§ 4, Italian legend, without any
connection
with that
44.
44.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
204.
He accompanied Scipio to Africa, and was
Orelli). In the civil war Racilius espoused Caesar's one of the legates whom Scipio sent to Rome in B. C.
party, and was with his army in Spain in B. C. 48. 202, with the Carthaginian ambassadors, when the
There he entered into the conspiracy formed against latter sued for peace. (Liv. xxix. 11, 13, xxx. 38. )
the life of Q. Cassius Longinus, the governor of 2. Q. Marcius RALLA, was created duumvir
that province, and was put to death with the other in B. c. 194, for dedicating a temple, and again in
conspirators, by Longinus. [Longinus, No. 15. ] B. C. 192, for the same purpose. (Liv. xxxiv. 52,
(Hirt. B. Alex. 52, 55. )
xxxv. 41. )
orator.
A. D.
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REBILUS.
6+1
RECTUS.
Caninia gens.
L. RA'MMIUS, a leading inan at Brundu- ) consuls he had been consul. (Caes. B. G. vii. 83,
sium, was accustomed to entertain the Roman ge- 90, viii. 24, &c. , B. C. i. 26, ii. 24 ; Hirt. B. Afr.
nerals and foreign ambassadors. It was said that 86, 93, B. Hisp. 35 ; Dion Cass. xliii. 46 ; Cic.
Perseus, king of Macedonia, endeavoured to per- ad Fam. vii. 30 ; Suet. Caes. 76, Ner. 15; Plin.
suade him to poison such Roman generals as he H. N. vii. 53. s. 54; Tac. Hist. iii. 37 ; Plut.
might indicate, but that Rammius disclosed the Caes. 58 ; Macrob. Sat. ii. 3. )
treacherous offer first to the legate C. Valerius, and 4. (CANINIUS) REBILUS, probably a brother of
then to the Roman senate. Perscus, however, in No. 3, was proscribed by the triumvirs in B. C. 43,
an embassy which he sent to the senate, strongly but escaped to Sex. Poinpey in Sicily. (Appian,
denied the truth of the charge, which le maintained B. C. iv. 48. )
was a pure invention of Rammius. (Liv. xlii. 17, 5. C. Canisius Rebilus, probably a son of
41; Appian, Mac. 9. $ 4, who calls hiin Erennius) No. 3, was consul suffectus in B. C 12 (Joseph.
RAMNUS, a freedman of M. Antonius, whom Antiq. xiv. 10. $ 20). In the Fasti Capitolini he
he accompanied in the Parthian war. (Plut. Anton. is said to have died in his year of office, and could
48. )
not therefore have been the man of consular rank
RAMSES, the name of many kings of Egypt of mentioned by Seneca (de Benef. ii. 21), accord-
the eighteenth, nineteenth, and i wentieth dynasties. ing to the supposition of Drumann.
It was during this era that most of the great monu- 6. (CANINIUS) REBILUS, a man of consular
ments of Egypt were erected, and the name is con- rank, and of great wealth but bad character, sent a
sequently of frequent occurrence on these monu- large sum of money as a present to Julius Graeci-
ments, where it appears under the form of Ramessu. nus, who refused to accept it on account of the
In Julius Africanus and Eusebius it is written character of the donor (Sen. de Benef. ii. 21). The
Ramses, Rameses, or Ramesses. The most celebrated name of this Rebilus does not occur in the Fasti,
of the kings of this name is, however, usually called and he must, therefore, have been one of the con-
Sesostris by the Greek writers. (Sesostris. ] sules suffecti. As Julius Graecinus was put to
RANIUS, a name of rare occurrence. Cicero death in the reign of Caligula, it is very probable
(ad Att. xii. 21) speaks of a Ranius, who may that the Rebilus mentioned above is the same as
have been a slave or a freedman of Brutus. There the C. Aminius Rebius, who put an end to his own
was a L. Ranius Acontius Optatus, who was con- life in the reign of Nero. Tacitus describes him
sul in the reign of Constantine, A. D. 334 (Fasti). as a person of great wealth and bad character, and
RAVILLA, an agnomen of L. Cassius Longi- also states that he was then an old man (Ann. xiii.
