Cicero and
pardoned
by Caesar.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
Sempronius Rufus the Latini as for the Roman citizens.
(Dict.
of
of vis in B. c. 61, and was in his turn accused by Antiq. 8. v. Lex Sempronia de Fenore. ) He was
Rufus of the same offence. (Cael. ap. Cic. ad Fam. praetor B. c. 189, when he obtained Sicily as his
viii. 8. )
province, and consul B. c. 185 with Ap. Claudius
TUDITANUS, the name of a plebeian family Pulcher. In his consulship he carried on war in
of the Sempronia gens. The name was supposed Liguria, and defeated the Apuani, while his col-
by Ateius the philologist to have been originally league was equally successful against the Ingauni.
given to one of the Sempronii, because he had a Tuditanus was an unsuccessful candidate for the
head like a tudes (ludit-is) or mallet. (Festus, consulship in B. c. 184, but was elected one of the
p. 352, ed. Müller. )
pontifices in the following year. He was carried
1. M. SEMPRONIUS C. F. M. N. TUDITANUS, I off by the great pestilence which devastated Rome
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TULLIA.
TULLIA.
in B. c. 174. (Liv. Xxxv. 7, xxxvii. 47, 50, xxxix. B. c. 63 during the consulship of her father. At
23, 32, 40, 46, xli. 21. )
the time of Cicero's exile (B. C. 58), Tullia dis-
6. C. SEMPRONIUS C. P. TUDITANUS, was one played a warm interest in his fate. She and her
of the ten commissioners sent to L. Mummius in husband threw themselves at the feet of the consul
B. c. 146 in order to form Southern Greece into a Piso to implore his pity on behalf of their father.
Roman province. He bas been confounded by During Cicero's banishment Tullia lost her first
Drumann (Geschichte Roms, vol. iii. p. 81) with the husband: he was alive at the end of B. c. 58, but
following (No. 7), as he had been by Cicero, she was a widow when she welcomed her father
whose mistake was corrected by Atticus. This at Brundusium on his return from exile, in August
Tuditanus was the proavus or great grandfather of of the following year. She was married again in
the orator Hortensius. (Cic. ad Ati. xiii. 6. § 4, B. c. 56 to Furius Crassipes, a young man of rank
xiii. 33. & 3. )
and large property ; but she did not live with him
7. C. SEMPRONIUS C. F. C. N. TUDITANUS, the long, though the time and the reason of her di-
son of No. 6, was praetor B. C. 132, fourteen years vorce are alike unknown. (CRASSIPES, No. 2. )
after his father had been sent as one of the ten In B. C. 50 she was married to her third husband,
commissioners into Greece. (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 30. P. Cornelius Dolabella, one of the most profligate
§ 3, xiii. 32. § 3. ) He was consul in B. c. 129, young men of a most profligate age. Cicero was
with M'. Aquilius. On the proposition of Scipio well acquainted with the scandalous private life of
Africanus, the decision of the various disputes, his future son-in-law, for although the latter was
which arose respecting the public land in carrying still only twenty, he had been already twice de
the agrarian law of Gracchus into effect, was trans- fended by the orator in a court of justice when
ferred from the triumvirs who had been appointed accused of the most abominable crimes. But the
under the law, to the consul Tuditanus ; but the patrician birth, high connections, and personal
latter, perceiving the difficulty of the cases that beauty of Dolabella, covered a multitude of sins
were brought before him, avoided giving any deci- as well in Cicero's eyes as in those of his wife and
sion by pleading that the Illyrian war compelled daughter. Dolabella had been previously married
him to leave the city. In Illyricum he carried on and divorced his wife Fabia for the purpose of
war against the lapydes, and at first unsuccess- marrying Tullia. The marriage took place during
fully, but he afterwards gained a victory over them Cicero's absence in Cilicia. The connection, as
chiefly through the military skill of his legate, might have been anticipated, was not a happy one.
