The lot gave him
Sardinia
(0v.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
37.
& 2).
To him the bassy see OGULNIUS.
noble Athenian family of the Phytalidae traced Cicero says that N. Fabius Pictor related the
their origin. (Plut. Thes. 12, 22. ) (L. S. ] dream of Aeneas in his Greek Annals (Cic. Div. i.
PHYTON (ÞÚTwv), a citizen of Rhegium, who 21). This is the only passage in which mention is
was chosen by his countrymen to be their general, made of this annalist. Vossius (de Hist. Latin. i.
when the city was besieged by the elder Dionysius, p. 14) and Krause (Vitae et Fragm. Hist. Roman.
B. C. 388. He animated the Rhegians to the most p. 83) suppose him to be a son of the consul of
vigorous defence, and displayed all the qualities B. c. 266, but Orelli (Onom. Tull. p. 246) and
and resources of an able general, as well as a brave others consider him to be the same as the consul.
warrior ; and it was in great measure owing to One is almost tempted to suspect that there is a
him that the siege was protracted for a space of mistake in the praenomen, and that it ought to be
more than eleven months. At length, however, the Quintus.
besieged were compelled by famine to surrender, 4. Q. Fabius Pictor, the son of No. 2, and
and the heroic Phyton fell into the hands of the the grandson of No. 1, was the most ancient writer
tyrant, who, after treating him with the most cruel of Roman history in prose, and is therefore usually
indignities, put him to death, together with his son placed at the head of the Roman annalists. Thus he
and all his other relations (Diod. xiv. 108, 111, is called by Livy scriptorum antiquissimus (i. 44) and
112). Diodorus tells us that the virtues and un- longe antiquissimus auctor (ii. 44). He served in
bappy fate of Phyton were a favourite subject of the Gallic war, B. c. 2. 25 (Eutrop. iii. 5 ; Oros. iv.
lamentation with the Greek poets, but none of these 13 ; comp. Plin. H. N. x. 24. s. 34), and also in
passages have come down to us. The only other the second Punic war ; and that he enjoyed consi-
;
author now extant who mentions the name of derable reputation among his contemporaries is
Phyton is Philostratus (Vit. Apoll. i. 35, vii. 2), evident from the circumstance of his being sent to
who appears to have followed a version of his story Delphi, after the disastrous battle of Cannae in B. C.
wholly different from that of Diodorus. According 216, to consult the oracle by what means the
to this, Phyton was an exile from Rhegium, who Romans could propitiate the gods (Liv. xxii. 57,
had taken refuge at the court of Dionysius, and / xxii, 11 ; Appian, Annib. 27). We learn from
Pean, z virs
Q
1-:. a ܐܶܕ݂ܬ
P ܕ|ܬ݁ܩܕܬ
pa
TEC
2 ST
yana Fras H
',. ܕ ܥ ܪܶ *
titats Pa
mr. be
lina
mai
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PICTOR.
365
PICUS.
3
Polybius (iii. 9. § 4) that he had a seat in the who was consul B. c. 151, and is said by Cicero to
senate, and consequently he must have filled the have been well skilled in law, literature, and anti-
office of quaestor ; but we possess no other parti- quity (Brut. 21). He appears to be the same as
culars respecting his life. The year of his death the Fabius Pictor who wrote a work De Jure Pon-
is uncertain ; for the C. Fabius Pictor whose death tificio, in several books, which is quoted by Nonius
Livy speaks of (xlv. 44) in B. c. 167, is a different (s. vv. Picumnus and Polubrum). We also have
person from the historian (see No. 5]. One might quotations from this work in Gellius (i. 12, n. 15)
conjecture, from his not obtaining any of the higher and Macrobius (Sat. iii. 2). This Ser. Fabius
dignities of the state, that he died soon after his probably wrote Annals likewise in the Latin lan-
return from Delphi ; but, as Polybius (iii. 9) speaks gunge, since Cicero (de Orat. ii. 12) speaks of a
of him as one of the historians of the second Punic Latin annalist, Pictor, whom he places after Cato,
war, he can hardly have died so soon ; and it is but before Piso ; which corresponds with the time
probable that his literary habits rendered him dis at which Ser. Pictor lived, but could not be
inclined to engage in the active services required of applicable to Q. Pictor, who lived in the time of the
the Roman magistrates at that time.
second Punic War. Now as we know that Q.
