), Cicero's letters show the importance he at- some weeks of inactivity, Hirtius omitted no means
tached to his relations with Hirtius.
tached to his relations with Hirtius.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
D.
] a letter dated April 18, he announced to Cicero the
HI'RRIUS, C. , son perhaps of Hirrius, defeat of the Pompeians (ad Att. xi. 37). From
praetor in B. c. 88, was remembered as the first Narbo, where Caesar joined him, Hirtius sent to
private person who had sea-water stock-ponds for Cicero his reply to the orator's panegyric of Cato,
lampreys. He was so proud of these fish that he which was probably composed at Caesar's request,
would not sell them at any price, but sent some and was a prelude to his own more celebrated
thousands of them to Caesar for his triumphal treatise “ Anti-Cato. ” (Id. ad Att. xii. 40. § 1,
banquets in B. C. 46–45. Hirrius expended the 4). $ 4. ) Hirtius disputed his commendations of
rent of his houses, amounting to 12,000,000 ses Cato, but wrote in flattering terms of Cicero him-
terces, in bait for his lampreys, and sold one self (comp. ad Att. xiii. 21), who accordingly took
farm which was well stocked with them for 400,000 care to circulate freely the treatise of Hirtius. (Ad
sesterces. (Varr. R. R. ii. 5, iii. 17; Plin. H. N. stt. xii. 44, 45, 47. ) At the same time Hirtius
ix. 55. ) He is perhaps the same person with C. appears to have renewed his efforts to reconcile
Hirrius Postumius, mentioned among other volup-Q. Cicero with his son, and to have softened
tuaries by Cicero (de Fin. ii. 22. 70). (W. B. D. ] Caesar's displeasure with the father. (Ad At. xiii.
A. HI’RTIUS, A. F. , belonged to a plebeian fa- 37. 40. ) In B. C. 44 Hirtius received Belgic Gaul
mily, which came probably from Ferentinum in the for his province, but he governed it by deputy (ud
territory of the Hernici. (Orelli, Inscr. n. 589. ) He Att. xiv. 9), and attended Caesar at Rome, who
was throughout life the personal and political friend nominated him and Vibius Pansa, his colleague in
of Caesar the dictator (Cic. Phil. xiii. 11), but his the augurate, consuls for B. C. 43. (Id. ad Fam.
name would scarcely have rescued the Hirtia gens xii. 25, Phil. vii. 4. ) His long residence in the
from obscurity, had not his death marked a crisis capital had made Hirtius better acquainted with
in the history of the republic. In B. C. 58 he was the general feeling and state of parties than
Caesar's legatus in Gaul (Cic. ad Fam. xvi. 27), Caesar himself, and he joined the other leading
but was more frequently employed as a negotiator Caesarians in counselling the dictator not to dismiss
than as a soldier. In December B. C. 50, he was his guards (Vell. Pat. ii. 57; Plut. Caes. 57;
despatched with a commission to L. Balbus at comp. Suet. Caes. 86 ; Dion Cass. xliv. 7 ; App.
Rome, and as he arrived and departed at night, his B. C. ii. 107 ; Cic. ad Att. xiv. 22. ) Their advice
errand, as a known emissary of Caesar, caused was neglected, and Hirtius, deprived of his con-
much speculation and alarm, especially to Cn. stant patron and friend, was, by his nomination to
Pompey. (Cic. ad Att. vii. 4. ) Hirtius returned the consulship, brought into the centre and front
from Gaul on the breaking out of the civil war in of political convulsion, without strictly belong-
B. C. 49, and was at Rome in April after Pompey's ing to any one of its component parties. As a
expulsion from Italy, at which time he obtained for Caesarian, he was opposed to Cicero and the
the younger Q. Cicero an audience with Caesar senate ; as a friend of the murdered dictator, to
## p. 497 (#513) ############################################
HIRTIUS.
