It is how
at Rome, 1487, together with Vegetius, Frontinus, ever frequently used in the sense given to it in the
and Modestus.
at Rome, 1487, together with Vegetius, Frontinus, ever frequently used in the sense given to it in the
and Modestus.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
The latter work is of the same The Varia Historia has been translated into
kind, scrappy and gossiping. It is partly collected Latin by C. Gesner, and into English by A. Fle
from older writers, and parily the result of his own ming, Lond. 1576, and by Stanley, 1665; this
observations both in Italy and abroad. According last has been reprinted more than once. The De
to Philostratus (in Vit. ) he was scarcely erer out Animalium Natura has been translated into Latin
of Italy; but he tells us himself that he travelled by Peter Gillius (a Frenchman) and by Conrad
as far as Aegypt; and that he saw at Alexandria Gesner. It does not appear to have been translated
an ox with five feet. (De Anim. xi. 40 ; comp. xi. into English.
11. ) This book would appear to have become a There has also been attributed to Aelian a work
popular and standard work on zoology, since in the called Kathyopla Toll Fúvvidos, an attack on an
fourteenth century Manuel Philes, a Byzantine effeminate man, probably meant for Elagabalus.
poet, founded upon it a poem on animals. At the (Suidas, s. r. 'Appev. )
[A. A. )
;
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AELIANUS.
AEMILIA.
129
AELIA’NUS, LU'CIUS, one of the thirty ty- sions. It has been translated into English by
rants (A. D. 259-268) under the Roman empire. Capt. John Bingham, Lond. 1616, fol. , and by
He assumed the purple in Gaul after the death of Lord Dillon, 1874, 4to.
(A. A. )
Postumus, and was killed by his own soldiers, be AELIUS ARISTI'DES. (ARISTIDES. )
cause he would not allow them to plunder Mogun- AELIUS ASCLEPI'ADES. (ASCLEPIADES. ]
tiacum. Trebellius Pollio and others call him AELIUS DIONY'SIUS. [DIONYSIUS. ]
Lollianus ; Eckhel (Doctr. Num. vii. p. 448) thinks AEʻLIUS DONA'TUS. [Donatus. )
that his true name was Laelianus; but there seems AE'LIUS LAMPRI'DIUS. (LAMPRIDIUS. ]
most authority in favour of L. Aelianus. (Eutrop. AEʻLIUS MARCIANUS. [MARCIANUS. ]
ix. 7; Trebell. Poll. Trig. Tyr. 4; Aurel. Vict, de AEʻLIUS MAURUS. (MAURUS. )
Caes. 33, Epit. 32. )
AELIUS PROMOTUS (Αίλιος Προμώτος),
AELIANUS ME'CCIUS ('Alliards MEKKLOS), an ancient physician of Alexandria, of whose per-
an ancient physician, who must have lived in the sonal history no particulars are known, and whoso
second century after Christ, as he is mentioned by date is uncertain. He is supposed by Villoison
Galen (De Theriaca ad Pamphil. init. vol. xiv. (Anecd. Graec. vol. ii. p. 179. note 1) to have
p. 299) as the oldest of his tutors. His father is lived after the time of Pompey the Great, that is,
supposed to have also been a physician, as Aelianus in the first century before Christ; by others he is
is said by Galen (De Dissech. Muscul. c. I. p. 2. considered to be much more ancient ; and by
ed. Dietz) to have made an epitome of his father's Choulant (Handbuch der Bücherkunde für die
anatomical writings. Galen speaks of that part of Aeltere Medicin, Ed. 2. Leipzig, 1840, 8vo. ), on
his work which treated of the Dissection of the the other hand, he is placed as late as the second
Muscles as being held in some repute in his time half of the first century after Christ. He is most
(ilnid. ), and he always mentions his tutor with re probably the same person who is quoted by Galen
spech (ibid. c. 7, 22, pp. 11, 57. ) During the (De Compos. Medicam. secund. Locos, iv. 7, vol.