D. Junius Brutus, who had previously earned on the breaking out of the civil war in B. C. 49,
great glory by his conquests in Spain. (BRUTUS, the husband and the father of Tullia espoused op-
No. 15. ] On his return to Rome, Tuditanus was posite sides. While Dolabella fought for Caesar,
allowed to celebrate a triumph over the lapydes. and Cicero took refuge in the camp of Pompey,
(Vell. Pat. ii. 4; Cic. de Nat. Deor. ii. 5; Appian, Tullia remained in Italy. She was pregnant at
B. C. i. 19, Nyr. 10; Liv. Epit. 59; Fasti Capit. ) the commencement of the war, and on the 19th of
Tuditanus was an orator and an historian, and in May, B. C. 49, was delivered of a seven months'
both obtained considerable distinction. Cicero says child, which was very weak, and died soon after-
of him (Brut. 25): – “ Cum omni vita atque victu wards. After the battle of Pharsalia, Dolabella
excultus atque expolitus, tum ejus elegans est ha- returned to Rome, but brought no consolation to
bitum etiam orationis genus. ” Dionysius (i. 11) his wife. He carried on numerous intrigues with
classes him with Cato the Censor as among Aoyla various Roman ladies ; and the weight of his debts
TÁTOUS Tūv 'Pwualwv ourypapéwv. His historical had become so intolerable that he caused himself
work is likewise quoted by some of the other an- to be adopted into a plebeian family, in order to
cient writers. (Ascon. in Cornel. p. 76, ed. Orelli ; obtain the tribuneship of the people, and thus be
Gell. vi. 4, xiii. 15; Macrob. i. 16; Krause, Vitae able to bring forward a measure for the abolition
et Frag. Histor. Roin. p. 178, foll. ) This Tudita- of debts. He was elected tribune at the end of
nus was the maternal grandfather of the orator B. C. 48, and forth with commenced to carry his
Hortensius, since his daughter Sempronia married schemes into execution. But Antony took up
L. Hortensius, the father of the orator.
arms, and Dolabella was defeated. In the midst
8. SEMPRONIUS TUDITANUS, was the maternal of these tumults Tullia, who had been long suffer-
grandfather of Fulvia, the wife of Antonius the ing from ill health, set out to join her father at
triumvir. He is described by Cicero as a mad- Brundusium, which place she reached in June,
man, who was accustomed to scatter his money B. C. 47. Cicero, however, was unwilling that
among the people from the Rostra. (Cic. Phil. iii. even his own daughter should be a witness of his
6, Acad. ii. 28 ; Val. Max. vii. 8. $ 1. )
degradation, and he therefore sent her back to her
CN. TUDICIUS, a senator, who supported mother. Dolabella's conduct had been 80 scan-
Cluentius. (Cic. pro Cluent. 70. )
dalous, that a divorce would have been the proper
M. TU'GIO, mentioned by Cicero in his oration course ; but this Cicero would not adopt, as he
for Balbus (c. 20) as a person well versed in the feared the anger of the dictator, and was unwilling
law relating to aqueducts.
to lose a friend in Dolabella He did not, how-
TU'LLIA, the name of the two daughters of ever, require his intercession, for Caesar not only
Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome. (Tullius, pardoned him but received him as his friend, when
SERVIUS. ]
he landed in Italy in September (B. C. 47). Cicero
TU'LLIA, frequently called by the diminutive returned to Rome, and Dolabella was likewise
TULLIOLA, was the daughter of M.
