , son of the prece-
ding, was tribune of the plebs B. C. 104, in the sec-
ond consulship of Marius. (Ascon. , in Cornel. , p.
81, ed. Orelli. } When the college of pontiffs did
not elect him in place of his father, he brought for-
ward the law (Lei Domitia), by which the right of
election was transferred from the priestly colleges
to the people. ( Diet, oj Ant. , p. 790, . b; 791, a. )
The people afterward elected him Pontifex Maxi-
mus out of gratitude. (Liv. , Epit. , 67. --Cic. , Pro
Deiot. , 11. -- Vol. Max, 6, 5, $ 5. ) He prosecuted,
in his tribunate and afterward, several of his pri-
vate enemies, as jEmilius Scaurus and Junius Sila-
nus. (Vol. Max. , 1. c. --Dion Cass. , FT. , 100. --Cic. ,
Din. in Caccil, 20; For. , 2, 47; Cornel. , 2; Pro
Scaur. , I. ) He was consul B. C. 96 with C. Cas-
sius, and censor B. C. 92 with Licinius Crassus, the
orator. In his censorship he and his colleague shut
up the schools of the Latin rhetoricians (Cic. , De
Oral. , 3, 24. -- Gell. , 15, 11), but this was the only
thing in which they acted in concert. Their cen-
sorship was long celebrated for their disputes. Do-
mitius was of a violent temper, and was, moreover,
in favour of the ancient simplicity of living, while
Crassus loved luxury and encouraged art. Among
the many sayings recorded of both, we are told that
Crassus observed, "that it was no wonder that a
man had a beard i -'brass, who had a mouth of iron
and a heart of le:*l. " (Plin. , H. N. , 18, I. --Suet. ,
I c. --Val. Max. , 9, 1, $4. -- Macrob. , Sat. , 2, 11.
)
Cicero says that Domitius was not to be reckoned
among the orators, but that he spoke well enough,
siu; had sufficient talent to maintain liis high rank.
(Cic. , Br<<<. ,44. )--V. L. DOMITIUS CN. F. CN. N. , son
of No. III. and brother of No. IV. , was prater in
Sicily, probably in B. C. 96, shortly after the Ser-
vile war, when slaves had been forbidden to carry
arms. He ordered a slave to be crucified for kill-
ing a wild hoar with a hunting-spear. (Ctc. , Verr. ,
5, 8. --Vol. Max. , 6, 3, 1) 5. ) He was consul in 94.
In the civil war between Marius and Sulla, he es-
poused the side of the latter, and was murdered at
Kome, by order of the younger Marius, by the prse-
tor Damasippus. (Appian, B. C. , 1, 88. -- Vellei. , 2,
26. --Oros. , 5,20. --VI. CN. DOMIWOS CN. p. CN. N. ,
apparently a son of No. IV. , married Cornelia, daugh-
ter of L. Cornelius Cinna, consul in B. C. 87, and in
the civil war between Marius and Sulla espoused
the side of the former. When Sulla obtained the
supreme power in 82, Ahenobarbus was proscribed,
and fled to Africa, where he was joined by many
who were in the same condition as himself. With
the assistance of the Numidian king, Hiarbas, he
collected an army, but was defeated near Utica by
Cn. Pompeius, whom Sulla had sent against him,
ant was afterward killed in the storming of his
camp, B. C. 81. According to some accounts, he
was killed aftaikthe battle by command of Pompey.
(Lin. , Epit. , Sfff-Plul. , Pomp, 10,12. --Zonaras, 10,
? ? 2. --Pro*. , 5, 21. --Vol. Max. , 6, 2, </ 8. )--VII. L.
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? SUPPLEMENT
Mr,
nwn of great energy of character; he remained firm
to ! ib political principles, but was little scrupulous
in the means he employed to maintain them. (The
passages of Cicero in which Ahenobarhus is men-
tioned are given in Orclli't Onomastieon Tullicmum.
--Suetonius, Pier. , 2. . --Won Cassius, lib. 39, 41.
--Caaar, Bell. Civ. ) -- VIII. CN. DOMITIUS L F.
ON. N. , son of the preceding, was taken with his
father at Oorfinium (B. C. 49), and was present at
ilie battle of Pharsalia (48), but did not take any
lai (her part in the war. He did not, however, return
lo Italy till 46, when he was pardoned by Ceesar.
