Fa- whose
cognomen
has, perhaps, dropped out of the
bricius, fol.
bricius, fol.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
S.
) disparages Helpidius: in one place he refers to the
HELOʻRUS ('EAwpós), a son of the Scythian mean condition of his father (Orat. pro Thalassio),
Istrus, and brother of Actaeus. Later traditions and in another (ad Polyclem), charges him with
state that he accompanied Telephus in the war having in his youth prostituted himself to the un
against Troy. (Philostr. Her. ï. 15; Tzetz. natural lusts of others. Little confidence, however,
Antehom. 274. )
(L. S. ] can be placed in the sophist's invectives. The
HELPI'DIUS, or ELPI'DIUS. 1. A person history of Helpidius after he ceased to be praefect
of this name appears, from the Codex Justini- is doubtful : it is most likely that he is the Hel-
aneus (8. tit. 10. § 6), to have performed the pidius who under Julian apostatized from Chris
duties (agens vicem) of praefectus praetorio under tianity (perhaps to gnin the emperor's favour or to
Constantine the Great, in A. D. 321. A law of avert his displeasure), and held the office of comes
the same emperor, dated in the same year from rerum privatarum, in which capacity he accompanied
Caralis (now Cagliari in Sardinia), is addressed to Julian, comes Orientis, uncle of the emperor, and
Helpidius (Cod. Theod. 2. tit. 8. § 1), but with Felix, comes sacrarum largitionum, when they
out his official designation. A constitution of the seized the sacred vessels of the great church at
same emperor, dated from Sirmium, A. D. 323, and Constantinople. The narrative of Theodoret lendo
a law dated A. D. 324 (Cod. Theod. 13. tit. 5. $ 4), to the supposition that Helpidius in this affair
containing some regulations for the portus or har- simply discharged his official function, abstaining
bour of Rome, at the mouth of the Tiber, are ad- from the insults by which his coadjutors aggravated
dressed to him. It is not determined what office the injury, and escaping the judgments by which,
Helpidius held at these dates : it has been thought according to the historian, they were afterwards
that he was praeses of Sardinia in A. D. 321, and overtaken. Nicephorus Callisti, however, states
acted in some emergency for the praetorian prae that Helpidius did not escape the Divine indig-
fect of Italy; but it is more likely that he was nation, for that afterwards, "aiming at the ty-
vicarius or vice-praefect of Italy during the whole ranny," he was stripped of his possessions, and
period A. D. 320-324, and had Sardinia in his thrown into prison, where he died.
jurisdiction.
Baronius (Martyrologium ad 16th Nov. ) men-
An Helpidius was consularis Pannoniae A. D. tions a Saint Elpidius of senatorial rank, who
352 (Cod. Theod. 7. tit. 20. § 6), and praefectus suffered martyrdom under Julian, and cites as his
praetorio Orientis, A. D. 359, 360. It is probable authority the Menologium of the Greeks. In his
that this is the same person who was vicarius of Annales Ecclesiastici ad Ann. 362, c. xxv. he identi- :
Italy in 320, notwithstanding the length of the fies the martyr with the praetorian praefect; but
interval between his holding that office and the this identity is disputed, and apparently with
Eastern praefecture ; for the Helpidius who was reason, by Tillemont. . Possibly Helpidius may
praefect of the East was already a person of rank have suffered fine or confiscation or imprisonment
and wealth when he visited the celebrated recluse for some offence under Julian ; and from this may
St. Antony in the Egyptian desert. His wife, have arisen the story of his martyrdom on the one
Aristaeneta, was with him, and they were accom- hand, and of his suffering a Divine judgment for
panied by three sons. On their departure from apostacy on the other. (Cod. Theod. ll. cc. ; Go-
Egypt, the sons were all taken ill at Gaza, and thofred. Prosop. Cod. Theodos. ; Amm. Marc. xxi.
given up by the physicians, but were restored to 6 ; Hieronym. Vita Hilarion. Opera, vol. iv. pt. 2.