497
HIRTIUS
3
hether he acceeperise
ar in the same year, te
bus, and other count
erests in the capitai
, i
us were one of the la
ar for A. G 46 (Then
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(Suel Cass. 161 1
unds for supposing is
Tiscription A. HIATOS
ol. . p. 224), pp!
e city, and as Carsa,
from Rome, appointed
s probably one of the
or city-prefecia be
e Lex Hirta, fwer
the magistries (CE
after the close ci ube
net Caesar at Argeci,
half of the elder
1. ) In the folosa
- games at Praenes,
in Africa lired prize
which was contigos
i. 2. ) Toocgh pais
friendly terma dicen
sory, and Hinas i
cor, or to the orzaar's
of the table. (Cice
: Suet. de Car. Rika
th Carxar during the
. 6)
, and left bis Ts
s return to learn
Tu to Rope. he did
second Spanish va
Narbonne, srbere iz
pounced to Cicer toe
Att. xii. 37). Fra
zim, Hirtios saat
panegyric of C244
at Caesar's request
his assassins ; and as a well-wisher to the public | 64 ; Cic. Phil. vii. 4, xi. 8, xüi. 10 ; Dion Casa
good and the new constitution, to Antony. But xlvi. 29 ; Plut. Cic. 45 ; Vell. Pat. ii. 61 ; Suet.
Hirtius was not qualified to cause or to control a Ortao. 10; Tac. Ann. i. 10); but on the fourth,
revolution, and he took refuge at Puteoli from the Cicero and the oligarchy failed in their inotion to
despotic arrogance of Antony and the threats of have Antony declared a public enemy, and for the
the veterans. (Cic. ad Fum. xvi. 24, ad Att. xiv. city to assume the sngum. (Cic. Phil. vi. 3. ). It
9, 11. ) Occasionally, indeed, he mediated between was resolved—and the resolution was supported by
the latter and the party of Brutus and Cassius (ad Hirtius and the Caesarian party-to try negotia-
Fam. xi. 1), and his moderation led the conspira- tion, and to send delegates to his camp at Mutina
tors to hope that through Cicero they might convert Hirtius, on whom the lot fell, was despatched in
the tolerant Caesarian, who, though abhorring their February, although still enfeebled by sickness, to
act, did not renounce their intercourse, into an Cisalpine Gaul. He immediately attacked An-
active partisan. Cicero discouraged, and secretly tony's outposts, and drove them from Claterna; then,
derided their hopes (ad Att. xiv. 20, 21, xv. 5). uniting his forces with those of Octavius at Forum
But Hirtius, though inconvertible, was a useful Cornelii, he, as consul, took the chief command,
friend to the opponents of Antony. Atticus applied and laid up both armies in winter-quarters. (App.
to him for the protection of his estates near Bu- B. C. iii. 65; Cic. ad Fam. xii. 5. )
throtum in Epeirus against the veterans whom Hirtius did not wish for open, at least not im-
Caesar had established in the neighbourhood (ad mediate, collision with Antony, and the senate
At. xv. 1, 3, xvi. 16). To Brutus and Cassius desired to have in the field a superior officer to
who had requested his aid, he gave the good advice Octavius. (Dion Cass. xlvi. 35. ) Antony, whom
not to return to Rome, where their destruction by these movements compelled to divide his forces,
Antony and the ve ens was certain (ad Fam. xi. addressed a letter to Hirtius and Octavius jointly,
1), nor to leave Italy and appeal to arms when remonstrating with them for being the dupes of
their success might be doubtful (ad Att. xv. 6), Cicero and his faction, and for weakening the Cae-
and he had previously urged Dec. Brutus to quit sarian party by division. Without replying to it,
the city, where his presence only led to daily Hirtius forwarded this letter to the senate, and an
bloodshed (ad Fam. xi. 1). Both at this (B. C. 44) acute and acrimonious dissection of it forms the
and at an earlier period of the revolution (45, 46, substance of Cicero's thirteenth Philippic. During
&c.
), Cicero's letters show the importance he at- some weeks of inactivity, Hirtius omitted no means
tached to his relations with Hirtius. When of throwing supplies into Mutina, or of encourage-
writing confidentially, indeed, he ranks him with ment to Dec. Brutus to hold out against the inces
the other “ Pelopidae," that is, the Caesarian sant assaults of Antony, and the more dangerous
chiefs, whom he wished never to hear of or see again progress of famine. (Front. Strat. iii. 13. 87, 14.
