Statilius, was
prevented
by Augustus
$ 1 ; Plut.
$ 1 ; Plut.
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370, Stasippus successfully re-
poem may be safely assigned to Stasinus, whose sisted in the assembly the attempt of Callibius and
date they fix as about contemporary with Arctinus Proxenus to change the existing relations of Tegea
of Miletus. Considering the immense range of to Sparta, and include it in the proposed federative
mythological stories which we know the poem to union of all Arcadian towns. His opponents
bave embraced, there is much probability in the hereupon had recourse to arms, and Stasippus
opinion of Bernhardy, that it was a work of many defeated them in battle, but did not make as much
times and many hands. Its title may be explained of his victory as he might have done, through
by the conspicuous part which Aphrodite has in reluctance to shed the blood of his fellow-citizens.
the general action ; a circumstance which certainly The democratic leaders were less scrupulous, and,
favours the idea that the author of the general plan having been reinforced from Mantineia, got Stasip-
of the poem was a Cyprian.
pus and many of his friends into their power, and
The Cypria was the first, in the order of the murdered them after the mockery of a trial. (Xen.
events contained in it, of the poems of the Epic Hell. vi. 4. § 18, 5. SS 6, &c. ; Val. Mar. iv. I,
Cycle relating to the Trojan War. It embraced Ext. 5. ) [CALLIBIUS, No. 2. ] (E. E. )
the period antecedent to the beginning of the Iliad, STATA MATER, a Roman divinity, whose
to which it was evidently designed to form an in- image at one time stood in the forum, where fires
troduction. From the outline given by Proclus, were lighted every night. Subsequently, when
and from the extant fragments, a good idea may be the forum was paved, the fires were kindled in
formed of its structure and contents. The Earth, other parts of the town, in order not to spoil the
wearied with the burthen of the degenerate race stones (Fest. p. 317, ed. Müller). In inscriptions
of man, entreats Zeus to diminish their numbers. she is sometimes called Statia Mater, and she is
He grants her request, and prepares two chief probably identical with Vesta. (Hartung, Die Re-
agents to accomplish it, Helen and Achilles, the lig. d. Röm. vol. ii. p. 110. )
(L. S. )
beauty of the former furnishing the cause of the STATEIRA (ETáteipa). l. Wife of Arta-
contest, and the sword of the latter the instrument xerxes II. , king of Persia, was the daughter of a
of extermination. The events succeeding the birth noble Persian named Idernes. She was married
of Helen (or rather, for the form of the myth is to Artaxerxes (then called Arsaces) during the
varied), her being sent by Zeus to Leda to bring up, lifetime of his father Ochus, and it was only by
and the marriage of Peleus, down to the sailing of the urgent entreaties of her husband that the
the expedition against Troy, were related at great queen-mother Parysatis was prevailed upon to
length, and the incidents of the war itself much more spare her life, when she put to death all her
briefly, the latter part being apparently occupied brothers and sisters on account of the revolt of
chiefly with those previous adventures of the heroes their eldest brother Terituchmes (Ctesias, Pers.
which are referred to in the Iliad. It concluded SS 53—56; Plut. Artax. 2). The enmity thus ori-
with the following somewhat clumsy contrivance ginated between Parysatis and Stateira was aggra-
to connect it with the opening of the Iliad: the vated by many successive circumstances. Pary.
war itself is not found to be murderous enough to satis, while she exercised great influence over
accomplish the object prayed for by the Earth ; Artaxerxes, still preferred her son Cyrus, while
and in order to effect it more surely, the fresh con- Stateira was warmly attached to her husband, who
tention between Achilles and Agamemnon is stirred appears to have requited her affection with equal
up by Zeus. (R. J. F. Henrichsen, de Carminibus ardour. Hence, when the rebellion of Cyrus be-
Cypriis, Havn. 1828, 8vo. ; Welcker, in the Zeit- came known, B. C. 401, Stateira was one of the
schrift für Alterth. 1834, Nos. 3, &c. ; Müller, loudest in the clamour raised against the queen-
Gesch. d. Griech. Lit. vol. i. pp. 118-120, pp. 68, mother, who by her ill-timed favour to her younger
69, Eng. trans. ; Bode, Gesch. d. Hellen. Dicht- son had involved the empire in these dangers.