prevalence of an epidemic in Italy, Aelianus is xii. p. 730) simply by the name of Aelius. He
said by Galen (De Theriaca ad Pamphil ibid. ) to wrote several Greek medical works, which are still
have used the Theriaca (Did. of Ant. art. The to be found in manuscript in different libraries
riaca) with great success, both as a means of cure in Europe, but of which none (as far as the writer
and also as a preservative against the disease. He is aware) have ever been published, though Kuhn
must have been a person of some celebrity, as this intended his works to have been included in his
same anecdote is mentioned by the Arabic Histo collection of Greek medical writers. Some extracts
rian Abú 'l-Faraj (Histor. Compend. Dynast. p. from one of his works entitled Avvapepov,* Medis
77), with exactly the same circumstances except cinalium Formularum Collectio, are inserted by C.
that he makes the epidemic to have broken out at G. Kühn in his Additam. ad Elench. Med. Vet. a
Antioch instead of in Italy. None of his works J. A. Fabricio in “ Bibl. Gr. " Exhib. , and by Bona
(as far as the writer is aware) are now extant. in his Tractatus de Scorbuto, Verona, 1781, 4to.
(W. A. G. ) Two other of his works are quoted or mentioned
AELIA'NUS, PLAUTIUS, offered up the by Hieron. Mercurialis in his Variae Lectiones, iii.
prayer as pontifex, when the first stone of the 4, and his work De Venenis et Morbis Venenosis,
new Capitol was laid in a. D. 71. (Tac. Hist. iv. i. 16, ü. 2; and also by Schneider in his Prefaces
53. ) We learn from an inscription (Gruter, p. 453; to Nicander's Theriaca, p. xi. , and Alexipharmacom
Orelli, n. 750), that his full name was Ti. Plantius p. xix.
(W. A. G. ]
Silvanus Aelianus, that he held many important
AELLO. (HARPYIAE ]
military commands, and that he was twice consul. AELLOPUS ('Aelónous), a surname of Iris,
His first consulship was in a. D. 47 ; the date of the messenger of the gods, by which she is de
his second is unknown.
scribed as swift-footed like a storm-wind. Homer
AELIANUS TA'CTICUS(Alnavós Tautukós) uses the form dexótos. (Il. viii. 409. ) [L. S. ]
was most probably a Greek, but not the same as AELURUS. (TIMOTHEUS AELURUS. )
Claudius Aelianus. He lived in Rome and wrote • AEMILIA. 1. A vestal virgin, who, when
a work in fifty-three chapters on the Military Tac- the sacred fire was extinguished on one occasion,
tics of the Greeks (Tiepl EtpatoyTážewn prayed to the goddess for her assistance, and mira-
'EXAmpice), which he dedicated to the emperor | culously rekindled it by throwing a piece of her
Hadrian. He also gives a brief account of the garment upon the extinct embers. (Dionys. ii.
constitution of a Roman army at that time. The 68 ; Val
. Max. i. 1. $7. )
work arose, he says (Dedic. ), from a conversation 2. The third daughter of L. Aemilius Paullus,
he bad with the emperor Nerva at Frontinus's who fell in the battle of Cannae, was the wife of
house at Formiae. 'He promises a work on Scipio Africanus I. and the mother of the celebrated
Naval Tactics also; but this, if it was written, Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi. She was of
is lost. The first edition of the Tactics (a very a mild disposition, and long survived her husband.
bad one) was published in 1532; the next, much Her property, which was large, was inherited by
better, was by Franciscus Robortellus, Venice, her grandson by adoption, Scipio Africanus II. ,
1552, 4to. , which contains a new Latin version by who gave it to his own mother Papiria, who had
the editor, and is illustrated with many cuts. The been divorced by his own father L. Aemilius.
best edition is that printed by Elzevir at Leyden,
1613. It is usually found bound up with Leo's
Tactica (Leo).
Avvapepov is a word used by the later Greek
It was translated into Latin first by Theodorus writers, and is explained by Du Cange (Gloss. Med.
of Thessalonica. This translation was published et Infim. Graecit. ) to mean vis, virtus.
It is how
at Rome, 1487, together with Vegetius, Frontinus, ever frequently used in the sense given to it in the
and Modestus. It is printed also in Robortellus's text. See Leo, Conspect. Medic. iv. 1, ll. ap
edition, which therefore contains two Latin ver- Ermerin. Anecd. Med. Graec. pp. 153, 157.