nus, consul B. c. 127. [LONGINUS, No. 4. ] 30). As the name of C. Aminius Rebius is evi-
RE'BILUS, the name of a family of the plebeian dently corrupt, there can be little doubt that we
should change it, as Lipsius proposed, into Caninius
1. C. CANINIUS REBILUS, praetor B. c. 171, Rebilus. (Respecting the Caninü Rebili in ge-
obtained Sicily as his province. (Liv. xlii. 28, 31. ) neral, see Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. ii. pp.
2. M. CaniniUS REBILUS, probably a brother of 107–109. )
the preceding, was sent by the senate into Mace- REBIUS, C. AMI'NIUS. (REBILUS, No. 6. ]
donia, in B. C. 170, along with M. Fulvius Flaccus, RECARANUS, also called Garanus, a fabulous
in order to investigate the reason of the want of Italian shepherd of gigantic bodily strength and
success of the Roman arms in the war against Per-courage. It is related of him that Čacus, a wicked
seus. In B. c. 167 he was one of the three am- robber, once stole eight oxen of the herd of Reca-
bassadors appointed by the senate to conduct the ranus, which had strayed in the valley of the Circus
Thracian hostages back to Cotys. (Liv. xliii. 11, Maximus, and which the robber carried into his
xlr. 42. )
den in Mount Aventine. He dragged the animals
3. C. CANINIUS REBILUs, was one of Caesar's along by their tails, and Recaranus would not have
legates in Gaul in B. C. 52 and 51, and accompanied discovered them, had not their hiding-place been
him in his march into Italy in B. C. 49. Caesar betrayed by their lowing. Recaranus accordingly
sent him, together with Scribonius Libo, with entered the cave and slew the robber, notwith-
overtures of peace to Pompey, when the latter was standing his great strength. Hereupon he dedi-
on the point of leaving Italy. In the same year cated to Jupiter the ara maxima, at the foot of the
he crossed over to Africa with C. Curio, and was Arentine, and sacrificed to the god the tenth part
one of the few who escaped with their lives when of the booty. The name Recaranus seems to be
Curio was defeated and slain by Juba. In B. C. connected with gercre or creare, and to signify
46 he again fought in Africa, but with more success, " the recoverer. " The fact of his being a gigantic
for he was now under the command of Caesar bim- shepherd who recovered the oxen stolen from him,
self. After the defeat of Scipio he took the town led the Romans at an early time to consider him as
of Thapsus, on which occasion Hirtius calls him identical with the Greek Heracles, who was said to
proconsul. In the following year, B. c. 45, during have made an expedition to the west of Europe ;
ihe war in Spain, there was a report that he had but the whole story of Recaranus is a genuine
perished in a shipwreck (Cic. ad Att
. xii. 37.
§ 4, Italian legend, without any connection with that
44. § 4); but this was false, for he was then in about Heracles, although the belief in the identity
command of the garrison at Hispalis. On the last of the two heroes was so general among the later
day of December in this year, on the sudden death Romans, that Recaranus was entirely thrown into
of the consul Q. Fabius Maximus, Caesar made the back ground. (Serv. ad Aen. viii. 203, 275 ;
Rebilus consul for the few remaining hours of the Macrob. Sat. iii. 12 ; Aurel. Vict. Orig. Gent. Rom.
day. Cicero made himself merry at this appoint-6; comp. Hartung, Die Relig. der Röm. vol. ii.
ment, remarking that no one had died in this con- p. 21, &c. )
(L. S. )
sulship ; that the consul was so wonderfully vigi- RECEPTUS, NONIUS. [Nonius, No. 9. )
lant that he had never slept during his term of RECTUS, A EMI'LIUS, governor of Egypt
office ; and that it might be asked under what during the reign of Tiberius, sent to the emperor
VOL. III.
