196,
proposed
to the Ol.
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56, 59.
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REPENTI'NUS, FABIUS, praefectus prae-
torio, with Cornelius Victorinus, under the emperor
Antoninus Pius. (Capitol. Anton. Pius, 8. )
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REPOSIANUS, the name prefixed to a poem, 3. Q. MARCIUS Rex, praetor B. C. 144, was
first published by Burmann, extending to 182 hex- commissioned by the senate to build an aqueduct,
ameter lines, and entitled, “ Concubitus Martis et and in order that he might complete it, his iin-
Veneris. ” With regard to the author nothing is perium was prolonged for another year. This
known. Unless we attribute some inaccuracies in aqueduct, known by the name of Aqua Marcia,
metre and some peculiarities in phraseology to a was one of the most important, and is spoken of at
corrupt text, we must conclude that he belongs to length in the Dictionary of Antiquities (p. 110,
A late epoch, but the piece is throughout replete 2d ed. ). (Frontin. de Aquaed. 12; Plin. H. N.
with grace and spirit, and presents a series of xxxi. 3. s. 24 ; Plut. Coriol. 1. ).
brilliant pictures. Wernsdorf imagines, that for 4. Q. Marcius Q. F. Q. N. Rex, consul B. C.
Reposianus we ought to read Nepotianus, merely 118, with M. Porcius Cato. The colony of Narbo
because the former designation does not elsewhere Martius in Gaul was founded in this year. Marcius
occur ; but this conjecture being altogether unsup- carried on war against the Stoeni, a Ligurian
ported by evidence, will be received with favour by people at the foot of the Alps, and obtained a
but few. The verses are to be found in Burmann, triumph in the following year on account of his
Anthol. Lat. i. 72, or No. 559, ed. Meyer ; see also victories over them. Marcius lost during his con-
Wernsdorf, Poët. Lat. Min. vol. iv. par. i. pp. 52, sulship his only son, a youth of great promise, but
319, vol. v. par. iii. pp. 1470, 1477. [W. R. ] had such mastery over his feelings as to meet the
REÄSTIO, A'NTIUS. 1. The author of a senate on the day of his son's burial, and perform
Bumptuary law, which, besides limiting the expence his regular official duties (Plin. H. N. ii. 31; Gell.
of entertainments, enacted that no magistrate or xiii. 19; Liv. Epit. 62; Oros. v. 14; Fasti Capit;
magistrate elect should dine abroad anywhere ex- Val. Max. v. 10. & 3). The sister of this Marcius
cept at the houses of certain persons. This law, Rex married C. Julius Caesar, the grandfather of
however, was little observed ; and we are told that the dictator. (MARCIA, No. 2. )
Antius never dined out afterwards, that he might 5. Q. MARCIUS Q. F. Rex, probably a grand-
not see his own law violated. We do not know son of No. 4, was consul B. C. 68, with L. Caecilius
in what year this law was passed ; but it was sub- Metellus. His colleague died at the commence-
sequent to the sumptuary law of the consul Aemi-ment of his year of office, and as no consul was
lius Lepidus, B. c. 78, and before the one of Caesar elected in his place, we find the name of Marcius
(Gell. ii. 24 ; Macrob. Sat. ii. 13).
Rex in the Fasti with the remark, solus consulatum
2. Probably a son of the preceding, was pro- gessit
. He was proconsul in Cilicia in the follow-
scribed by the triumvirs in B. C. 43, but was pre-ing year, and there refused assistance to Lucullus,
served by the fidelity of a slave, and by his means at the instigation of his brother-in-law, the cele-
escaped to Sex. Pompeius in Sicily. (Val. Max. brated P. Clodius, whom Lucullus had offended.
vi. 8. & 7; Appian, B. C. iv. 43; Macrob. Sat. i. In B. C. 66, Marcius had to surrender his province
11. ).