(ad Fam. vii. 28, 30); but to Pompey, Brutus, and $ 3 ; Plin. H. N. 1. 53. ). Towards the end of
the senatorian party, be represents himself as on March his colleague, Pansa, crossed the Apennines,
the best terms with Caesar's favourite (vi. 12). At and reaching Bononia, which Hirtius and Octavius
the baths of Puteoli, in April, B. C. 44, their daily had previously taken, was defeated on the follow-
intercourse was renewed, and Cicero again gave ing day by Antony at Forum Gallorum, and, as it
lessons in oratory to Hirtius and his colleague elect, proved, mortally wounded in the battle. (Cic. ad
Vibius Pansa (ad Att. xiv. 12, 22; Suet de Clur. Fam. x. 30 ; comp. Ov. Fast. iv. 625. ) Hirtius,
Rhet. i. ). His treatise de Fato Cicero represents as however, retrieved this disaster on the same even-
arising out of a discussion with Hirtius at Puteoli ing, by suddenly attacking Antony on his return
in the same year (de Fato, 1). Hirtius left Cam- to the camp at Mutina. Honours, on Cicero's
pania to attend the senate summoned for the first motion, had scarcely been decreed by the senate to
of June by Antony (ad Att. xv. 5), but finding Hirtius for his victory (Cic. Phil. xiv. ), when news
himself in danger from the veterans, he returned to arrived at Rome of the rout of Antony on the 27th,
his Tusculan villa (ad Att. xv. 6). In the autumn the deliverance of Mutina, and the fall of Hirtius
of this year Hirtius was disabled from attendance in leading an assault on the besiegers' camp. (Ad
in the senate by sickness (ad Fam. xii. 22), from Fum. x. 30, 33, xi. 9, 10, 13, xji. 25, Phil. xiv. 9,
which he never perfectly recovered (Phil. i. 15, 10, 14 ; App. B. C. iii
. 66——71; Dion Cass. xlvi.
vii. 4, a. 8). According to Cicero, the people 36—39 ; Plut. Ant. 17, Cic. 45; Vell. Pat. ii. 61;
offered vows for his restoration, and at such a crisis Liv. Epit. 119; Eutrop. vii. 1 ; Oros, vi. 18;
the moderate and unambitious Hirtius was of no Zonar. x. 14. ) Octavius sent the bodies of the slain
mean worth to the commonwealth.
consuls, with a numerous escort, to Rome, where
According to a decree of the senate passed in the they were received with extraordinary honours,
preceding December (Cic. Phil. iii. ad Fam. xi. 6), and publicly buried in the field of Mars. The
Hirtius and Pansa summoned the senate for the grief and dismay at their fall was universal : the
1st of January, B. C. 43. After the usual sacrifices, company of contractors for funerals refused any re-
they proceeded to the capitol, and laid before a nu- compense for their interment (Val. Max. v. 2. § 10;
merous meeting the general state of the common-App. B. C. iii. 76 ; Vell. Pat. ii. 62); and the day
wealth, and the rogation respecting honours to of their death became an epoch of chronology.
Octavius Caesar, Dec. Brutus, and the martial and (Ovid. Trist. iv. 10, 6; Tibull. iii. 5, 18. ) Yet,
fourth legions. The debate was opened by Hirtius however calamitous to the commonwealth, the fall
and his colleague, who declared their attachment to of Hirtius and his colleague was probably fortunate
the existing constitution, and exhorted the senate for themselves. They could not have long hin-
to similar firmness and consistency. (Phil. v. 1, dered the union of Antony and Octavius and they
12, 13, 35, vi. ! ; Dion Cass. xlv. 17; App. B. C. would have been among the first victims of pro-
iii. 50. ) The discussion lasted four days. On the scription. To Octavius their removal from the
second 'the decree for honours to Brutus, Octavius, scene was so timely, that he was accused by many
and the legions, was passed (App. B. C. iii. 51–1 of murdering them. (Dion Cass. xlvi. 39 ; Suet
yn more celebrated
Itt . 40. &1.