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642
REGILLUS.
REGULUS.
x.
1
upon one occasion a larger sum of money than was following year. (Liv. xxxvi. 45, xxxvii. 2, 4, 14
ordered, whereupon Tiberius wrote back to him—32, 58 ; Appian, Syr. 26, 27. )
that he wished him to shear, not shave his sheep. 3. M. AEMILIUS (REGILLUS), a brother of No.
(Dion Cass. lvii. 10 ; comp. Suet. Tib. 10; Oros. 2, whom he accompanied in the war against An-
vii. 4. )
tiochus: he died at Samos in the course of the
REDICULUS, a Roman divinity, who had a year, B. c. 190. (Liv. xxxvii. 22. )
temple near the Porta Capena, and who was be- It would appear that this family became extinct
lieved to have received his name from having in- soon afterwards. We learn from a letter of Cicero
duced Hannibal, when he was near the gates of (ad Att. xii. 24. § 2) that Lepidus, probably M.
the city, to return (redire) southward (Fest. p. 282, Aemilius Lepidus, consul B. c. 78, had a son named
ed. Müller). A place on the Appian road, near Regillus, who was dend at the time that Cicero
the second mile-stone from the city, was called wrote. It is probable that Lepidus wished to re-
Campus Rediculi (Plin. H. N. xliii. 60. § 122 ; vive the cognomen of Regillus in the Aemilia gens,
Propert. iii. 3, 11). This divinity was probably just as he did that of Paulus, which he gave as a
one of the Lares of the city of Rome, for, in a surname to his eldest son. (See Vol. II. p. 765, b. ]
fragment of Varro (ap. Non. p. 47), he calls him- L. REGI'NUS, tribune of the plebs, B. c. 95,
self Tutanus, i. e. , the god who keeps safe. [L. S. ] is cited by Valerius Maximus (iv. 7. § 3) as a
REDUX, i. e. , “the divinity who leads the striking instance of a true friend. He was not
traveller back to his home in safety,” occurs as a only content with liberating from prison his friend
surname of Fortuna. (Martial, viii. 85 ; Claudian, Q. Servilius Caepio, who had been condemned in
de Consol. Hon. vi. 1. )
{L. S. ] that year on account of the destruction of his
REGALIA'NUS, P. C. , as the name appears army by the Cimbri, but he also accompanied him
on medals ; REGALLIANUS, as he is called by in his exile.
Victor (de Caes. ); or REGILLIANUS, according to REGI'NUS, C. ANTI'STIUS, one of Caesar's
Victor, in his Epitome, and Trebellius Pollio, who legates in Gaul (Caes. B. G. vi. 1, vii. 83, 90).
ranks him among the thirty tyrants (see Aureo- This Reginus appears to be the same person as the
LUS), was a Dacian by descent, allied, it is said, one whom Cicero mentions as his friend in B. C. 49
to Decebalus, distinguished himself by his military (ad Att. x. 12), and who had then the cominand
achievements on the Illyrian frontier, was com- of the coast of the Lower Sea. He is also in all
mended in the warmest terms by Claudius, at that probability the same as the C. Antistius Reginus,
time in a private station, and promoted to a high whose name appears as a triumvir of the mint on
command by Valerian. The Moesians, terrified by the coins of Augustus. On the coin annexed the
the cruelties inflicted by Gallienus on those who obverse represents the head of Augustus, and the
had taken part in the rebellion of Ingenuus, sud- reverse various instruments used by the pontiffs.
denly proclaimed Regalianus emperor, and quickly, (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 137. )
with the consent of the soldiers, in a new fit of
alarm, put him to death. These events took place
A. D. 263. (Aurel. Vict. do Caes. xxxiii. Epit. xxxii. ;
Trebell. Poll. Trig. Tyrann. ix. ) [W. R. ]
REGILLA, the wife of Herodes Atticus. (Phi-
lostr. Vit
. Soph. ii. 1. 88 5, 8. ) [ATTICUS, He-
RODES. ]
REGILLENSIS, an agnomen of the Claudii
(Claudius], and of the Albini, a family of the
Postumia gens [ALBINUS].