and army to Pompeius in compliance with the Lex
The name of C. Antius Restio occurs on several Manilia. On his return to Rome he sued for a
coins, a specimen of which is annexed. On the triumph, but as obstacles were thrown in the way
obverse is the head of a man, and on the reverse by certain parties, he remained outside the city to
Hercules, holding in one hand a club, and in the prosecute bis claims, and was still there when the
other a trophy, with the skin of a lion thrown Catilinarian conspiracy broke out in B. C. 63. The
across his arm. It is conjectured that the head on senate sent him to faesulae, to watch the move-
the obverse is that of the proposer of the sump- ments of C. Mallius or Manlius, Catiline's general.
tuary law mentioned above (No. 1), and that the Mallius sent proposals of peace to Marcius, but the
coin was struck by his son [No. 2]. (Eckhel, latter refused to listen to his terms unless he con-
vol. v. p. 139. )
sented first to lay down his arms (Dion Cass.
xxxv. 4, 14, 15, 17, xxxvi. 26, 31 ; Cic. in Pison.
4 ; Sall. Hist. 5, Cat. 30, 32—34). Marcius Rex
married the eldest sister of P. Clodius [CLAUDIA,
No. 7). He died before B. c. 61, without leaving
his brother-in-law the inheritance he had expected
(Cic. ad Att. i. 16. § 10).
REX, RU'BRIUS, probably a false reading
in Appian (B. C. i. 113) for Rubrius Ruga.
[RUGA. ]
RHADAMANTHUS ('Padáuavbos), a son of
Zeus and Europa, and brother of king Minos of
Crete (Hom. Il. xiv. 322), or, according to others,
RESTITU/TUS, CLAU'DIUS, an orator of a son of Hephaestus (Paus. viii. 53. & 2). From
considerable reputation in the reign of Trajan, was fear of his brother he fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia,
a friend of the younger Pliny, and is likewise cele- and there married Alcmene. In consequence of
brated by Martial in an epigram on the anniver- his justice throughout life, he became, after his
sary of his birth-day. (Plin. Ep. iii. 9. $ 16, vi. death, one of the judges in the lower world, and
17, vii. 1 ; Martial, x. 87. )
took up his abode in Elysium. (Apollod. iii. 1. S
REX, MA'RCIUS. 1. Q. MARCIUS Rex, 2, ii. 4. § 11; Hom. Od. iv. 564, vii. 323; Pind.
tribune of the plebs B. c.
196, proposed to the Ol. ii. 137 ; comp. Gortys. ) [L. S. ]
people to make peace with Philip. (Liv. xxxiii. RHADAMISTUS. (ARSACIDAE, p. 362, b. ]
25. )
RHAMNU'SIA ('Pauvovola), a surname of
2. P. MARCIUS Rex, was sent by the senate Nemesis, who had a celebrated temple at Rbamnus
with two colleagues on a mission to the consul in Attica. (Paus. i. 33. & 2, vii. 5. & 3; Strab:
C. Cassius Longinus, in B. c. 171. (Liv. xliii. 1. ) | ix. p. 396, &c. ; Steph. Byz. s. v. ) (L. S. ]
CILS18
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COIN OF C. ANTIUS RESTIO.
.
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RHASCUPORIS.
647
RHASCUS.
RHAMPHIAS ('Paupias), a Lacedaemonian, virs. According to Appian this was a politic and
father of Clearchus (Thuc. viii. 8, 39 ; Xen. llell. i. provident device for mutual security; and it was
1. 8 35), was one of the three ambassadors who were agreed beforehand that the brother whose party
sent to Athens in B. c. 432, with the final demand was triumphant, should obtain the pardon of the
of Sparta for the independence of all the Greek brother whose party was vanquished. And so,
states. The demand was refused, and the Pelo after the victory at Philippi, Rhascuporis owed his
ponnesian war ensued. (Thuc. i. 139, &c. ) In life to the intercession of Rhascus. *Each brother
