)
ships, joined the Argives in ravaging the Lacedae- 6.
ships, joined the Argives in ravaging the Lacedae- 6.
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19.
)
(W. I. )
ceding, and with him triumvir coloniae deducendae. M. LAE'NIUS, or LENIUS FLACCUS, a
(Liv. xl. 43. )
friend of Atticus, who, notwithstanding the strin-
5. C. POPILLIUS, P. F. P. N. LAENAS, brother gent edict of Clodius, B. C. 58 (“ Lex Clodia in
to the two preceding ones, was consul (B. C. Ciceronem," Pseud. Cic. pro Dom. 17), sheltered
172) in the year after his brother Marcus had so Cicero in his country-house near Brundisium, until
shamefully treated the Ligurians. He supported he could securely embark for Epeirus. The father,
his brother, and warded off his punishment. He brother, and sons of Laenius were equally earnest
was the first plebeian consul who had a plebeian in befriending the exile. Laenius afterwards, B. C.
for a colleague (Fast. Capitol. ); and he served 51, met Cicero in Asia Minor, and applied to him
afterwards as legate in Greece. (Liv. xliii. 19, 24. ) for a sub-prefecture in Cilicia, where Laenius had
The haughtiness of his character is most apparent money at interest. Cicero, however, refused to
in his behaviour as ambassador to Antiochus, king gratify him, since he had made a rule to grant no
of Syria, whom the senate wished to abstain from money-lender (negotianti) office in his province.
hostilities against Egypt. Antiochus was just Yet in the same year, and for a similar purpose, he
marching upon Alexandria when he was met by highly recommended Laenius to P. Silius Nerva,
the three Roman ambassadors. Popillius trans- pro-praetor in Bithynia and Pontus. (Cic. pro
mitted to him the letter of the senate, which Anti- Plunc. 41, ad Fam. xiii. 63, xiv. 4, ad Alt. v. 20,
ochus read and promised to take into consideration 21, vi. 1, 3. )
with his friends. Then Popillius described with LAE'NIUS, STRABO. (STRABO. )
his cane a circle in the sand round the king, and LAERCES (Aaépkns), a mythical artist in
ordered him not to stir out of it before he had given gold, mentioned by Homer, in a passage from
a decisive answer. This boldness so frightened which we learn that it was the custom, in offering
Antiochus, that he at once yielded to the demand a sacrifice of the greatest solemnity, to gild the
of Rome. (Liv. xlv. 12; Polyb. Exc. Legat. 92 ; horns of the victim. (Hom. Od. iii. 425 ; sce also
Val. Max. vi. 4; Vell. Pat. i. 10; App. Syr. 13). ) | Nitzsch's note and the Scholia. ) [P. S. )
C. Popillius was consul a second time B. c. 158. LAERTES (Aaéptns), a son of Acrisius and
6. M. POPILLIUS, M. F. P. n. LAENAS, the son Chalcomedusa, and husband of Anticleia, by whom
of No. 3, was consul B. c. 139, and, as pro-consul he became the father of Odysseus and Crimene.
in the following year, suffered a defeat from the (Hom. Od. iv. 755, xi. 85, xv. 362, xvi. 118 ;
Numantines. (Liv. Epit. 55; Frontin. Strateg. Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1791. ) It should, however,
iii. 17; App. Hisp. 79. )
be remembered that, according to others, Odysseus
7. P. PUPILLIUS, C. F. P. n. LAENAS, was consul was the son of Sisyphus. (Hygin. Fab. 201 ; Schol.
B. C. 132, the year after the murder of Tib. Grac- ad Soph. Philoct. 417. ) In his youth Laertes had
chus. He was charged by the victorious aristo conquered Nericum, a coast town in Cephalenia
cratical party with the prosecution of the accomplices (Hom. Od. xxiv. 376), and he is also said to have
of Gracchus; and in this odious task he showed all taken part in the Calydonian hunt, and in the ex-
the hard-heartedness of his family. (Cic. Lael, 20; pedition of the Argonauts. (Hygin. Fab. 173 ;
Val Max. iv. 7; Plut. T. Gracch. 20. ) C. Grac- Apollod. i. 9. $ 16. ) At the time when Odysseus
chus afterwards aimed at him in particular, when I returned from Troy, Laertes lived in rural retire-
-
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LAETORIUS.