Cicero and pardoned by Caesar. In December Dolabella went
Terentia. The year of her birth is not mentioned, to Africa to fight against the Pompeian party, but
but it was probably in B. c. 79 or 78. [TERENTIA, he came back to Italy in the summer of the fol-
No. 1. ) Her birthday was on the 5th of Sextilis lowing year (B. c. 46). Tullia and her husband
or August. She was betrothed as early as B. c. 67 now lived together again for a short time, but be-
to C. Čalpurnius Piso Frugi, whom she married in fore Dolabella left for Spain at the end of the year,
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3
a divorce had taken place by mutual consent. At to the honours of the state was M. Tullius Decula,
the beginning of the following year (B. C. 45) consul B. c. 81, and the next was the celebrated
Tullia was delivered of a son. As soon as she orator M. Tullius Cicero. (DECULA ; CICERO. )
was sufficiently recovered to bear the fatigues of a The other surnames of the Tullii under the re-
journey, she accompanied her father to Tusculum, public belong chiefly to freedmen, and are given
but she died there in February. * It appears from below. On coins we find no cognomen. The fol-
Cicero's correspondence that she had long been lowing coin, which bears on the obverse the head
unwell, and the birth of her child hastened her of Pallas and on the reverse Victory driving a
death. Her loss was a severe blow to Cicero: quadrign, with the legend of M. TVLLI, is sup-
he had recently divorced his wife Terentia, and posed by some writers to belong to M. Tullius
married a young wife Publilia, without however Cicero, the orator, but the coin is probably of an
adding to his domestic happiness; and thus he earlier date. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 327. )
had clung to Tullia more than ever. His friends
hastened to console him; and among the many
consolatory letters which he received on the oc-
casion is the well-known one from the cele-
brated jurist Serv. Sulpicius (ad Fam. iv. 5). To
dissipate his grief, Cicero drew up a treatise on
consolation, in which he chiefly imitated Crantor
the Academician (CICERO, p. 733, b. ] ; and to
MTVLLI
show his love to the deceased, he resolved to build
a splendid monument to her honour, which was to
be consecrated as a temple, in which she might
COIN OF THE TULLIA GENS.
receive the worship both of himself and of others.
This project he frequently mentions in his letters TULLINUS, VOLCA'TIUS, accused in A. D.
to Atticus, but the death of Caesar in the follow-65, as privy to the crimes of L. Torquatus Silanus,
ing year, and the active part which Cicero then escaped punishment (Tac. Ann. xvi. 8), and is
took’in public affairs, prevented him from carrying conjectured by Lipsius to be the same person as
his design into effect. Tullia's child survived his Volcatius Tertullinus, who is mentioned as tribune
mother. He is called Lentulus by Cicero (ad of the plebs in A. D. 69. (Tac. Hist. iv. 9. )
Att. xii. 28), a name which was also borne by his TU'LLIUS. 1. M. TULLius, or M. Atilius,
father by adoption; and as Dolabella was absent as he is called by Dionysius, one of the decemviri
in Spain, and was moreover unable from his extra- who had the charge of the Sibylline books in the
vagance to make any provision for his child, Cicero reign of Tarquinius Superbus, was bribed by Pe.
took charge of him, and while he was in the coun- tronius Sabinus to allow him to take a copy of
try wrote to Atticus, to beg him to take care that these books, and was in consequence punished by the
the child was properly attended to. (Cic. ad Att. king by being sewed up in a sack and thrown into
xii. 28. ) The boy probably died in infancy, as the sea, a punishment subsequently inflicted upon
no further mention is made of him. The numerous parricides. (Val. Max. i. 1. $ 13; Dionys. iv. 62. )
passages in Cicero's correspondence in which Tullia 2. Sex, TULLIUS, served for the seventh time
is spoken of, are collected in Orelli's Onomasticon as centurio primi pili in B. c. 358 under the dic-
Tullianum (vol. ii. pp. 596, 597), and her life is tator C. Sulpicius Peticus, when he besought the
written at length by Drumann (Geschichte Roms, dictator on behalf of his comrades to let them fight
vol. vi. p. 696, foll. ).
against the Gauls, and distinguished himself in
TU'LLIA GENS, patrician and plebeian. This the battle which ensued. He also fought with
gens was of great antiquity, for even leaving out great bravery in the following year under the con-
of question Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome, sul C. Marcius Rutilus against the Privernates.