H. C. 422 Rhamphias, with two colleagues, com- rendered good service to his respective party.
manded a force of 900 men, intended for the When the road from Asia into Macedonia, by
strengthening of Brasidas in Thrace ; but their Aenos and Maroneia, hud been preoccupied by the
passage through Thessaly was opposed by the triumviral legions, Rhascuporis, in whose dominions
Thessalians, and, hearing also of the battle of the passes were, Jed the armies of Brutus and
Amphipolis and the death of Brasidas, they re- Cassius by a road through the forest, known only
turned to Sparta. (Thuc. v. 12, 13. ) (E. E. ) to himself and Rhascus. And Rhascus, on the
RIIAMPSINITUS ('Papylvitos), called Rhem. other hand, by his local knowledge, detected the
phis by Diodorus, one of the ancient kings of march of the enemy, and saved his allies from
Egyph is suid to have succeeded Proteus, and to being cut off in the rear. (Caes. B. C. iji. 4 ; Ap-
have been himself succeeded by Cheops. This pian. B. C. iv. 87, 103—106, 136 ; Lucan. Pharsal.
king is said to have possessed immense wealth, Y. 55 ; Dion Cass. xlvii. 25. ) For the varieties
and in order to keep it safe he had a treasury built in the orthography of Rhascuporis, e. 8. , Rhascy-
of stone, respecting the robbery of which Hero- polis, Rascyporis, Thrascypolis, &c. , see Fabricius,
dotus relates a romantic story, which bears a ad Dion Cass. xlvii. 25 ; Adrian, Turneb. Adversar.
great resemblance to the one told by Pausanias xiv. 17. On the coins we meet with Bagineos
(ix. 37. & 4) respecting the treasury built by the 'PAOKOUTópidos (Cary, Hist. des Rois de Thrace, pl.
two brothers Agamedes and Trophonius of Orcho- 2), and 'PalokouTópidos (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 59).
menus (AGAMEDES). Rhampsinitus is said to Lucan (l. c. , ed. Oudendorp) calls him “gelidae
have built the western propylaea of the temple of dominum Rhascupolin orae. "
Hephaestus, and to have placed in front of it two 2. Brother of Rhoemetalces, king of Thrace,
large statues, each of the size of twenty-five and jointly with him defeated, A. D. 6, the Dalma-
cubits, which the Egyptians called Summer and tians and Breucians in Macedonia [BATO, No. 2).
Winter. It is further stated that this king de On the death of Rhoemetalces, Rhascuporis re-
scended to Hades and played a game at dice with ceived from Augustus a portion of his dominions,
Demeter, and on his return to the earth a festival the remainder being awarded to his nephew Cotys,
was instituted in honour of the goddess (Herod. ii. son of the deceased (Cotys, No. 5). Rhascuporis
121, 122 ; Diod. i. 62). Rhampsinitus belongs to was discontented, either with his share of Thrace
the twentieth dynasty according to Bunsen, and is the barren mountainous district had been as-
known on inscriptions by the name of Ramessu signed him, — - or with divided power ; but so long
Neter-kek-pen (Bunsen, Aegyptens Stelle in der as Augustus lived he did not dare to disturb the
Weltgeschichte, vol. iii. pp. 119, 120).
apportionment. On the emperor's decease, how-
RHAMSES, another form of the name Ramses. ever, he invaded his nephew's kingdom, and hardly
[Ramses. )
desisted at Tiberius' command. Next, on pretence
RHA'RIAS ('Papiás), a surname of Demeter, of an amicable adjustinent, Rhascuporis invited his
which she derived from the Rharian plain in the nephew to a conference, seized his person, and threw
neighbourhood of Eleusis, the principal seat of her him into prison ; and finally, thinking a completed
worship. (Paus. i. 38. $ 6; Steph. Byz. and Suid. crime safer than an imperfect one, put him to death.