kunst, vol. i. pp. 363—378 ; Bernhardy, Grundriss Again, after the defeat and death of Cyrus, the
d. Griech. Lit. vol. ii. pp. 150–152 ; Clinton, F. H. cruelty with which Parysatis on the one hand
vol. i. pp. 353, &c. )
[P. S. ) pursued all who had any personal share in bis
STASIOECUS' (Eracloikos), prince or dynast death, and on the other the favour shown by her
of Marion in Cyprus, was one of the petty princes to Clearchus, and her efforts to induce the king to
among whom that island was divided at the period spare his life, were bitterly reproached her by Sta-
of its conquest by Ptolemy, king of Egypt. Upon teira, who did not scruple to attribute them to their
that occasion Stasioccus was one of the first to join true motive, and persuaded Artaxerxes to put
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Clearchus to death. But though she was success | literary persons of this name are mentioned with
ful in this instance, she could not long maintain other cognomens, which are given below. On
her ground against the increasing influence of Pa- coins we find the surname of Taurus.
ry satis : and the latter at length became so con- STATI'LIA MESSALLI'NA. (MESSALLINA. )
fident in her power over the mind of her son, that STATI'LIUS. 1. STENIUS STATilius, as he
she determined to remove Stateira by poison, a is called hy Pliny, or Statius Statilius, accord-
purpose which she at length effected, 'notwith-ing to Valerius Maximus, the leader of the Luca-
standing the vigilance of the young queen. Artanians, who attacked Thurii. The tribune of the
xerxes, though deeply affected at her death, did plebs, C. Aelius, brought forward a law at Rome,
not venture to punish his mother, but put to death directed against this Statilius, in consequence of
her maid Gigis, who had been her accomplice in which the inhabitants of Thurii rewarded bim with
the plot. (Plut. Artax. 5, 6,17–19; Ctesias, Pers. a golden crown. (Plin. II. N. xxxiv. 6. . 15; Val.
$$ 60, 61. )
Max. i. 8. $ 6. )
2. The sister and wife of Dareius Codomannus, 2. Marius STATILIUS, a Lucanian, commanded
celebrated as the most beautiful woman of her a troop of Lucnninn cavalry under the Roman con-
time. She accompanied her husband on his march suls in the campaign against llannibal, in B. C. 216.
to the battle of issus (14. C. 333), and was taken (Liv. xxii. 42. )
prisoner, together with her mother-in-law Sisy- 3. L. STATILIUS, a man of equestrian rank,
gambis and her daughters, after that battle. They was one of Catiline's conspirators and was put tú
were all treated with the utmost respect and death with Lentulus and the others, in the Tullia-
courtesy by the generous conqueror, but Stateira num. (Sall. Cat. 17, 43, 46, 47, 55; Cic. in Cut.
died shortly before the battle of Arbela, B. c. 331. iii. 3, 6 ; Appian, B. C. ii. 4. )
She was honoured by Alexander with a splendid 4. Statilius, a very bad actor, mentioned by
funeral, and he sent a special envoy to apprise Cicero in his oration for Roscius the comic actor
Dareius of her fate. (Curt. iii. 3. § 22, 11. $ 24 (c. 10).
-26, 12. 88 11,15,22, iv. 10. SS 18–34 ; Arrian. 5. L. Statilius, an augur spoken of by
Anab. ii. 11, 12, iv. 19, 20 ; Plut. Alex. 21, 30; Cicero in B. C. 45. (Cic. ad Alt. xii. 13, 14. )
Justin. xi. 9, 12. )
6. Statilius, a young man and a great ad-
3. The eldest daughter of Dareius Codomannus, mirer of Cato, was with him at Utica at the time
who was offered by him in marriage to Alexander of his death, and wished to follow his example,
the Great, before the battle of Arbela, and whom by putting an end to his own life, but was prevented
the conqueror actually married at Susa (B. C. 324), by his friends from so doing. He served in the
is called by Diodorus, Plutarch, Curtius, and republican army after the death of Caesar, and fell
Justin, Stateira, but according to Arrian her real at Philippi. (Plut. Cat. min. 65, 66, 73. )
name was Barsine (Diod. xvii. 107; Curt. iv. 5. 7. Q.