709
LAEVINUS.
ment, and was occupied with agricultural pursuits | ple, Cominius. He first escaped and then killed
and an old female slave attended to his wants (Od. himself, but the people passed sentence on him
i. 189) ; but, after the departure of Telemachus, he nevertheless. (Val Max. vi. l. § 11 ; Suid. s. v.
was so overpowered by his grief, that he gave up rdãos Aaltopios ; Dionys Excerpt. Vales. p. 88,
his rustic pursuits. (Od. xvi. 138. ) After the &c. , ed Mai. )
murder of the suitors, Odysseus visited him, and 4. M. LAETORIUS PLANCIANUS, magister equi-
led him back to his house, and Athena made him tum of the dictator Q. Ogulnius Gallus, B. c. 257.
young again, so that soon after he was able to take (Fast. Capit. )
part in the fight against the approaching Ithacans. 5. C. LAETORIUB, curule aedile, B. c. 216, sent
(Od. xxiv. 204-370, 497. )
(L. S. ) as ambassador by the senate to the consuls App.
LAERTIUS DIOʻGENES. [DIOGENES. ] Claudius and Q. Fulvius Flaccus, B. c. 212, praetor,
LAESPO'DIAS (Aaionodlas), was one of three B. c. 210, and decemvir sacris faciundis, B. c. 209.
Athenian commanders, who, with a force of 30 (Liv. xxiii. 30, xxv. 22, xxvi. 23, xxvii. 7, 8.
)
ships, joined the Argives in ravaging the Lacedae- 6. L. Laetorius, plebeian aedile in B. c. 202,
monian coast, B. C. 414; and thus, at the moment was obliged to abdicate as his election was declared
when Gylippus was sailing for Syracuse, gave the invalid on religious grounds. (Liv. xxx. 39. )
Spartan goverinent justification for open hostili- 7. CN. LAETORIUS, legate of the practor, L.
ties. He is named again, B. c. 411, as one of three Fulvius Purpureo in the battle against the Gauls,
ambassadors who were sent by the Four Hundred B. c. 200. (Liv. xxxi. 21. )
to treat with Sparta, but were, when their ship, 8. LAETORIUS, a friend of C. Gracchus, who on
the Paralus, was off Argos, seized and given in the wooden bridge opposed himself to the pursuers
custody to the Argives by the sailors, who pro- of Gracchus, and, as he could not stop them, killed
ceeded to join the fleet at Samos. (Thuc. vi. 105, himself. (Val. Max. iv. 7. § 2. )
Plutarch (C.
viii. 86. ) He had something the matter with the Gracch. 16, 17) calls him Licinnius.
shin or calf of his leg, and arranged his dress to 9. M. LAETORIUS, a senator of the party of
conceal it.
Marius, was declared a public enemy by Sulla, es-
Τί, ώ κακόδαιμον Λαισπoδίας, εί την φύσιν ; caped from Rome, and afterwards returned with
says Poseidon, when scolding the uncouth Triballus Marius. (Appian, B. C. i. 60, &c. ) (W. I. )
for letting his garment hang about his legs. (Aris LAETUS (aitos), a Greek writer of uncer-
toph. Av. 1568. ) And the Scholiast gives a variety tain age, who translated from the Phoenician lan-
of references (see also Plut. Symp. vii. 8), which guage a work of Theodotus. (Clem. Alex. Strom.
show that his misfortune made him a standing joke 1. p. 140; Euseb. Praep. Ev. X. 11, where Xaitos
with the comedians. ,
[A. H. C. ] is a false reading. )
LAETA. (GRATIANUS, p. 303. )
LAETUS, Q. AEMI’LIUS, was praefect of the
LAETI'LIŪS. 1. The person whom Verres praetorium under Commodus, and one of the chief
constantly employed as his tabellarius. (Cic. Verr. agents in his assassination. (COMMODUS, Ec-
ii. 26, 56. )
LECTUS, MARCIA. ] By Laetus and his associate
2. C. LAETILIUS APALUS, whose name occurs Eclectus the vacant throne was offered to Pertinax,
as duumvir along with that of Ptolemaeus, the son and Laetus was the first to incite the guards to rebel
of the younger Juba, on a coin of New Carthage against the new prince, and to proclaim Sosius
or Gades. (Éckhel, vol iv. p. 160, vol. v. p. 232. ) Falco, the consul, emperor in his place. At length
LAETO'RIUS. 1. M. LAETORIUS, a centurion the turbulent career of this adventurer was brought
primi pili, mentioned as the first plebeian magis to a close by Julianus, who put him to death on
trate, B. C. 495, chosen even before the secession the suspicion that he was favourable to the claims
to the Sacred Hill and the election of the first tri- of Severus. (Dion Cass. lxxii, 19, 22, lxxiii. 1,
bunes of the people ; for there cannot be any doubt 6, 8, 9; Herodian. i, 16, 17, ii. 1, 2; Lamprid.