whom Cicero claims as his gentilis (Tusc. i. 16), we (Liv. vii. 13—16. )
are told that the Tullii were one of the Alban 3. L. Tullius, a Roman eques, was magister
houses, which were transplanted to Rome in the of the company which farmed the Scriptura (see
reign of Tullus Hostilius. (Liv. i. 30. ) According Dict. of Antiq. s. v. ) in Sicily. (Verr. iii. 71. )
to this statement the Tullii belonged to the minores 4. M. Tullius, on whose behalf Cicero spoke
gentes. We find mention of a Tullius in the reign in B. c. 71. It is quite uncertain who this M. Tul-
of the last king of Rome (TULLIUS, No. 1], and lius was. He was not a freedman, as appears from
of a M'. Tullius Longus, who was consul in the Cicero's speech, but it is equally clear that he was
tenth year of the republic, B. c. 500. [LONGUS. ] a different person both from M. Tullius Decula,
The patrician branch of the gens appears to have consul B. C. 81, and from M. Tullius Albinovanus.
become extinct at an early period; for after the The fragments of Cicero's speech for Tullius were
early times of the republic no one of the name published for the first time from a palimpsest manu-
occurs for some centuries, and the Tullii of a later script by Angelo Mai. An analysis of it is given
age are not only plebeians, but, with the excep-by Drumann. (Geschichte Roms, vol. v. p. 258,
tion of their bearing the same name, cannot be foll. )
regarded as having any connection with the 5. L. TULLIUS, a legate of Cicero in Cilicia,
ancient gens. The first plebeian Tullius who rose owed his appointment to the influence of Q. Titi-
nius, and probably also of Atticus, whose friend he
* It is stated by Middleton (Life of Cicero, was. His conduct, however, did not give satis-
vol. ii. p. 365), on the authority of Plutarch (Cic. faction to Cicero. (Cic
. ad Att. v. 4, 11, 14, 21. )
41), that Tullia died at Dolabella's house at Rome; In one of Cicero's letters (ad Fam. xv. 14. 8 8)
but Plutarch does not say so; and Drumann has we read of his legate L. Tulleius, which is pro-
shown clearly from passages in Cicero's letters, bably a false reading for L. Tullius.
that she died at her father's Tusculan villa. 6. TiB, Tullius, fought on the side of the
a
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TULLIUS.
1
Ponipeian party in Spain in B. c. 45. (Auctor, slave of the queen's, and one of the captives taken
B. Hisp. 17, 18. )
at Corniculum, was offering cakes to the Lar or
TULLIUS ALBINOVA'NUS. [ALBINO- the household genius, when she saw in the fire on
VANUS. )
the hearth an apparition of the deity. Tanaquil,
TU'LLIUS, A'TTIUS, the celebrated king of who understood the portent, commanded her to
the Volscians, to whom Coriolanus Aled, when he dress herself as a bride, and to shut herself up
was banished from Rome, and who induced his in the chamber. There she became pregnant by
people to make war upon the Romans, with Corio the god, whom some Romans maintained to be the
lanus as their general. For details and authorities, houschold genius, and others Vulcan ; the former
see CORIOLANUS. In the best MSS. of Livy the supporting their opinion by the festival which
name is written Attius Tullius, and in Zonaras we Servius established in honour of the Lares, the
also find Touarios; but in
and Plutarch latter by the deliverance of his statue from fire
the form Τύλλος occurs. Tullius, and not Tullus (Ov. Fast. vi. 625, foll. ; Dionys. iv. 2). There are
is the correct form. (Alschefski, ad Liv. ii. 37 ; two other legends respecting the birth of Servius,
Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. note 217. )
which have more of an historical air, and may
TU'LLIUS BASSUS. [Bassus, p. 471. ] therefore be regarded as of later origin. One re-
TU'LLIUS or TI'LLIUS CIMBER.
