A few persons of the name are but escaped by assuming the
disguise
of a priest
mentioned without any surname.
mentioned without any surname.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
Quintins, the son
of the firmness with which he opposed a mutiny of L. Cincinnatus, and declared that soon after the
against Hordeonius Flaccus, he was made com- plague he and his elder brother fell in with a party
mander-in-chief by the soldiers in place of that of patrician youths who came rushing through the
general. Not venturing to attack Civilis in the Subura, when their leader Kaeso knocked down
feld, he fixed his camp at Gelduba, and shortly his brother, who was still feeble from the sickness
afterwards quelled another mutiny, which had he had just got over, and injured him so much
broken ont during his absence on an incursion that he died shortly afterwards. Dionysius makes
against the Gugerni. [HERENNIUS Gallus. ] Volscius tribune of the plebs in this year. In
He afterwards carried on the war with some suco consequence of this testiinony Kaeso was con.
4 N
1
posed penalties on the l'hores
Proconsulis could not sot a po
a regulated a praconsz') oticas
as severe and cruel Ace
of England on religion sich mit
ete a few years ago, if
which contained severe peces
asses of religious persoas
L. i. p. 457, Zimmer, Galicia
rechts, i. p. 370; Grocis, vitae vit
(G. LI
. S (Odd Tiarós), the name of time
ned by Saidas
h, the brother of ledare of Pals
brated for his knowledre at
he tanght at Athens. He Bed
of the fifth century of the Choice
is does not mention air Fad 3
iis l"pianus.
(ESA, a sophist
, srote several parks
Art of Rhetoric was one.
STIOCH, a sophist lived in the time di
the Great and wrote gereral thes
which are enumerated by Sudes
me of Ipianus is pretired to LIST
ries in Greek, og eighteen of the at
emosthenes ; and it is usual's stated this
I written by l’lpianus of Asics B
oes not mention these Comments
it is erident that in their presents that
1 of much later origin. The Code
uy originally have been written bf et «
ists of the name, either of Emea
at ther bare nocired nunernes
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VOLUMNIUS.
VOLUSIUS.
!
1
NUS,
BICI
demned. The patricians in revenge charged Vol- 4. VOLUMNIUS, or more correctly VOLNIUR, the
scius with falsehood ; and in B. C. 459 the quaestors author of soine Tuscan tragedies. [VOLNIUS. )
accused him before the comitia of the curiae or 5. P. VOLUMNIUS, described by Plutarch as a
the centuries, of having borne false witness against philosopher, accompanied M. Brutus in his can-
Kaeso, but the tribunes prevented them from pro- paign against the triumvirs, and wrote an account
secuting the charge. In the following year, B. c. of the prodigies which appeared before the death
458, L. Cincinnatus, the father of Kaeso, was ap- of Brutus, probably in a life of the latter. (Plut.
pointed dictator, and presided in the comitia for Brut. 48. )
the trial of Volscius. The tribunes dared not 6. VOLUMNIUS EUTRAPELVIS. (EUTRAPE-
offer any further opposition, and Volscius was lus. )
obliged to go into exile. (Liv. iii. 13, 24, 25, 29; VOLU'PIA, the personification of sensual
Dionys. x. 7; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. pleasure among the Romans, who was honoured
Pp. 289, 298. )
with a temple near the porta Romanula. (Plin.
VOLTEIA GENS, known chiefly from coins, Epist. viii. 20, H. N. iii. 5 ; Varro, De Ling. Lat.
of which we have a considerable number. Some v. 164 ; Macrob. Sat. i. 10; August. De Civ. Dei,
bear the name of L. VOLTEIUS STRABO (STRABO]; iv. 8. ) She is also called Voluptas. (Cic. De Nat.
and others have on thein M. VOLTEIUS M. F. Of Deor. ii. 23. )
(LS. )
the latter a specimen is annexed : the obverse re- VOLUSÉ’NUS QUADRA'TUS. [QUAD-
presents the head of Jupiter, the reverse a temple RATUS. ]
with four columns. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 344. ) VOLUSIANUS, the son of the emperor Tre-
bonianus Gallus, upon whose elevation in A. D.