that this Laetorius was a plebeian, although it is Commod. 15, 17; Capitolin. Pertin. 6, 6; Spar-
not exactly stated by Livy (ii. 27). He was chosen tian. Julian. 6, Sept. Sever. 4. ) (W. R. ]
to establish a guild of merchants (collegium merca- LAETUS, was one of the lieutenants of Sep-
torum), to dedicate a temple of Mercury, and to timius Severus in the campaign against the Ara-
superintend the com market. From these functions bians and Parthians, A. D. 195; and a few years
it is probable that he was aedile, and the conclusion afterwards (A. D. 199) gained great renown by his
is obvious that the establishment of the plebeian gallant and successful defence of Nisibis against a
aedileship preceded that of the tribuneship. (Comp. sudden attack headed by Vologaesus. Notwith-
Val. Max. ix. 3. $ 6. )
standing this good service, and the high reputation
2. C. LAETORIUS, was tribune of the people in which he enjoyed both as a statesman and a general,
B. C. 471, and by his courage and energy decided he was put to death by the emperor, who had be-
the success of the Publilian rogation, by which the come jealous of his popularity with the soldiers.
comitia tributa obtained the power of legislating (Dion Cass. lxxv. 2, 9, 10. )
(W. R. ]
for the whole community, and of electing the ple- LAEVI'NUS, a cognomen of the Gens Valeria
beian magistrates, tribunes and aediles, who ac- at Rome. It appears on the Fasti for the first
cordingly must have been chosen formerly either time in B. c. 280, and was extant in the age of
by the comitia curiata or centuriata, a disputed | Augustus (Hor. Sat. 1, 6, 12, Schol. Vet. ), and in
point on which see Dict. of Ant. s. v. Tribunus. that of Domitian or Nerva. (Mart. Ep. vi. 9. )
(Liv. j. 56-58 ; Dionys. ix. 41–49. ) It seems Laevina is also mentioned by Martial (Ep. i. 62).
not improbable that this Laetorius, if not a relation, 1. P. VALERIUS LAEVINUS, one of the consuls
was the same who, with the praenomen Marcus, in B. c. 280, obtained for his province Southern
occurs in the annals a few years before. [No. 1. ) Italy, and the conduct of the war with Pyrrhus,
3. M. LAETORIUS MERGUS, a military tribune king of Epeirus. Pyrrhus had recently landed at
during the third Samnite war (B. c. 298–290), Tarentum, and it was important to force him to
was accused of adultery by the tribune of the peo engage before he was joined by his Italian allies,
2 2 3
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710
LAEVINUS.
LAEVINUS.
and while he could bring into the field only his Crista, one of his lieutenants, raised the siege of
own troops and the Tarentines. Laevious accord- Apollonia, took Philip's camp, and concluded a
ingly was despatched early in the spring into league between the Aetolians and Rome. The
Lucania, where, from a strong position he had terms of the league may be gathered from Polybius
scized, he watched the movements of the Epeirots. (ix. 28, &c. ). Laevinus was four times re-ap-
Pyrrhus, to gain time, attempted negotiation, and pointed pro-praetor, B. c. 214, 213, 212, 211. In
wrote to Laevinus, offering to arbitrate between the first of these years he wintered at Oricum ; in
Rome, Tarentum, and the Italian allies. Lacrinus, the second, and in 212, 211, be watched the
however, bluntly bade him leave the Romans to movements of Philip in Aetolia and Achaia. At
settle their own quarrels, and begone to Epeirus, if the comitia in B. c. 211, on account of his services
he wished them to listen to his overtures. Two of in Northern Greece, he was elected consul without
the letters which passed between Pyrrhus and solicitation, in his absence. In the latter part of
Laevinus arc extant, in substance at least, among B. c. 211 he drove the Macedonians from the island
the fragments of Dionysius. They were probably of Zacynthus, and from Oeniadae and Nasus in
copied from the history of Hieronymus of Cardia, Acarnania He wintered at Corcyra, and in the
who consulted Pyrrhus's own memoirs of his following spring took Anticyra, when the news of
Italian campaign. Laevinus and his opponent his election to the consulship reached him. Sick-
were encamped on the opposite banks of the Siris ; ness, however, prevented Laevinus from returning
and, while battle was impending, an Epeirot spy to Rome till the beginning of summer. On land-
was taken in the Roman lines.