of vis in B. c. 61, and was in his turn accused by Antiq. 8. v. Lex Sempronia de Fenore. ) He was
Rufus of the same offence. (Cael. ap. Cic. ad Fam. praetor B. c. 189, when he obtained Sicily as his
viii. 8. )
province, and consul B. c. 185 with Ap. Claudius
TUDITANUS, the name of a plebeian family Pulcher. In his consulship he carried on war in
of the Sempronia gens. The name was supposed Liguria, and defeated the Apuani, while his col-
by Ateius the philologist to have been originally league was equally successful against the Ingauni.
given to one of the Sempronii, because he had a Tuditanus was an unsuccessful candidate for the
head like a tudes (ludit-is) or mallet. (Festus, consulship in B. c. 184, but was elected one of the
p. 352, ed. Müller. )
pontifices in the following year. He was carried
1. M. SEMPRONIUS C. F. M. N. TUDITANUS, I off by the great pestilence which devastated Rome
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TULLIA.
TULLIA.
in B. c. 174. (Liv. Xxxv. 7, xxxvii. 47, 50, xxxix. B. c. 63 during the consulship of her father. At
23, 32, 40, 46, xli. 21. )
the time of Cicero's exile (B. C. 58), Tullia dis-
6. C. SEMPRONIUS C. P. TUDITANUS, was one played a warm interest in his fate. She and her
of the ten commissioners sent to L. Mummius in husband threw themselves at the feet of the consul
B. c. 146 in order to form Southern Greece into a Piso to implore his pity on behalf of their father.
Roman province. He bas been confounded by During Cicero's banishment Tullia lost her first
Drumann (Geschichte Roms, vol. iii. p. 81) with the husband: he was alive at the end of B. c. 58, but
following (No. 7), as he had been by Cicero, she was a widow when she welcomed her father
whose mistake was corrected by Atticus. This at Brundusium on his return from exile, in August
Tuditanus was the proavus or great grandfather of of the following year. She was married again in
the orator Hortensius. (Cic. ad Ati. xiii. 6. § 4, B. c. 56 to Furius Crassipes, a young man of rank
xiii. 33. & 3. )
and large property ; but she did not live with him
7. C. SEMPRONIUS C. F. C. N. TUDITANUS, the long, though the time and the reason of her di-
son of No. 6, was praetor B. C. 132, fourteen years vorce are alike unknown. (CRASSIPES, No. 2. )
after his father had been sent as one of the ten In B. C. 50 she was married to her third husband,
commissioners into Greece. (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 30. P. Cornelius Dolabella, one of the most profligate
§ 3, xiii. 32. § 3. ) He was consul in B. c. 129, young men of a most profligate age. Cicero was
with M'. Aquilius. On the proposition of Scipio well acquainted with the scandalous private life of
Africanus, the decision of the various disputes, his future son-in-law, for although the latter was
which arose respecting the public land in carrying still only twenty, he had been already twice de
the agrarian law of Gracchus into effect, was trans- fended by the orator in a court of justice when
ferred from the triumvirs who had been appointed accused of the most abominable crimes. But the
under the law, to the consul Tuditanus ; but the patrician birth, high connections, and personal
latter, perceiving the difficulty of the cases that beauty of Dolabella, covered a multitude of sins
were brought before him, avoided giving any deci- as well in Cicero's eyes as in those of his wife and
sion by pleading that the Illyrian war compelled daughter. Dolabella had been previously married
him to leave the city. In Illyricum he carried on and divorced his wife Fabia for the purpose of
war against the lapydes, and at first unsuccess- marrying Tullia. The marriage took place during
fully, but he afterwards gained a victory over them Cicero's absence in Cilicia. The connection, as
chiefly through the military skill of his legate, might have been anticipated, was not a happy one.
