Reiske; Berenices); a fragment of the
original
is preserved
Corn.
Corn.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
There is some difficulty in reconcil-
tit. 2. s. 16. § 4); they wrote jointly a work upon ing the accounts which we have left of his pro-
agriculture frequently quoted in the Geoponica ; ceedings. He appears to have connected himself
and, having been inseparable in life, were not with Pharnabazus (Com. Nep. Con. 2), and it was
divided in death, for they both fell victims at the on the recommendation of the latter, according to
same time to the cruelty of Commodus, guiltless of Diodorus (xiv. 39) and Justin (vi. 1), that he was
any crime, but open to the suspicion that, from appointed by the Persian king to the command of
their high fame and probity, they must have felt the fleet in B. C. 397. From Ctesias (Pers. 63) it
disgusted with the existing state of affairs and would appear, that Conon opened a negotiation
eager for a change.
with the Persian court while at Salamis, and
Sex. CONDiNUS, son of Maximus, is said Ctesias was sent down to him with a letter em-
to have been in Syria at the period of his father's powering him to raise a fleet at the expense of the
death, and, in anticipation of his own speedy de Persian treasury, and to act as admiral under
struction, to have devised an ingenions trick for Pharnabazus. He was first attacked, though
escape. The story, as told by Dion Cassius, is without success, by Pharax, the Lacedaemonian
amusing and romantic, but bears the aspect of a admiral, while lying at Caunus, and soon after
fable. (Lamprid. Commod. 4, and Casaubon's succeeded in detaching Rhodes from the Spartan
note; Dion Cass. lxxii. 5, and Reimarus's note; alliance. (Diod. xiv. 79. ) Though he received
Philostrat. V'il. Sophist. ii. 1. & 11; Need ham, Pro' considerable reinforcements, the want of supplies
logom. ad Geoponica, Cantab. 1704. ) (W. R. ) kept him inactive. (Isocr. Paneg. C. 39. ) He
CONISALUS (Kovío anos), a daemon, who to- therefore made a journey to the Persian court in
gether with Orthanes and Tychon appeared in the 395. The king granted him all that he want-
train of Priapus. (Aristoph. Lys. 983 ; Athen. x. ed, and at his request appointed Pharnabazus
p. 441; Strab. xiii. 'p. 588; Hesych. s. v. ) [L. S. ) | as his colleague. (Diod. xiv. 8); Isocr. Paneg.
CO'NIUS (Kórios), the god who excites or c. 39 ; Corn. Nep. Con. 2—4; Justin, vi. 2. ) In
makes dust, a surname of Zeus, who had an un- B. C. 394, they gained a decisive victory over Pi-
covered temple under this name in the arx of sander, the Spartan admiral, off Cnidus. (Xen.
Megara. (Paus. i. 40. § 5. )
(L. S. ) Hell. iv. 3. § 10, &c. ; Diod. xiv. 83; Corn. Nep.
CONNUS (Kórvos), the son of Metrobius, a Con. 4. ) Pharnabazus and Conon now cruised
player on the cithara, who taught Socrates music. about the islands and coasts of the Aegean, ex-
(Plat. Euthyd. pp. 272, c. , 295, d. , Menex. p. 235, pelled the Lacedaemonian barmosts from the mari-
e. ; Cic. ad Fam. ix. 22. ) This Connus is probably time towns, and won orer the inhabitants by
the same as the flute-player Connas, mentioned bř assurances of freedom from foreign garrisons. (Xen.