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498
HIRTIUS.
HISTIAEUS.
Aug. 1]; Tac. An. i. 10; Pseudo-Brut. ad Cc. HIRTULEIUS, quaestor after the year ago
i. 6. )
86, was the author of an amendment on the law of
Whether the “ A. Hirtius, a. f. ” mentioned in L. Valerius Flaccus, consul in the same year. (L.
an inscription discovered at Ferentinum, as having, Valerius Flaccus, No. 11. ) The Valerian law
while censor or quinquennalis in the reign of Au- had cancelled debts by decreeing that only a qua
gustus, repaired or restored the walls of that town, drans should be paid to the creditor. The amend-
were the son of the consul of B. C. 43 is uncertain. ment of Hirtuleius, by tripling the dividend to be
Orelli, Inscr. n. 589, id. vol. ii. p. 172 ; Westphal, paid, rendered the law almost nugatory. (Cic. pro
Camp. Romagn. p. 84. ) The Hirtius mentioned Font. 1. ) It is doubtful whether this Hirtulerus
by Appian (B. C. iv. 43, 84) as compelled by pro- were the same with the quaestor and legatus of
scription to fly to Sex. Pompeius, may have been Sertorius in Spain (Plut. Sert. 12; Front. Strat. i.
the same person, since many of the Pompeians were 5. § 8), who in B. c. 79, on the banks of the Anas,
restored and even favoured by Augustus after the defeated L. Domitius Ahenobarbus (AHENOBAR-
treaty at Misenum, in B. c. 39.
BUS, No. 15), Therius, legatus of Q. Metellus
Hintia, whom Cicero, after his repudiation of Pius, and L. Manilius, praetor of Narbonne, in the
Terentia, in B. C. 46, had some thoughts of marry- neighbourhood of Lerida.
HI'RRIUS, C. , son perhaps of Hirrius, defeat of the Pompeians (ad Att. xi. 37). From
praetor in B. c. 88, was remembered as the first Narbo, where Caesar joined him, Hirtius sent to
private person who had sea-water stock-ponds for Cicero his reply to the orator's panegyric of Cato,
lampreys. He was so proud of these fish that he which was probably composed at Caesar's request,
would not sell them at any price, but sent some and was a prelude to his own more celebrated
thousands of them to Caesar for his triumphal treatise “ Anti-Cato. ” (Id. ad Att. xii. 40. § 1,
banquets in B. C. 46–45. Hirrius expended the 4). $ 4. ) Hirtius disputed his commendations of
rent of his houses, amounting to 12,000,000 ses Cato, but wrote in flattering terms of Cicero him-
terces, in bait for his lampreys, and sold one self (comp. ad Att. xiii. 21), who accordingly took
farm which was well stocked with them for 400,000 care to circulate freely the treatise of Hirtius. (Ad
sesterces. (Varr. R. R. ii. 5, iii. 17; Plin. H. N. stt. xii. 44, 45, 47. ) At the same time Hirtius
ix. 55. ) He is perhaps the same person with C. appears to have renewed his efforts to reconcile
Hirrius Postumius, mentioned among other volup-Q. Cicero with his son, and to have softened
tuaries by Cicero (de Fin. ii. 22. 70). (W. B. D. ] Caesar's displeasure with the father. (Ad At. xiii.
A. HI’RTIUS, A. F. , belonged to a plebeian fa- 37. 40. ) In B. C. 44 Hirtius received Belgic Gaul
mily, which came probably from Ferentinum in the for his province, but he governed it by deputy (ud
territory of the Hernici. (Orelli, Inscr. n. 589. ) He Att. xiv. 9), and attended Caesar at Rome, who
was throughout life the personal and political friend nominated him and Vibius Pansa, his colleague in
of Caesar the dictator (Cic. Phil. xiii. 11), but his the augurate, consuls for B. C. 43. (Id. ad Fam.