health by the prayers (as was supposed) of St. cols. 78, 81, ed. Martianay; Liban. Epist. 33,
Hilarion, who was then leading a solitary life near 460, 652, 1463, &c. ; see the index in ed. Wolf,
Gaza, and to whom Aristaeneta, a lady of eminent Oration. Il. cc. ; Theodoret, H. E. ii. 12, 13; Ni-
piety, paid a visit. The data furnished by St. ceph. Callisti, H. E. 2. 29 ; Tillemont, Hist. des
Jerome enable us to fix the date of this visit to Emp. vol. iv. )
Egypt at A. D. 328; and as Helpidius bad then three 2. A Spaniard, cousin of the emperor Theo.
sons old enough to encounter the difficulties of such dosius the Great, who wished to force St. Olym-
a journey, it is obvious that he might have been pias to marry him. (Baronius, Annal. ad Ann.
vicarius of Italy in 320. In A. D. 356 Aristaeneta 388. c. xliv. ; Tillemont, Hist. des Emp. vol. v. p.
visited Hilarion again, and was about to visit 291. )
Antony when she was prevented by the intelli- 3. A friend of Symmachus. A considerable
gence of his death. Jerome speaks of Helpidius number of the extant letters of Symmachus were
as praefect at this time ; but if this is correct, he addressed to him, and owe their preservation to the
must have held some other praefecture before that care of Helpidius. (Symmach. Epist. v. 83, 84, ed.
of the East, in which he succeeded Hermogenes. Genev. 1587, v. 85, 86, ed. Paris, 1604 ; Tille-
Ammianus places his appointment a little before the mont, Hist. des Emp. vol. v. p. 409. ) (J. C. M. ]
death of the emperor Constantius II. ; and from the HELPI'DIUS or ELPI'DIUS, sometimes
Codex Theodosianus it appears that it took place written Helfrilius, was a Christian poet, who fion-
only just before A. D. 359. Ammianus speaks of rished towards the close of the fifth century, was
him as a man of mean appearance and address, but physician to the Gothic monarch Theodoric, and is
of mild and upright disposition, and averse to blood- believed by many to be the Rusticus Helpidius
shed. Libanius was intimate with Helpidius, and commemorated in an inscription with the title of
addressed many letters to him. Some dispute, Esquaestor. The following compositions, still ex-
however, appears to have taken place between tant, are ascribed to this author :--
them; and Libanius, in one of his letters to the 1. Historiarum Testamenti Veteris et Novi Tris-
emperor Julian (Ep. 652. ed. Wolf), complains ticha XXIV. , twenty-four epigrammatic narratives,
that Helpidius, "the unjust,” had stopped his taken from Bible history, each comprised in three
salary, which, however, Sallustius, “the kind," who dactylic hexameters, with titles descriptive of the
succeeded Helpidius in the praefecture of the East, subjects, such as “ Eva a diabolo seducta," " Joseph
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380
HELVIUS.
HEMINA.
.
n fratribus venditur," " Lazarus a morte revocatus," | 189. (Liv. YYYTİN, 20, 21, 22 ; Polyb. xxi. 17.
Christus in monte docet," and the like.
$ 3, &c. )
(W. B. D. )
2. De Christi Jesu Beneficiis, a song of praise and HE'LVIUS PERTINAX. [PERTINAX. )
thanksgiving, comprised in 150 hexameters, not HELVI'DIA GENS. The name Helvidius does
altogether destitute of elegance, and certainly very not occur in Roman history until the latter half of
superior in every respect to the weak and pointless the first century B. C. (Cic. pro Cluent. 70. ) Under
tristichs.
Nero and the Flavian Caesars it was renowned for
It would appear from an allusion, somewhat am- earnest, but fruitless, patriotism. The connection
biguous, however, contained in the last-named piece of P. Helvidius Rufus with Larinum (Cic. 1. c. ), a
(1. 43, &c. ), that Helpidius had written a poem to Frentanian municipium (Plin. H. N. i. 12), makes
comfort himself while in sorrow, but, if such a pro- it probable that the family was originally Sabellian.
duction was ever published, it is now lost. The Helvidii had the surnames Priscus and Rufus.
Both of the above works are given in the Poet- The only Helvidius who had no cognomen, or
arum veterum Eccles. Opera Christiana of G.