D. Junius Brutus, who had previously earned on the breaking out of the civil war in B. C. 49,
great glory by his conquests in Spain. (BRUTUS, the husband and the father of Tullia espoused op-
No. 15. ] On his return to Rome, Tuditanus was posite sides. While Dolabella fought for Caesar,
allowed to celebrate a triumph over the lapydes. and Cicero took refuge in the camp of Pompey,
(Vell. Pat. ii. 4; Cic. de Nat. Deor. ii. 5; Appian, Tullia remained in Italy. She was pregnant at
B. C. i. 19, Nyr. 10; Liv. Epit. 59; Fasti Capit. ) the commencement of the war, and on the 19th of
Tuditanus was an orator and an historian, and in May, B. C. 49, was delivered of a seven months'
both obtained considerable distinction. Cicero says child, which was very weak, and died soon after-
of him (Brut. 25): – “ Cum omni vita atque victu wards. After the battle of Pharsalia, Dolabella
excultus atque expolitus, tum ejus elegans est ha- returned to Rome, but brought no consolation to
bitum etiam orationis genus. ” Dionysius (i. 11) his wife. He carried on numerous intrigues with
classes him with Cato the Censor as among Aoyla various Roman ladies ; and the weight of his debts
TÁTOUS Tūv 'Pwualwv ourypapéwv. His historical had become so intolerable that he caused himself
work is likewise quoted by some of the other an- to be adopted into a plebeian family, in order to
cient writers. (Ascon. in Cornel. p. 76, ed. Orelli ; obtain the tribuneship of the people, and thus be
Gell. vi. 4, xiii. 15; Macrob. i. 16; Krause, Vitae able to bring forward a measure for the abolition
et Frag. Histor. Roin. p. 178, foll. ) This Tudita- of debts. He was elected tribune at the end of
nus was the maternal grandfather of the orator B. C. 48, and forth with commenced to carry his
Hortensius, since his daughter Sempronia married schemes into execution. But Antony took up
L. Hortensius, the father of the orator.
arms, and Dolabella was defeated. In the midst
8. SEMPRONIUS TUDITANUS, was the maternal of these tumults Tullia, who had been long suffer-
grandfather of Fulvia, the wife of Antonius the ing from ill health, set out to join her father at
triumvir. He is described by Cicero as a mad- Brundusium, which place she reached in June,
man, who was accustomed to scatter his money B. C. 47. Cicero, however, was unwilling that
among the people from the Rostra. (Cic. Phil. iii. even his own daughter should be a witness of his
6, Acad. ii. 28 ; Val. Max. vii. 8. $ 1. )
degradation, and he therefore sent her back to her
CN. TUDICIUS, a senator, who supported mother. Dolabella's conduct had been 80 scan-
Cluentius. (Cic. pro Cluent. 70. )
dalous, that a divorce would have been the proper
M. TU'GIO, mentioned by Cicero in his oration course ; but this Cicero would not adopt, as he
for Balbus (c. 20) as a person well versed in the feared the anger of the dictator, and was unwilling
law relating to aqueducts.
to lose a friend in Dolabella He did not, how-
TU'LLIA, the name of the two daughters of ever, require his intercession, for Caesar not only
Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome. (Tullius, pardoned him but received him as his friend, when
SERVIUS. ]
he landed in Italy in September (B. C. 47). Cicero
TU'LLIA, frequently called by the diminutive returned to Rome, and Dolabella was likewise
TULLIOLA, was the daughter of M.