251 he was styled Caesar and Princeps Juven-
tulis. The year following he held the office of
consul, and was invested with the title of Au-
gustus. As far as we can gather from the scanty
notices of historians, his character resembled that
VOLTEM
of his father, along with whom he perished at
Interamna in A. D. 253 or 254. (Gallus TRE-
COIN OP M. VOLTEIUS.
BONIANUS. ] The names borne by this prince, as
collected from medals and descriptions, appear to
VOLTEIUS or VULTEIUS. 1. L. VOL. have been C. VIBIUS VOLUSIANUS TREBONIANUS
TRIUS, a friend of L. Metellus, who was propraetor Asinius GALLUS VELDUMNIANUS or VENDUM-
of Sicily, B. c. 70. (Cic. Verr. iii. 66. )
NIANUS (Aurel. Vict. de Caes. 30, Epit. 30 ;
2. A tribune of the soldiers in Caesar's army, Eutrop. ix. 6; Zosim. i. 24 ; Zonar. xii. 21 ;
B. C. 48. (Flor. iv. 2. § 33. )
Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 369. )
[W. R. ]
3. VOLTEIUS Menas, a praeco mentioned by
Horace (Epist. i. 7, 55, foll. ).
T. VOLTU'RCIUS, or VULTURCIUS, of
Crotona, one of Catiline's conspirators, was sent by
Lentulus to accompany the ambassadors of the
Allobroges to Catiline. Arrested along with the
ambassadors on the Mulvian bridge, and brought
before the senate by Cicero, Volturcius turned in.
former upon obtaining the promise of pardon, and
after giving his evidence was amply rewarded by
COIN OP VOL USIANUS.
the senate. (Sall. Cat. 44, 45, 47, 50 ; Cic. Cat.
iii. 2, 4, iv. 3 ; Appian, B. C. ii. 4. )
VOLU'SIUS. 1. An haruspex in the cohors
VOLUÄMNIA. 1. The wife of Coriolanus. of Verres. (Cic. Verr. iii. 11, 21. )
[CORIOLANUS. ]
2. Q. VOLUSIUS, a pupil of Cicero in oratory,
2. The freedwoman of Volumnius Eutrapelus, accompanied Cicero to Cilicia, where he held some
and the mistress of Antony, is better known under office under him. (Cic. ad Fam. v. 10, 20, ad Att. v.
her name of Cytheris. [CYTHERIS. ]
21. ) In one passage (ad Att. v. 11) he is called
VOLU'MNIA GENS, patrician and plebeian. Ca. Volusius, for there can be little doubt that this
It was of great antiquity, for the wife of Corio-Cneius is the same person who is elsewhere called
lanus belonged to it, and one of its members, P. Marcus.
Volumnius Gallus, held the consulship as early as 3. M, VOLUSIUS, is mentioned by Cicero in
B. C. 461, but it never attained much importance. B. C. 49 (ad Fam. xvi. 12). He is probably the
The Volumnii bore the cognomens of Gallus with same as the M. Volusins who was plebeian aedile
the agnomen Amintinus, and of FLAMMA with the in B. C. 43, and was proscribed by the triumvirs,
agnomen Violens.
A few persons of the name are but escaped by assuming the disguise of a priest
mentioned without any surname. [VOLUMNIUS. ] of Isis. (Val Max. vii. 3. & 8; Appian, B. C.
VOLU'MNIUS. '1. M. VOLUMNIUS, slain by iv. 47. )
Catiline, at the time of Sulla. (Ascon. in Tog. L. VOLU'SIUS MAECIANUS, a jurist,
Cand. p. 84, ed. Orelli. )
was in the consilium of Antoninus Pius. (Capitol.
2. P. VOLUMNIUS, a judex on the trial of Clu- Antonin. Pius, c. 12. ) Among the many illus-
entius. (Cic. pro Cluent. 70. )
trious men who formed the character of Marcus
3. L. VOLUMNIUS, a senator with whom Cicero Aurelius, was Maecianus: Aurelius was one of his
was intimate (Cic. ad Fam. vii. 32 ; comp. Varr. auditores. (Capitol. Antonin. Philosoph. c. 3. ) A
R. R. ii. 4), is perhaps the same as the Volumnius rescript of the Divi Fratres (Dig. 37. tit. 14. 8. 17),
Flaccus, who was a friend of D. Brutus. (Cic. ad speaks of him in these terms: “ Volusius Maecianus
Fam. xi. 12, 18. )
amicus noster, &c. ” Marcus in his Twy eis èautó
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VOPISCUS.