Fa- whose cognomen has, perhaps, dropped out of the
bricius, fol. Basil. 1564 ; in the Bibl. Magn. Patr. MSS. , is the following:
fol. Paris, 1644, vol. viii. , and in the Bill. Patr. HELVI'DIUS, son of the younger Helridius
Max. fol. Lugdun. 1677, vol. ix. p. 462. (Cassi- Priscus (PRISCUS HELVIDIUS, 2] by his first wife.
odor. Var. iv. 24 ; Ennod. Ep. ix. 21, xi. 19, and He had the title of consularis, but his name does
notes of Sirmond. )
(W. R. ] not appear on the Fasti. Wamed by the fate of
HEʻLVIA. 1. Daughter of L. Helvius, a Roman his father and his father's friends, under Nere and
eques, who, on her return from Rome to Apulia, his successors, Helvidius concealed equal talents
B. c. 114, was struck from her horse by lightning, and similar principles in retirement. But he had
and killed, on the Stellatine plain. The circum- written an interlude (exodium), entitled “Paris
stances of her death were sufficiently remarkable and Oenone,” and the informers of Domitian's
to attract the notice of the Haruspices, who pre- reign detected in the nymph and the faithless
dicted from them impending disgrace to the vestal Trojan the emperor's divorce from one of his many
priesthood and to the equestrian order. (Plut. wives. Helvidius was accused, condemned, and
Quaest. Rom. 83; Oros. v. 15; Obseq. de Prod. even dragged to prison, by the obsequious senate
97. ) For the speedy accomplishment of the pre-(Tac. Agric. 45), whither the order for his ex-
diction see Dion Cass. Fr. 91, 92; Liv. Epit. lxiii
. ecution soon followed. After Domitian's decease,
2. Wife of M. Annaeus Seneca, of Corduba, the the younger Pliny, an intimate friend of Helvidios,
rhetorician, and mother of his three sons, M. An- avenged his death and the cause of public justice
naeus Novatus, L. Annaeus Seneca, the philosopher, at once, by impeaching Publicius Certus, a senator
und L. Annaeus Mela. (Sen. Consol. ad Helo. 2. ) of praetorian rank, who had been the foremost in
Helvia was probably a native of Spain, and followed seconding the delators. The account of the im-
her husband to Rome, about A. D. 3—5, while her peachment, which was afterwards published, and
second son was an infant. (Ibid. 17. ) The life of was written, in imitation of Demosthenes against
Helvia is contained in Seneca's address of condo- Meidias, is given by Pliny in a letter to Quadratus.
lence to his mother (Consolatio ad Helviam) on bis (Ep. ix. 13. ) A death, so timely as to be deemed
exile to Corsica, in the reign of Claudius, A. D. voluntary, released Certus from condemnation.
47-9. Through the rhetorical amplifications of this Helvidius married Anteia, daughter of P. Anteius,
address we discover that Helvia had borne her full put to death by Nero in A. D. 57. (P. ANTBIUS,
share of the sorrows of life. Her mother died in p. 183, a. ] By her he had a son, who survived
giving birth to her. She was brought up by a step- him, and two daughters, who died very young in
mother. She had lost her husband and a most in- childbed. (Plin. Ep. iv. 21, ix. 13; Suet. Dom.
dulgent uncle within a month of each other ; and 10; Tac. Agric. 45. )
(W. B. D. ]
her grief for the untimely decease of one of her HELVI'DIUS PRISCUS. (PRISCUS. )
grandsons was embittered by the exile of her son. HELVI'DIUS RUFUS. [Rurus. )
Helvia had at least one sister (Cons. ad Helv. 17), HEMERE'SIA ('Huepnola), i. e. the soothing
but her name is unknown. [W. B. D. ) goddess, a surname of Artemis, under which she
HE'LVIA GENS, plebeian, occurs only once was worshipped at the well Lusi (Aovool), in Ar
in the Fasti—the ovation of M. Helvius Blasio, cadia (Paus. viii. 18. 3; Callim. Hymn. in Dian
B. C. 195 [BLASIO]—and was first rescued from 236. )
[L. S. ]
obscurity by the election of P. Helvius Pertinax to HEMINA, L. CA'SSIUS, an historian of
the empire, A. D. 193. The Helvia gens contained Rome, who wrote at the beginning of the second
in the time of the republic the surnames Blasio, century of the city. According to Censorinus (De
CINNA, MANCIA. A few are mentioned without a Die Nai. 17), Hemina was alive in B G 146, a
cognomen.