COIN OF C. ANTISTIUS REGINUS.
REGILLUS, the name of a family of the pa-
trician Aemilia gens.
REGI'NUS, T. POMPEIUS, lived in Further
1. M. AEMILIUS REGILLUS, had been declared Gaul, and was passed over by his brother in his
consul, with T. Otacilius, for B. c. 214, by the cen- testament. (Val. Max. vii. 8. § 4 ; Varr. R. R. iii.
turia praerogativa, and would undoubtedly have | 12. )
been elected, had not Q. Fabius Maximus, who RE'GULUS, M. AQUILIUS, was one of
presided at the comitia, pointed out that there was the delatores, or informers in the time of Nero,
need of generals of more experience to cope with and thus rose from poverty to great wealth. He
Hannibal, and urged in addition, that Regillus, in was accused in the senate at the commencement
consequence of his being Flamen Quirinalis, ought of the reign of Vespasian, on which occasion he
not to leave the city. Regillus and Otacilius were was defended by L. Vipstanus Messalla, who is
therefore disappointed in their expectations, and described as his frater, whether his brother or
Fabius Maximus himself was elected, with M. cousin is uncertain (Tac. Hist. iv. 42). Under
Claudius Marcellus, in their stead. Regillus died Domitian he resumed his old trade, and became
in B. C. 205, at which time he is spoken of as one of the instruments of that tyrant's cruelty.
Flamen Martialis. (Liv. xxiv. 7, 8, 9, xxix. 11. ) He survived Domitian, and is frequently spoken of
2. L. AEMILIUS REGILLUS, probably son of by Pliny with the greatest detestation and con-
the preceding, was praetor B. c. 190, in the war tempt (Ep.
Orelli). In the civil war Racilius espoused Caesar's one of the legates whom Scipio sent to Rome in B. C.
party, and was with his army in Spain in B. C. 48. 202, with the Carthaginian ambassadors, when the
There he entered into the conspiracy formed against latter sued for peace. (Liv. xxix. 11, 13, xxx. 38. )
the life of Q. Cassius Longinus, the governor of 2. Q. Marcius RALLA, was created duumvir
that province, and was put to death with the other in B. c. 194, for dedicating a temple, and again in
conspirators, by Longinus. [Longinus, No. 15. ] B. C. 192, for the same purpose. (Liv. xxxiv. 52,
(Hirt. B. Alex. 52, 55. )
xxxv. 41. )
orator.
A. D.
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REBILUS.
6+1
RECTUS.
Caninia gens.
L. RA'MMIUS, a leading inan at Brundu- ) consuls he had been consul. (Caes. B. G. vii. 83,
sium, was accustomed to entertain the Roman ge- 90, viii. 24, &c. , B. C. i. 26, ii. 24 ; Hirt. B. Afr.
nerals and foreign ambassadors. It was said that 86, 93, B. Hisp. 35 ; Dion Cass. xliii. 46 ; Cic.
Perseus, king of Macedonia, endeavoured to per- ad Fam. vii. 30 ; Suet. Caes. 76, Ner. 15; Plin.
suade him to poison such Roman generals as he H. N. vii. 53. s. 54; Tac. Hist. iii. 37 ; Plut.
might indicate, but that Rammius disclosed the Caes. 58 ; Macrob. Sat. ii. 3. )
treacherous offer first to the legate C. Valerius, and 4. (CANINIUS) REBILUS, probably a brother of
then to the Roman senate. Perscus, however, in No. 3, was proscribed by the triumvirs in B. C. 43,
an embassy which he sent to the senate, strongly but escaped to Sex. Poinpey in Sicily. (Appian,
denied the truth of the charge, which le maintained B. C. iv. 48. )
was a pure invention of Rammius. (Liv. xlii. 17, 5. C. Canisius Rebilus, probably a son of
41; Appian, Mac. 9. $ 4, who calls hiin Erennius) No. 3, was consul suffectus in B. C 12 (Joseph.
