) The most ancient festival in the army, and
obtained
the honour of a triumph.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
We do not meet with the
the drops of his blood sprang the Gigantes, the name of Ursanius elsewhere.
Melian nymphs, and according to some, Silenus, URSEIUS FEROX. [FEROX. )
and from the foam gathering around his limbs URSICINUS, Saint, a physician in the ancient
in the sea, sprang Aphrodite (Hes. Theog. 195; district of Liguria, who was converted to Christianity
Apollod. i. 1 ; Serv. ad Aen, v. 801, ad Virg. Ecl. at a very early period by some of the immediate
vi. 13).
[L. S. ) followers of the Apostles. He went to Ravenna
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VULSO.
1285
VULSO.
with the
CA ALG
Mied and to
of the in
Estad. Te sa:
31das bers
Deleted to bexs
Patin bos ir
ile ; others, and
to Cars,
De of the 2009
rward a poor
ang an the cene
IMP. CARINS AGO
of Urtica with warm
piece wire rezne 1
fact that Crda 53
family of Carss; best
a: reason to be bere that
and consequently veze
formation concerning 2
by any historian
(W. R.
)
where he performed numerous cures, and was at 1. (CN. ? ) MANLIUS Vulso, consul B. C. 474
the same time careful to take advantage of every with L. Furius Medullinus Fusus, marched against
opportunity of converting his patients to Christianity. the Veientes, and concluded a forty years' truce
Here he suffered martyrdom, A. D. 67, at the com- with them without fighting, in consequence of
mand of C. Suetonius Paulinus, after suffering many which he obtained the honour of an ovation on his
cruel tortures, during which his faith and courage return to Rome.
had once well nigh failed. His memory is com- In the following year (B. C. 473) Manlius
memorated by the Romish Church on June 19, but | Vulso and his colleague were accused by the tri.
his name does not appear in the Greek calendar. bune Cn. Genucius, because they had not carried
(“ Passio S. Ursicini," &c. in Muratori, Rer. Itul. into effect the agrarian Inw of Sp. Cassius Viscelli-
Script. vol. i. pt. ii. p. 560, &c. ; Acta Sanct. June nus ; but the accusation fell to the ground in con-
19, vol. iii. p. 809, &c. ; Hieron. Rubei Ital. et sequence of the nssussination of Genucius. (Dionys.
Raven. Hist. )
[W. A. G. ) ix. 36–38; Liv, ii. 54; comp. GENUCIUS, No. 2. )
URSUS. 1. A contemporary of Domitian, whom In Livy the pracnomen of Manlius Vulso is Caius,
he dissuaded from killing his wife Domitia. This but most modern writers give him the praenomen
Ursus was no favourite with Domitian, and was of Aulus, and suppose him to be the same as the
ncarly put to death by the tyrant ; but on the in- decemvir (No. 2), who is called Aulus in the
tercession of Julia, the niece and mistress of Do- Capitoline Fasti. But since No. 4, who is repre-
mitian, Ursus was not only pardoned, but raised sented as the son of No. 2, was consular tribune
to the consulship. His name, however, does not for the third time as late as B. c. 397, we can
occur in the Fasti. (Dion Cass. Ixvii. 3, 4. ) hardly suppose that Nos. 1 and 2 are the same
Statius addressed Ursus a poem of consolation on person, since in that case the son would have held
the death of a favourite slave (Silv. ii. 6), and in the consular tribunate 77 years after the consulship
the Preface to the second book of his Silvae, he of his father. We may therefore conclude that the
speaks of Ursus as “juvenis candidissimus et sine consul of B. C. 474 was the grandfather, and the
desidiae jactura doctissimus. ” Statius calls him decemvir the father of Nos. 3 and 4. If so the
Flavius Ursus.
praenomen of the consul would be Cneius, as the
2. A contemporary of the younger Pliny, who decemvir is called in the Capitoline Fasti Cn. f.
has addressed several letters to him. (Ep. iv. 9, P. n.