The history of Fabius Pictor probably began Pictor wrote his history in Greek, it is probable,
with the arrival of Aeneas in Italy, and came down as has been already remarked under No. 4, that
to his own time. The earlier events were related the passages referring to a Latin history of Fabius
with brevity ; but that portion of the history of Pictor relate to this Ser. Pictor. (Krause, Ibil.
which he was a contemporary, was given with p. 132, &c. )
much greater minuteness (Dionys. i. 6). We do The annexed coin was struck by some member
not know the number of books into which the work of this family, but it cannot be assigned with cer-
was divided, nor how far it came down. It con- tainty to any of the persons above mentioned.
tained an account of the battle of the lake Trasi-It bears on the obverse a head of Pallas, and on
mene (Liv. xxii. 7); and Polybius, as we have the reverse a figure of Rome, seated, with the
already remarked, speaks of him as one of the his- legend of N. PABI N. PICTOR. On the shield we
torians of the second Punic War. We have the find QVIRIN. , which probably indicates that the
express testimony of Dionysius (. c. ) that the work person who struck it was Flamen Quirinalis.
of Fabius was written in Greek ; but it has been
supposed from Cicero (de Orat. ii. 12, de Leg. i. 2),
Gellius (v. 4, x. 15), Quintilian (i. 6. & 12), and
Nonius (s. o. Picumnus), that it must have been
written in Latin also. This, however, is very im-
probable; and as we know there were two Latin
writers of the name of Fabius, namely, Ser. Fabius
GMA
Pictor, and Q. Fabius Maximus Servilianus, it is
more likely that the passages above quoted refer to
COIN OF N. PABIUS PICTOR.
one of these, and not to Quintus. (See below,
No. 6. ]
PICUMNUS and PILUMNUS, were re-
The work of Q. Fabius Pictor was one of great garded as two brothers, and as the beneficent gods
value, and is frequently referred to by Livy, Poly- of matrimony in the rustic religion of the ancient
bius, and Dionysius. Polybius (i. 14, iii. 9), indeed, Romans. A couch was prepared for them in the
charges Fabius with great partiality towards the house in which there was a newly-born child.
Romans ; and as he wrote for the Greeks, he was Pilumnus was believed to ward off all the suffer-
probably anxious to make his countrymen appear ings from childhood from the infant with his
in the best light. The work seems to have con- pilum, with which he taught to pound the grain ;
tained a very accurate account of the constitutional and Picumnus, who, under the name of Sterqui-
changes at Rome ; Niebuhr attributes the excellence linius, was believed to have discovered the use of
of Dion Cassius in this department of his history manure for the fields, conferred upon the infant
to his having closely followed the statements of strength and prosperity, whence both were also
Fabius (Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. note 367). In his looked upon as the gods of good deeds, and were
account of the early Roman legends Fabius is said identified with Castor and Pollux. (Serv. ad Aen.
to have adopted the views of Diocles of Peparethus ix. 4, x. 76; August. De Civ. Dei. vi. 9, xviii. 15;
[Diocles, literary, No. 5]. (Möller, De Q. Fabio Ov. Met. xiv. 321, &c. ; Virg. Aen. vii. 189). When
Pictore, Altorf, 1690 ; Whiste, De Fabio Pictore Danae landed in Italy, Picumnus is said to have
ceterisque Fabüs Historicis, Hafniae, 1832; Vossius, built with her the town of Ardea, and to have
De Hist. Lat. p. 12 ; Krause, Vitae et Fragm. Hist. become by her the father of Daunus. [L. S. ]
Rom, p. 38, &c. ; Niebuhr, Lectures on Roman His- PICUS (tikos), a Latin prophetic divinity, is
tory, vol. i. p. 27, ed. Schmitz. )
described as a son of Saturnus or Sterculus, as the
5. Q. FABIUS PICTOR, probably son of No. 4, husband of Canens, and the father of Faunus
was praetor B. c. 189.