name would scarcely have rescued the Hirtia gens xii. 25, Phil. vii. 4. ) His long residence in the
from obscurity, had not his death marked a crisis capital had made Hirtius better acquainted with
in the history of the republic. In B. C. 58 he was the general feeling and state of parties than
Caesar's legatus in Gaul (Cic. ad Fam. xvi. 27), Caesar himself, and he joined the other leading
but was more frequently employed as a negotiator Caesarians in counselling the dictator not to dismiss
than as a soldier. In December B. C. 50, he was his guards (Vell. Pat. ii. 57; Plut. Caes. 57;
despatched with a commission to L. Balbus at comp. Suet. Caes. 86 ; Dion Cass. xliv. 7 ; App.
Rome, and as he arrived and departed at night, his B. C. ii. 107 ; Cic. ad Att. xiv. 22. ) Their advice
errand, as a known emissary of Caesar, caused was neglected, and Hirtius, deprived of his con-
much speculation and alarm, especially to Cn. stant patron and friend, was, by his nomination to
Pompey. (Cic. ad Att. vii. 4. ) Hirtius returned the consulship, brought into the centre and front
from Gaul on the breaking out of the civil war in of political convulsion, without strictly belong-
B. C. 49, and was at Rome in April after Pompey's ing to any one of its component parties. As a
expulsion from Italy, at which time he obtained for Caesarian, he was opposed to Cicero and the
the younger Q. Cicero an audience with Caesar senate ; as a friend of the murdered dictator, to
## p. 497 (#513) ############################################
HIRTIUS.
497
HIRTIUS
3
hether he acceeperise
ar in the same year, te
bus, and other count
erests in the capitai
, i
us were one of the la
ar for A. G 46 (Then
he ex-praecors who are
(Suel Cass. 161 1
unds for supposing is
Tiscription A. HIATOS
ol. . p. 224), pp!
e city, and as Carsa,
from Rome, appointed
s probably one of the
or city-prefecia be
e Lex Hirta, fwer
the magistries (CE
after the close ci ube
net Caesar at Argeci,
half of the elder
1. ) In the folosa
- games at Praenes,
in Africa lired prize
which was contigos
i. 2. ) Toocgh pais
friendly terma dicen
sory, and Hinas i
cor, or to the orzaar's
of the table. (Cice
: Suet. de Car. Rika
th Carxar during the
. 6)
, and left bis Ts
s return to learn
Tu to Rope. he did
second Spanish va
Narbonne, srbere iz
pounced to Cicer toe
Att. xii. 37). Fra
zim, Hirtios saat
panegyric of C244
at Caesar's request
his assassins ; and as a well-wisher to the public | 64 ; Cic. Phil. vii. 4, xi. 8, xüi. 10 ; Dion Casa
good and the new constitution, to Antony. But xlvi. 29 ; Plut. Cic. 45 ; Vell. Pat. ii. 61 ; Suet.
Hirtius was not qualified to cause or to control a Ortao. 10; Tac. Ann. i. 10); but on the fourth,
revolution, and he took refuge at Puteoli from the Cicero and the oligarchy failed in their inotion to
despotic arrogance of Antony and the threats of have Antony declared a public enemy, and for the
the veterans. (Cic. ad Fum. xvi. 24, ad Att. xiv. city to assume the sngum. (Cic. Phil. vi. 3. ). It
9, 11. ) Occasionally, indeed, he mediated between was resolved—and the resolution was supported by
the latter and the party of Brutus and Cassius (ad Hirtius and the Caesarian party-to try negotia-
Fam. xi. 1), and his moderation led the conspira- tion, and to send delegates to his camp at Mutina
tors to hope that through Cicero they might convert Hirtius, on whom the lot fell, was despatched in
the tolerant Caesarian, who, though abhorring their February, although still enfeebled by sickness, to
act, did not renounce their intercourse, into an Cisalpine Gaul. He immediately attacked An-
active partisan. Cicero discouraged, and secretly tony's outposts, and drove them from Claterna; then,
derided their hopes (ad Att. xiv. 20, 21, xv. 5). uniting his forces with those of Octavius at Forum
But Hirtius, though inconvertible, was a useful Cornelii, he, as consul, took the chief command,
friend to the opponents of Antony. Atticus applied and laid up both armies in winter-quarters. (App.