v. 20, vi. 5, 13, viïi. 9. )
2. A. MANLIUS CN. P. P. N. Vulso, probably
VULCA'NUS, the Roman god of fire, whose son of No. 2, was one of the ambassadors sent to
name seems to be connected with fulgere, fulgur, Athens in B. C. 454, for the purpose of gaining in-
and fulmen. His worship was of considerable formation about the laws of Solon and the other
political importance at Rome, for a temple is said Greek states, and in B. C. 451 he was a member
to have been erected to him close by the comitium of the first decemvirate. (Liv, iii. 31, 33; Dionys.
as early as the time of Romulus and Tatius, in x. 54. )
which the two kings used to meet and settle the 3. M. MANLIUS (A. F. CN. N. ) Vulso, probably
affairs of the state, and near which the popular as- son of No. 2, was consular tribune B. C. 420. (Liv.
sembly was held. (Dionys. ii. 50, vi. 67 ; Plut. iv. 44. )
Quaest. Rom. 47. )
4. A. MANLIUS A. F. CN. N. Vulso CAPI-
Tatius is reported to have established the TOLINUS, son of No. 2, thrice consular tribune, in
worship of Vulcan along with that of Vesta, and B. C. 405, 402 and 397. (Fasti Capit. ; Liv. iv.
Romulus to have dedicated to him a quadriga 61, v. 8, 16. ) In B. C. 394 he was one of the
after his victory over the Fidenatans, and to have ambassadors sent to Delphi to present a golden
set up a statue of himself near the temple. (Dionys. crater as a present to Apollo, but was captured on
ii. 54 ; Plut. Rom. 24. ) According to others his voyage thither by the Liparaean pirates. They
the temple was built by Romulus himself, who were however released by Timasitheus, the chief
also planted near it the sacred lotus-tree which magistrate of the island, in that year, and allowed
still existed in the days of Pliny. (H. N. xvi. to prosecute their voyage. (Liv. v. 28. )
44; P. Victor, Reg. Urb. iv. ) These circum- 5. L. MANLIUS A. F. P. n. Vulso LONGUS,
stances, and what is related of the lotus-tree, was consul B. C. 256 with M. Atilius Regulus,
shows that the temple of Vulcan, like that of and along with his colleague invaded Africa. Their
Vesta, was regarded as a central point of the victory over the Carthaginians by sea, and their
whole state, and hence it was perhaps not without successful campaign in Africa are fully related in
a meaning that subsequently the temple of Concord the life of Regulus. [REGULUS, No. 3. ) Vulso
was built within the same district. (Liv. ix. 46, returned to Italy at the fall of the year with half of
xl. 19, xxxvi. 46.
) The most ancient festival in the army, and obtained the honour of a triumph.
honour of Vulcan seems to have been the Forna (Polyb. i. 26—29 ; Zonar. viii. 12, 13; Oros. iv.
calia or Furnalia, he being the god of furnaces 8. ) In B. C. 250 Vulso was consul a second time
(Isidor. xix. 6. 2; Fest. p. 88); but his great with C. Atilius Regulus Serranus, and with his
festival was called Vulcanalia, and was celebrated colleague commenced the siege of Lilybaeum. For
on the 23d of August. (Dict. of Ant. 8. v. ) details see Regulus, No. 4. (Polyb. i. 39, 41
The Roman pocts transfer all the stories which are -48 ; Zonar. viii. 15; Oros. iv. 10. )
related of the Greek Hephaestus to their own 6. L. MANLIUS VULSO, one of the unsuccessful
Vulcan, the two divinities having in the course of patrician candidates for the consulship for B. c. 216,
time been completely identified. [L. S. ] when C. Terentius Varro was elected. (Liv. xxii.
VULCA'TIUS. [VOLcatius. ]
35. )
VULCATIUS GALLICA'NUS. (GALLI- 7. P. MANLIUS Vulso, praetor B. c. 210, re-
CANUS. )
ceived Sardinia as his province. (Liv. xxvi. 23,
VULSO, the name of a distinguished patrician xxvii. 6, 7. )
family of the Manlia Gens.