Statilius, was prevented by Augustus
$ 1 ; Plut. Alex. 70 ; Justin. xii. 10; Arrian, Anab. from holding the tribunate of the plebs, which was
vii. 4. § 5. ) For her subsequent fortunes, see Bar. intended for bim in B. c. 29. (Dion Cass. lii
. 42. )
STATI'LIUS CAPELLA. (CAPELLA. ]
4. A sister of Mithridates the Great, who was STATI'LIUS CORVINUS. (CORVINUS).
put to death by his orders at Pharnacia, together STATI'LIUS FLACCUS. [Flaccus. ]
with her sister Roxana, and his two wives Bere- STATI'LIUS MA'XIMUS, a Roman gram-
nice and Monima, for fear of their falling as cap- marian, frequently quoted by Charisius, wrote a
tives into the hands of Lucullus. Stateira met her work De Singularibus apud Ciceronem, and Com-
fate with a dignity and composure worthy of her mentaries upon Cato and Sallust. (Charisius, pp.
royal birth. She was about forty years of age, but 175, 192, 176, et alibi, ed. Putschius. )
unmarried. (Plut. Lucull. 18. ) (E. H. B. ] STATI'LIUS SEVE'RUS. (SEVERUS. )
STA'TIA GENS. This name appears to have STATI'LIUS TAURUS, at whose expense
been originally Lucanian or Samnite, for the Statii, the first amphitheatre of stone was built at Rome,
mentioned before the time of Julius Caesar, all is wrongly inserted by some writers in the list of
belong to the nations of southern Italy, with the ancient artists. (See TAURUS, and Dict. of Antig.
solitary exception of T. Statius who is said to have art. Amphitheatrum, 2d ed. )
(P. S. )
been tribune of the plebs at Rome in B. c. 475. The STATI'NUS or STATILI'NUS, a Roman die
Statii first acquired historical importance by the vinity, to whom sacrifices were offered at the time
exploits of L. Statius Murcus, the legatus of Caesar, when a child began to stand or run alone. (August.
whose name appears on coins (Murcus), but none De Civ. Dei, iv. 21 ; Tertullian. De Anim. 39;
of them obtained the consulship during the repub- Varro, ap. Non. p. 528. )
(L. S. )
lican period, and the first person of the name who STATI'RA. [STATEIRA. ]
was raised to this honour was L. Statius Quadratus, STATIUS. 1. T. STATIUS, tribune of the
in A. D. 142. The Statii bore several cognomens, Plebs, B. C. 475, in conjunction with his colleague
which are given below.
L. Caecidius, brought an accusation against Sp. Ser-
STATIANUS, O'PPJUS. (Oppius, No. 17. ) vilius Priscus Structus, the consul of the preceding
STATIANUS, MANLIUS, a senator the year. (Liv. ii. 52. )
reign of Probus, a speech of whose is preserved by 2. Statius, a literary slave of Q. Cicero, whom
Vopiscus. (Prob. 12. )
he subsequently manumitted, had given offence to
STATI’LIA GENS, was originally a Lucanian M. Cicero. (Cic. ad Att. ii. 18, 19, vi. 2, xii. 5,
family, and not a Roman gens. Towards the end ad Q. Fr. i. 2. § 1, i. 3. $ 8, ad Fam. xvi. 16. )
of the republic, however, the Statilii began to take 3. Statius, the Samnite, put to death by the
part in public affairs at Rome, and one of them, triumvirs in B. C. 43 (Appian, B. C. iv. 25), is
namely T. Statilius Taurus, obtained the consul probably the same as the celebrated C. Papins
ship in B. C. 37. All the Statilii of any historical Mutilus, one of the leaders of the Samnites in the
importance bore the cognomen TAURUS. A few | Social war. (MUTILUS. ]
SINE.
3 м 3
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STATIUS.
STATIUS.
9
.
4. Statius, a tribune of the soldiers in the tian. Dodwell fixes upon A. D. 61 and A. D. 96,
reign of Nero. (Tac. Ann. xv. 60. )
as the epoch of his birth and of his death, but
STA'TIUS ACHILLES. (ACHILLES TA- these conclusions are drawn from very uncertain
Tius. )
premises. Those dates, which can be ascertained
STA'TIUS A'LBIUS OPPIA'NICUS. [Op with precision, will be noted as we review his
PIANICUS. ]
productions in succession.