(W. I. )
ceding, and with him triumvir coloniae deducendae. M. LAE'NIUS, or LENIUS FLACCUS, a
(Liv. xl. 43. )
friend of Atticus, who, notwithstanding the strin-
5. C. POPILLIUS, P. F. P. N. LAENAS, brother gent edict of Clodius, B. C. 58 (“ Lex Clodia in
to the two preceding ones, was consul (B. C. Ciceronem," Pseud. Cic. pro Dom. 17), sheltered
172) in the year after his brother Marcus had so Cicero in his country-house near Brundisium, until
shamefully treated the Ligurians. He supported he could securely embark for Epeirus. The father,
his brother, and warded off his punishment. He brother, and sons of Laenius were equally earnest
was the first plebeian consul who had a plebeian in befriending the exile. Laenius afterwards, B. C.
for a colleague (Fast. Capitol. ); and he served 51, met Cicero in Asia Minor, and applied to him
afterwards as legate in Greece. (Liv. xliii. 19, 24. ) for a sub-prefecture in Cilicia, where Laenius had
The haughtiness of his character is most apparent money at interest. Cicero, however, refused to
in his behaviour as ambassador to Antiochus, king gratify him, since he had made a rule to grant no
of Syria, whom the senate wished to abstain from money-lender (negotianti) office in his province.
hostilities against Egypt. Antiochus was just Yet in the same year, and for a similar purpose, he
marching upon Alexandria when he was met by highly recommended Laenius to P. Silius Nerva,
the three Roman ambassadors. Popillius trans- pro-praetor in Bithynia and Pontus. (Cic. pro
mitted to him the letter of the senate, which Anti- Plunc. 41, ad Fam. xiii. 63, xiv. 4, ad Alt. v. 20,
ochus read and promised to take into consideration 21, vi. 1, 3. )
with his friends. Then Popillius described with LAE'NIUS, STRABO. (STRABO. )
his cane a circle in the sand round the king, and LAERCES (Aaépkns), a mythical artist in
ordered him not to stir out of it before he had given gold, mentioned by Homer, in a passage from
a decisive answer. This boldness so frightened which we learn that it was the custom, in offering
Antiochus, that he at once yielded to the demand a sacrifice of the greatest solemnity, to gild the
of Rome. (Liv. xlv. 12; Polyb. Exc. Legat. 92 ; horns of the victim. (Hom. Od. iii. 425 ; sce also
Val. Max. vi. 4; Vell. Pat. i. 10; App. Syr. 13). ) | Nitzsch's note and the Scholia. ) [P. S. )
C. Popillius was consul a second time B. c. 158. LAERTES (Aaéptns), a son of Acrisius and
6. M. POPILLIUS, M. F. P. n. LAENAS, the son Chalcomedusa, and husband of Anticleia, by whom
of No. 3, was consul B. c. 139, and, as pro-consul he became the father of Odysseus and Crimene.
in the following year, suffered a defeat from the (Hom. Od. iv. 755, xi. 85, xv. 362, xvi. 118 ;
Numantines. (Liv. Epit. 55; Frontin. Strateg. Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1791. ) It should, however,
iii. 17; App. Hisp. 79. )
be remembered that, according to others, Odysseus
7. P. PUPILLIUS, C. F. P. n. LAENAS, was consul was the son of Sisyphus. (Hygin. Fab. 201 ; Schol.
B. C. 132, the year after the murder of Tib. Grac- ad Soph. Philoct. 417. ) In his youth Laertes had
chus. He was charged by the victorious aristo conquered Nericum, a coast town in Cephalenia
cratical party with the prosecution of the accomplices (Hom. Od. xxiv. 376), and he is also said to have
of Gracchus; and in this odious task he showed all taken part in the Calydonian hunt, and in the ex-
the hard-heartedness of his family. (Cic. Lael, 20; pedition of the Argonauts. (Hygin. Fab. 173 ;
Val Max. iv. 7; Plut. T. Gracch. 20. ) C. Grac- Apollod. i. 9. $ 16. ) At the time when Odysseus
chus afterwards aimed at him in particular, when I returned from Troy, Laertes lived in rural retire-
-
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LAETORIUS.