8. Cx. Manlius Cx. P. L. N. VULSO, was cu.
4N 3
7 MAGNIA URBICA.
3
I more correctly ORBITICS
TORBICICS)
"OMPEIL's put to death by the
4 as one of the parties yrit!
riage with Slius. (Tace due
& PANOPION. [PAwone
NIA, a great favourite of Lirik
mperor Tiberins. The fire ?
13 above the laws, sans Tacts, the
ances of her arrogance. Where
Thom she owed a sus of passt,
: the praetor, she refused to set che
. nd on another occasion sbe voci
e senate to give eridence in a car, and
id to be sent to examine her is bemez
e was the grandmother of Pasta
wbom she sent a darker shen is ***
lat he would be condemned to death an
the murder of his wife in d. 1. 24 (Tac
A, iv. 21, 22. )
('LANILLA, PLAUTIA, e di te
the emperor Clandia (Perta)
AS. 4 NIL'S, tribune of the plebe Belas
mru. 2. ) In some edities of Lith
is C. Afranius. We do not med with the
of l'rxanius elsewhere.
SEIL'S FEROX. (FEROX. )
SICINUS, Saint, a porsician in the eyes
ct of Liguria, who was con rerted to Chocam
rers early period by some of the izradit
wers of the Apostles
. He went to forening
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1286
VULTURCIUS.
XANTHUS.
X.
rule aedile B. c. 197, praetor with Sicily as his
province B. C. 195, and one of the trium virg for
founding a Latin colony in the territory of Thurii
in B. c. 193, in which year he was an unsuccessful
candidate for the consulship. (Liv. xxxii. 25, 42, XANTHE (Eavon), one of the daughters of
43, xxxiv. 53, xxxv. 9, 10. )
Oceanus. (Iles. Theog. 356 ; Virg. Geory. iv.
In B. C. 189 Cn. Manlius Vulso was consul | 336. )
(L. S. )
with M. Fulvius Nobilior. He was sent into XANTHICLES (Eavoukañs), an Achaean, was
Asia in order to conclude the peace, which his chosen to be one of the generals of the Cyrean
successor Scipio Asiaticus had made with An-Greeks in the place of his countryman Socrates,
tiochus, and to arrange the affairs of Asia. He ar- when the latter, with Clearchas and three other
rived at Ephesus in the spring of B. c. 189, and as colleagues, had been treacherously arrested by Tis-
he was anxious to obtain both glory and booty he saphernes, B. C. 401. When the army had reached
resolved to attack the Gallograeci or Galatians in Cotyora, a court was held to inquire into the con-
Asia Minor without waiting for any formal in- duct of the generals, and Xanthicles was one of
structions from the senate. He carried on the war those who were fined for a deficiency in the cargoes
with success against them, conquered in battle the of the ships, which had brought the soldiers from
three chief tribes into which they were divided, Trapezus, and of which he was a commissioner.
called the Tolistoboii, Tectosagi and Trocmi, and (Xen. Anab. iii. 1. $ 47, v. 8. $ 1. ) [E. E. )
compelled them to submit unconditionally to the XANTHIPPE, mythological. [PLEURON. )
Roman power. After bringing this war to an end XANTHIPPE (Eavoinan), wife of Socrates.