STA'TIUS ANNAEUS, a friend of the phi- The cxtant works of Statius are: -
losopher Seneca, and well skilled in the art of me- I. Silrarum Libri V. , a collection of thirty-two
dicine, provided Seneca with hemlock in order to occasional poems, many of them of considerable
hasten his death, when the blood did not flow in length, divided into five books. To each book is
sufficient abundance from his veins ; but the poison prefixed a dedication in prose, addressed to some
took no effect. (Tac. Ann. xv. 64. )
friend. The metre chiefly employed is the heroic
STA'TIUS CAECI’LIUS. [CAECILIUS. ) hexameter, but four of the pieces (i. 6, ii. 7, iv. 3,
STATIUS, DOMITIUS, tribune of the sol. 9), are in Phalaecian hendecasyllabics, one (iv. 5)
diers in the reign of Nero, was deprived of his in the Alcaic, and one (iv. 7) in the Sapphic
office on the detection of Piso's conspiracy. (Tac. stanza. The first book was written about A. D. 90
Ann. xv. 71. )
(i. 4. 91), the third after the commencement of A. D.
STA'TIUS GE'LLIUS, a general of the Sam- 94 (iii. 3. 171), the first piece in the fourth book
nites, was defeated by the Romans and taken was composed expressly to celebrate the kalends
prisoner in B. C. 305. (Liv. ix. 44. )
of January, A, d. 95, when Domitian entered upon
STA'TIUS ME'TIUS, held Casilinum for his 17th consulship, and the fifth book appears to
Hannibal in B. C. 214. (Liv. xxiv, 19. )
have been brought to a close in the following
STA'TIUS MURCUS. (Murcus. )
year.
STATIUS, P. PAPI'NIUS, a distinguished II. Thebaidos Libri XII. , an heroic poem in
grammarian, who, after having carried off the palm twelve books, embodying the ancient legends with
in several public literary contests, opened a school regard to the expedition of the Seven against
at Naples, about the year a. D. 39, according to Thebes. It occupied the author for twelve years
the calculations of Dodwell. He subsequently re- (xii. 811), and was not finished until after the
moved to Rome, and at one period acted as the Dacian war, which commenced in A. D. 86 (i. 20),
preceptor of Domitian, who held him in high ho- but had been published before the completion of
nour, and presented him with various marks of the first book of the Silvae (Silv. i. prooem.
poem may be safely assigned to Stasinus, whose sisted in the assembly the attempt of Callibius and
date they fix as about contemporary with Arctinus Proxenus to change the existing relations of Tegea
of Miletus. Considering the immense range of to Sparta, and include it in the proposed federative
mythological stories which we know the poem to union of all Arcadian towns. His opponents
bave embraced, there is much probability in the hereupon had recourse to arms, and Stasippus
opinion of Bernhardy, that it was a work of many defeated them in battle, but did not make as much
times and many hands. Its title may be explained of his victory as he might have done, through
by the conspicuous part which Aphrodite has in reluctance to shed the blood of his fellow-citizens.
the general action ; a circumstance which certainly The democratic leaders were less scrupulous, and,
favours the idea that the author of the general plan having been reinforced from Mantineia, got Stasip-
of the poem was a Cyprian.
pus and many of his friends into their power, and
The Cypria was the first, in the order of the murdered them after the mockery of a trial. (Xen.
events contained in it, of the poems of the Epic Hell. vi. 4. § 18, 5. SS 6, &c. ; Val. Mar. iv. I,
Cycle relating to the Trojan War. It embraced Ext. 5. ) [CALLIBIUS, No. 2. ] (E. E. )
the period antecedent to the beginning of the Iliad, STATA MATER, a Roman divinity, whose
to which it was evidently designed to form an in- image at one time stood in the forum, where fires
troduction. From the outline given by Proclus, were lighted every night. Subsequently, when
and from the extant fragments, a good idea may be the forum was paved, the fires were kindled in
formed of its structure and contents. The Earth, other parts of the town, in order not to spoil the
wearied with the burthen of the degenerate race stones (Fest. p. 317, ed. Müller). In inscriptions
of man, entreats Zeus to diminish their numbers. she is sometimes called Statia Mater, and she is
He grants her request, and prepares two chief probably identical with Vesta. (Hartung, Die Re-
agents to accomplish it, Helen and Achilles, the lig. d. Röm. vol. ii. p. 110. )
(L. S. )
beauty of the former furnishing the cause of the STATEIRA (ETáteipa). l. Wife of Arta-
contest, and the sword of the latter the instrument xerxes II. , king of Persia, was the daughter of a
of extermination. The events succeeding the birth noble Persian named Idernes. She was married
of Helen (or rather, for the form of the myth is to Artaxerxes (then called Arsaces) during the
varied), her being sent by Zeus to Leda to bring up, lifetime of his father Ochus, and it was only by
and the marriage of Peleus, down to the sailing of the urgent entreaties of her husband that the
the expedition against Troy, were related at great queen-mother Parysatis was prevailed upon to
length, and the incidents of the war itself much more spare her life, when she put to death all her
briefly, the latter part being apparently occupied brothers and sisters on account of the revolt of
chiefly with those previous adventures of the heroes their eldest brother Terituchmes (Ctesias, Pers.