## p. 30 (#50) ##############################################
30
AEMILIANUS.
AENEAS.
SPIVS
(Polyb. xxxii. 12 ; Diod. Exc. xxxi. ; Val. Max. gether with his son Volusianus by his own soldiers.
vi. 7. & 1; Plut. Aem. 2; Liv. xxxviii. 57. ) Aemilianus was acknowledged by the senate, but
3. The third daughter of L. Aemilius Paullus was slain after a reign of three or four months by his
Macedonicus was a little girl when her father was soldiers near Spoletum, on the approach of Valeri-
appointed consul a second time to conduct the war anus. According to other accounts he died a
against Perseus. Upon returning home after bis natural death. (Zosimus, i. 28, 29; Zonaras, rii.
election he found her in tears, and upon inquiring 21, 22 ; Eutrop. ix. 5; Aurel Vict. de Cass. 31,
the reason she told him that Perseus had died, Epit. 31. )
which was the name of her dog ; whereupon he
exclaimed “ I accept the omen," and regarded it
as a pledge of his success in the war. (Cic. de
Div. i. 46, ïi. 40; Plut. Aem. 10. )
4. Aemilia Lepida. (LEPIDA. ]
5. A vestal virgin, who was put to death B. C.
114 for having committed incest upon several oc-
casions. She induced two of the other vestal
virgins, Marcia and Licinia, to commit the same
crime, but these two were acquitted by the ponti-
fices, when Aemilia was condemned, but were
subsequently condemned by the praetor L. Cassius.
(Plut. Quaest. Rom. p. 284 ; Liv. Epit. 63 ; 3. One of the thirty tyrants (A. D. 259——268)
Orosius, v. 15; Ascon. in Cic. Mil. p. 46, ed. was compelled by the troops in Egypt to assume
Orelli. )
the purple. He took the surname of Alexander or
AEMI'LIA GENS, originally written AIMI- Alexandrinus. Gallienus sent Theodotus against
LIA, one of the most ancient patrician houses at him, by whom he was taken and sent prisoner to
Rome. Its origin is referred to the time of Numa Gallienus. Aemilianus was strangled in prison.
and it is said to have been descended from Ma- (Trebell Poll. Trig. Tyr. 22, Gallien. 4, 5. )
mercus, who received the name of Aemilius on ac- AEMILIANUS (who is also called Aemilius)
count of the persuasiveness of his language (Si' lived in the fifth century after Christ, and is
aluvalay Nóyou). This Mamercus is represented known as a physician, confessor, and martyr. In
by some as the son of Pythagoras, and by others the reign of the Vandal King Hunneric (A. D.
as the son of Numa, while a third account traces 477-484), during the Arian persecution in Africa,
his origin to Ascanius, who had two sons, Julius he was most cruelly put to death. The Romish
and Aemylos. (Plut. Aemil. 2, Num. 8, 21; Festus, church celebrates his memory on the sixth of De
8. v. Aemil. ) Amulius is also mentioned as one cember, the Greek church on the seventh. (Mar-
of the ancestors of the Aemilii. (Sil. Ital. viii. 297. ) tyrol. Rom. ed. Baron. ; Victor Vitensis, De Per.
It seems pretty clear that the Aemilii were of secut. Vandal. v. 1, with Ruinart's notes, Paris.
Sabine origin; and Festus derives the name Ma- 8vo. 1694 ; Bzovius, Nomenclator Sanctorum Pro
mercus from the Oscan, Mamers in that language fessione Medicorum. )
(W. A. G. ]
being the same as Mars. The Sabines spoke AEMILIA'NUŚ (Alusaiavos), a native of the
Oscan. Since then the Aemilii were supposed to town of Nicaea, and an epigrammatic poet. Nothing
have come to Rome in the time of Numa, and further is known about him. Three of his epi.
Numa was said to bave been intimate with Pytha- grams have been preserved. (Anthol. Graec. vii.
goras, we can see the origin of the legend which 623, ix. 218, 756. )"
[C. P. M. ]
makes the ancestor of the house the son of Pytha- AEMI'LIUS ASPER. [ASPER. ]
goras. The first member of the house who ob AEMI'LIUS MACER. [MACER. )
tained the consulship was L. Aemilius Mamercus, AEMI'LIUS MAGNUS ARBOʻRIUS. (AR-
in B. C. 484.