by the middle of the autumn, he led his troops [SOCRATES. )
into winter quarters. The Gallograeci had by XANTHIPPUS ( Edvirtos). 1. One of the
their many conquests in Asia acquired immense sons of Melas, who revolted against Oeneus, and
wealth, a large portion of which now fell into the were slain by Tydeus. (Apollod. i. 8. $ 5. )
hands of Vulso and his army. (Liv. xxxviii. 12- 2. A son of Deïphontes. (Paus. Ü. 28. § 3. )
27 ; Polyb. xxii. 16-22; Zonar. ix. 20 ; Appian, 3. A hero who had an heroum at Daulia, in
Syr. 39, 42. )
Phocis. (Paus. 1. 4. § 7. )
[L. S. ]
Manlius Vulso remained in Asia as proconsul in XANTHIPPUS (Eávôlitos). 1. The son of
the following year, B. C. 188, when he formally Ariphron and father of Pericles. ' In B. C. 490, he
concluded the treaty with Antiochus and settled impeached Miltiades on his return from his unsuc-
the affairs of Asia. In the middle of the summer cessful expedition against the island of Paros. In
he crossed over from Asia into Europe, marched B. C. 484 he left Athens together with the other
through Thrace into Macedonia and Epeirus, and inhabitants on the approach of Xerxes, and in the
passed the winter at Apollonia. In his march following year (B. C. 479) he succeeded Themisto-
through Thrace his army suffered much from the cles as commander of the Athenian fleet. He com-
heat and the attacks of the Thracians, and he lost manded the Athenians at the decisive battle of
a considerable part of the booty he had obtained Mycale, which was fought on the coast of Ionia on
in Asia. He reached Rome in B. C. 187 and de- the same day as the battle of Plataea, September,
manded a triumph, which he obtained with diffi- B. C. 470. The Grecian fleet then sailed to the
culty in consequence of the opposition of the majority Hellespont; and when they found that the bridge
of the ten commissioners, who had been appointed had been broken down, Leotychides and the Pe-
by the senate to conclude the peace with Antiochus loponnesians returned home forth with. Xanthip-
in conjunction with Vulso. The triumph of Vulso pus, however, remained with the Athenian fleet in
was a brilliant one, but his campaign in Asia had order to subdue the Chersonese, where several of
a pernicious influence upon the morals of his coun- the Athenians had previously held considerable
trymen. He had allowed his army every kind of property. The Persians threw themselves into the
licence, and his soldiers introduced into the city town of Sestos, to which Xanthippus laid siege,
the luxuries of the East. (Liv. xxxvii. 37–41, and which was obliged to surrender early in the
44–50, xxxix. 6, 7; Polyb. xxii. 24–27 ; Appian, following spring (B. C.
the drops of his blood sprang the Gigantes, the name of Ursanius elsewhere.
Melian nymphs, and according to some, Silenus, URSEIUS FEROX. [FEROX. )
and from the foam gathering around his limbs URSICINUS, Saint, a physician in the ancient
in the sea, sprang Aphrodite (Hes. Theog. 195; district of Liguria, who was converted to Christianity
Apollod. i. 1 ; Serv. ad Aen, v. 801, ad Virg. Ecl. at a very early period by some of the immediate
vi. 13).
[L. S. ) followers of the Apostles. He went to Ravenna
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VULSO.
1285
VULSO.
with the
CA ALG
Mied and to
of the in
Estad. Te sa:
31das bers
Deleted to bexs
Patin bos ir
ile ; others, and
to Cars,
De of the 2009
rward a poor
ang an the cene
IMP. CARINS AGO
of Urtica with warm
piece wire rezne 1
fact that Crda 53
family of Carss; best
a: reason to be bere that
and consequently veze
formation concerning 2
by any historian
(W. R.
)
where he performed numerous cures, and was at 1. (CN. ? ) MANLIUS Vulso, consul B. C. 474
the same time careful to take advantage of every with L. Furius Medullinus Fusus, marched against
opportunity of converting his patients to Christianity. the Veientes, and concluded a forty years' truce
Here he suffered martyrdom, A. D. 67, at the com- with them without fighting, in consequence of
mand of C. Suetonius Paulinus, after suffering many which he obtained the honour of an ovation on his
cruel tortures, during which his faith and courage return to Rome.
had once well nigh failed. His memory is com- In the following year (B. C. 473) Manlius
memorated by the Romish Church on June 19, but | Vulso and his colleague were accused by the tri.
his name does not appear in the Greek calendar. bune Cn. Genucius, because they had not carried
(“ Passio S. Ursicini," &c. in Muratori, Rer. Itul. into effect the agrarian Inw of Sp. Cassius Viscelli-
Script. vol. i. pt. ii. p. 560, &c. ; Acta Sanct. June nus ; but the accusation fell to the ground in con-
19, vol. iii. p. 809, &c. ; Hieron. Rubei Ital. et sequence of the nssussination of Genucius. (Dionys.