(W. B. D. ) year memorable for the destruction of Carthage and
HE'LVIUS. 1. Cn. , tribune of the soldiers, Corinth, and for the fourth celebration of the se-
was slain, B. c. 204, in battle with the Gauls and cular or centenary games of Rome. His praenomen,
Carthaginians, in the territory of Milan. (Liv. Lucius, rests on the sole authority of Priscian (ix.
xxx. 18. )
p. 868, ed. Putsch. ; comp. Intpp. ad Virg. Aen. ii.
2. Co was aedile of the plebs with M. Porcius 717, ed. Mai). If Nepos (ap. Suet. de Člar. Rhet.
Cato the elder, in B. C. 199, and, in the next year, 3) be correct in stating L. Otacilius Pilitus to have
one of his colleagues in the praetorship. As prae- been the first person not of noble birth who wrote
tor, Helvius had no province regularly assigned to the history of Rome, Hemina, who lived much
him ; but he accompanied the consul, Sext. Aelius earlier than Pilitus, must have belonged to a well-
Paetus, into Cisalpine Gaul, and received from him born family. Hemina was the author of a work,
the command of one of the consular armies. (Liv. styled indifferently by those who mention is, an-
xxxii. 7, 9, 26. ) He afterwards served in Galatia nals or history, which comprised the records of
as legatus to Ćn. Manlius Vulso, consul in B. c. Rome from the earliest to his own times. We
"
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HENIOCHUS.
HENRICUS.
381
know the title and contents of the fourth book orator in the time of Demosthenes. (Meineke,
alone- Bellum Punicum posterius (Priscian. Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. p. 421, vol. iii. p. 560;
vii. p. 767, ed. Putsch); those of the preceding Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii.
HELOʻRUS ('EAwpós), a son of the Scythian mean condition of his father (Orat. pro Thalassio),
Istrus, and brother of Actaeus. Later traditions and in another (ad Polyclem), charges him with
state that he accompanied Telephus in the war having in his youth prostituted himself to the un
against Troy. (Philostr. Her. ï. 15; Tzetz. natural lusts of others. Little confidence, however,
Antehom. 274. )
(L. S. ] can be placed in the sophist's invectives. The
HELPI'DIUS, or ELPI'DIUS. 1. A person history of Helpidius after he ceased to be praefect
of this name appears, from the Codex Justini- is doubtful : it is most likely that he is the Hel-
aneus (8. tit. 10. § 6), to have performed the pidius who under Julian apostatized from Chris
duties (agens vicem) of praefectus praetorio under tianity (perhaps to gnin the emperor's favour or to
Constantine the Great, in A. D. 321. A law of avert his displeasure), and held the office of comes
the same emperor, dated in the same year from rerum privatarum, in which capacity he accompanied
Caralis (now Cagliari in Sardinia), is addressed to Julian, comes Orientis, uncle of the emperor, and
Helpidius (Cod. Theod. 2. tit. 8. § 1), but with Felix, comes sacrarum largitionum, when they
out his official designation. A constitution of the seized the sacred vessels of the great church at
same emperor, dated from Sirmium, A. D. 323, and Constantinople. The narrative of Theodoret lendo
a law dated A. D. 324 (Cod. Theod. 13. tit. 5. $ 4), to the supposition that Helpidius in this affair
containing some regulations for the portus or har- simply discharged his official function, abstaining
bour of Rome, at the mouth of the Tiber, are ad- from the insults by which his coadjutors aggravated
dressed to him. It is not determined what office the injury, and escaping the judgments by which,
Helpidius held at these dates : it has been thought according to the historian, they were afterwards
that he was praeses of Sardinia in A. D. 321, and overtaken. Nicephorus Callisti, however, states
acted in some emergency for the praetorian prae that Helpidius did not escape the Divine indig-
fect of Italy; but it is more likely that he was nation, for that afterwards, "aiming at the ty-
vicarius or vice-praefect of Italy during the whole ranny," he was stripped of his possessions, and
period A. D. 320-324, and had Sardinia in his thrown into prison, where he died.
jurisdiction.