RAMNUS, a freedman of M. Antonius, whom Antiq. xiv. 10. $ 20). In the Fasti Capitolini he
he accompanied in the Parthian war. (Plut. Anton. is said to have died in his year of office, and could
48. )
not therefore have been the man of consular rank
RAMSES, the name of many kings of Egypt of mentioned by Seneca (de Benef. ii. 21), accord-
the eighteenth, nineteenth, and i wentieth dynasties. ing to the supposition of Drumann.
It was during this era that most of the great monu- 6. (CANINIUS) REBILUS, a man of consular
ments of Egypt were erected, and the name is con- rank, and of great wealth but bad character, sent a
sequently of frequent occurrence on these monu- large sum of money as a present to Julius Graeci-
ments, where it appears under the form of Ramessu. nus, who refused to accept it on account of the
In Julius Africanus and Eusebius it is written character of the donor (Sen. de Benef. ii. 21). The
Ramses, Rameses, or Ramesses. The most celebrated name of this Rebilus does not occur in the Fasti,
of the kings of this name is, however, usually called and he must, therefore, have been one of the con-
Sesostris by the Greek writers. (Sesostris. ] sules suffecti. As Julius Graecinus was put to
RANIUS, a name of rare occurrence. Cicero death in the reign of Caligula, it is very probable
(ad Att. xii. 21) speaks of a Ranius, who may that the Rebilus mentioned above is the same as
have been a slave or a freedman of Brutus. There the C. Aminius Rebius, who put an end to his own
was a L. Ranius Acontius Optatus, who was con- life in the reign of Nero. Tacitus describes him
sul in the reign of Constantine, A. D. 334 (Fasti). as a person of great wealth and bad character, and
RAVILLA, an agnomen of L. Cassius Longi- also states that he was then an old man (Ann. xiii.
nus, consul B. c. 127. [LONGINUS, No. 4. ] 30). As the name of C. Aminius Rebius is evi-
RE'BILUS, the name of a family of the plebeian dently corrupt, there can be little doubt that we
should change it, as Lipsius proposed, into Caninius
1. C. CANINIUS REBILUS, praetor B. c. 171, Rebilus. (Respecting the Caninü Rebili in ge-
obtained Sicily as his province. (Liv. xlii. 28, 31. ) neral, see Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. ii. pp.
2. M. CaniniUS REBILUS, probably a brother of 107–109. )
the preceding, was sent by the senate into Mace- REBIUS, C. AMI'NIUS. (REBILUS, No. 6. ]
donia, in B. C. 170, along with M. Fulvius Flaccus, RECARANUS, also called Garanus, a fabulous
in order to investigate the reason of the want of Italian shepherd of gigantic bodily strength and
success of the Roman arms in the war against Per-courage. It is related of him that Čacus, a wicked
seus. In B. c. 167 he was one of the three am- robber, once stole eight oxen of the herd of Reca-
bassadors appointed by the senate to conduct the ranus, which had strayed in the valley of the Circus
Thracian hostages back to Cotys. (Liv. xliii. 11, Maximus, and which the robber carried into his
xlr. 42. )
den in Mount Aventine. He dragged the animals
3. C. CANINIUS REBILUs, was one of Caesar's along by their tails, and Recaranus would not have
legates in Gaul in B. C. 52 and 51, and accompanied discovered them, had not their hiding-place been
him in his march into Italy in B. C. 49. Caesar betrayed by their lowing. Recaranus accordingly
sent him, together with Scribonius Libo, with entered the cave and slew the robber, notwith-
overtures of peace to Pompey, when the latter was standing his great strength. Hereupon he dedi-
on the point of leaving Italy. In the same year cated to Jupiter the ara maxima, at the foot of the
he crossed over to Africa with C. Curio, and was Arentine, and sacrificed to the god the tenth part
one of the few who escaped with their lives when of the booty. The name Recaranus seems to be
Curio was defeated and slain by Juba. In B. C. connected with gercre or creare, and to signify
46 he again fought in Africa, but with more success, " the recoverer. " The fact of his being a gigantic
for he was now under the command of Caesar bim- shepherd who recovered the oxen stolen from him,
self. After the defeat of Scipio he took the town led the Romans at an early time to consider him as
of Thapsus, on which occasion Hirtius calls him identical with the Greek Heracles, who was said to
proconsul. In the following year, B. c. 45, during have made an expedition to the west of Europe ;
ihe war in Spain, there was a report that he had but the whole story of Recaranus is a genuine
perished in a shipwreck (Cic. ad Att
. xii. 37.