Raven. Hist. )
[W. A. G. ) ix. 36–38; Liv, ii. 54; comp. GENUCIUS, No. 2. )
URSUS. 1. A contemporary of Domitian, whom In Livy the pracnomen of Manlius Vulso is Caius,
he dissuaded from killing his wife Domitia. This but most modern writers give him the praenomen
Ursus was no favourite with Domitian, and was of Aulus, and suppose him to be the same as the
ncarly put to death by the tyrant ; but on the in- decemvir (No. 2), who is called Aulus in the
tercession of Julia, the niece and mistress of Do- Capitoline Fasti. But since No. 4, who is repre-
mitian, Ursus was not only pardoned, but raised sented as the son of No. 2, was consular tribune
to the consulship. His name, however, does not for the third time as late as B. c. 397, we can
occur in the Fasti. (Dion Cass. Ixvii. 3, 4. ) hardly suppose that Nos. 1 and 2 are the same
Statius addressed Ursus a poem of consolation on person, since in that case the son would have held
the death of a favourite slave (Silv. ii. 6), and in the consular tribunate 77 years after the consulship
the Preface to the second book of his Silvae, he of his father. We may therefore conclude that the
speaks of Ursus as “juvenis candidissimus et sine consul of B. C. 474 was the grandfather, and the
desidiae jactura doctissimus. ” Statius calls him decemvir the father of Nos. 3 and 4. If so the
Flavius Ursus.
praenomen of the consul would be Cneius, as the
2. A contemporary of the younger Pliny, who decemvir is called in the Capitoline Fasti Cn. f.
has addressed several letters to him. (Ep. iv. 9, P. n.
v. 20, vi. 5, 13, viïi. 9. )
2. A. MANLIUS CN. P. P. N. Vulso, probably
VULCA'NUS, the Roman god of fire, whose son of No. 2, was one of the ambassadors sent to
name seems to be connected with fulgere, fulgur, Athens in B. C. 454, for the purpose of gaining in-
and fulmen. His worship was of considerable formation about the laws of Solon and the other
political importance at Rome, for a temple is said Greek states, and in B. C. 451 he was a member
to have been erected to him close by the comitium of the first decemvirate. (Liv, iii. 31, 33; Dionys.
as early as the time of Romulus and Tatius, in x. 54. )
which the two kings used to meet and settle the 3. M. MANLIUS (A. F. CN. N. ) Vulso, probably
affairs of the state, and near which the popular as- son of No. 2, was consular tribune B. C. 420. (Liv.
sembly was held. (Dionys. ii. 50, vi. 67 ; Plut. iv. 44. )
Quaest. Rom. 47. )
4. A. MANLIUS A. F. CN. N. Vulso CAPI-
Tatius is reported to have established the TOLINUS, son of No. 2, thrice consular tribune, in
worship of Vulcan along with that of Vesta, and B. C. 405, 402 and 397. (Fasti Capit. ; Liv. iv.
Romulus to have dedicated to him a quadriga 61, v. 8, 16. ) In B. C. 394 he was one of the
after his victory over the Fidenatans, and to have ambassadors sent to Delphi to present a golden
set up a statue of himself near the temple. (Dionys. crater as a present to Apollo, but was captured on
ii. 54 ; Plut. Rom. 24. ) According to others his voyage thither by the Liparaean pirates. They
the temple was built by Romulus himself, who were however released by Timasitheus, the chief
also planted near it the sacred lotus-tree which magistrate of the island, in that year, and allowed
still existed in the days of Pliny. (H. N. xvi. to prosecute their voyage. (Liv. v. 28. )
44; P. Victor, Reg. Urb. iv. ) These circum- 5. L. MANLIUS A. F. P. n. Vulso LONGUS,
stances, and what is related of the lotus-tree, was consul B. C. 256 with M. Atilius Regulus,
shows that the temple of Vulcan, like that of and along with his colleague invaded Africa. Their
Vesta, was regarded as a central point of the victory over the Carthaginians by sea, and their
whole state, and hence it was perhaps not without successful campaign in Africa are fully related in
a meaning that subsequently the temple of Concord the life of Regulus. [REGULUS, No. 3. ) Vulso
was built within the same district. (Liv. ix. 46, returned to Italy at the fall of the year with half of
xl. 19, xxxvi. 46.