which are referred to in the Iliad. It concluded SS 53—56; Plut. Artax. 2). The enmity thus ori-
with the following somewhat clumsy contrivance ginated between Parysatis and Stateira was aggra-
to connect it with the opening of the Iliad: the vated by many successive circumstances. Pary.
war itself is not found to be murderous enough to satis, while she exercised great influence over
accomplish the object prayed for by the Earth ; Artaxerxes, still preferred her son Cyrus, while
and in order to effect it more surely, the fresh con- Stateira was warmly attached to her husband, who
tention between Achilles and Agamemnon is stirred appears to have requited her affection with equal
up by Zeus. (R. J. F. Henrichsen, de Carminibus ardour. Hence, when the rebellion of Cyrus be-
Cypriis, Havn. 1828, 8vo. ; Welcker, in the Zeit- came known, B. C. 401, Stateira was one of the
schrift für Alterth. 1834, Nos. 3, &c. ; Müller, loudest in the clamour raised against the queen-
Gesch. d. Griech. Lit. vol. i. pp. 118-120, pp. 68, mother, who by her ill-timed favour to her younger
69, Eng. trans. ; Bode, Gesch. d. Hellen. Dicht- son had involved the empire in these dangers.
kunst, vol. i. pp. 363—378 ; Bernhardy, Grundriss Again, after the defeat and death of Cyrus, the
d. Griech. Lit. vol. ii. pp. 150–152 ; Clinton, F. H. cruelty with which Parysatis on the one hand
vol. i. pp. 353, &c. )
[P. S. ) pursued all who had any personal share in bis
STASIOECUS' (Eracloikos), prince or dynast death, and on the other the favour shown by her
of Marion in Cyprus, was one of the petty princes to Clearchus, and her efforts to induce the king to
among whom that island was divided at the period spare his life, were bitterly reproached her by Sta-
of its conquest by Ptolemy, king of Egypt. Upon teira, who did not scruple to attribute them to their
that occasion Stasioccus was one of the first to join true motive, and persuaded Artaxerxes to put
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Clearchus to death. But though she was success | literary persons of this name are mentioned with
ful in this instance, she could not long maintain other cognomens, which are given below. On
her ground against the increasing influence of Pa- coins we find the surname of Taurus.
ry satis : and the latter at length became so con- STATI'LIA MESSALLI'NA. (MESSALLINA. )
fident in her power over the mind of her son, that STATI'LIUS. 1. STENIUS STATilius, as he
she determined to remove Stateira by poison, a is called hy Pliny, or Statius Statilius, accord-
purpose which she at length effected, 'notwith-ing to Valerius Maximus, the leader of the Luca-
standing the vigilance of the young queen. Artanians, who attacked Thurii. The tribune of the
xerxes, though deeply affected at her death, did plebs, C. Aelius, brought forward a law at Rome,
not venture to punish his mother, but put to death directed against this Statilius, in consequence of
her maid Gigis, who had been her accomplice in which the inhabitants of Thurii rewarded bim with
the plot. (Plut. Artax. 5, 6,17–19; Ctesias, Pers. a golden crown. (Plin. II. N. xxxiv. 6. . 15; Val.
$$ 60, 61. )
Max. i. 8. $ 6. )
2. The sister and wife of Dareius Codomannus, 2. Marius STATILIUS, a Lucanian, commanded
celebrated as the most beautiful woman of her a troop of Lucnninn cavalry under the Roman con-
time. She accompanied her husband on his march suls in the campaign against llannibal, in B. C. 216.