BORIUS. )
The family-names of this gens are : BARBULA, AEMI’LIUS PACENSIS. (PACENSIS. )
BUCA, LEPIDUS, MAMERCUS or MAMERCINUS, AEMI'LIUS PAPINIA'NÙS. [PAPINI-
Papus, Paullus, REGILLUS, SCAURUS. Of these ANUS. ]
names Buca, Lepidus, Paullus, and Scaurus are the AEMI'LIUS PARTHENIANUS. [PAR-
only ones that occur on coins.
THENIANUS. ]
AEMILIA'NUS. l. The son of L. Aemilius AEMI’LIUS PROBUS. [NEPOS, CORNE-
Paullus Macedonicus, was adopted by P. Cornelius LIUs. ]
Scipio, the son of P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus, AEMI’LIUS SURA. (SURA. ]
and was thus called P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus 'AENE'ADES (Alverades), a patronymic from
Africanus. [SCIPIO. ]
Aeneas, and applied as a surname to those who
2. The governor of Pannonia and Moesia in the were believed to be descended from him, such
reign of Gallus. He is also called Aemilius; and as Ascanius, Augustus, and the Romans in
on coins we find as his praenomen both Marcus general. (Virg. Aen. ix. 653; 0v. Ex Pont. i. 35;
and Caius. On one coin he is called C. Julius Met. xv. 682, 695. )
(L. S. )
Aemilianus ; but there is some doubt about the · AENE'AS (Alvelas). Homeric Story. Aeneas
genuineness of the word Julius. (Eckhel, vii. p. 372. ) was the son of Anchises and Aphrodite, and born
He was born in Mauritania about A. D. 206. He on mount Ida. On his father's side he was a
defeated the barbarians who had invaded his pro great-grandson of Tros, and thus nearly related to
vince, and chased them as far as the Danube, A. D. the royal house of Troy, as Priam himself was a
253. He distributed among his soldiers the booty grandson of Tros. (Hom. I. xx. 215, &c. , ü.
he had gained, and was saluted emperor by them. 820, v. 247, &c.
kind, scrappy and gossiping. It is partly collected Latin by C. Gesner, and into English by A. Fle
from older writers, and parily the result of his own ming, Lond. 1576, and by Stanley, 1665; this
observations both in Italy and abroad. According last has been reprinted more than once. The De
to Philostratus (in Vit. ) he was scarcely erer out Animalium Natura has been translated into Latin
of Italy; but he tells us himself that he travelled by Peter Gillius (a Frenchman) and by Conrad
as far as Aegypt; and that he saw at Alexandria Gesner. It does not appear to have been translated
an ox with five feet. (De Anim. xi. 40 ; comp. xi. into English.
11. ) This book would appear to have become a There has also been attributed to Aelian a work
popular and standard work on zoology, since in the called Kathyopla Toll Fúvvidos, an attack on an
fourteenth century Manuel Philes, a Byzantine effeminate man, probably meant for Elagabalus.
poet, founded upon it a poem on animals. At the (Suidas, s. r. 'Appev. )
[A. A. )
;
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AELIANUS.
AEMILIA.
129
AELIA’NUS, LU'CIUS, one of the thirty ty- sions. It has been translated into English by
rants (A. D. 259-268) under the Roman empire. Capt. John Bingham, Lond. 1616, fol. , and by
He assumed the purple in Gaul after the death of Lord Dillon, 1874, 4to.