The lot gave him Sardinia (0v. Met. xiv. 320, 338, Fast. iii. 291 ; Virg.
as his province, but as he had been consecrated Aen. vii. 48 ; Serv. ad Aen. x. 76). In some tra-
famen Quirinalis in the preceding year, the pontifex ditions he was called the first king of Italy (Tzetz.
maximus, P. Licinius, compelled him to remain in ad Lyc. 1232). He was a famous soothsayer and
Rome. Fabius was so enraged at losing his pro- augur, and, as he made use in these things of a
vince that he attempted to abdicate, but the senate picus (a wood-pecker), he himself also was called
compelled him to retain his office, and assigned to | Picus. He was represented in a rude and primitive
him the jurisdiction inter peregrinos. He died B. C. manner as a wooden pillar with a wood-pecker on
167. (Liv. xxxvii. 47, 50, 51, xlv. 44. ) the top of it, but afterwards as a young man with
6. Ser. FABIUS PICTOR, probably a son of No. a wood-pecker on his head (Dionys. i. 14; Ov.
6, was a contemporary of A. Postumius Albinus, Met. xiv. 314 ; Virg. Aen. vii. 187). The whole
W
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365
PIGRES.
PINARIA GENS.
legend of Picus is founded on the notion that the serting a pentameter line after each hexameter in
wood-pecker is a prophetic bird, sacred to Mars. the Iliad, thus:-
Pomona, it is said, was beloved by him, and when
Μήνιν άειδε θεά Πηληϊάδεω 'Αχιλλος:
Circe's love for him was not requited, she changed
Μούσα γαρ συ πάσης πείρατ' έχεις σοφίης.
him into a wood-pecker, who, however, retained
the prophetic powers which he had formerly pos- Bode (Gesch. der Hellen. Dichtkunst, i. p. 279)
bessed as a man. (Virg. Aen. vii. 190; Ov. Met. believes that the Margites, though not composed
xiv. 346 ; Plut. Quaest. Rom. 21; Ov. Fast. iii. by Pigres, suffered some alterations at his hands,
37. )
(L. S. ) and in that altered shape passed down to pos-
PIE'RIDES (T. epides), and sometimes also in terity. Some suppose that the iambic lines, which
the singular, Pieris, a surname of the Muses, which alternated with the hexameters in the Margites,
they derived from Pieria, near Mount Olympus, were inserted by Pigres. He was the first poet,
where they were first worshipped among the apparently, who introduced the iambic trimeter.
Thracians (Hes. Theog. 53 ; Horat. Carm. iv. 3. (Fabric. Bill. Graec. i. p. 519, &c. ) (C. P. M. ]
18; Pind. Pyth. vi. 49). Some derived the name PI'LIA, the wife of T. Pomponius Atticus, the
from an ancient king Pierus, who is said to have friend of Cicero. We know nothing of her origin,
emigrated from Thrace into Boeotia, and esta- and scarcely any thing of her relations. The M.