to the battle of issus (14. C. 333), and was taken (Liv. xxii. 42. )
prisoner, together with her mother-in-law Sisy- 3. L. STATILIUS, a man of equestrian rank,
gambis and her daughters, after that battle. They was one of Catiline's conspirators and was put tú
were all treated with the utmost respect and death with Lentulus and the others, in the Tullia-
courtesy by the generous conqueror, but Stateira num. (Sall. Cat. 17, 43, 46, 47, 55; Cic. in Cut.
died shortly before the battle of Arbela, B. c. 331. iii. 3, 6 ; Appian, B. C. ii. 4. )
She was honoured by Alexander with a splendid 4. Statilius, a very bad actor, mentioned by
funeral, and he sent a special envoy to apprise Cicero in his oration for Roscius the comic actor
Dareius of her fate. (Curt. iii. 3. § 22, 11. $ 24 (c. 10).
-26, 12. 88 11,15,22, iv. 10. SS 18–34 ; Arrian. 5. L. Statilius, an augur spoken of by
Anab. ii. 11, 12, iv. 19, 20 ; Plut. Alex. 21, 30; Cicero in B. C. 45. (Cic. ad Alt. xii. 13, 14. )
Justin. xi. 9, 12. )
6. Statilius, a young man and a great ad-
3. The eldest daughter of Dareius Codomannus, mirer of Cato, was with him at Utica at the time
who was offered by him in marriage to Alexander of his death, and wished to follow his example,
the Great, before the battle of Arbela, and whom by putting an end to his own life, but was prevented
the conqueror actually married at Susa (B. C. 324), by his friends from so doing. He served in the
is called by Diodorus, Plutarch, Curtius, and republican army after the death of Caesar, and fell
Justin, Stateira, but according to Arrian her real at Philippi. (Plut. Cat. min. 65, 66, 73. )
name was Barsine (Diod. xvii. 107; Curt. iv. 5. 7. Q.
Statilius, was prevented by Augustus
$ 1 ; Plut. Alex. 70 ; Justin. xii. 10; Arrian, Anab. from holding the tribunate of the plebs, which was
vii. 4. § 5. ) For her subsequent fortunes, see Bar. intended for bim in B. c. 29. (Dion Cass. lii
. 42. )
STATI'LIUS CAPELLA. (CAPELLA. ]
4. A sister of Mithridates the Great, who was STATI'LIUS CORVINUS. (CORVINUS).
put to death by his orders at Pharnacia, together STATI'LIUS FLACCUS. [Flaccus. ]
with her sister Roxana, and his two wives Bere- STATI'LIUS MA'XIMUS, a Roman gram-
nice and Monima, for fear of their falling as cap- marian, frequently quoted by Charisius, wrote a
tives into the hands of Lucullus. Stateira met her work De Singularibus apud Ciceronem, and Com-
fate with a dignity and composure worthy of her mentaries upon Cato and Sallust. (Charisius, pp.
royal birth. She was about forty years of age, but 175, 192, 176, et alibi, ed. Putschius. )
unmarried. (Plut. Lucull. 18. ) (E. H. B. ] STATI'LIUS SEVE'RUS. (SEVERUS. )
STA'TIA GENS. This name appears to have STATI'LIUS TAURUS, at whose expense
been originally Lucanian or Samnite, for the Statii, the first amphitheatre of stone was built at Rome,
mentioned before the time of Julius Caesar, all is wrongly inserted by some writers in the list of
belong to the nations of southern Italy, with the ancient artists. (See TAURUS, and Dict. of Antig.
solitary exception of T. Statius who is said to have art. Amphitheatrum, 2d ed. )
(P. S. )
been tribune of the plebs at Rome in B. c. 475. The STATI'NUS or STATILI'NUS, a Roman die
Statii first acquired historical importance by the vinity, to whom sacrifices were offered at the time
exploits of L. Statius Murcus, the legatus of Caesar, when a child began to stand or run alone. (August.
whose name appears on coins (Murcus), but none De Civ. Dei, iv. 21 ; Tertullian. De Anim. 39;
of them obtained the consulship during the repub- Varro, ap. Non. p. 528. )
(L. S. )
lican period, and the first person of the name who STATI'RA. [STATEIRA. ]
was raised to this honour was L. Statius Quadratus, STATIUS. 1. T. STATIUS, tribune of the
in A. D. 142. The Statii bore several cognomens, Plebs, B. C. 475, in conjunction with his colleague
which are given below.