Baronius (Martyrologium ad 16th Nov. ) men-
An Helpidius was consularis Pannoniae A. D. tions a Saint Elpidius of senatorial rank, who
352 (Cod. Theod. 7. tit. 20. § 6), and praefectus suffered martyrdom under Julian, and cites as his
praetorio Orientis, A. D. 359, 360. It is probable authority the Menologium of the Greeks. In his
that this is the same person who was vicarius of Annales Ecclesiastici ad Ann. 362, c. xxv. he identi- :
Italy in 320, notwithstanding the length of the fies the martyr with the praetorian praefect; but
interval between his holding that office and the this identity is disputed, and apparently with
Eastern praefecture ; for the Helpidius who was reason, by Tillemont. . Possibly Helpidius may
praefect of the East was already a person of rank have suffered fine or confiscation or imprisonment
and wealth when he visited the celebrated recluse for some offence under Julian ; and from this may
St. Antony in the Egyptian desert. His wife, have arisen the story of his martyrdom on the one
Aristaeneta, was with him, and they were accom- hand, and of his suffering a Divine judgment for
panied by three sons. On their departure from apostacy on the other. (Cod. Theod. ll. cc. ; Go-
Egypt, the sons were all taken ill at Gaza, and thofred. Prosop. Cod. Theodos. ; Amm. Marc. xxi.
given up by the physicians, but were restored to 6 ; Hieronym. Vita Hilarion. Opera, vol. iv. pt. 2.
health by the prayers (as was supposed) of St. cols. 78, 81, ed. Martianay; Liban. Epist. 33,
Hilarion, who was then leading a solitary life near 460, 652, 1463, &c. ; see the index in ed. Wolf,
Gaza, and to whom Aristaeneta, a lady of eminent Oration. Il. cc. ; Theodoret, H. E. ii. 12, 13; Ni-
piety, paid a visit. The data furnished by St. ceph. Callisti, H. E. 2. 29 ; Tillemont, Hist. des
Jerome enable us to fix the date of this visit to Emp. vol. iv. )
Egypt at A. D. 328; and as Helpidius bad then three 2. A Spaniard, cousin of the emperor Theo.
sons old enough to encounter the difficulties of such dosius the Great, who wished to force St. Olym-
a journey, it is obvious that he might have been pias to marry him. (Baronius, Annal. ad Ann.
vicarius of Italy in 320. In A. D. 356 Aristaeneta 388. c. xliv. ; Tillemont, Hist. des Emp. vol. v. p.
visited Hilarion again, and was about to visit 291. )
Antony when she was prevented by the intelli- 3. A friend of Symmachus. A considerable
gence of his death. Jerome speaks of Helpidius number of the extant letters of Symmachus were
as praefect at this time ; but if this is correct, he addressed to him, and owe their preservation to the
must have held some other praefecture before that care of Helpidius. (Symmach. Epist. v. 83, 84, ed.
of the East, in which he succeeded Hermogenes. Genev. 1587, v. 85, 86, ed. Paris, 1604 ; Tille-
Ammianus places his appointment a little before the mont, Hist. des Emp. vol. v. p. 409. ) (J. C. M. ]
death of the emperor Constantius II. ; and from the HELPI'DIUS or ELPI'DIUS, sometimes
Codex Theodosianus it appears that it took place written Helfrilius, was a Christian poet, who fion-
only just before A. D. 359. Ammianus speaks of rished towards the close of the fifth century, was
him as a man of mean appearance and address, but physician to the Gothic monarch Theodoric, and is
of mild and upright disposition, and averse to blood- believed by many to be the Rusticus Helpidius
shed. Libanius was intimate with Helpidius, and commemorated in an inscription with the title of
addressed many letters to him. Some dispute, Esquaestor. The following compositions, still ex-
however, appears to have taken place between tant, are ascribed to this author :--
them; and Libanius, in one of his letters to the 1. Historiarum Testamenti Veteris et Novi Tris-
emperor Julian (Ep. 652. ed. Wolf), complains ticha XXIV. , twenty-four epigrammatic narratives,
that Helpidius, "the unjust,” had stopped his taken from Bible history, each comprised in three
salary, which, however, Sallustius, “the kind," who dactylic hexameters, with titles descriptive of the
succeeded Helpidius in the praefecture of the East, subjects, such as “ Eva a diabolo seducta," " Joseph
## p. 380 (#396) ############################################
380
HELVIUS.