Aristophanes (Equit. 532), who was, as we learn Hell. iv. 8 ; Diod. xiv. 84. ) In the course of the
from the Scholiast, very poor, although he had winter, Conon drew contributions from the cities on
gained several victories in the Olympic games. the Hellespont, and in the spring of 393, in con-
Whether the proverb mentioned by Suidas, Kórvou junction with Pharnabazus, sailed to the coast of
vñpov, “ good for nothing,” refers to the same Laconia, made descents on various points, ravaged
person, is doubtful.
the vale of the Pamisus, and took possession of
CONON (Kóvwv). 1. A distinguished Athe-Cythera. They then sailed to Corinth, and
nian general, who lived in the latter part of the Pharnabazus baving left a subsidy for the states in
fifth and the beginning of the fourth century B. C. alliance against Sparta, made preparations for re-
In 413, he was stationed in command of a fleet off tuming home. Conon with his sanction proceeded
Naupactus, to prevent the Corinthians from send to Athens, for the purpose of restoring the long
ing succours to the Syracusans. In an engagement walls and the fortifications of Peiraeeus. He was
which ensued neither side gained a decisive ric-received with the greatest enthusiasm, and with
tory. (Thuc. vii. 31. ) In 410, according to Dio- the aid of his crews great progress was in a short
dorus (xiii. 48), he was strategus, and was sent to time made towards the restoration of the walls.
Corcyra to protect the Athenian interests in that (Xen. Hell. iv. 8. S 7, &c. ; Diod. xiv. 84, 85;
quarter, when Corcyra became the scene of another Paus. i. 2; Corn. Nep. Con. 4; Dem. in Lept.
In 409, he was elected strategus with p. 478 ; Athen. i. 5, p. 3. ) When the Spartans
Alcibiades and Thrasybulus (Xen. Hell. i. 4. $ 10), opened their negotiations with Tiribazııs, Conon
and again in 406 was made the first of the ten with some others was sent by the Athenians to
generals chosen to supersede Alcibiades. (Xen. counteract the intrigues of Antalcidas, but was
Hell
. i. 5. § 16 ; Diod. xii. 74. ) For an account thrown into prison by Tiribazus. (Xen. Hell. iv.
of the operations which forced him to take refuge 8. & 16 ; Diod. xiv. 85; Corn. Nep. Con. 5. ) Ac-
in Mytilene, of his blockade by Callicratidas, and cording to some accounts, he was sent into the
the victory of the Athenians at Arginusae by which interior of Asin, and there put to death. (Isocr.
he was delivered, see Xen. Hell. i. 6; Diod. xiii. Paneg. c. 4); Diod. xv. 43; Corn. Nep. l. c. ) But
77–79, 37, &c. When all his colleagues were according to the most probable account, he escaped
deposed, Conon retained his command. (Xen. to Cyprus. He had property in this island, and
Hell, vii. 1. )
on his death left behind bim a considerable fortune,
When the Athenian fleet was surprised by Ly- 1 part of which was bequeathed to different relations
massacre.
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826
CONON.
CONSENTIUS.
and temples, and the remainder to his son Timo- Callimachus translated by Catullus (lxvii. de Coma
theus. (Lys. de Arist. Bon. p. 638, ed.
Reiske; Berenices); a fragment of the original is preserved
Corn. Nep. 1. c. ) His tomb and that of his son, in by Theon in his Scholin on Amtus. (Phaenom. 146;
the Cerameicus, were to be seen in the time of see also Hyginus, Poët. Astron. ii. 24. ) But it is
Pausanias. (i. 29. § 15. )
doubtful whether the constellation was really
2. Son of Timotheus, grandson of the pre- adopted by the Alexandrian astronomers. The
coding. On the death of Timotheus nine-tenths strongest evidence which remains to us of Conon's
of the fines which had been imposed on him were mathematical genius consists in the admiration
remitted, and Conon was allowed to discharge the with which he is mentioned by Archimedes. See
remainder in the form of a donation for the repair his prefaces to the treatises on the Quadrature of
of the long walls. (Corn, Nep. Tim. 4. ) He was the Parabola and on Spirals. (W. F. D. )
sent by the Athenians, together with Phocion and CONOSTAULUS BESTES. [BESTEs. ]
Clearchus, to remonstrate with Nicanor on his CONO'NEUS (Kovwveús), a Tarentine, is men-
seizure of Peiraeeus, B. C. 318. (Diod. xviii. tioned by Appian (Annib. 32) as the person who
64. )
[C. P. M. ) betrayed Tarentum to the Romans in B. c. 213.