1283
UPIS.
(lib. 1) mentions Marcianus, in place of which it is ancient Roman praenomens, it was afterwards uscil
proposed to read Maecianus, but Marcus does not
as a cognomen.
speak of him as a jurist. Vulcatius (Avid. Cass. VOPISCUS, FLAVIUS, Syracusius, one of the
c. 7) says that Maecianus was entrusted with the six “ Scriptores Historiae Augustae” (see Capi.
gorernment of Alexandria, and that he was killed TOLINUS), probably the latest, since he refers di.
by the army for having joined Cassius in his usur- fectly to three, Trebellius Pollio, Julius Capito-
pation, A. D. 175.
linus, and Aelius Lampridius, the last being very
Maccianus wrote sixteen books on Fideicommissa, probably the same with Spartianus (LAMPRIDIUS ;
and fourteen books on Judicia Publica. A Liber SPARTIANUS). Vulcatius Gallicanus, the sixth,
Quaestionum is also mentioned (Dig. 29. tit. 2. is alike unknown and insignificant. The name of
8. 86), but it may have been a part of the work on Vopiscus is prefixed to the biographies of, 1. Au-
Fideicommissa. He also wrote that Legem Rho- relianus : 2. Tacitus ; 3. Florianus ; 4. Probus ;
diam, from which there is a single excerpt in the 5. The four tyrants, Firmus, Saturninus, Proculus
Digest (14. tit. 2. 8. 9) in Greek, from which we and Bonosus ; 6. Carus ; 7. Nunicrianus ; 8. Ca-
may conclude that this was a collection of the Rho- rinus ; at this point he stops, declaring that Dio-
dinn laws relating to maritime affairs, and Mae- cletian, and those who follow, demand a more
cianus may have accompanied the collection with clevated style of composition. Although we obe
a commentary. This work is not mentioned in serve the same want of judgment in selecting,
the Florentine Index.
arranging, and combining his materials, which cha-
There are forty-four excerpts from Maccianus racteriscs the other authors of this collection, yet
in the Digest. He is cited by Cervidius Scaevola, he appears to have exercised considerable industry
Papinian, Ulpian and Paulus. A treatise, De Asse in consulting the Greek writers who had preceded
et Ponderibus, is attributed to Volusius Maecianus, him in the same department, in availing himself of
but there is some doubt about the authorship. It the treasures of the Ulpian and other public libraries,
is printed in Graevius, Antiq. Roman. xi. , and at and in examining the public records of different
Paris, 1565, 8vo. There is a dissertation by Wun- branches of the administration, and the private
derlich, De L. Volusio Maeciano; and a recent papers of various distinguished individuals, especi-
cdition of Maecianus de Asse, and of Balbus by ally the journals and commentaries of the emperor
E. Böcking, Bonn, 1831, 12mo. [G. L. ] Aurelianus. Considerable authority and interest
VOLU'SIUS PRO'CULUS. [PROCULUS. ] are communicated to his narrative by the insertion
VOLU'SIUS SATURNI'NUS. [SATUR- of original letters written by Hadrianus, Valerianus,
NINUS. ]
Claudius, Aurelianus, Zenobia, Tacitus, Probus,
VOLUSUS or VOLESUS, the reputed an. Carus, and other public characters, together with
cestor of the Valeria gens, who is said to have quotations from acts of the senate, and orations deli-
settled at Rome with Titus Tatius (VALERIA vered on great occasions. From the epithet Syra-
Gens).