to him for the protection of his estates near Bu- B. C. iii. 65; Cic. ad Fam. xii. 5. )
throtum in Epeirus against the veterans whom Hirtius did not wish for open, at least not im-
Caesar had established in the neighbourhood (ad mediate, collision with Antony, and the senate
At. xv. 1, 3, xvi. 16). To Brutus and Cassius desired to have in the field a superior officer to
who had requested his aid, he gave the good advice Octavius. (Dion Cass. xlvi. 35. ) Antony, whom
not to return to Rome, where their destruction by these movements compelled to divide his forces,
Antony and the ve ens was certain (ad Fam. xi. addressed a letter to Hirtius and Octavius jointly,
1), nor to leave Italy and appeal to arms when remonstrating with them for being the dupes of
their success might be doubtful (ad Att. xv. 6), Cicero and his faction, and for weakening the Cae-
and he had previously urged Dec. Brutus to quit sarian party by division. Without replying to it,
the city, where his presence only led to daily Hirtius forwarded this letter to the senate, and an
bloodshed (ad Fam. xi. 1). Both at this (B. C. 44) acute and acrimonious dissection of it forms the
and at an earlier period of the revolution (45, 46, substance of Cicero's thirteenth Philippic. During
&c.
), Cicero's letters show the importance he at- some weeks of inactivity, Hirtius omitted no means
tached to his relations with Hirtius. When of throwing supplies into Mutina, or of encourage-
writing confidentially, indeed, he ranks him with ment to Dec. Brutus to hold out against the inces
the other “ Pelopidae," that is, the Caesarian sant assaults of Antony, and the more dangerous
chiefs, whom he wished never to hear of or see again progress of famine. (Front. Strat. iii. 13. 87, 14.
(ad Fam. vii. 28, 30); but to Pompey, Brutus, and $ 3 ; Plin. H. N. 1. 53. ). Towards the end of
the senatorian party, be represents himself as on March his colleague, Pansa, crossed the Apennines,
the best terms with Caesar's favourite (vi. 12). At and reaching Bononia, which Hirtius and Octavius
the baths of Puteoli, in April, B. C. 44, their daily had previously taken, was defeated on the follow-
intercourse was renewed, and Cicero again gave ing day by Antony at Forum Gallorum, and, as it
lessons in oratory to Hirtius and his colleague elect, proved, mortally wounded in the battle. (Cic. ad
Vibius Pansa (ad Att. xiv. 12, 22; Suet de Clur. Fam. x. 30 ; comp. Ov. Fast. iv. 625. ) Hirtius,
Rhet. i. ). His treatise de Fato Cicero represents as however, retrieved this disaster on the same even-
arising out of a discussion with Hirtius at Puteoli ing, by suddenly attacking Antony on his return
in the same year (de Fato, 1). Hirtius left Cam- to the camp at Mutina. Honours, on Cicero's
pania to attend the senate summoned for the first motion, had scarcely been decreed by the senate to
of June by Antony (ad Att. xv. 5), but finding Hirtius for his victory (Cic. Phil. xiv. ), when news
himself in danger from the veterans, he returned to arrived at Rome of the rout of Antony on the 27th,
his Tusculan villa (ad Att. xv. 6). In the autumn the deliverance of Mutina, and the fall of Hirtius
of this year Hirtius was disabled from attendance in leading an assault on the besiegers' camp. (Ad
in the senate by sickness (ad Fam. xii. 22), from Fum. x. 30, 33, xi. 9, 10, 13, xji. 25, Phil. xiv. 9,
which he never perfectly recovered (Phil. i. 15, 10, 14 ; App. B. C. iii
. 66——71; Dion Cass. xlvi.
vii. 4, a. 8). According to Cicero, the people 36—39 ; Plut. Ant. 17, Cic. 45; Vell. Pat. ii. 61;
offered vows for his restoration, and at such a crisis Liv. Epit. 119; Eutrop. vii. 1 ; Oros, vi. 18;
the moderate and unambitious Hirtius was of no Zonar. x. 14. ) Octavius sent the bodies of the slain
mean worth to the commonwealth.