Cicero and pardoned by Caesar. In December Dolabella went
Terentia. The year of her birth is not mentioned, to Africa to fight against the Pompeian party, but
but it was probably in B. c. 79 or 78. [TERENTIA, he came back to Italy in the summer of the fol-
No. 1. ) Her birthday was on the 5th of Sextilis lowing year (B. c. 46). Tullia and her husband
or August. She was betrothed as early as B. c. 67 now lived together again for a short time, but be-
to C. Čalpurnius Piso Frugi, whom she married in fore Dolabella left for Spain at the end of the year,
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3
a divorce had taken place by mutual consent. At to the honours of the state was M. Tullius Decula,
the beginning of the following year (B. C. 45) consul B. c. 81, and the next was the celebrated
Tullia was delivered of a son. As soon as she orator M. Tullius Cicero. (DECULA ; CICERO. )
was sufficiently recovered to bear the fatigues of a The other surnames of the Tullii under the re-
journey, she accompanied her father to Tusculum, public belong chiefly to freedmen, and are given
but she died there in February. * It appears from below. On coins we find no cognomen. The fol-
Cicero's correspondence that she had long been lowing coin, which bears on the obverse the head
unwell, and the birth of her child hastened her of Pallas and on the reverse Victory driving a
death. Her loss was a severe blow to Cicero: quadrign, with the legend of M. TVLLI, is sup-
he had recently divorced his wife Terentia, and posed by some writers to belong to M. Tullius
married a young wife Publilia, without however Cicero, the orator, but the coin is probably of an
adding to his domestic happiness; and thus he earlier date. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 327. )
had clung to Tullia more than ever. His friends
hastened to console him; and among the many
consolatory letters which he received on the oc-
casion is the well-known one from the cele-
brated jurist Serv. Sulpicius (ad Fam. iv. 5). To
dissipate his grief, Cicero drew up a treatise on
consolation, in which he chiefly imitated Crantor
the Academician (CICERO, p. 733, b. ] ; and to
MTVLLI
show his love to the deceased, he resolved to build
a splendid monument to her honour, which was to
be consecrated as a temple, in which she might
COIN OF THE TULLIA GENS.
receive the worship both of himself and of others.
This project he frequently mentions in his letters TULLINUS, VOLCA'TIUS, accused in A. D.
to Atticus, but the death of Caesar in the follow-65, as privy to the crimes of L. Torquatus Silanus,
ing year, and the active part which Cicero then escaped punishment (Tac. Ann. xvi. 8), and is
took’in public affairs, prevented him from carrying conjectured by Lipsius to be the same person as
his design into effect. Tullia's child survived his Volcatius Tertullinus, who is mentioned as tribune
mother. He is called Lentulus by Cicero (ad of the plebs in A. D. 69. (Tac. Hist. iv. 9. )
Att. xii. 28), a name which was also borne by his TU'LLIUS. 1. M. TULLius, or M. Atilius,
father by adoption; and as Dolabella was absent as he is called by Dionysius, one of the decemviri
in Spain, and was moreover unable from his extra- who had the charge of the Sibylline books in the
vagance to make any provision for his child, Cicero reign of Tarquinius Superbus, was bribed by Pe.
took charge of him, and while he was in the coun- tronius Sabinus to allow him to take a copy of
try wrote to Atticus, to beg him to take care that these books, and was in consequence punished by the
the child was properly attended to. (Cic. ad Att. king by being sewed up in a sack and thrown into
xii. 28. ) The boy probably died in infancy, as the sea, a punishment subsequently inflicted upon
no further mention is made of him. The numerous parricides. (Val. Max. i. 1. $ 13; Dionys. iv. 62. )
passages in Cicero's correspondence in which Tullia 2. Sex, TULLIUS, served for the seventh time
is spoken of, are collected in Orelli's Onomasticon as centurio primi pili in B. c. 358 under the dic-
Tullianum (vol. ii. pp. 596, 597), and her life is tator C. Sulpicius Peticus, when he besought the
written at length by Drumann (Geschichte Roms, dictator on behalf of his comrades to let them fight
vol. vi. p. 696, foll. ).
against the Gauls, and distinguished himself in
TU'LLIA GENS, patrician and plebeian. This the battle which ensued. He also fought with
gens was of great antiquity, for even leaving out great bravery in the following year under the con-
of question Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome, sul C. Marcius Rutilus against the Privernates.