cusius we conclude that Vopiscus was by birth a
The name afterwards became a cognomen in Sicilian : he informs us that he undertook the task
the Valeria gens. Thus we read of M. VALE- of writing the life of Aurelianus, at the suggestion
RIUS VOLUsus, the brother of Publicola, who was and by the request of Junius Tiberianus, prefect
consul B. C. 505, the fifth year of the republic, of the city (about A. D. 291), who placed at his
with P. Postumius Tubertus. He fought, together disposal a variety of important documents, and we
with his colleague, against the Sabines, and ob- find that the life of Carinus was written after the
tained a triumph on account of his victory over elevation of Constantius Chlorus to the rank of
them. He fell at the battle of the Lake Regillus, Caesar, that is, later than A. D. 292. For editions,
B. C. 498 or 496 (Liv. ii. 16, 20 ; Dionys. v. 37 ; translations, &c. see CAPITOLINUS. (W. R. )
Plut. Public. 20). We also read of another VOPISCUS, JUʻLIUS CAESAR. [CAESAR,
brother of Publicola, u ho bore the same cognomen, No. 10. ]
namely, M'. VALERIUS VOLUSUS MAXIMUS, who VOPISCUS, P. MANI’LIUS, consul under
was dictator in B. C. 494, and to whom the family Trajan, A. D. 114 with Q. Ninnius Hasta. (Fasti. )
of the Valerii Maximi traced their origin. [Max- VOPISCUS, MA'NLIUS, a friend of the poet
IMUS, p. 1001, a. ] It may be, however, that a Statius. (Silv. i. 3. )
mistake has been made in the Annals, and that VOPISCUS, L. POMPEIUS or POPPAEUS,
Manius, the dictator, was the same person as was consul suffectus with T. Virginius Rufus, A. D.
Marcus, the consul: his praenomen would have 69. (Tac. Hist. i. 77. )
been changed, because it was stated in some of the VORANUS, a thief mentioned by Horace, is
Annals that the consul fell at the battle of the said by the scholiast to have been a freedman of
Lake Regillus. Volusus likewise occurs as a Q. Lutatius Catulus. (Hor. Sat. i. 8. 39. )
praenomen of one of the Valerii Potiti. [Po- VOTIE'NUS MONTANUS. [MONTANUS. ]
TITUS, No. 3. ] At a later period the name was UPIS. (Oůmis. ) l. A surname of Artemis, as
rerived in the Valeria gens, and was borne as an the goddess assisting women in child-birth. (Cal-
agnomen by L. Valerius Messalla, who was consul lim. Hymn. in Dian. 240. )
A. D. 5. (MESSALLA, No. 11. ]
2. The name of a mythical being said to havo
VOLUX, the son of Bocchus, king of Maure- reared Artemis (Schol. ad Callim.
of the firmness with which he opposed a mutiny of L. Cincinnatus, and declared that soon after the
against Hordeonius Flaccus, he was made com- plague he and his elder brother fell in with a party
mander-in-chief by the soldiers in place of that of patrician youths who came rushing through the
general. Not venturing to attack Civilis in the Subura, when their leader Kaeso knocked down
feld, he fixed his camp at Gelduba, and shortly his brother, who was still feeble from the sickness
afterwards quelled another mutiny, which had he had just got over, and injured him so much
broken ont during his absence on an incursion that he died shortly afterwards. Dionysius makes
against the Gugerni. [HERENNIUS Gallus. ] Volscius tribune of the plebs in this year. In
He afterwards carried on the war with some suco consequence of this testiinony Kaeso was con.
4 N
1
posed penalties on the l'hores
Proconsulis could not sot a po
a regulated a praconsz') oticas
as severe and cruel Ace
of England on religion sich mit
ete a few years ago, if
which contained severe peces
asses of religious persoas
L. i. p. 457, Zimmer, Galicia
rechts, i. p. 370; Grocis, vitae vit
(G. LI
. S (Odd Tiarós), the name of time
ned by Saidas
h, the brother of ledare of Pals
brated for his knowledre at
he tanght at Athens. He Bed
of the fifth century of the Choice
is does not mention air Fad 3
iis l"pianus.
(ESA, a sophist
, srote several parks
Art of Rhetoric was one.
STIOCH, a sophist lived in the time di
the Great and wrote gereral thes
which are enumerated by Sudes
me of Ipianus is pretired to LIST
ries in Greek, og eighteen of the at
emosthenes ; and it is usual's stated this
I written by l’lpianus of Asics B
oes not mention these Comments
it is erident that in their presents that
1 of much later origin. The Code
uy originally have been written bf et «
ists of the name, either of Emea
at ther bare nocired nunernes
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VOLUMNIUS.
VOLUSIUS.
!