L. Caecidius, brought an accusation against Sp. Ser-
STATIANUS, O'PPJUS. (Oppius, No. 17. ) vilius Priscus Structus, the consul of the preceding
STATIANUS, MANLIUS, a senator the year. (Liv. ii. 52. )
reign of Probus, a speech of whose is preserved by 2. Statius, a literary slave of Q. Cicero, whom
Vopiscus. (Prob. 12. )
he subsequently manumitted, had given offence to
STATI’LIA GENS, was originally a Lucanian M. Cicero. (Cic. ad Att. ii. 18, 19, vi. 2, xii. 5,
family, and not a Roman gens. Towards the end ad Q. Fr. i. 2. § 1, i. 3. $ 8, ad Fam. xvi. 16. )
of the republic, however, the Statilii began to take 3. Statius, the Samnite, put to death by the
part in public affairs at Rome, and one of them, triumvirs in B. C. 43 (Appian, B. C. iv. 25), is
namely T. Statilius Taurus, obtained the consul probably the same as the celebrated C. Papins
ship in B. C. 37. All the Statilii of any historical Mutilus, one of the leaders of the Samnites in the
importance bore the cognomen TAURUS. A few | Social war. (MUTILUS. ]
SINE.
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STATIUS.
STATIUS.
9
.
4. Statius, a tribune of the soldiers in the tian. Dodwell fixes upon A. D. 61 and A. D. 96,
reign of Nero. (Tac. Ann. xv. 60. )
as the epoch of his birth and of his death, but
STA'TIUS ACHILLES. (ACHILLES TA- these conclusions are drawn from very uncertain
Tius. )
premises. Those dates, which can be ascertained
STA'TIUS A'LBIUS OPPIA'NICUS. [Op with precision, will be noted as we review his
PIANICUS. ]
productions in succession.
STA'TIUS ANNAEUS, a friend of the phi- The cxtant works of Statius are: -
losopher Seneca, and well skilled in the art of me- I. Silrarum Libri V. , a collection of thirty-two
dicine, provided Seneca with hemlock in order to occasional poems, many of them of considerable
hasten his death, when the blood did not flow in length, divided into five books. To each book is
sufficient abundance from his veins ; but the poison prefixed a dedication in prose, addressed to some
took no effect. (Tac. Ann. xv. 64. )
friend. The metre chiefly employed is the heroic
STA'TIUS CAECI’LIUS. [CAECILIUS. ) hexameter, but four of the pieces (i. 6, ii. 7, iv. 3,
STATIUS, DOMITIUS, tribune of the sol. 9), are in Phalaecian hendecasyllabics, one (iv. 5)
diers in the reign of Nero, was deprived of his in the Alcaic, and one (iv. 7) in the Sapphic
office on the detection of Piso's conspiracy. (Tac. stanza. The first book was written about A. D. 90
Ann. xv. 71. )
(i. 4. 91), the third after the commencement of A. D.
STA'TIUS GE'LLIUS, a general of the Sam- 94 (iii. 3. 171), the first piece in the fourth book
nites, was defeated by the Romans and taken was composed expressly to celebrate the kalends
prisoner in B. C. 305. (Liv. ix. 44. )
of January, A, d. 95, when Domitian entered upon
STA'TIUS ME'TIUS, held Casilinum for his 17th consulship, and the fifth book appears to
Hannibal in B. C. 214. (Liv. xxiv, 19. )
have been brought to a close in the following
STA'TIUS MURCUS. (Murcus. )
year.
STATIUS, P. PAPI'NIUS, a distinguished II. Thebaidos Libri XII. , an heroic poem in
grammarian, who, after having carried off the palm twelve books, embodying the ancient legends with
in several public literary contests, opened a school regard to the expedition of the Seven against
at Naples, about the year a. D. 39, according to Thebes. It occupied the author for twelve years
the calculations of Dodwell. He subsequently re- (xii. 811), and was not finished until after the
moved to Rome, and at one period acted as the Dacian war, which commenced in A. D. 86 (i. 20),
preceptor of Domitian, who held him in high ho- but had been published before the completion of
nour, and presented him with various marks of the first book of the Silvae (Silv. i. prooem.