(A. A. )
Postumus, and was killed by his own soldiers, be AELIUS ARISTI'DES. (ARISTIDES. )
cause he would not allow them to plunder Mogun- AELIUS ASCLEPI'ADES. (ASCLEPIADES. ]
tiacum. Trebellius Pollio and others call him AELIUS DIONY'SIUS. [DIONYSIUS. ]
Lollianus ; Eckhel (Doctr. Num. vii. p. 448) thinks AEʻLIUS DONA'TUS. [Donatus. )
that his true name was Laelianus; but there seems AE'LIUS LAMPRI'DIUS. (LAMPRIDIUS. ]
most authority in favour of L. Aelianus. (Eutrop. AEʻLIUS MARCIANUS. [MARCIANUS. ]
ix. 7; Trebell. Poll. Trig. Tyr. 4; Aurel. Vict, de AEʻLIUS MAURUS. (MAURUS. )
Caes. 33, Epit. 32. )
AELIUS PROMOTUS (Αίλιος Προμώτος),
AELIANUS ME'CCIUS ('Alliards MEKKLOS), an ancient physician of Alexandria, of whose per-
an ancient physician, who must have lived in the sonal history no particulars are known, and whoso
second century after Christ, as he is mentioned by date is uncertain. He is supposed by Villoison
Galen (De Theriaca ad Pamphil. init. vol. xiv. (Anecd. Graec. vol. ii. p. 179. note 1) to have
p. 299) as the oldest of his tutors. His father is lived after the time of Pompey the Great, that is,
supposed to have also been a physician, as Aelianus in the first century before Christ; by others he is
is said by Galen (De Dissech. Muscul. c. I. p. 2. considered to be much more ancient ; and by
ed. Dietz) to have made an epitome of his father's Choulant (Handbuch der Bücherkunde für die
anatomical writings. Galen speaks of that part of Aeltere Medicin, Ed. 2. Leipzig, 1840, 8vo. ), on
his work which treated of the Dissection of the the other hand, he is placed as late as the second
Muscles as being held in some repute in his time half of the first century after Christ. He is most
(ilnid. ), and he always mentions his tutor with re probably the same person who is quoted by Galen
spech (ibid. c. 7, 22, pp. 11, 57. ) During the (De Compos. Medicam. secund. Locos, iv. 7, vol.
prevalence of an epidemic in Italy, Aelianus is xii. p. 730) simply by the name of Aelius. He
said by Galen (De Theriaca ad Pamphil ibid. ) to wrote several Greek medical works, which are still
have used the Theriaca (Did. of Ant. art. The to be found in manuscript in different libraries
riaca) with great success, both as a means of cure in Europe, but of which none (as far as the writer
and also as a preservative against the disease. He is aware) have ever been published, though Kuhn
must have been a person of some celebrity, as this intended his works to have been included in his
same anecdote is mentioned by the Arabic Histo collection of Greek medical writers. Some extracts
rian Abú 'l-Faraj (Histor. Compend. Dynast. p. from one of his works entitled Avvapepov,* Medis
77), with exactly the same circumstances except cinalium Formularum Collectio, are inserted by C.
that he makes the epidemic to have broken out at G. Kühn in his Additam. ad Elench. Med. Vet. a
Antioch instead of in Italy. None of his works J. A. Fabricio in “ Bibl. Gr. " Exhib. , and by Bona
(as far as the writer is aware) are now extant. in his Tractatus de Scorbuto, Verona, 1781, 4to.
(W. A. G. ) Two other of his works are quoted or mentioned
AELIA'NUS, PLAUTIUS, offered up the by Hieron. Mercurialis in his Variae Lectiones, iii.
prayer as pontifex, when the first stone of the 4, and his work De Venenis et Morbis Venenosis,
new Capitol was laid in a. D. 71. (Tac. Hist. iv. i. 16, ü. 2; and also by Schneider in his Prefaces
53. ) We learn from an inscription (Gruter, p. 453; to Nicander's Theriaca, p. xi. , and Alexipharmacom
Orelli, n. 750), that his full name was Ti. Plantius p. xix.
(W. A. G. ]
Silvanus Aelianus, that he held many important
AELLO. (HARPYIAE ]
military commands, and that he was twice consul. AELLOPUS ('Aelónous), a surname of Iris,
His first consulship was in a. D. 47 ; the date of the messenger of the gods, by which she is de
his second is unknown.