8. o. )
(L. S. ] To Tiberius Rhascuporis alleged the excuse of
RHARUS ('Pápos), the father of Triptolemus at self-defence, and that the arrest and murder of his
Eleusis (Paus. i. 14. § 2). It is worthy of re- nephew merely prevented his own assassination.
mark, that according to the scholiast (on Il. i. 56), The emperor, however, summoned the usurper to
the P in this name had the spiritus lenis. (L. S. ) Rome, that the matter might be investigated, and
RHASCU'PORIS ('Paokoúropis). 1. Brother Rhascuporis, on pretext of war with the Scythian
of Rbascus, and with him chieftain of a Thracian Bastarnae, began to collect an army. But he was
clan, whose territories extended from the northern enticed into the Roman camp by Pomponius Flac-
shores of the Propontis to the Hebrus and the cus (No. 2], propraetor of Mysia, sent to Rome,
neighbourhood of Philippi. Whether the clan were condemned, and relegated to Alexandria, where an
that of the Sapaei or the Korpalli, or comprised excuse was presently found for putting him to death,
both races, is uncertain. But it occupied both the A. D. 19. He left a son, Rhoemetalces, who suc-
mountain ridge that skirts the Propontis and the ceeded to his father's moiety of Thrace. (Tac.
southern plains which lie between the base of Ann. ii. 64-67, iii. 38 ; Vell
. Pat. ii. 129 ; Suet.
Mount Rhodope and the sea (comp. Appian, B. C. Tib. 37; Dion Cass. lv. 30. )
iv. 87, 105 ; Tac. Ann. ii. 64; Plin. H. N. iv. 11 3. Son of Cotys (probably No. 4), was defeated
(18)). We can only thus explain the seeming in- and slain in battle by Vologaeses, chief of the
consistency in Appian's account of these chieftains ; Thracian Bessi, and leader of the general revolt of
for be describes their territory as a lofty, cold, and Thrace against the Romans in B. c. 13. (Dion Cass.
woody region, and yet assigns to them a powerful liv. 34 ; comp. Vell. Pat. ii. 98. ) (W. B. D. ]
body of cavalry.
REPENTI'NUS, FABIUS, praefectus prae-
torio, with Cornelius Victorinus, under the emperor
Antoninus Pius. (Capitol. Anton. Pius, 8. )
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REX.
KHAMNUSIA.
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1
REPOSIANUS, the name prefixed to a poem, 3. Q. MARCIUS Rex, praetor B. C. 144, was
first published by Burmann, extending to 182 hex- commissioned by the senate to build an aqueduct,
ameter lines, and entitled, “ Concubitus Martis et and in order that he might complete it, his iin-
Veneris. ” With regard to the author nothing is perium was prolonged for another year. This
known. Unless we attribute some inaccuracies in aqueduct, known by the name of Aqua Marcia,
metre and some peculiarities in phraseology to a was one of the most important, and is spoken of at
corrupt text, we must conclude that he belongs to length in the Dictionary of Antiquities (p. 110,
A late epoch, but the piece is throughout replete 2d ed. ). (Frontin. de Aquaed. 12; Plin. H. N.
with grace and spirit, and presents a series of xxxi. 3. s. 24 ; Plut. Coriol. 1. ).
brilliant pictures. Wernsdorf imagines, that for 4. Q. Marcius Q. F. Q. N. Rex, consul B. C.
Reposianus we ought to read Nepotianus, merely 118, with M. Porcius Cato. The colony of Narbo
because the former designation does not elsewhere Martius in Gaul was founded in this year. Marcius
occur ; but this conjecture being altogether unsup- carried on war against the Stoeni, a Ligurian
ported by evidence, will be received with favour by people at the foot of the Alps, and obtained a
but few. The verses are to be found in Burmann, triumph in the following year on account of his
Anthol. Lat. i. 72, or No. 559, ed. Meyer ; see also victories over them. Marcius lost during his con-
Wernsdorf, Poët. Lat. Min. vol. iv. par. i. pp. 52, sulship his only son, a youth of great promise, but
319, vol. v. par. iii. pp. 1470, 1477. [W. R. ] had such mastery over his feelings as to meet the
REÄSTIO, A'NTIUS. 1. The author of a senate on the day of his son's burial, and perform
Bumptuary law, which, besides limiting the expence his regular official duties (Plin. H. N. ii. 31; Gell.