blished their worship at Thespiae. (Paus. ix. 29. Pilius, who is said to have sold an estate to C. Al-
$ 2; Eurip. Med. 831; Pind. Ol. xi. 100; Ov. banius, about B. C. 45 (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 31), is
Trist. v. 3. 10; Cic. De Nat. Deor. iii. 21. ) (L. S. ] supposed by some to have been her father, but this
PI'ERUS (Niepos). 1. A son of Magnes of is quite uncertain. The Q. Pilius, who went to
Thrace, father of Hyacinthus, by the Muse Clio. Caesar in Gaul in B. C. 54 (ad Att. iv. 17), was un-
(Apollod. i. 3. $ 3. )
doubtedly her brother; and he must be the same as
2. An autochthon, king of Emathia (Mace the Pilius who accused M. Servilius of repetundae
donia), begot by Euippe or Antiope nine daugh- in B. c. 51 (Cael. ad Fam. viii. 8). His full name
ters, to whom he gave the names of the nine was Q. Pilius Celer; for the Q. Celer, whose
Muses. They afterwards entered into a contest speech against M. Servilius Cicero asks Atticus
with the Muses, and being conquered, they were to send him in B. C. 50 (Cic. ad Att. vi. 3. $ 10),
metamorphosed into birds called Colyan bas, Iyngs, must have been the same person as the one already
Cenchris, Cissa, Chloris, Acalanthis, Nessa, Pipo, mentioned, as Drumann has observed, and not
and Dracontis. (Anton. Lib. 9; Paus. ix. 29. Q. Metellus Celer, as the commentators have
§ 2 ; Ov. Met. v. 295, &c. )
(L. S. ] stated, since the latter had died as early as B. C.
PIETAS, a personification of faithful attach- 59. With the exception, bowever of the M. Pi-
ment, love, and veneration among the Romans, lius and Q. Pilius, whom we have spoken of, no
where at first she had a small sanctuary, but in other person of this name occurs.
B. c. 191 a larger one was built (Plin. H. N. vii. Pilia was married to Atticus on the 12th of
36 ; Val. Max. v. 4. & 7; Liv. xl. 34). She is February, B. C. 56 (Cic. ad Q. Fr. ii. 3. & 7), and
seen represented on Roman coins, as a matron in the summer of the following year, she bore her
throwing incense upon an altar, and her attributes husband a daughter (ad Att. v. 19, vi. 1. $ 22)
are a stork and children. Pietas was sometimes who subsequently married Vipsanius Agrippa.
represented as a female figure offering her breast to This appears to have been the only child that she
an aged parent. (Val. Max. l. c. ; Zumpt, in the had. Cicero, in his letters to Atticus, frequently
Class. Mus.
noble Athenian family of the Phytalidae traced Cicero says that N. Fabius Pictor related the
their origin. (Plut. Thes. 12, 22. ) (L. S. ] dream of Aeneas in his Greek Annals (Cic. Div. i.
PHYTON (ÞÚTwv), a citizen of Rhegium, who 21). This is the only passage in which mention is
was chosen by his countrymen to be their general, made of this annalist. Vossius (de Hist. Latin. i.
when the city was besieged by the elder Dionysius, p. 14) and Krause (Vitae et Fragm. Hist. Roman.
B. C. 388. He animated the Rhegians to the most p. 83) suppose him to be a son of the consul of
vigorous defence, and displayed all the qualities B. c. 266, but Orelli (Onom. Tull. p. 246) and
and resources of an able general, as well as a brave others consider him to be the same as the consul.
warrior ; and it was in great measure owing to One is almost tempted to suspect that there is a
him that the siege was protracted for a space of mistake in the praenomen, and that it ought to be
more than eleven months. At length, however, the Quintus.
besieged were compelled by famine to surrender, 4. Q. Fabius Pictor, the son of No. 2, and
and the heroic Phyton fell into the hands of the the grandson of No. 1, was the most ancient writer
tyrant, who, after treating him with the most cruel of Roman history in prose, and is therefore usually
indignities, put him to death, together with his son placed at the head of the Roman annalists. Thus he
and all his other relations (Diod. xiv. 108, 111, is called by Livy scriptorum antiquissimus (i. 44) and
112). Diodorus tells us that the virtues and un- longe antiquissimus auctor (ii. 44). He served in
bappy fate of Phyton were a favourite subject of the Gallic war, B. c. 2. 25 (Eutrop. iii. 5 ; Oros. iv.