1
NUS,
BICI
demned. The patricians in revenge charged Vol- 4. VOLUMNIUS, or more correctly VOLNIUR, the
scius with falsehood ; and in B. C. 459 the quaestors author of soine Tuscan tragedies. [VOLNIUS. )
accused him before the comitia of the curiae or 5. P. VOLUMNIUS, described by Plutarch as a
the centuries, of having borne false witness against philosopher, accompanied M. Brutus in his can-
Kaeso, but the tribunes prevented them from pro- paign against the triumvirs, and wrote an account
secuting the charge. In the following year, B. c. of the prodigies which appeared before the death
458, L. Cincinnatus, the father of Kaeso, was ap- of Brutus, probably in a life of the latter. (Plut.
pointed dictator, and presided in the comitia for Brut. 48. )
the trial of Volscius. The tribunes dared not 6. VOLUMNIUS EUTRAPELVIS. (EUTRAPE-
offer any further opposition, and Volscius was lus. )
obliged to go into exile. (Liv. iii. 13, 24, 25, 29; VOLU'PIA, the personification of sensual
Dionys. x. 7; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. pleasure among the Romans, who was honoured
Pp. 289, 298. )
with a temple near the porta Romanula. (Plin.
VOLTEIA GENS, known chiefly from coins, Epist. viii. 20, H. N. iii. 5 ; Varro, De Ling. Lat.
of which we have a considerable number. Some v. 164 ; Macrob. Sat. i. 10; August. De Civ. Dei,
bear the name of L. VOLTEIUS STRABO (STRABO]; iv. 8. ) She is also called Voluptas. (Cic. De Nat.
and others have on thein M. VOLTEIUS M. F. Of Deor. ii. 23. )
(LS. )
the latter a specimen is annexed : the obverse re- VOLUSÉ’NUS QUADRA'TUS. [QUAD-
presents the head of Jupiter, the reverse a temple RATUS. ]
with four columns. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 344. ) VOLUSIANUS, the son of the emperor Tre-
bonianus Gallus, upon whose elevation in A. D.
251 he was styled Caesar and Princeps Juven-
tulis. The year following he held the office of
consul, and was invested with the title of Au-
gustus. As far as we can gather from the scanty
notices of historians, his character resembled that
VOLTEM
of his father, along with whom he perished at
Interamna in A. D. 253 or 254. (Gallus TRE-
COIN OP M. VOLTEIUS.
BONIANUS. ] The names borne by this prince, as
collected from medals and descriptions, appear to
VOLTEIUS or VULTEIUS. 1. L. VOL. have been C. VIBIUS VOLUSIANUS TREBONIANUS
TRIUS, a friend of L. Metellus, who was propraetor Asinius GALLUS VELDUMNIANUS or VENDUM-
of Sicily, B. c. 70. (Cic. Verr. iii. 66. )
NIANUS (Aurel. Vict. de Caes. 30, Epit. 30 ;
2. A tribune of the soldiers in Caesar's army, Eutrop. ix. 6; Zosim. i. 24 ; Zonar. xii. 21 ;
B. C. 48. (Flor. iv. 2. § 33. )
Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 369. )
[W. R. ]
3. VOLTEIUS Menas, a praeco mentioned by
Horace (Epist. i. 7, 55, foll. ).
T. VOLTU'RCIUS, or VULTURCIUS, of
Crotona, one of Catiline's conspirators, was sent by
Lentulus to accompany the ambassadors of the
Allobroges to Catiline. Arrested along with the
ambassadors on the Mulvian bridge, and brought
before the senate by Cicero, Volturcius turned in.
former upon obtaining the promise of pardon, and
after giving his evidence was amply rewarded by
COIN OP VOL USIANUS.
the senate. (Sall. Cat. 44, 45, 47, 50 ; Cic. Cat.
iii. 2, 4, iv. 3 ; Appian, B. C. ii. 4. )
VOLU'SIUS. 1. An haruspex in the cohors
VOLUÄMNIA. 1. The wife of Coriolanus. of Verres. (Cic. Verr. iii. 11, 21. )
[CORIOLANUS. ]
2. Q. VOLUSIUS, a pupil of Cicero in oratory,
2. The freedwoman of Volumnius Eutrapelus, accompanied Cicero to Cilicia, where he held some
and the mistress of Antony, is better known under office under him. (Cic. ad Fam. v. 10, 20, ad Att. v.
her name of Cytheris. [CYTHERIS. ]
21. ) In one passage (ad Att. v. 11) he is called
VOLU'MNIA GENS, patrician and plebeian. Ca. Volusius, for there can be little doubt that this
It was of great antiquity, for the wife of Corio-Cneius is the same person who is elsewhere called
lanus belonged to it, and one of its members, P. Marcus.