709
LAEVINUS.
ment, and was occupied with agricultural pursuits | ple, Cominius. He first escaped and then killed
and an old female slave attended to his wants (Od. himself, but the people passed sentence on him
i. 189) ; but, after the departure of Telemachus, he nevertheless. (Val Max. vi. l. § 11 ; Suid. s. v.
was so overpowered by his grief, that he gave up rdãos Aaltopios ; Dionys Excerpt. Vales. p. 88,
his rustic pursuits. (Od. xvi. 138. ) After the &c. , ed Mai. )
murder of the suitors, Odysseus visited him, and 4. M. LAETORIUS PLANCIANUS, magister equi-
led him back to his house, and Athena made him tum of the dictator Q. Ogulnius Gallus, B. c. 257.
young again, so that soon after he was able to take (Fast. Capit. )
part in the fight against the approaching Ithacans. 5. C. LAETORIUB, curule aedile, B. c. 216, sent
(Od. xxiv. 204-370, 497. )
(L. S. ) as ambassador by the senate to the consuls App.
LAERTIUS DIOʻGENES. [DIOGENES. ] Claudius and Q. Fulvius Flaccus, B. c. 212, praetor,
LAESPO'DIAS (Aaionodlas), was one of three B. c. 210, and decemvir sacris faciundis, B. c. 209.
Athenian commanders, who, with a force of 30 (Liv. xxiii. 30, xxv. 22, xxvi. 23, xxvii. 7, 8.
)
ships, joined the Argives in ravaging the Lacedae- 6. L. Laetorius, plebeian aedile in B. c. 202,
monian coast, B. C. 414; and thus, at the moment was obliged to abdicate as his election was declared
when Gylippus was sailing for Syracuse, gave the invalid on religious grounds. (Liv. xxx. 39. )
Spartan goverinent justification for open hostili- 7. CN. LAETORIUS, legate of the practor, L.
ties. He is named again, B. c. 411, as one of three Fulvius Purpureo in the battle against the Gauls,
ambassadors who were sent by the Four Hundred B. c. 200. (Liv. xxxi. 21. )
to treat with Sparta, but were, when their ship, 8. LAETORIUS, a friend of C. Gracchus, who on
the Paralus, was off Argos, seized and given in the wooden bridge opposed himself to the pursuers
custody to the Argives by the sailors, who pro- of Gracchus, and, as he could not stop them, killed
ceeded to join the fleet at Samos. (Thuc. vi. 105, himself. (Val. Max. iv. 7. § 2. )
Plutarch (C.
viii. 86. ) He had something the matter with the Gracch. 16, 17) calls him Licinnius.
shin or calf of his leg, and arranged his dress to 9. M. LAETORIUS, a senator of the party of
conceal it.
Marius, was declared a public enemy by Sulla, es-
Τί, ώ κακόδαιμον Λαισπoδίας, εί την φύσιν ; caped from Rome, and afterwards returned with
says Poseidon, when scolding the uncouth Triballus Marius. (Appian, B. C. i. 60, &c. ) (W. I. )
for letting his garment hang about his legs. (Aris LAETUS (aitos), a Greek writer of uncer-
toph. Av. 1568. ) And the Scholiast gives a variety tain age, who translated from the Phoenician lan-
of references (see also Plut. Symp. vii. 8), which guage a work of Theodotus. (Clem. Alex. Strom.
show that his misfortune made him a standing joke 1. p. 140; Euseb. Praep. Ev. X. 11, where Xaitos
with the comedians. ,
[A. H. C. ] is a false reading. )
LAETA. (GRATIANUS, p. 303. )
LAETUS, Q. AEMI’LIUS, was praefect of the
LAETI'LIŪS. 1. The person whom Verres praetorium under Commodus, and one of the chief
constantly employed as his tabellarius. (Cic. Verr. agents in his assassination. (COMMODUS, Ec-
ii. 26, 56. )
LECTUS, MARCIA. ] By Laetus and his associate
2. C. LAETILIUS APALUS, whose name occurs Eclectus the vacant throne was offered to Pertinax,
as duumvir along with that of Ptolemaeus, the son and Laetus was the first to incite the guards to rebel
of the younger Juba, on a coin of New Carthage against the new prince, and to proclaim Sosius
or Gades. (Éckhel, vol iv. p. 160, vol. v. p. 232. ) Falco, the consul, emperor in his place. At length
LAETO'RIUS. 1. M. LAETORIUS, a centurion the turbulent career of this adventurer was brought
primi pili, mentioned as the first plebeian magis to a close by Julianus, who put him to death on
trate, B. C. 495, chosen even before the secession the suspicion that he was favourable to the claims
to the Sacred Hill and the election of the first tri- of Severus. (Dion Cass. lxxii, 19, 22, lxxiii. 1,
bunes of the people ; for there cannot be any doubt 6, 8, 9; Herodian. i, 16, 17, ii. 1, 2; Lamprid.