consuls, with a numerous escort, to Rome, where
According to a decree of the senate passed in the they were received with extraordinary honours,
preceding December (Cic. Phil. iii. ad Fam. xi. 6), and publicly buried in the field of Mars. The
Hirtius and Pansa summoned the senate for the grief and dismay at their fall was universal : the
1st of January, B. C. 43. After the usual sacrifices, company of contractors for funerals refused any re-
they proceeded to the capitol, and laid before a nu- compense for their interment (Val. Max. v. 2. § 10;
merous meeting the general state of the common-App. B. C. iii. 76 ; Vell. Pat. ii. 62); and the day
wealth, and the rogation respecting honours to of their death became an epoch of chronology.
Octavius Caesar, Dec. Brutus, and the martial and (Ovid. Trist. iv. 10, 6; Tibull. iii. 5, 18. ) Yet,
fourth legions. The debate was opened by Hirtius however calamitous to the commonwealth, the fall
and his colleague, who declared their attachment to of Hirtius and his colleague was probably fortunate
the existing constitution, and exhorted the senate for themselves. They could not have long hin-
to similar firmness and consistency. (Phil. v. 1, dered the union of Antony and Octavius and they
12, 13, 35, vi. ! ; Dion Cass. xlv. 17; App. B. C. would have been among the first victims of pro-
iii. 50. ) The discussion lasted four days. On the scription. To Octavius their removal from the
second 'the decree for honours to Brutus, Octavius, scene was so timely, that he was accused by many
and the legions, was passed (App. B. C. iii. 51–1 of murdering them. (Dion Cass. xlvi. 39 ; Suet
yn more celebrated
Itt . 40. &1.
is comparedatoard
erms of Cieem is
bo according tot
ise of Hirties (41
sine tine Hita
efforts to reodata
to have sodias
ther. (Ad AIE
ceired Belgie Gaz
d it by depar!
sar at Rome, BBC
$4, his colleague i
43. (Id. is an
Į residence in the
r acquainted with
of partir
the other leading
ator not to die
Plat Cat 3;
38. xlir. 1; df
2) Their ni'ne
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HIRTIUS.
HISTIAEUS.
Aug. 1]; Tac. An. i. 10; Pseudo-Brut. ad Cc. HIRTULEIUS, quaestor after the year ago
i. 6. )
86, was the author of an amendment on the law of
Whether the “ A. Hirtius, a. f. ” mentioned in L. Valerius Flaccus, consul in the same year. (L.
an inscription discovered at Ferentinum, as having, Valerius Flaccus, No. 11. ) The Valerian law
while censor or quinquennalis in the reign of Au- had cancelled debts by decreeing that only a qua
gustus, repaired or restored the walls of that town, drans should be paid to the creditor. The amend-
were the son of the consul of B. C. 43 is uncertain. ment of Hirtuleius, by tripling the dividend to be
Orelli, Inscr. n. 589, id. vol. ii. p. 172 ; Westphal, paid, rendered the law almost nugatory. (Cic. pro
Camp. Romagn. p. 84. ) The Hirtius mentioned Font. 1. ) It is doubtful whether this Hirtulerus
by Appian (B. C. iv. 43, 84) as compelled by pro- were the same with the quaestor and legatus of
scription to fly to Sex. Pompeius, may have been Sertorius in Spain (Plut. Sert. 12; Front. Strat. i.
the same person, since many of the Pompeians were 5. § 8), who in B. c. 79, on the banks of the Anas,
restored and even favoured by Augustus after the defeated L. Domitius Ahenobarbus (AHENOBAR-
treaty at Misenum, in B. c. 39.
BUS, No. 15), Therius, legatus of Q. Metellus
Hintia, whom Cicero, after his repudiation of Pius, and L. Manilius, praetor of Narbonne, in the
Terentia, in B. C. 46, had some thoughts of marry- neighbourhood of Lerida.