) The most ancient festival in the army, and obtained the honour of a triumph.
honour of Vulcan seems to have been the Forna (Polyb. i. 26—29 ; Zonar. viii. 12, 13; Oros. iv.
calia or Furnalia, he being the god of furnaces 8. ) In B. C. 250 Vulso was consul a second time
(Isidor. xix. 6. 2; Fest. p. 88); but his great with C. Atilius Regulus Serranus, and with his
festival was called Vulcanalia, and was celebrated colleague commenced the siege of Lilybaeum. For
on the 23d of August. (Dict. of Ant. 8. v. ) details see Regulus, No. 4. (Polyb. i. 39, 41
The Roman pocts transfer all the stories which are -48 ; Zonar. viii. 15; Oros. iv. 10. )
related of the Greek Hephaestus to their own 6. L. MANLIUS VULSO, one of the unsuccessful
Vulcan, the two divinities having in the course of patrician candidates for the consulship for B. c. 216,
time been completely identified. [L. S. ] when C. Terentius Varro was elected. (Liv. xxii.
VULCA'TIUS. [VOLcatius. ]
35. )
VULCATIUS GALLICA'NUS. (GALLI- 7. P. MANLIUS Vulso, praetor B. c. 210, re-
CANUS. )
ceived Sardinia as his province. (Liv. xxvi. 23,
VULSO, the name of a distinguished patrician xxvii. 6, 7. )
family of the Manlia Gens.
8. Cx. Manlius Cx. P. L. N. VULSO, was cu.
4N 3
7 MAGNIA URBICA.
3
I more correctly ORBITICS
TORBICICS)
"OMPEIL's put to death by the
4 as one of the parties yrit!
riage with Slius. (Tace due
& PANOPION. [PAwone
NIA, a great favourite of Lirik
mperor Tiberins. The fire ?
13 above the laws, sans Tacts, the
ances of her arrogance. Where
Thom she owed a sus of passt,
: the praetor, she refused to set che
. nd on another occasion sbe voci
e senate to give eridence in a car, and
id to be sent to examine her is bemez
e was the grandmother of Pasta
wbom she sent a darker shen is ***
lat he would be condemned to death an
the murder of his wife in d. 1. 24 (Tac
A, iv. 21, 22. )
('LANILLA, PLAUTIA, e di te
the emperor Clandia (Perta)
AS. 4 NIL'S, tribune of the plebe Belas
mru. 2. ) In some edities of Lith
is C. Afranius. We do not med with the
of l'rxanius elsewhere.
SEIL'S FEROX. (FEROX. )
SICINUS, Saint, a porsician in the eyes
ct of Liguria, who was con rerted to Chocam
rers early period by some of the izradit
wers of the Apostles
. He went to forening
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1286
VULTURCIUS.
XANTHUS.
X.
rule aedile B. c. 197, praetor with Sicily as his
province B. C. 195, and one of the trium virg for
founding a Latin colony in the territory of Thurii
in B. c. 193, in which year he was an unsuccessful
candidate for the consulship. (Liv. xxxii. 25, 42, XANTHE (Eavon), one of the daughters of
43, xxxiv. 53, xxxv. 9, 10. )
Oceanus. (Iles. Theog. 356 ; Virg. Geory. iv.