CONON, literary. 1. A grammarian of the (Comp. Frontin. Strateg. iii. 3. $ 6, where Ouden-
age of Augustus, the author of a work entitled dorp has restored this name from Appian. ) Poly-
Dinynoeis, addressed to Archelaus Philopator, king bius (viii. 19, &c. ) and Livy (xxv. 8, ác. ) say,
of Cappadocia. It was a collection of fifty narra- that Philemenus and Nicon were the leaders of
tives relating to the mythical and heroic period, the conspiracy; but Schweighäuser remarks (ad
and especially the foundation of colonies. An Amp. I. c. ), that as Percon was the cognomen of
epitome of the work has been preserved in the Nicon (see Liv. xxvi. 39), so there is no reason
Bibliotheca of Photius (Cod. 186), who speaks in why we should not infer that Cononeus was the
terms of commendation of his Attic style, and re- cognomen of Philemenus. [PHILEM EN US. )
marks (Cod. 189), that Nicolaus Damascenus bor- P. CONSA. A Roman jurist of this name is
rowed much from him. There are separate editions mentioned by legal biographers and by writers who
of this abstract in Gale’s Histor. Poct. Script. p. have made lists of jurists, as Val. Forsterus, Ruti-
241, &c. , Paris, 1675; by Tencher, Lips. 1794 lius, Guil
. Grotius, and Fabricius, but they give no
and 1802; and Kanne, Götting, 1798.
authority for their statement. The only authority
Dion Chrysostom (Or. xviii. tom. i. p. 480) that we can find for this name is an anecdote in
mentions a rhetorician of this name, who may pos- Plutarch's life of Cicero (c. 26), repeated in his
sibly be identical with the last.
Apophthegmata. When P. Consa, an ignorant and
2. A Conon is mentioned by the scholiast on empty man, who held himself forth as a jurist, was
Apollonius Rhodius (i. 1163), who quotes a pas- summoned as a witness in a cause, and declared
sage, ev tñ 'Hpakleia, and mentions a treatise by that he knew nothing whatever about the matter
him, Tepl tñs Nnoiášos. Josephus (c. A pion. i. that he was examined upon, Cicero said to him,
23) also speaks of a writer of this name.
drily, “ Perhaps you think that the question re
3. Anoiher Conon, whether identical with any lates to law. "
of those above-mentioned or not is uncertain, is The reading of the name in Plutarch is exceed-
mentioned by Servius (ad Virg. Aen. vii. 738) as ingly doubtful, - Publius may be Popillius, and
having written a work on Italy. (Fabric. Bibl. Consa may be Caius, Cassius, or Cotta. " (J. T. G. )
Gruec. iv. p. 25; Voss. de Hist. Gr. pp. 206, 420, CONSENTES DII, the twelve Etruscan gods,
ed. Westermann. )
who formed the council of Jupiter. Their name is
4. There was a Christian writer of this name, probably derived from the ancient verb conso, that
who wrote on the resurrection against Johannes is, consulo. According to Seneca (Quaest. Nat. ii.
Philoponus. (Phot. Cod. 23, 24. ) [C. P. M. 4]), there was above the Consentes and Jupiter a
CONON (Kóvwv), of Samos, a mathematician yet higher council, consisting of mysterious and
and astronomer, lived in the time of the Ptolemies nameless divinities, whom Jupiter consulted when
Philadelphus and Euergetes (B. C. 283--222), and he intended to announce to mankind great calami-
was the friend and probably the teacher of Archi- ties or changes by his lightnings. The Consentes
medes, who survived him. None of his works are Dii consisted of six male and six female divinities,
preserved. His observations are referred to by but we do not know the names of all of them; it
Ptolemy in his págeis annavwv, and in the histo- is however certain that Juno, Minerva, Summanus,
rical notice appended to that work they are said Vulcan, Saturn, and Mars were among them. Ac-
to have been made in Italy (Petav. Uranolog. p. cording to the Etruscan theology, they ruled over
93), in which country he seems to have been cele the world and time; they had come into existence
brated. (See Virgil's mention of him, Ed. iii. 40. ) at the beginning of certain period of the world,
According to Seneca (Nat. Quaest. vii. 3), he made at the end of which they were to cease to exist.