scribed as swift-footed like a storm-wind. Homer
AELIANUS TA'CTICUS(Alnavós Tautukós) uses the form dexótos. (Il. viii. 409. ) [L. S. ]
was most probably a Greek, but not the same as AELURUS. (TIMOTHEUS AELURUS. )
Claudius Aelianus. He lived in Rome and wrote • AEMILIA. 1. A vestal virgin, who, when
a work in fifty-three chapters on the Military Tac- the sacred fire was extinguished on one occasion,
tics of the Greeks (Tiepl EtpatoyTážewn prayed to the goddess for her assistance, and mira-
'EXAmpice), which he dedicated to the emperor | culously rekindled it by throwing a piece of her
Hadrian. He also gives a brief account of the garment upon the extinct embers. (Dionys. ii.
constitution of a Roman army at that time. The 68 ; Val
. Max. i. 1. $7. )
work arose, he says (Dedic. ), from a conversation 2. The third daughter of L. Aemilius Paullus,
he bad with the emperor Nerva at Frontinus's who fell in the battle of Cannae, was the wife of
house at Formiae. 'He promises a work on Scipio Africanus I. and the mother of the celebrated
Naval Tactics also; but this, if it was written, Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi. She was of
is lost. The first edition of the Tactics (a very a mild disposition, and long survived her husband.
bad one) was published in 1532; the next, much Her property, which was large, was inherited by
better, was by Franciscus Robortellus, Venice, her grandson by adoption, Scipio Africanus II. ,
1552, 4to. , which contains a new Latin version by who gave it to his own mother Papiria, who had
the editor, and is illustrated with many cuts. The been divorced by his own father L. Aemilius.
best edition is that printed by Elzevir at Leyden,
1613. It is usually found bound up with Leo's
Tactica (Leo).
Avvapepov is a word used by the later Greek
It was translated into Latin first by Theodorus writers, and is explained by Du Cange (Gloss. Med.
of Thessalonica. This translation was published et Infim. Graecit. ) to mean vis, virtus.
It is how
at Rome, 1487, together with Vegetius, Frontinus, ever frequently used in the sense given to it in the
and Modestus. It is printed also in Robortellus's text. See Leo, Conspect. Medic. iv. 1, ll. ap
edition, which therefore contains two Latin ver- Ermerin. Anecd. Med. Graec. pp. 153, 157.
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30
AEMILIANUS.
AENEAS.
SPIVS
(Polyb. xxxii. 12 ; Diod. Exc. xxxi. ; Val. Max. gether with his son Volusianus by his own soldiers.
vi. 7. & 1; Plut. Aem. 2; Liv. xxxviii. 57. ) Aemilianus was acknowledged by the senate, but
3. The third daughter of L. Aemilius Paullus was slain after a reign of three or four months by his
Macedonicus was a little girl when her father was soldiers near Spoletum, on the approach of Valeri-
appointed consul a second time to conduct the war anus. According to other accounts he died a
against Perseus. Upon returning home after bis natural death. (Zosimus, i. 28, 29; Zonaras, rii.
election he found her in tears, and upon inquiring 21, 22 ; Eutrop. ix. 5; Aurel Vict. de Cass. 31,
the reason she told him that Perseus had died, Epit. 31. )
which was the name of her dog ; whereupon he
exclaimed “ I accept the omen," and regarded it
as a pledge of his success in the war. (Cic. de
Div. i. 46, ïi. 40; Plut. Aem. 10. )
4. Aemilia Lepida. (LEPIDA. ]
5. A vestal virgin, who was put to death B. C.
114 for having committed incest upon several oc-
casions. She induced two of the other vestal
virgins, Marcia and Licinia, to commit the same
crime, but these two were acquitted by the ponti-
fices, when Aemilia was condemned, but were
subsequently condemned by the praetor L. Cassius.
(Plut. Quaest. Rom. p. 284 ; Liv. Epit. 63 ; 3. One of the thirty tyrants (A. D. 259——268)
Orosius, v. 15; Ascon. in Cic. Mil. p. 46, ed. was compelled by the troops in Egypt to assume
Orelli. )
the purple. He took the surname of Alexander or
AEMI'LIA GENS, originally written AIMI- Alexandrinus. Gallienus sent Theodotus against
LIA, one of the most ancient patrician houses at him, by whom he was taken and sent prisoner to
Rome. Its origin is referred to the time of Numa Gallienus. Aemilianus was strangled in prison.