In B. C. 189 Cn. Manlius Vulso was consul | 336. )
(L. S. )
with M. Fulvius Nobilior. He was sent into XANTHICLES (Eavoukañs), an Achaean, was
Asia in order to conclude the peace, which his chosen to be one of the generals of the Cyrean
successor Scipio Asiaticus had made with An-Greeks in the place of his countryman Socrates,
tiochus, and to arrange the affairs of Asia. He ar- when the latter, with Clearchas and three other
rived at Ephesus in the spring of B. c. 189, and as colleagues, had been treacherously arrested by Tis-
he was anxious to obtain both glory and booty he saphernes, B. C. 401. When the army had reached
resolved to attack the Gallograeci or Galatians in Cotyora, a court was held to inquire into the con-
Asia Minor without waiting for any formal in- duct of the generals, and Xanthicles was one of
structions from the senate. He carried on the war those who were fined for a deficiency in the cargoes
with success against them, conquered in battle the of the ships, which had brought the soldiers from
three chief tribes into which they were divided, Trapezus, and of which he was a commissioner.
called the Tolistoboii, Tectosagi and Trocmi, and (Xen. Anab. iii. 1. $ 47, v. 8. $ 1. ) [E. E. )
compelled them to submit unconditionally to the XANTHIPPE, mythological. [PLEURON. )
Roman power. After bringing this war to an end XANTHIPPE (Eavoinan), wife of Socrates.
by the middle of the autumn, he led his troops [SOCRATES. )
into winter quarters. The Gallograeci had by XANTHIPPUS ( Edvirtos). 1. One of the
their many conquests in Asia acquired immense sons of Melas, who revolted against Oeneus, and
wealth, a large portion of which now fell into the were slain by Tydeus. (Apollod. i. 8. $ 5. )
hands of Vulso and his army. (Liv. xxxviii. 12- 2. A son of Deïphontes. (Paus. Ü. 28. § 3. )
27 ; Polyb. xxii. 16-22; Zonar. ix. 20 ; Appian, 3. A hero who had an heroum at Daulia, in
Syr. 39, 42. )
Phocis. (Paus. 1. 4. § 7. )
[L. S. ]
Manlius Vulso remained in Asia as proconsul in XANTHIPPUS (Eávôlitos). 1. The son of
the following year, B. C. 188, when he formally Ariphron and father of Pericles. ' In B. C. 490, he
concluded the treaty with Antiochus and settled impeached Miltiades on his return from his unsuc-
the affairs of Asia. In the middle of the summer cessful expedition against the island of Paros. In
he crossed over from Asia into Europe, marched B. C. 484 he left Athens together with the other
through Thrace into Macedonia and Epeirus, and inhabitants on the approach of Xerxes, and in the
passed the winter at Apollonia. In his march following year (B. C. 479) he succeeded Themisto-
through Thrace his army suffered much from the cles as commander of the Athenian fleet. He com-
heat and the attacks of the Thracians, and he lost manded the Athenians at the decisive battle of
a considerable part of the booty he had obtained Mycale, which was fought on the coast of Ionia on
in Asia. He reached Rome in B. C. 187 and de- the same day as the battle of Plataea, September,
manded a triumph, which he obtained with diffi- B. C. 470. The Grecian fleet then sailed to the
culty in consequence of the opposition of the majority Hellespont; and when they found that the bridge
of the ten commissioners, who had been appointed had been broken down, Leotychides and the Pe-
by the senate to conclude the peace with Antiochus loponnesians returned home forth with. Xanthip-
in conjunction with Vulso. The triumph of Vulso pus, however, remained with the Athenian fleet in
was a brilliant one, but his campaign in Asia had order to subdue the Chersonese, where several of
a pernicious influence upon the morals of his coun- the Athenians had previously held considerable
trymen. He had allowed his army every kind of property. The Persians threw themselves into the
licence, and his soldiers introduced into the city town of Sestos, to which Xanthippus laid siege,
the luxuries of the East. (Liv. xxxvii. 37–41, and which was obliged to surrender early in the
44–50, xxxix. 6, 7; Polyb. xxii. 24–27 ; Appian, following spring (B. C.