lamentation with the Greek poets, but none of these 13 ; comp. Plin. H. N. x. 24. s. 34), and also in
passages have come down to us. The only other the second Punic war ; and that he enjoyed consi-
;
author now extant who mentions the name of derable reputation among his contemporaries is
Phyton is Philostratus (Vit. Apoll. i. 35, vii. 2), evident from the circumstance of his being sent to
who appears to have followed a version of his story Delphi, after the disastrous battle of Cannae in B. C.
wholly different from that of Diodorus. According 216, to consult the oracle by what means the
to this, Phyton was an exile from Rhegium, who Romans could propitiate the gods (Liv. xxii. 57,
had taken refuge at the court of Dionysius, and / xxii, 11 ; Appian, Annib. 27). We learn from
Pean, z virs
Q
1-:. a ܐܶܕ݂ܬ
P ܕ|ܬ݁ܩܕܬ
pa
TEC
2 ST
yana Fras H
',. ܕ ܥ ܪܶ *
titats Pa
mr. be
lina
mai
## p. 365 (#381) ############################################
PICTOR.
365
PICUS.
3
Polybius (iii. 9. § 4) that he had a seat in the who was consul B. c. 151, and is said by Cicero to
senate, and consequently he must have filled the have been well skilled in law, literature, and anti-
office of quaestor ; but we possess no other parti- quity (Brut. 21). He appears to be the same as
culars respecting his life. The year of his death the Fabius Pictor who wrote a work De Jure Pon-
is uncertain ; for the C. Fabius Pictor whose death tificio, in several books, which is quoted by Nonius
Livy speaks of (xlv. 44) in B. c. 167, is a different (s. vv. Picumnus and Polubrum). We also have
person from the historian (see No. 5]. One might quotations from this work in Gellius (i. 12, n. 15)
conjecture, from his not obtaining any of the higher and Macrobius (Sat. iii. 2). This Ser. Fabius
dignities of the state, that he died soon after his probably wrote Annals likewise in the Latin lan-
return from Delphi ; but, as Polybius (iii. 9) speaks gunge, since Cicero (de Orat. ii. 12) speaks of a
of him as one of the historians of the second Punic Latin annalist, Pictor, whom he places after Cato,
war, he can hardly have died so soon ; and it is but before Piso ; which corresponds with the time
probable that his literary habits rendered him dis at which Ser. Pictor lived, but could not be
inclined to engage in the active services required of applicable to Q. Pictor, who lived in the time of the
the Roman magistrates at that time.
second Punic War. Now as we know that Q.
The history of Fabius Pictor probably began Pictor wrote his history in Greek, it is probable,
with the arrival of Aeneas in Italy, and came down as has been already remarked under No. 4, that
to his own time. The earlier events were related the passages referring to a Latin history of Fabius
with brevity ; but that portion of the history of Pictor relate to this Ser. Pictor. (Krause, Ibil.
which he was a contemporary, was given with p. 132, &c. )
much greater minuteness (Dionys. i. 6). We do The annexed coin was struck by some member
not know the number of books into which the work of this family, but it cannot be assigned with cer-
was divided, nor how far it came down. It con- tainty to any of the persons above mentioned.
tained an account of the battle of the lake Trasi-It bears on the obverse a head of Pallas, and on
mene (Liv. xxii. 7); and Polybius, as we have the reverse a figure of Rome, seated, with the
already remarked, speaks of him as one of the his- legend of N. PABI N. PICTOR. On the shield we
torians of the second Punic War. We have the find QVIRIN. , which probably indicates that the
express testimony of Dionysius (. c. ) that the work person who struck it was Flamen Quirinalis.
of Fabius was written in Greek ; but it has been
supposed from Cicero (de Orat. ii. 12, de Leg. i. 2),
Gellius (v. 4, x. 15), Quintilian (i. 6. & 12), and
Nonius (s. o. Picumnus), that it must have been
written in Latin also. This, however, is very im-
probable; and as we know there were two Latin
writers of the name of Fabius, namely, Ser. Fabius
GMA
Pictor, and Q. Fabius Maximus Servilianus, it is
more likely that the passages above quoted refer to
COIN OF N. PABIUS PICTOR.
one of these, and not to Quintus. (See below,
No. 6. ]
PICUMNUS and PILUMNUS, were re-
The work of Q. Fabius Pictor was one of great garded as two brothers, and as the beneficent gods
value, and is frequently referred to by Livy, Poly- of matrimony in the rustic religion of the ancient
bius, and Dionysius. Polybius (i. 14, iii. 9), indeed, Romans. A couch was prepared for them in the
charges Fabius with great partiality towards the house in which there was a newly-born child.