a collection of the observations of solar eclipses They were also called by the name of Complices,
preserved by the Egyptians. Apollonius Pergaeus and were probably a set of divinities distinct froin
(Conic. lib. iv. praef. ) mentions his attempt to the twelve great gods of the Greeks and Romans.
demonstrate sone propositions concerning the num-(Varro, N. R. i. 1, ap. Arnob. adv. Gent. iii. 40;
ber of points in which two conic sections can cut Hartung, Dic Relig. d. Röm. ii. p. 5. ) (L. S. ]
one another. Conon was the inventor of the curve P. CONSENTIUS, the author of a grammatical
called the spiral of Archimedes [ARCHIMEDES]; treatise “Ars P. Consentii V. C. de duabus parti-
but he seems to have contented himself with pro- bus Orationis, Nomine et Verbo," published origi-
posing the investigatior of its properties as a pro- nally by J. Sichard at Basle, in 1528, and subse-
Llen to other geometers. (Pappus, Math. Coll. iv. quently, in a much more complete forin, in the
Prop. 18. ) He is said to have given the name collection of Putschius (Grammaticae Latin. Auo-
Coma Berenices to the constellation so called tores Antig. 4to. Hannov. 1605), who had access
! BERENICE, 3], on the authority of an ode of | 10 MSS. which enabled him to supply numerous
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CONSIDIUS.
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CONSIDIUS.
ard large deficiencies. Another work by the same | uprightness as a judge both in B. c. 70 (in Verr. i.
writer, entitled “Ars de Barbarismis et Metaplas- ? ) and in 1. c. 66. °(Pro Clucnt. 38. ) Considius
mis," was recently discovered by Cramer in a is spoken of as quite an old man in Caesar's con-
Regensburg MS. now at Munich, and was pub- sulship, B. c.
tit. 2. s. 16. § 4); they wrote jointly a work upon ing the accounts which we have left of his pro-
agriculture frequently quoted in the Geoponica ; ceedings. He appears to have connected himself
and, having been inseparable in life, were not with Pharnabazus (Com. Nep. Con. 2), and it was
divided in death, for they both fell victims at the on the recommendation of the latter, according to
same time to the cruelty of Commodus, guiltless of Diodorus (xiv. 39) and Justin (vi. 1), that he was
any crime, but open to the suspicion that, from appointed by the Persian king to the command of
their high fame and probity, they must have felt the fleet in B. C. 397. From Ctesias (Pers. 63) it
disgusted with the existing state of affairs and would appear, that Conon opened a negotiation
eager for a change.
with the Persian court while at Salamis, and
Sex. CONDiNUS, son of Maximus, is said Ctesias was sent down to him with a letter em-
to have been in Syria at the period of his father's powering him to raise a fleet at the expense of the
death, and, in anticipation of his own speedy de Persian treasury, and to act as admiral under
struction, to have devised an ingenions trick for Pharnabazus. He was first attacked, though
escape. The story, as told by Dion Cassius, is without success, by Pharax, the Lacedaemonian
amusing and romantic, but bears the aspect of a admiral, while lying at Caunus, and soon after
fable. (Lamprid. Commod. 4, and Casaubon's succeeded in detaching Rhodes from the Spartan
note; Dion Cass. lxxii. 5, and Reimarus's note; alliance. (Diod. xiv. 79. ) Though he received
Philostrat. V'il. Sophist. ii. 1. & 11; Need ham, Pro' considerable reinforcements, the want of supplies
logom. ad Geoponica, Cantab. 1704. ) (W. R. ) kept him inactive. (Isocr. Paneg. C. 39. ) He
CONISALUS (Kovío anos), a daemon, who to- therefore made a journey to the Persian court in
gether with Orthanes and Tychon appeared in the 395. The king granted him all that he want-
train of Priapus. (Aristoph. Lys. 983 ; Athen. x. ed, and at his request appointed Pharnabazus
p. 441; Strab. xiii. 'p. 588; Hesych. s. v. ) [L. S. ) | as his colleague. (Diod. xiv. 8); Isocr. Paneg.