whom Cicero claims as his gentilis (Tusc. i. 16), we (Liv. vii. 13—16. )
are told that the Tullii were one of the Alban 3. L. Tullius, a Roman eques, was magister
houses, which were transplanted to Rome in the of the company which farmed the Scriptura (see
reign of Tullus Hostilius. (Liv. i. 30. ) According Dict. of Antiq. s. v. ) in Sicily. (Verr. iii. 71. )
to this statement the Tullii belonged to the minores 4. M. Tullius, on whose behalf Cicero spoke
gentes. We find mention of a Tullius in the reign in B. c. 71. It is quite uncertain who this M. Tul-
of the last king of Rome (TULLIUS, No. 1], and lius was. He was not a freedman, as appears from
of a M'. Tullius Longus, who was consul in the Cicero's speech, but it is equally clear that he was
tenth year of the republic, B. c. 500. [LONGUS. ] a different person both from M. Tullius Decula,
The patrician branch of the gens appears to have consul B. C. 81, and from M. Tullius Albinovanus.
become extinct at an early period; for after the The fragments of Cicero's speech for Tullius were
early times of the republic no one of the name published for the first time from a palimpsest manu-
occurs for some centuries, and the Tullii of a later script by Angelo Mai. An analysis of it is given
age are not only plebeians, but, with the excep-by Drumann. (Geschichte Roms, vol. v. p. 258,
tion of their bearing the same name, cannot be foll. )
regarded as having any connection with the 5. L. TULLIUS, a legate of Cicero in Cilicia,
ancient gens. The first plebeian Tullius who rose owed his appointment to the influence of Q. Titi-
nius, and probably also of Atticus, whose friend he
* It is stated by Middleton (Life of Cicero, was. His conduct, however, did not give satis-
vol. ii. p. 365), on the authority of Plutarch (Cic. faction to Cicero. (Cic
. ad Att. v. 4, 11, 14, 21. )
41), that Tullia died at Dolabella's house at Rome; In one of Cicero's letters (ad Fam. xv. 14. 8 8)
but Plutarch does not say so; and Drumann has we read of his legate L. Tulleius, which is pro-
shown clearly from passages in Cicero's letters, bably a false reading for L. Tullius.
that she died at her father's Tusculan villa. 6. TiB, Tullius, fought on the side of the
a
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TULLIUS.
TULLIUS.
1
Ponipeian party in Spain in B. c. 45. (Auctor, slave of the queen's, and one of the captives taken
B. Hisp. 17, 18. )
at Corniculum, was offering cakes to the Lar or
TULLIUS ALBINOVA'NUS. [ALBINO- the household genius, when she saw in the fire on
VANUS. )
the hearth an apparition of the deity. Tanaquil,
TU'LLIUS, A'TTIUS, the celebrated king of who understood the portent, commanded her to
the Volscians, to whom Coriolanus Aled, when he dress herself as a bride, and to shut herself up
was banished from Rome, and who induced his in the chamber. There she became pregnant by
people to make war upon the Romans, with Corio the god, whom some Romans maintained to be the
lanus as their general. For details and authorities, houschold genius, and others Vulcan ; the former
see CORIOLANUS. In the best MSS. of Livy the supporting their opinion by the festival which
name is written Attius Tullius, and in Zonaras we Servius established in honour of the Lares, the
also find Touarios; but in
and Plutarch latter by the deliverance of his statue from fire
the form Τύλλος occurs. Tullius, and not Tullus (Ov. Fast. vi. 625, foll. ; Dionys. iv. 2). There are
is the correct form. (Alschefski, ad Liv. ii. 37 ; two other legends respecting the birth of Servius,
Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. note 217. )
which have more of an historical air, and may
TU'LLIUS BASSUS. [Bassus, p. 471. ] therefore be regarded as of later origin. One re-
TU'LLIUS or TI'LLIUS CIMBER.