Romans ; and as he wrote for the Greeks, he was Pilumnus was believed to ward off all the suffer-
probably anxious to make his countrymen appear ings from childhood from the infant with his
in the best light. The work seems to have con- pilum, with which he taught to pound the grain ;
tained a very accurate account of the constitutional and Picumnus, who, under the name of Sterqui-
changes at Rome ; Niebuhr attributes the excellence linius, was believed to have discovered the use of
of Dion Cassius in this department of his history manure for the fields, conferred upon the infant
to his having closely followed the statements of strength and prosperity, whence both were also
Fabius (Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. note 367). In his looked upon as the gods of good deeds, and were
account of the early Roman legends Fabius is said identified with Castor and Pollux. (Serv. ad Aen.
to have adopted the views of Diocles of Peparethus ix. 4, x. 76; August. De Civ. Dei. vi. 9, xviii. 15;
[Diocles, literary, No. 5]. (Möller, De Q. Fabio Ov. Met. xiv. 321, &c. ; Virg. Aen. vii. 189). When
Pictore, Altorf, 1690 ; Whiste, De Fabio Pictore Danae landed in Italy, Picumnus is said to have
ceterisque Fabüs Historicis, Hafniae, 1832; Vossius, built with her the town of Ardea, and to have
De Hist. Lat. p. 12 ; Krause, Vitae et Fragm. Hist. become by her the father of Daunus. [L. S. ]
Rom, p. 38, &c. ; Niebuhr, Lectures on Roman His- PICUS (tikos), a Latin prophetic divinity, is
tory, vol. i. p. 27, ed. Schmitz. )
described as a son of Saturnus or Sterculus, as the
5. Q. FABIUS PICTOR, probably son of No. 4, husband of Canens, and the father of Faunus
was praetor B. c. 189.
The lot gave him Sardinia (0v. Met. xiv. 320, 338, Fast. iii. 291 ; Virg.
as his province, but as he had been consecrated Aen. vii. 48 ; Serv. ad Aen. x. 76). In some tra-
famen Quirinalis in the preceding year, the pontifex ditions he was called the first king of Italy (Tzetz.
maximus, P. Licinius, compelled him to remain in ad Lyc. 1232). He was a famous soothsayer and
Rome. Fabius was so enraged at losing his pro- augur, and, as he made use in these things of a
vince that he attempted to abdicate, but the senate picus (a wood-pecker), he himself also was called
compelled him to retain his office, and assigned to | Picus. He was represented in a rude and primitive
him the jurisdiction inter peregrinos. He died B. C. manner as a wooden pillar with a wood-pecker on
167. (Liv. xxxvii. 47, 50, 51, xlv. 44. ) the top of it, but afterwards as a young man with
6. Ser. FABIUS PICTOR, probably a son of No. a wood-pecker on his head (Dionys. i. 14; Ov.
6, was a contemporary of A. Postumius Albinus, Met. xiv. 314 ; Virg. Aen. vii. 187). The whole
W
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365
PIGRES.