CO'NIUS (Kórios), the god who excites or c. 39 ; Corn. Nep. Con. 2—4; Justin, vi. 2. ) In
makes dust, a surname of Zeus, who had an un- B. C. 394, they gained a decisive victory over Pi-
covered temple under this name in the arx of sander, the Spartan admiral, off Cnidus. (Xen.
Megara. (Paus. i. 40. § 5. )
(L. S. ) Hell. iv. 3. § 10, &c. ; Diod. xiv. 83; Corn. Nep.
CONNUS (Kórvos), the son of Metrobius, a Con. 4. ) Pharnabazus and Conon now cruised
player on the cithara, who taught Socrates music. about the islands and coasts of the Aegean, ex-
(Plat. Euthyd. pp. 272, c. , 295, d. , Menex. p. 235, pelled the Lacedaemonian barmosts from the mari-
e. ; Cic. ad Fam. ix. 22. ) This Connus is probably time towns, and won orer the inhabitants by
the same as the flute-player Connas, mentioned bř assurances of freedom from foreign garrisons. (Xen.
Aristophanes (Equit. 532), who was, as we learn Hell. iv. 8 ; Diod. xiv. 84. ) In the course of the
from the Scholiast, very poor, although he had winter, Conon drew contributions from the cities on
gained several victories in the Olympic games. the Hellespont, and in the spring of 393, in con-
Whether the proverb mentioned by Suidas, Kórvou junction with Pharnabazus, sailed to the coast of
vñpov, “ good for nothing,” refers to the same Laconia, made descents on various points, ravaged
person, is doubtful.
the vale of the Pamisus, and took possession of
CONON (Kóvwv). 1. A distinguished Athe-Cythera. They then sailed to Corinth, and
nian general, who lived in the latter part of the Pharnabazus baving left a subsidy for the states in
fifth and the beginning of the fourth century B. C. alliance against Sparta, made preparations for re-
In 413, he was stationed in command of a fleet off tuming home. Conon with his sanction proceeded
Naupactus, to prevent the Corinthians from send to Athens, for the purpose of restoring the long
ing succours to the Syracusans. In an engagement walls and the fortifications of Peiraeeus. He was
which ensued neither side gained a decisive ric-received with the greatest enthusiasm, and with
tory. (Thuc. vii. 31. ) In 410, according to Dio- the aid of his crews great progress was in a short
dorus (xiii. 48), he was strategus, and was sent to time made towards the restoration of the walls.
Corcyra to protect the Athenian interests in that (Xen. Hell. iv. 8. S 7, &c. ; Diod. xiv. 84, 85;
quarter, when Corcyra became the scene of another Paus. i. 2; Corn. Nep. Con. 4; Dem. in Lept.
In 409, he was elected strategus with p. 478 ; Athen. i. 5, p. 3. ) When the Spartans
Alcibiades and Thrasybulus (Xen. Hell. i. 4. $ 10), opened their negotiations with Tiribazııs, Conon
and again in 406 was made the first of the ten with some others was sent by the Athenians to
generals chosen to supersede Alcibiades. (Xen. counteract the intrigues of Antalcidas, but was
Hell
. i. 5. § 16 ; Diod. xii. 74. ) For an account thrown into prison by Tiribazus. (Xen. Hell. iv.
of the operations which forced him to take refuge 8. & 16 ; Diod. xiv. 85; Corn. Nep. Con. 5. ) Ac-
in Mytilene, of his blockade by Callicratidas, and cording to some accounts, he was sent into the
the victory of the Athenians at Arginusae by which interior of Asin, and there put to death. (Isocr.
he was delivered, see Xen. Hell. i. 6; Diod. xiii. Paneg. c. 4); Diod. xv. 43; Corn. Nep. l. c. ) But
77–79, 37, &c. When all his colleagues were according to the most probable account, he escaped
deposed, Conon retained his command. (Xen. to Cyprus. He had property in this island, and
Hell, vii. 1. )
on his death left behind bim a considerable fortune,
When the Athenian fleet was surprised by Ly- 1 part of which was bequeathed to different relations
massacre.