HEMINA.
.
n fratribus venditur," " Lazarus a morte revocatus," | 189. (Liv. YYYTİN, 20, 21, 22 ; Polyb. xxi. 17.
Christus in monte docet," and the like.
$ 3, &c. )
(W. B. D. )
2. De Christi Jesu Beneficiis, a song of praise and HE'LVIUS PERTINAX. [PERTINAX. )
thanksgiving, comprised in 150 hexameters, not HELVI'DIA GENS. The name Helvidius does
altogether destitute of elegance, and certainly very not occur in Roman history until the latter half of
superior in every respect to the weak and pointless the first century B. C. (Cic. pro Cluent. 70. ) Under
tristichs.
Nero and the Flavian Caesars it was renowned for
It would appear from an allusion, somewhat am- earnest, but fruitless, patriotism. The connection
biguous, however, contained in the last-named piece of P. Helvidius Rufus with Larinum (Cic. 1. c. ), a
(1. 43, &c. ), that Helpidius had written a poem to Frentanian municipium (Plin. H. N. i. 12), makes
comfort himself while in sorrow, but, if such a pro- it probable that the family was originally Sabellian.
duction was ever published, it is now lost. The Helvidii had the surnames Priscus and Rufus.
Both of the above works are given in the Poet- The only Helvidius who had no cognomen, or
arum veterum Eccles. Opera Christiana of G.
Fa- whose cognomen has, perhaps, dropped out of the
bricius, fol. Basil. 1564 ; in the Bibl. Magn. Patr. MSS. , is the following:
fol. Paris, 1644, vol. viii. , and in the Bill. Patr. HELVI'DIUS, son of the younger Helridius
Max. fol. Lugdun. 1677, vol. ix. p. 462. (Cassi- Priscus (PRISCUS HELVIDIUS, 2] by his first wife.
odor. Var. iv. 24 ; Ennod. Ep. ix. 21, xi. 19, and He had the title of consularis, but his name does
notes of Sirmond. )
(W. R. ] not appear on the Fasti. Wamed by the fate of
HEʻLVIA. 1. Daughter of L. Helvius, a Roman his father and his father's friends, under Nere and
eques, who, on her return from Rome to Apulia, his successors, Helvidius concealed equal talents
B. c. 114, was struck from her horse by lightning, and similar principles in retirement. But he had
and killed, on the Stellatine plain. The circum- written an interlude (exodium), entitled “Paris
stances of her death were sufficiently remarkable and Oenone,” and the informers of Domitian's
to attract the notice of the Haruspices, who pre- reign detected in the nymph and the faithless
dicted from them impending disgrace to the vestal Trojan the emperor's divorce from one of his many
priesthood and to the equestrian order. (Plut. wives. Helvidius was accused, condemned, and
Quaest. Rom. 83; Oros. v. 15; Obseq. de Prod. even dragged to prison, by the obsequious senate
97. ) For the speedy accomplishment of the pre-(Tac. Agric. 45), whither the order for his ex-
diction see Dion Cass. Fr. 91, 92; Liv. Epit. lxiii
. ecution soon followed. After Domitian's decease,
2. Wife of M. Annaeus Seneca, of Corduba, the the younger Pliny, an intimate friend of Helvidios,
rhetorician, and mother of his three sons, M. An- avenged his death and the cause of public justice
naeus Novatus, L. Annaeus Seneca, the philosopher, at once, by impeaching Publicius Certus, a senator
und L. Annaeus Mela. (Sen. Consol. ad Helo. 2. ) of praetorian rank, who had been the foremost in
Helvia was probably a native of Spain, and followed seconding the delators. The account of the im-
her husband to Rome, about A. D. 3—5, while her peachment, which was afterwards published, and
second son was an infant. (Ibid. 17. ) The life of was written, in imitation of Demosthenes against
Helvia is contained in Seneca's address of condo- Meidias, is given by Pliny in a letter to Quadratus.