He probably had no share in the murder of Cesar
(44), though some writers expressly assert that he
was one of the conspirators; but he followed Bru-
tus into Macedonia after Cesar's death, and was
condemned by the Lex Pedia, in 43, as one of the
murderers of Gu;sar. In 42 he commanded a fleet
of fifty ships in the Ionian Sea, anil completely de-
feated Domitius Calvinus on the day of the first
battle of Philippi, as the latter attempted to sail out
of Brundisium. He was saluted imperator in con-
sequents, and a record of this victory is preserved
in a coin, which represents a trophy placed upon the
prow of a vessel. The head on the other side of
the coin has a beard, in reference to the reputed
origin of the family.
After the battle of Philippi (43), Ahenobarbus
conducted the war independently of Sex. Pompeius,
'>>nd with a fleet of seventy ships and two legions
plundered the coasts of the Ionian Sea.
In 40, Ahfiuobarbus became reconciled to Antony,
which gave great offence to Octavianus, and was
placed over Bilhynia by Antony. In the peace con-
cluded with Sex. Pompeius in 39, Antony provided
lor the safety of Ahenobarbus, and obtained for him
the promise of the consulship for 32. Ahenobarbus
remained a considerable time in Asia, and accom-
panied Antony in his unfortunate campaign against
the Parthians in 36. He became consul, according
to agreement, in 33, in which year the open rupture
look place between Antony and Augustus. Aheno-
oarbus fled from Rome to Antony at Ephesus, where
he found Cleopatra with him, and endeavoured, in
'? . 1 in, to obtain her removal from the army. Many
of the soldiers, disgusted with the conduct of An-
tony, offered the command to him; but he preferred
deserting the party altogether, and accordingly went
over to Augustus, shortly before the battle of Acti-
um. He was not, however, present at the battle,
as he died a few days after joining Augustus. Sue-
tonius says that he was the best of his family. (Cic. .
Phil. , a, 11; 10, 6; Brut. , 25; ail Fam. , 6, 22. -
Apptan, B. C. , 5, 55, 63, 65. --Plut. , Anton. , 70, 71.
--Dim Cassius, lib. 47, \. -i-VeUeius, 2, 76, 84. --
Suetonius, Ner. , 3. --Tacitus, Ann. , 4, 44. )--IX. L.
DoiiiTiua CN. p. L. N. , son of the preceding, was
betrothed in B. C. 39, at the meeting of Octavianus
and Antony at Tarentum, to Antonia, the daughter
of the latter by Octavia. He was aidile in B. C. 22,
and consul in B. C. 16. Alter his consulship, and
probably as the successor of Tiberius, he command-
ed the Roman army in Germany, crossed the Elbe,
and penetrated farther into the country than any of
his predecessors had done. He received, in conse-
quence, the insignia of a triumph. He died A. D. 25.
Suetonius describes him as haughty, prodigal, and
? ? cruel, and relates that in his sedileship he com-
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? 1488
SUPPLEMENT.
Postumius as commander in consequence of the
name. Livy (30, 45) elates expressly, that Scipio
Africanus was the first Roman who obtained a sur-
name from his conquests. (Nitbuhr, Hist, of Rome,
1, p. 556. )--II. SP. POSTUMIUS A. p. P. N. ALBUS RE-
aiLLKNsis, apparently, according to the Fasti, the
>>on of the preceding (though it must be observed,
that in these early times no dependance can be pla-
ted upon these genealogies), was consul B. C. 466.
(Liv. , 3, 2. --Dionys, 9, GO. ) He was one of the
hreo commissioner* sent into Greece to collect in-
formation about the <>>ws of that country, and was
? member of the first decemvirate in 451. (Lit. , 3,
31, 33. --Vimya. , 10, 52, 66. ) He commanded, as
legatus, the centre of the Roman army in the battle
in which the ^Equians and Volscians were defeated
in 446. (Liv. , 3, 70. )--III. A. POSTUMIUS A. F. P. N.
ALBUS REOILLENSIS, apparently son of No. I, was
consul B. C. 464, and carried on war against the
j'EqmunR. He was sent as ambassador to the
jEquians in 458, on which occasion he was insulted
by their commander. (Liv. , 3, 4, 5, 25. --Dionys. ,
9, 62, 65. )--IV. SP. POSTUMIUS SP. v. A. N. ALBUS
REOILLENSIS, apparently son of No.