## p. 826 (#846) ############################################
826
CONON.
CONSENTIUS.
and temples, and the remainder to his son Timo- Callimachus translated by Catullus (lxvii. de Coma
theus. (Lys. de Arist. Bon. p. 638, ed.
Reiske; Berenices); a fragment of the original is preserved
Corn. Nep. 1. c. ) His tomb and that of his son, in by Theon in his Scholin on Amtus. (Phaenom. 146;
the Cerameicus, were to be seen in the time of see also Hyginus, Poët. Astron. ii. 24. ) But it is
Pausanias. (i. 29. § 15. )
doubtful whether the constellation was really
2. Son of Timotheus, grandson of the pre- adopted by the Alexandrian astronomers. The
coding. On the death of Timotheus nine-tenths strongest evidence which remains to us of Conon's
of the fines which had been imposed on him were mathematical genius consists in the admiration
remitted, and Conon was allowed to discharge the with which he is mentioned by Archimedes. See
remainder in the form of a donation for the repair his prefaces to the treatises on the Quadrature of
of the long walls. (Corn, Nep. Tim. 4. ) He was the Parabola and on Spirals. (W. F. D. )
sent by the Athenians, together with Phocion and CONOSTAULUS BESTES. [BESTEs. ]
Clearchus, to remonstrate with Nicanor on his CONO'NEUS (Kovwveús), a Tarentine, is men-
seizure of Peiraeeus, B. C. 318. (Diod. xviii. tioned by Appian (Annib. 32) as the person who
64. )
[C. P. M. ) betrayed Tarentum to the Romans in B. c. 213.
CONON, literary. 1. A grammarian of the (Comp. Frontin. Strateg. iii. 3. $ 6, where Ouden-
age of Augustus, the author of a work entitled dorp has restored this name from Appian. ) Poly-
Dinynoeis, addressed to Archelaus Philopator, king bius (viii. 19, &c. ) and Livy (xxv. 8, ác. ) say,
of Cappadocia. It was a collection of fifty narra- that Philemenus and Nicon were the leaders of
tives relating to the mythical and heroic period, the conspiracy; but Schweighäuser remarks (ad
and especially the foundation of colonies. An Amp. I. c. ), that as Percon was the cognomen of
epitome of the work has been preserved in the Nicon (see Liv. xxvi. 39), so there is no reason
Bibliotheca of Photius (Cod. 186), who speaks in why we should not infer that Cononeus was the
terms of commendation of his Attic style, and re- cognomen of Philemenus. [PHILEM EN US. )
marks (Cod. 189), that Nicolaus Damascenus bor- P. CONSA. A Roman jurist of this name is
rowed much from him. There are separate editions mentioned by legal biographers and by writers who
of this abstract in Gale’s Histor. Poct. Script. p. have made lists of jurists, as Val. Forsterus, Ruti-
241, &c. , Paris, 1675; by Tencher, Lips. 1794 lius, Guil
. Grotius, and Fabricius, but they give no
and 1802; and Kanne, Götting, 1798.
authority for their statement. The only authority
Dion Chrysostom (Or. xviii. tom. i. p. 480) that we can find for this name is an anecdote in
mentions a rhetorician of this name, who may pos- Plutarch's life of Cicero (c. 26), repeated in his
sibly be identical with the last.