of entertainments, enacted that no magistrate or xiii. 19; Liv. Epit. 62; Oros. v. 14; Fasti Capit;
magistrate elect should dine abroad anywhere ex- Val. Max. v. 10. & 3). The sister of this Marcius
cept at the houses of certain persons. This law, Rex married C. Julius Caesar, the grandfather of
however, was little observed ; and we are told that the dictator. (MARCIA, No. 2. )
Antius never dined out afterwards, that he might 5. Q. MARCIUS Q. F. Rex, probably a grand-
not see his own law violated. We do not know son of No. 4, was consul B. C. 68, with L. Caecilius
in what year this law was passed ; but it was sub- Metellus. His colleague died at the commence-
sequent to the sumptuary law of the consul Aemi-ment of his year of office, and as no consul was
lius Lepidus, B. c. 78, and before the one of Caesar elected in his place, we find the name of Marcius
(Gell. ii. 24 ; Macrob. Sat. ii. 13).
Rex in the Fasti with the remark, solus consulatum
2. Probably a son of the preceding, was pro- gessit
. He was proconsul in Cilicia in the follow-
scribed by the triumvirs in B. C. 43, but was pre-ing year, and there refused assistance to Lucullus,
served by the fidelity of a slave, and by his means at the instigation of his brother-in-law, the cele-
escaped to Sex. Pompeius in Sicily. (Val. Max. brated P. Clodius, whom Lucullus had offended.
vi. 8. & 7; Appian, B. C. iv. 43; Macrob. Sat. i. In B. C. 66, Marcius had to surrender his province
11. ).
and army to Pompeius in compliance with the Lex
The name of C. Antius Restio occurs on several Manilia. On his return to Rome he sued for a
coins, a specimen of which is annexed. On the triumph, but as obstacles were thrown in the way
obverse is the head of a man, and on the reverse by certain parties, he remained outside the city to
Hercules, holding in one hand a club, and in the prosecute bis claims, and was still there when the
other a trophy, with the skin of a lion thrown Catilinarian conspiracy broke out in B. C. 63. The
across his arm. It is conjectured that the head on senate sent him to faesulae, to watch the move-
the obverse is that of the proposer of the sump- ments of C. Mallius or Manlius, Catiline's general.
tuary law mentioned above (No. 1), and that the Mallius sent proposals of peace to Marcius, but the
coin was struck by his son [No. 2]. (Eckhel, latter refused to listen to his terms unless he con-
vol. v. p. 139. )
sented first to lay down his arms (Dion Cass.
xxxv. 4, 14, 15, 17, xxxvi. 26, 31 ; Cic. in Pison.
4 ; Sall. Hist. 5, Cat. 30, 32—34). Marcius Rex
married the eldest sister of P. Clodius [CLAUDIA,
No. 7). He died before B. c. 61, without leaving
his brother-in-law the inheritance he had expected
(Cic. ad Att. i. 16. § 10).
REX, RU'BRIUS, probably a false reading
in Appian (B. C. i. 113) for Rubrius Ruga.
[RUGA. ]
RHADAMANTHUS ('Padáuavbos), a son of
Zeus and Europa, and brother of king Minos of
Crete (Hom. Il. xiv. 322), or, according to others,
RESTITU/TUS, CLAU'DIUS, an orator of a son of Hephaestus (Paus. viii. 53. & 2). From
considerable reputation in the reign of Trajan, was fear of his brother he fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia,
a friend of the younger Pliny, and is likewise cele- and there married Alcmene. In consequence of
brated by Martial in an epigram on the anniver- his justice throughout life, he became, after his
sary of his birth-day. (Plin. Ep. iii. 9. $ 16, vi. death, one of the judges in the lower world, and
17, vii. 1 ; Martial, x. 87. )
took up his abode in Elysium. (Apollod. iii. 1. S
REX, MA'RCIUS. 1. Q. MARCIUS Rex, 2, ii. 4. § 11; Hom. Od. iv. 564, vii. 323; Pind.
tribune of the plebs B. c.