Volumnius Gallus, held the consulship as early as 3. M, VOLUSIUS, is mentioned by Cicero in
B. C. 461, but it never attained much importance. B. C. 49 (ad Fam. xvi. 12). He is probably the
The Volumnii bore the cognomens of Gallus with same as the M. Volusins who was plebeian aedile
the agnomen Amintinus, and of FLAMMA with the in B. C. 43, and was proscribed by the triumvirs,
agnomen Violens.
A few persons of the name are but escaped by assuming the disguise of a priest
mentioned without any surname. [VOLUMNIUS. ] of Isis. (Val Max. vii. 3. & 8; Appian, B. C.
VOLU'MNIUS. '1. M. VOLUMNIUS, slain by iv. 47. )
Catiline, at the time of Sulla. (Ascon. in Tog. L. VOLU'SIUS MAECIANUS, a jurist,
Cand. p. 84, ed. Orelli. )
was in the consilium of Antoninus Pius. (Capitol.
2. P. VOLUMNIUS, a judex on the trial of Clu- Antonin. Pius, c. 12. ) Among the many illus-
entius. (Cic. pro Cluent. 70. )
trious men who formed the character of Marcus
3. L. VOLUMNIUS, a senator with whom Cicero Aurelius, was Maecianus: Aurelius was one of his
was intimate (Cic. ad Fam. vii. 32 ; comp. Varr. auditores. (Capitol. Antonin. Philosoph. c. 3. ) A
R. R. ii. 4), is perhaps the same as the Volumnius rescript of the Divi Fratres (Dig. 37. tit. 14. 8. 17),
Flaccus, who was a friend of D. Brutus. (Cic. ad speaks of him in these terms: “ Volusius Maecianus
Fam. xi. 12, 18. )
amicus noster, &c. ” Marcus in his Twy eis èautó
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1283
UPIS.
(lib. 1) mentions Marcianus, in place of which it is ancient Roman praenomens, it was afterwards uscil
proposed to read Maecianus, but Marcus does not
as a cognomen.
speak of him as a jurist. Vulcatius (Avid. Cass. VOPISCUS, FLAVIUS, Syracusius, one of the
c. 7) says that Maecianus was entrusted with the six “ Scriptores Historiae Augustae” (see Capi.
gorernment of Alexandria, and that he was killed TOLINUS), probably the latest, since he refers di.
by the army for having joined Cassius in his usur- fectly to three, Trebellius Pollio, Julius Capito-
pation, A. D. 175.
linus, and Aelius Lampridius, the last being very
Maccianus wrote sixteen books on Fideicommissa, probably the same with Spartianus (LAMPRIDIUS ;
and fourteen books on Judicia Publica. A Liber SPARTIANUS). Vulcatius Gallicanus, the sixth,
Quaestionum is also mentioned (Dig. 29. tit. 2. is alike unknown and insignificant. The name of
8. 86), but it may have been a part of the work on Vopiscus is prefixed to the biographies of, 1. Au-
Fideicommissa. He also wrote that Legem Rho- relianus : 2. Tacitus ; 3. Florianus ; 4. Probus ;
diam, from which there is a single excerpt in the 5. The four tyrants, Firmus, Saturninus, Proculus
Digest (14. tit. 2. 8. 9) in Greek, from which we and Bonosus ; 6. Carus ; 7. Nunicrianus ; 8. Ca-
may conclude that this was a collection of the Rho- rinus ; at this point he stops, declaring that Dio-
dinn laws relating to maritime affairs, and Mae- cletian, and those who follow, demand a more
cianus may have accompanied the collection with clevated style of composition. Although we obe
a commentary. This work is not mentioned in serve the same want of judgment in selecting,
the Florentine Index.