§ 4, Italian legend, without any connection with that
44. § 4); but this was false, for he was then in about Heracles, although the belief in the identity
command of the garrison at Hispalis. On the last of the two heroes was so general among the later
day of December in this year, on the sudden death Romans, that Recaranus was entirely thrown into
of the consul Q. Fabius Maximus, Caesar made the back ground. (Serv. ad Aen. viii. 203, 275 ;
Rebilus consul for the few remaining hours of the Macrob. Sat. iii. 12 ; Aurel. Vict. Orig. Gent. Rom.
day. Cicero made himself merry at this appoint-6; comp. Hartung, Die Relig. der Röm. vol. ii.
ment, remarking that no one had died in this con- p. 21, &c. )
(L. S. )
sulship ; that the consul was so wonderfully vigi- RECEPTUS, NONIUS. [Nonius, No. 9. )
lant that he had never slept during his term of RECTUS, A EMI'LIUS, governor of Egypt
office ; and that it might be asked under what during the reign of Tiberius, sent to the emperor
VOL. III.
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642
REGILLUS.
REGULUS.
x.
1
upon one occasion a larger sum of money than was following year. (Liv. xxxvi. 45, xxxvii. 2, 4, 14
ordered, whereupon Tiberius wrote back to him—32, 58 ; Appian, Syr. 26, 27. )
that he wished him to shear, not shave his sheep. 3. M. AEMILIUS (REGILLUS), a brother of No.
(Dion Cass. lvii. 10 ; comp. Suet. Tib. 10; Oros. 2, whom he accompanied in the war against An-
vii. 4. )
tiochus: he died at Samos in the course of the
REDICULUS, a Roman divinity, who had a year, B. c. 190. (Liv. xxxvii. 22. )
temple near the Porta Capena, and who was be- It would appear that this family became extinct
lieved to have received his name from having in- soon afterwards. We learn from a letter of Cicero
duced Hannibal, when he was near the gates of (ad Att. xii. 24. § 2) that Lepidus, probably M.
the city, to return (redire) southward (Fest. p. 282, Aemilius Lepidus, consul B. c. 78, had a son named
ed. Müller). A place on the Appian road, near Regillus, who was dend at the time that Cicero
the second mile-stone from the city, was called wrote. It is probable that Lepidus wished to re-
Campus Rediculi (Plin. H. N. xliii. 60. § 122 ; vive the cognomen of Regillus in the Aemilia gens,
Propert. iii. 3, 11). This divinity was probably just as he did that of Paulus, which he gave as a
one of the Lares of the city of Rome, for, in a surname to his eldest son. (See Vol. II. p. 765, b. ]
fragment of Varro (ap. Non. p. 47), he calls him- L. REGI'NUS, tribune of the plebs, B. c. 95,
self Tutanus, i. e. , the god who keeps safe. [L. S. ] is cited by Valerius Maximus (iv. 7. § 3) as a
REDUX, i. e. , “the divinity who leads the striking instance of a true friend. He was not
traveller back to his home in safety,” occurs as a only content with liberating from prison his friend
surname of Fortuna. (Martial, viii. 85 ; Claudian, Q. Servilius Caepio, who had been condemned in
de Consol. Hon. vi. 1. )
{L. S. ] that year on account of the destruction of his
REGALIA'NUS, P. C. , as the name appears army by the Cimbri, but he also accompanied him
on medals ; REGALLIANUS, as he is called by in his exile.