196, proposed to the Ol. ii. 137 ; comp. Gortys. ) [L. S. ]
people to make peace with Philip. (Liv. xxxiii. RHADAMISTUS. (ARSACIDAE, p. 362, b. ]
25. )
RHAMNU'SIA ('Pauvovola), a surname of
2. P. MARCIUS Rex, was sent by the senate Nemesis, who had a celebrated temple at Rbamnus
with two colleagues on a mission to the consul in Attica. (Paus. i. 33. & 2, vii. 5. & 3; Strab:
C. Cassius Longinus, in B. c. 171. (Liv. xliii. 1. ) | ix. p. 396, &c. ; Steph. Byz. s. v. ) (L. S. ]
CILS18
e
CAR
$123
COIN OF C. ANTIUS RESTIO.
.
## p. 647 (#663) ############################################
RHASCUPORIS.
647
RHASCUS.
RHAMPHIAS ('Paupias), a Lacedaemonian, virs. According to Appian this was a politic and
father of Clearchus (Thuc. viii. 8, 39 ; Xen. llell. i. provident device for mutual security; and it was
1. 8 35), was one of the three ambassadors who were agreed beforehand that the brother whose party
sent to Athens in B. c. 432, with the final demand was triumphant, should obtain the pardon of the
of Sparta for the independence of all the Greek brother whose party was vanquished. And so,
states. The demand was refused, and the Pelo after the victory at Philippi, Rhascuporis owed his
ponnesian war ensued. (Thuc. i. 139, &c. ) In life to the intercession of Rhascus. *Each brother
H. C. 422 Rhamphias, with two colleagues, com- rendered good service to his respective party.
manded a force of 900 men, intended for the When the road from Asia into Macedonia, by
strengthening of Brasidas in Thrace ; but their Aenos and Maroneia, hud been preoccupied by the
passage through Thessaly was opposed by the triumviral legions, Rhascuporis, in whose dominions
Thessalians, and, hearing also of the battle of the passes were, Jed the armies of Brutus and
Amphipolis and the death of Brasidas, they re- Cassius by a road through the forest, known only
turned to Sparta. (Thuc. v. 12, 13. ) (E. E. ) to himself and Rhascus. And Rhascus, on the
RIIAMPSINITUS ('Papylvitos), called Rhem. other hand, by his local knowledge, detected the
phis by Diodorus, one of the ancient kings of march of the enemy, and saved his allies from
Egyph is suid to have succeeded Proteus, and to being cut off in the rear. (Caes. B. C. iji. 4 ; Ap-
have been himself succeeded by Cheops. This pian. B. C. iv. 87, 103—106, 136 ; Lucan. Pharsal.
king is said to have possessed immense wealth, Y. 55 ; Dion Cass. xlvii. 25. ) For the varieties
and in order to keep it safe he had a treasury built in the orthography of Rhascuporis, e. 8. , Rhascy-
of stone, respecting the robbery of which Hero- polis, Rascyporis, Thrascypolis, &c. , see Fabricius,
dotus relates a romantic story, which bears a ad Dion Cass. xlvii. 25 ; Adrian, Turneb. Adversar.
great resemblance to the one told by Pausanias xiv. 17. On the coins we meet with Bagineos
(ix. 37. & 4) respecting the treasury built by the 'PAOKOUTópidos (Cary, Hist. des Rois de Thrace, pl.
two brothers Agamedes and Trophonius of Orcho- 2), and 'PalokouTópidos (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 59).
menus (AGAMEDES). Rhampsinitus is said to Lucan (l. c. , ed. Oudendorp) calls him “gelidae
have built the western propylaea of the temple of dominum Rhascupolin orae. "
Hephaestus, and to have placed in front of it two 2. Brother of Rhoemetalces, king of Thrace,
large statues, each of the size of twenty-five and jointly with him defeated, A. D. 6, the Dalma-
cubits, which the Egyptians called Summer and tians and Breucians in Macedonia [BATO, No. 2).