lence to his mother (Consolatio ad Helviam) on bis (Ep. ix. 13. ) A death, so timely as to be deemed
exile to Corsica, in the reign of Claudius, A. D. voluntary, released Certus from condemnation.
47-9. Through the rhetorical amplifications of this Helvidius married Anteia, daughter of P. Anteius,
address we discover that Helvia had borne her full put to death by Nero in A. D. 57. (P. ANTBIUS,
share of the sorrows of life. Her mother died in p. 183, a. ] By her he had a son, who survived
giving birth to her. She was brought up by a step- him, and two daughters, who died very young in
mother. She had lost her husband and a most in- childbed. (Plin. Ep. iv. 21, ix. 13; Suet. Dom.
dulgent uncle within a month of each other ; and 10; Tac. Agric. 45. )
(W. B. D. ]
her grief for the untimely decease of one of her HELVI'DIUS PRISCUS. (PRISCUS. )
grandsons was embittered by the exile of her son. HELVI'DIUS RUFUS. [Rurus. )
Helvia had at least one sister (Cons. ad Helv. 17), HEMERE'SIA ('Huepnola), i. e. the soothing
but her name is unknown. [W. B. D. ) goddess, a surname of Artemis, under which she
HE'LVIA GENS, plebeian, occurs only once was worshipped at the well Lusi (Aovool), in Ar
in the Fasti—the ovation of M. Helvius Blasio, cadia (Paus. viii. 18. 3; Callim. Hymn. in Dian
B. C. 195 [BLASIO]—and was first rescued from 236. )
[L. S. ]
obscurity by the election of P. Helvius Pertinax to HEMINA, L. CA'SSIUS, an historian of
the empire, A. D. 193. The Helvia gens contained Rome, who wrote at the beginning of the second
in the time of the republic the surnames Blasio, century of the city. According to Censorinus (De
CINNA, MANCIA. A few are mentioned without a Die Nai. 17), Hemina was alive in B G 146, a
cognomen.
(W. B. D. ) year memorable for the destruction of Carthage and
HE'LVIUS. 1. Cn. , tribune of the soldiers, Corinth, and for the fourth celebration of the se-
was slain, B. c. 204, in battle with the Gauls and cular or centenary games of Rome. His praenomen,
Carthaginians, in the territory of Milan. (Liv. Lucius, rests on the sole authority of Priscian (ix.
xxx. 18. )
p. 868, ed. Putsch. ; comp. Intpp. ad Virg. Aen. ii.
2. Co was aedile of the plebs with M. Porcius 717, ed. Mai). If Nepos (ap. Suet. de Člar. Rhet.
Cato the elder, in B. C. 199, and, in the next year, 3) be correct in stating L. Otacilius Pilitus to have
one of his colleagues in the praetorship. As prae- been the first person not of noble birth who wrote
tor, Helvius had no province regularly assigned to the history of Rome, Hemina, who lived much
him ; but he accompanied the consul, Sext. Aelius earlier than Pilitus, must have belonged to a well-
Paetus, into Cisalpine Gaul, and received from him born family. Hemina was the author of a work,
the command of one of the consular armies. (Liv. styled indifferently by those who mention is, an-
xxxii. 7, 9, 26. ) He afterwards served in Galatia nals or history, which comprised the records of
as legatus to Ćn. Manlius Vulso, consul in B. c. Rome from the earliest to his own times. We
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HENRICUS.
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know the title and contents of the fourth book orator in the time of Demosthenes. (Meineke,
alone- Bellum Punicum posterius (Priscian. Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. p. 421, vol. iii. p. 560;
vii. p. 767, ed. Putsch); those of the preceding Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii.