and it is said to have been descended from Ma- (Trebell Poll. Trig. Tyr. 22, Gallien. 4, 5. )
mercus, who received the name of Aemilius on ac- AEMILIANUS (who is also called Aemilius)
count of the persuasiveness of his language (Si' lived in the fifth century after Christ, and is
aluvalay Nóyou). This Mamercus is represented known as a physician, confessor, and martyr. In
by some as the son of Pythagoras, and by others the reign of the Vandal King Hunneric (A. D.
as the son of Numa, while a third account traces 477-484), during the Arian persecution in Africa,
his origin to Ascanius, who had two sons, Julius he was most cruelly put to death. The Romish
and Aemylos. (Plut. Aemil. 2, Num. 8, 21; Festus, church celebrates his memory on the sixth of De
8. v. Aemil. ) Amulius is also mentioned as one cember, the Greek church on the seventh. (Mar-
of the ancestors of the Aemilii. (Sil. Ital. viii. 297. ) tyrol. Rom. ed. Baron. ; Victor Vitensis, De Per.
It seems pretty clear that the Aemilii were of secut. Vandal. v. 1, with Ruinart's notes, Paris.
Sabine origin; and Festus derives the name Ma- 8vo. 1694 ; Bzovius, Nomenclator Sanctorum Pro
mercus from the Oscan, Mamers in that language fessione Medicorum. )
(W. A. G. ]
being the same as Mars. The Sabines spoke AEMILIA'NUŚ (Alusaiavos), a native of the
Oscan. Since then the Aemilii were supposed to town of Nicaea, and an epigrammatic poet. Nothing
have come to Rome in the time of Numa, and further is known about him. Three of his epi.
Numa was said to bave been intimate with Pytha- grams have been preserved. (Anthol. Graec. vii.
goras, we can see the origin of the legend which 623, ix. 218, 756. )"
[C. P. M. ]
makes the ancestor of the house the son of Pytha- AEMI'LIUS ASPER. [ASPER. ]
goras. The first member of the house who ob AEMI'LIUS MACER. [MACER. )
tained the consulship was L. Aemilius Mamercus, AEMI'LIUS MAGNUS ARBOʻRIUS. (AR-
in B. C. 484.
BORIUS. )
The family-names of this gens are : BARBULA, AEMI’LIUS PACENSIS. (PACENSIS. )
BUCA, LEPIDUS, MAMERCUS or MAMERCINUS, AEMI'LIUS PAPINIA'NÙS. [PAPINI-
Papus, Paullus, REGILLUS, SCAURUS. Of these ANUS. ]
names Buca, Lepidus, Paullus, and Scaurus are the AEMI'LIUS PARTHENIANUS. [PAR-
only ones that occur on coins.
THENIANUS. ]
AEMILIA'NUS. l. The son of L. Aemilius AEMI’LIUS PROBUS. [NEPOS, CORNE-
Paullus Macedonicus, was adopted by P. Cornelius LIUs. ]
Scipio, the son of P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus, AEMI’LIUS SURA. (SURA. ]
and was thus called P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus 'AENE'ADES (Alverades), a patronymic from
Africanus. [SCIPIO. ]
Aeneas, and applied as a surname to those who
2. The governor of Pannonia and Moesia in the were believed to be descended from him, such
reign of Gallus. He is also called Aemilius; and as Ascanius, Augustus, and the Romans in
on coins we find as his praenomen both Marcus general. (Virg. Aen. ix. 653; 0v. Ex Pont. i. 35;
and Caius. On one coin he is called C. Julius Met. xv. 682, 695. )
(L. S. )
Aemilianus ; but there is some doubt about the · AENE'AS (Alvelas). Homeric Story. Aeneas
genuineness of the word Julius. (Eckhel, vii. p. 372. ) was the son of Anchises and Aphrodite, and born
He was born in Mauritania about A. D. 206. He on mount Ida. On his father's side he was a
defeated the barbarians who had invaded his pro great-grandson of Tros, and thus nearly related to
vince, and chased them as far as the Danube, A. D. the royal house of Troy, as Priam himself was a
253. He distributed among his soldiers the booty grandson of Tros. (Hom. I. xx. 215, &c. , ü.
he had gained, and was saluted emperor by them. 820, v. 247, &c.