arranging, and combining his materials, which cha-
There are forty-four excerpts from Maccianus racteriscs the other authors of this collection, yet
in the Digest. He is cited by Cervidius Scaevola, he appears to have exercised considerable industry
Papinian, Ulpian and Paulus. A treatise, De Asse in consulting the Greek writers who had preceded
et Ponderibus, is attributed to Volusius Maecianus, him in the same department, in availing himself of
but there is some doubt about the authorship. It the treasures of the Ulpian and other public libraries,
is printed in Graevius, Antiq. Roman. xi. , and at and in examining the public records of different
Paris, 1565, 8vo. There is a dissertation by Wun- branches of the administration, and the private
derlich, De L. Volusio Maeciano; and a recent papers of various distinguished individuals, especi-
cdition of Maecianus de Asse, and of Balbus by ally the journals and commentaries of the emperor
E. Böcking, Bonn, 1831, 12mo. [G. L. ] Aurelianus. Considerable authority and interest
VOLU'SIUS PRO'CULUS. [PROCULUS. ] are communicated to his narrative by the insertion
VOLU'SIUS SATURNI'NUS. [SATUR- of original letters written by Hadrianus, Valerianus,
NINUS. ]
Claudius, Aurelianus, Zenobia, Tacitus, Probus,
VOLUSUS or VOLESUS, the reputed an. Carus, and other public characters, together with
cestor of the Valeria gens, who is said to have quotations from acts of the senate, and orations deli-
settled at Rome with Titus Tatius (VALERIA vered on great occasions. From the epithet Syra-
Gens).
cusius we conclude that Vopiscus was by birth a
The name afterwards became a cognomen in Sicilian : he informs us that he undertook the task
the Valeria gens. Thus we read of M. VALE- of writing the life of Aurelianus, at the suggestion
RIUS VOLUsus, the brother of Publicola, who was and by the request of Junius Tiberianus, prefect
consul B. C. 505, the fifth year of the republic, of the city (about A. D. 291), who placed at his
with P. Postumius Tubertus. He fought, together disposal a variety of important documents, and we
with his colleague, against the Sabines, and ob- find that the life of Carinus was written after the
tained a triumph on account of his victory over elevation of Constantius Chlorus to the rank of
them. He fell at the battle of the Lake Regillus, Caesar, that is, later than A. D. 292. For editions,
B. C. 498 or 496 (Liv. ii. 16, 20 ; Dionys. v. 37 ; translations, &c. see CAPITOLINUS. (W. R. )
Plut. Public. 20). We also read of another VOPISCUS, JUʻLIUS CAESAR. [CAESAR,
brother of Publicola, u ho bore the same cognomen, No. 10. ]
namely, M'. VALERIUS VOLUSUS MAXIMUS, who VOPISCUS, P. MANI’LIUS, consul under
was dictator in B. C. 494, and to whom the family Trajan, A. D. 114 with Q. Ninnius Hasta. (Fasti. )
of the Valerii Maximi traced their origin. [Max- VOPISCUS, MA'NLIUS, a friend of the poet
IMUS, p. 1001, a. ] It may be, however, that a Statius. (Silv. i. 3. )
mistake has been made in the Annals, and that VOPISCUS, L. POMPEIUS or POPPAEUS,
Manius, the dictator, was the same person as was consul suffectus with T. Virginius Rufus, A. D.
Marcus, the consul: his praenomen would have 69. (Tac. Hist. i. 77. )
been changed, because it was stated in some of the VORANUS, a thief mentioned by Horace, is
Annals that the consul fell at the battle of the said by the scholiast to have been a freedman of
Lake Regillus. Volusus likewise occurs as a Q. Lutatius Catulus. (Hor. Sat. i. 8. 39. )
praenomen of one of the Valerii Potiti. [Po- VOTIE'NUS MONTANUS. [MONTANUS. ]
TITUS, No. 3. ] At a later period the name was UPIS. (Oůmis. ) l. A surname of Artemis, as
rerived in the Valeria gens, and was borne as an the goddess assisting women in child-birth. (Cal-
agnomen by L. Valerius Messalla, who was consul lim. Hymn. in Dian. 240. )
A. D. 5. (MESSALLA, No. 11. ]
2. The name of a mythical being said to havo
VOLUX, the son of Bocchus, king of Maure- reared Artemis (Schol. ad Callim.