that this Laetorius was a plebeian, although it is Commod. 15, 17; Capitolin. Pertin. 6, 6; Spar-
not exactly stated by Livy (ii. 27). He was chosen tian. Julian. 6, Sept. Sever. 4. ) (W. R. ]
to establish a guild of merchants (collegium merca- LAETUS, was one of the lieutenants of Sep-
torum), to dedicate a temple of Mercury, and to timius Severus in the campaign against the Ara-
superintend the com market. From these functions bians and Parthians, A. D. 195; and a few years
it is probable that he was aedile, and the conclusion afterwards (A. D. 199) gained great renown by his
is obvious that the establishment of the plebeian gallant and successful defence of Nisibis against a
aedileship preceded that of the tribuneship. (Comp. sudden attack headed by Vologaesus. Notwith-
Val. Max. ix. 3. $ 6. )
standing this good service, and the high reputation
2. C. LAETORIUS, was tribune of the people in which he enjoyed both as a statesman and a general,
B. C. 471, and by his courage and energy decided he was put to death by the emperor, who had be-
the success of the Publilian rogation, by which the come jealous of his popularity with the soldiers.
comitia tributa obtained the power of legislating (Dion Cass. lxxv. 2, 9, 10. )
(W. R. ]
for the whole community, and of electing the ple- LAEVI'NUS, a cognomen of the Gens Valeria
beian magistrates, tribunes and aediles, who ac- at Rome. It appears on the Fasti for the first
cordingly must have been chosen formerly either time in B. c. 280, and was extant in the age of
by the comitia curiata or centuriata, a disputed | Augustus (Hor. Sat. 1, 6, 12, Schol. Vet. ), and in
point on which see Dict. of Ant. s. v. Tribunus. that of Domitian or Nerva. (Mart. Ep. vi. 9. )
(Liv. j. 56-58 ; Dionys. ix. 41–49. ) It seems Laevina is also mentioned by Martial (Ep. i. 62).
not improbable that this Laetorius, if not a relation, 1. P. VALERIUS LAEVINUS, one of the consuls
was the same who, with the praenomen Marcus, in B. c. 280, obtained for his province Southern
occurs in the annals a few years before. [No. 1. ) Italy, and the conduct of the war with Pyrrhus,
3. M. LAETORIUS MERGUS, a military tribune king of Epeirus. Pyrrhus had recently landed at
during the third Samnite war (B. c. 298–290), Tarentum, and it was important to force him to
was accused of adultery by the tribune of the peo engage before he was joined by his Italian allies,
2 2 3
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710
LAEVINUS.
LAEVINUS.
and while he could bring into the field only his Crista, one of his lieutenants, raised the siege of
own troops and the Tarentines. Laevious accord- Apollonia, took Philip's camp, and concluded a
ingly was despatched early in the spring into league between the Aetolians and Rome. The
Lucania, where, from a strong position he had terms of the league may be gathered from Polybius
scized, he watched the movements of the Epeirots. (ix. 28, &c. ). Laevinus was four times re-ap-
Pyrrhus, to gain time, attempted negotiation, and pointed pro-praetor, B. c. 214, 213, 212, 211. In
wrote to Laevinus, offering to arbitrate between the first of these years he wintered at Oricum ; in
Rome, Tarentum, and the Italian allies. Lacrinus, the second, and in 212, 211, be watched the
however, bluntly bade him leave the Romans to movements of Philip in Aetolia and Achaia. At
settle their own quarrels, and begone to Epeirus, if the comitia in B. c. 211, on account of his services
he wished them to listen to his overtures. Two of in Northern Greece, he was elected consul without
the letters which passed between Pyrrhus and solicitation, in his absence. In the latter part of
Laevinus arc extant, in substance at least, among B. c. 211 he drove the Macedonians from the island
the fragments of Dionysius. They were probably of Zacynthus, and from Oeniadae and Nasus in
copied from the history of Hieronymus of Cardia, Acarnania He wintered at Corcyra, and in the
who consulted Pyrrhus's own memoirs of his following spring took Anticyra, when the news of
Italian campaign. Laevinus and his opponent his election to the consulship reached him. Sick-
were encamped on the opposite banks of the Siris ; ness, however, prevented Laevinus from returning
and, while battle was impending, an Epeirot spy to Rome till the beginning of summer. On land-
was taken in the Roman lines.