Apophthegmata. When P. Consa, an ignorant and
2. A Conon is mentioned by the scholiast on empty man, who held himself forth as a jurist, was
Apollonius Rhodius (i. 1163), who quotes a pas- summoned as a witness in a cause, and declared
sage, ev tñ 'Hpakleia, and mentions a treatise by that he knew nothing whatever about the matter
him, Tepl tñs Nnoiášos. Josephus (c. A pion. i. that he was examined upon, Cicero said to him,
23) also speaks of a writer of this name.
drily, “ Perhaps you think that the question re
3. Anoiher Conon, whether identical with any lates to law. "
of those above-mentioned or not is uncertain, is The reading of the name in Plutarch is exceed-
mentioned by Servius (ad Virg. Aen. vii. 738) as ingly doubtful, - Publius may be Popillius, and
having written a work on Italy. (Fabric. Bibl. Consa may be Caius, Cassius, or Cotta. " (J. T. G. )
Gruec. iv. p. 25; Voss. de Hist. Gr. pp. 206, 420, CONSENTES DII, the twelve Etruscan gods,
ed. Westermann. )
who formed the council of Jupiter. Their name is
4. There was a Christian writer of this name, probably derived from the ancient verb conso, that
who wrote on the resurrection against Johannes is, consulo. According to Seneca (Quaest. Nat. ii.
Philoponus. (Phot. Cod. 23, 24. ) [C. P. M. 4]), there was above the Consentes and Jupiter a
CONON (Kóvwv), of Samos, a mathematician yet higher council, consisting of mysterious and
and astronomer, lived in the time of the Ptolemies nameless divinities, whom Jupiter consulted when
Philadelphus and Euergetes (B. C. 283--222), and he intended to announce to mankind great calami-
was the friend and probably the teacher of Archi- ties or changes by his lightnings. The Consentes
medes, who survived him. None of his works are Dii consisted of six male and six female divinities,
preserved. His observations are referred to by but we do not know the names of all of them; it
Ptolemy in his págeis annavwv, and in the histo- is however certain that Juno, Minerva, Summanus,
rical notice appended to that work they are said Vulcan, Saturn, and Mars were among them. Ac-
to have been made in Italy (Petav. Uranolog. p. cording to the Etruscan theology, they ruled over
93), in which country he seems to have been cele the world and time; they had come into existence
brated. (See Virgil's mention of him, Ed. iii. 40. ) at the beginning of certain period of the world,
According to Seneca (Nat. Quaest. vii. 3), he made at the end of which they were to cease to exist.
a collection of the observations of solar eclipses They were also called by the name of Complices,
preserved by the Egyptians. Apollonius Pergaeus and were probably a set of divinities distinct froin
(Conic. lib. iv. praef. ) mentions his attempt to the twelve great gods of the Greeks and Romans.
demonstrate sone propositions concerning the num-(Varro, N. R. i. 1, ap. Arnob. adv. Gent. iii. 40;
ber of points in which two conic sections can cut Hartung, Dic Relig. d. Röm. ii. p. 5. ) (L. S. ]
one another. Conon was the inventor of the curve P. CONSENTIUS, the author of a grammatical
called the spiral of Archimedes [ARCHIMEDES]; treatise “Ars P. Consentii V. C. de duabus parti-
but he seems to have contented himself with pro- bus Orationis, Nomine et Verbo," published origi-
posing the investigatior of its properties as a pro- nally by J. Sichard at Basle, in 1528, and subse-
Llen to other geometers. (Pappus, Math. Coll. iv. quently, in a much more complete forin, in the
Prop. 18. ) He is said to have given the name collection of Putschius (Grammaticae Latin. Auo-
Coma Berenices to the constellation so called tores Antig. 4to. Hannov. 1605), who had access
! BERENICE, 3], on the authority of an ode of | 10 MSS. which enabled him to supply numerous
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ard large deficiencies. Another work by the same | uprightness as a judge both in B. c. 70 (in Verr. i.
writer, entitled “Ars de Barbarismis et Metaplas- ? ) and in 1. c. 66. °(Pro Clucnt. 38. ) Considius
mis," was recently discovered by Cramer in a is spoken of as quite an old man in Caesar's con-
Regensburg MS. now at Munich, and was pub- sulship, B. c.