Victor (de Caes. ); or REGILLIANUS, according to REGI'NUS, C. ANTI'STIUS, one of Caesar's
Victor, in his Epitome, and Trebellius Pollio, who legates in Gaul (Caes. B. G. vi. 1, vii. 83, 90).
ranks him among the thirty tyrants (see Aureo- This Reginus appears to be the same person as the
LUS), was a Dacian by descent, allied, it is said, one whom Cicero mentions as his friend in B. C. 49
to Decebalus, distinguished himself by his military (ad Att. x. 12), and who had then the cominand
achievements on the Illyrian frontier, was com- of the coast of the Lower Sea. He is also in all
mended in the warmest terms by Claudius, at that probability the same as the C. Antistius Reginus,
time in a private station, and promoted to a high whose name appears as a triumvir of the mint on
command by Valerian. The Moesians, terrified by the coins of Augustus. On the coin annexed the
the cruelties inflicted by Gallienus on those who obverse represents the head of Augustus, and the
had taken part in the rebellion of Ingenuus, sud- reverse various instruments used by the pontiffs.
denly proclaimed Regalianus emperor, and quickly, (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 137. )
with the consent of the soldiers, in a new fit of
alarm, put him to death. These events took place
A. D. 263. (Aurel. Vict. do Caes. xxxiii. Epit. xxxii. ;
Trebell. Poll. Trig. Tyrann. ix. ) [W. R. ]
REGILLA, the wife of Herodes Atticus. (Phi-
lostr. Vit
. Soph. ii. 1. 88 5, 8. ) [ATTICUS, He-
RODES. ]
REGILLENSIS, an agnomen of the Claudii
(Claudius], and of the Albini, a family of the
Postumia gens [ALBINUS].
COIN OF C. ANTISTIUS REGINUS.
REGILLUS, the name of a family of the pa-
trician Aemilia gens.
REGI'NUS, T. POMPEIUS, lived in Further
1. M. AEMILIUS REGILLUS, had been declared Gaul, and was passed over by his brother in his
consul, with T. Otacilius, for B. c. 214, by the cen- testament. (Val. Max. vii. 8. § 4 ; Varr. R. R. iii.
turia praerogativa, and would undoubtedly have | 12. )
been elected, had not Q. Fabius Maximus, who RE'GULUS, M. AQUILIUS, was one of
presided at the comitia, pointed out that there was the delatores, or informers in the time of Nero,
need of generals of more experience to cope with and thus rose from poverty to great wealth. He
Hannibal, and urged in addition, that Regillus, in was accused in the senate at the commencement
consequence of his being Flamen Quirinalis, ought of the reign of Vespasian, on which occasion he
not to leave the city. Regillus and Otacilius were was defended by L. Vipstanus Messalla, who is
therefore disappointed in their expectations, and described as his frater, whether his brother or
Fabius Maximus himself was elected, with M. cousin is uncertain (Tac. Hist. iv. 42). Under
Claudius Marcellus, in their stead. Regillus died Domitian he resumed his old trade, and became
in B. C. 205, at which time he is spoken of as one of the instruments of that tyrant's cruelty.
Flamen Martialis. (Liv. xxiv. 7, 8, 9, xxix. 11. ) He survived Domitian, and is frequently spoken of
2. L. AEMILIUS REGILLUS, probably son of by Pliny with the greatest detestation and con-
the preceding, was praetor B. c. 190, in the war tempt (Ep.