PINARIA GENS.
legend of Picus is founded on the notion that the serting a pentameter line after each hexameter in
wood-pecker is a prophetic bird, sacred to Mars. the Iliad, thus:-
Pomona, it is said, was beloved by him, and when
Μήνιν άειδε θεά Πηληϊάδεω 'Αχιλλος:
Circe's love for him was not requited, she changed
Μούσα γαρ συ πάσης πείρατ' έχεις σοφίης.
him into a wood-pecker, who, however, retained
the prophetic powers which he had formerly pos- Bode (Gesch. der Hellen. Dichtkunst, i. p. 279)
bessed as a man. (Virg. Aen. vii. 190; Ov. Met. believes that the Margites, though not composed
xiv. 346 ; Plut. Quaest. Rom. 21; Ov. Fast. iii. by Pigres, suffered some alterations at his hands,
37. )
(L. S. ) and in that altered shape passed down to pos-
PIE'RIDES (T. epides), and sometimes also in terity. Some suppose that the iambic lines, which
the singular, Pieris, a surname of the Muses, which alternated with the hexameters in the Margites,
they derived from Pieria, near Mount Olympus, were inserted by Pigres. He was the first poet,
where they were first worshipped among the apparently, who introduced the iambic trimeter.
Thracians (Hes. Theog. 53 ; Horat. Carm. iv. 3. (Fabric. Bill. Graec. i. p. 519, &c. ) (C. P. M. ]
18; Pind. Pyth. vi. 49). Some derived the name PI'LIA, the wife of T. Pomponius Atticus, the
from an ancient king Pierus, who is said to have friend of Cicero. We know nothing of her origin,
emigrated from Thrace into Boeotia, and esta- and scarcely any thing of her relations. The M.
blished their worship at Thespiae. (Paus. ix. 29. Pilius, who is said to have sold an estate to C. Al-
$ 2; Eurip. Med. 831; Pind. Ol. xi. 100; Ov. banius, about B. C. 45 (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 31), is
Trist. v. 3. 10; Cic. De Nat. Deor. iii. 21. ) (L. S. ] supposed by some to have been her father, but this
PI'ERUS (Niepos). 1. A son of Magnes of is quite uncertain. The Q. Pilius, who went to
Thrace, father of Hyacinthus, by the Muse Clio. Caesar in Gaul in B. C. 54 (ad Att. iv. 17), was un-
(Apollod. i. 3. $ 3. )
doubtedly her brother; and he must be the same as
2. An autochthon, king of Emathia (Mace the Pilius who accused M. Servilius of repetundae
donia), begot by Euippe or Antiope nine daugh- in B. c. 51 (Cael. ad Fam. viii. 8). His full name
ters, to whom he gave the names of the nine was Q. Pilius Celer; for the Q. Celer, whose
Muses. They afterwards entered into a contest speech against M. Servilius Cicero asks Atticus
with the Muses, and being conquered, they were to send him in B. C. 50 (Cic. ad Att. vi. 3. $ 10),
metamorphosed into birds called Colyan bas, Iyngs, must have been the same person as the one already
Cenchris, Cissa, Chloris, Acalanthis, Nessa, Pipo, mentioned, as Drumann has observed, and not
and Dracontis. (Anton. Lib. 9; Paus. ix. 29. Q. Metellus Celer, as the commentators have
§ 2 ; Ov. Met. v. 295, &c. )
(L. S. ] stated, since the latter had died as early as B. C.
PIETAS, a personification of faithful attach- 59. With the exception, bowever of the M. Pi-
ment, love, and veneration among the Romans, lius and Q. Pilius, whom we have spoken of, no
where at first she had a small sanctuary, but in other person of this name occurs.
B. c. 191 a larger one was built (Plin. H. N. vii. Pilia was married to Atticus on the 12th of
36 ; Val. Max. v. 4. & 7; Liv. xl. 34). She is February, B. C. 56 (Cic. ad Q. Fr. ii. 3. & 7), and
seen represented on Roman coins, as a matron in the summer of the following year, she bore her
throwing incense upon an altar, and her attributes husband a daughter (ad Att. v. 19, vi. 1. $ 22)
are a stork and children. Pietas was sometimes who subsequently married Vipsanius Agrippa.
represented as a female figure offering her breast to This appears to have been the only child that she
an aged parent. (Val. Max. l. c. ; Zumpt, in the had. Cicero, in his letters to Atticus, frequently
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