Winter. It is further stated that this king de On the death of Rhoemetalces, Rhascuporis re-
scended to Hades and played a game at dice with ceived from Augustus a portion of his dominions,
Demeter, and on his return to the earth a festival the remainder being awarded to his nephew Cotys,
was instituted in honour of the goddess (Herod. ii. son of the deceased (Cotys, No. 5). Rhascuporis
121, 122 ; Diod. i. 62). Rhampsinitus belongs to was discontented, either with his share of Thrace
the twentieth dynasty according to Bunsen, and is the barren mountainous district had been as-
known on inscriptions by the name of Ramessu signed him, — - or with divided power ; but so long
Neter-kek-pen (Bunsen, Aegyptens Stelle in der as Augustus lived he did not dare to disturb the
Weltgeschichte, vol. iii. pp. 119, 120).
apportionment. On the emperor's decease, how-
RHAMSES, another form of the name Ramses. ever, he invaded his nephew's kingdom, and hardly
[Ramses. )
desisted at Tiberius' command. Next, on pretence
RHA'RIAS ('Papiás), a surname of Demeter, of an amicable adjustinent, Rhascuporis invited his
which she derived from the Rharian plain in the nephew to a conference, seized his person, and threw
neighbourhood of Eleusis, the principal seat of her him into prison ; and finally, thinking a completed
worship. (Paus. i. 38. $ 6; Steph. Byz. and Suid. crime safer than an imperfect one, put him to death.
8. o. )
(L. S. ] To Tiberius Rhascuporis alleged the excuse of
RHARUS ('Pápos), the father of Triptolemus at self-defence, and that the arrest and murder of his
Eleusis (Paus. i. 14. § 2). It is worthy of re- nephew merely prevented his own assassination.
mark, that according to the scholiast (on Il. i. 56), The emperor, however, summoned the usurper to
the P in this name had the spiritus lenis. (L. S. ) Rome, that the matter might be investigated, and
RHASCU'PORIS ('Paokoúropis). 1. Brother Rhascuporis, on pretext of war with the Scythian
of Rbascus, and with him chieftain of a Thracian Bastarnae, began to collect an army. But he was
clan, whose territories extended from the northern enticed into the Roman camp by Pomponius Flac-
shores of the Propontis to the Hebrus and the cus (No. 2], propraetor of Mysia, sent to Rome,
neighbourhood of Philippi. Whether the clan were condemned, and relegated to Alexandria, where an
that of the Sapaei or the Korpalli, or comprised excuse was presently found for putting him to death,
both races, is uncertain. But it occupied both the A. D. 19. He left a son, Rhoemetalces, who suc-
mountain ridge that skirts the Propontis and the ceeded to his father's moiety of Thrace. (Tac.
southern plains which lie between the base of Ann. ii. 64-67, iii. 38 ; Vell
. Pat. ii. 129 ; Suet.
Mount Rhodope and the sea (comp. Appian, B. C. Tib. 37; Dion Cass. lv. 30. )
iv. 87, 105 ; Tac. Ann. ii. 64; Plin. H. N. iv. 11 3. Son of Cotys (probably No. 4), was defeated
(18)). We can only thus explain the seeming in- and slain in battle by Vologaeses, chief of the
consistency in Appian's account of these chieftains ; Thracian Bessi, and leader of the general revolt of
for be describes their territory as a lofty, cold, and Thrace against the Romans in B. c. 13. (Dion Cass.
woody region, and yet assigns to them a powerful liv. 34 ; comp. Vell. Pat. ii. 98. ) (W. B. D. ]
body of cavalry.
