He met the equal forces of Severus at Lugdunum
ment of the writings of Plato.
ment of the writings of Plato.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
condemned by the Mamilia Lex, which was passed
Arad. ii. 45; Polub. xxxij. 1), and consul in 151 to punish all those who had been guilty of treason-
with L. Licinius Lucullus. He and his colleague able practices with Jugurtha. (Cic. Brut. 34 ;
were thrown into prison by the tribunes for con- comp. Sall. Jug. 40. )
ducting the leries with too much severity. (Lis. 21. A. POSTUMIL'S ALBINUS, brother of No. 20,
Epit. 48; Polyb. xxxv. 3; Oros. ir. 21. ) He and probably son of No. 19, was left by his bro-
was one of the ambassadors sent in 153 to make ther as pro-praetor, in command of the army in
peace between Attalus and Prusias (Polyb. xxxiii. Africa in B. c. 110. [See No. 20. ] He marched
il), and accompanied L. Mummius Achaicus into to besiege Suthal, where the treasures of Jugurtha
Greece in 146 as one of his legates. There was a were deposited ; but Jugurtha, under the promise
statue erected to his honour on the Isthmus. of giving him a large sum of money, induced him
(Cic. ad Att. xiii. 30, 32. ) Albinus was well ac- to lead his army into a retired place, where he
quainted with Greck literature, and wrote in that was suddenlr attacked by the Numidian king, and
language a poem and a Roman history, the latter only saved his troops from total destruction by
of which is mentioned by several ancient writers. allowing them to pass under the yoke, and under-
Polybius (xl. 6) speaks of ! nim as a vain and light taking to leave Numidia in ten days. (Sall. Jug.
headed man, who disparged his own people, and 36-38. )
was sillily devoted to the study of Greek literature. 22. A. POSTUMIUS A. F. Sp. X. ALBINI'S, grand-
He relates a tale of him and the elder Cato, who
son of No. 19, and probably son of No. 21, was
reproved Albinus sharply, because in the preface consul B. C. 99, with 11. Antonius. (Plin. H. N.
to his history he begged the pardon of his readers, vi. 7; Obseq. 106. ) Gellius (iv. 6) quotes the
if he should make any mistakes in writing in a words of a senatusconsultum passed in their con-
foreign language; Cato reminded him that he was sulship in consequence of the spears of Mars having
not compelled to write at all, but that if be chose to moved. Cicero says that he was a good speaker.
write, he had no business to ask for the indulgence (Brut. 35, post Red. ad Quir. 5. )
of his readers. This tale is also related by Gellius The following coin is supposed by Eckhel (vol.
(xi. 8), Macrobius (Preface to Saturn. ), Plutarch v. p. 288) and others to refer to this Albinus. On
(Cato," 12), and Suidas (s. r. Aủaos Tootbuius). one side is the head of a female with the letters
Polybius also says that Albinus imitated the worst Hispax, which may perhaps have reference to the
paris of the Greek character, that he was entirely victory which his ancestor L. Albinus obtained in
devoted to pleasure, and shirked all labour and Spain. [See No. 15. ) On the other side a man
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ALBINUS.
ALBINUS.
93
was
ASIH
is represented stretching out his hand to an cagle, I wrote in Latin some works on music and gear
a military standard, and behind him are the fasces metry.
[B. J. )
with the axe. On it are the lettcrs A. POST. A. F. ALBI'NUS, CLO'DIUS, whose full name
N. 8. ABIN (so on the coin, instead of ALBIN. ). On Decimus Clodius Ceionius Septimius Al-
the coins of the Postumia gens the praenomen binus, the son of Cejonius Postuinius and
Spurius is alway written s. and not sp.
Aurelia Messalina, was born at Adrumetum in
Africa; but the year of his birth is not known.
According to his father's statement (Capitol.
Clod. Albin. 4), he received the name of Albi-
nus on account of the extraordinary whiteness of
his body. Shewing great disposition for a military
life, he entered the army at an early age and
served with great distinction, especially during the
rebellion of Avidius Cassius against the emperor
Marcus Aurelius, in a. D. 175. His merits were
acknowledged by the emperor in two letters (il.
23. A. PostumiUS ALBINUS, a person of prae-10) in which he calls Albinus an African, who re-
torian rank, commanded the fleet, B. c. 89, in the sembled his countrymen but little, and who was
Marsic war, and was killed by his own soldiers praise worthy for his military experience, and the
under the plea that he meditated trcachery, but in gravity of his character. The emperor likewise
reality on account of his cruelty. Sulla, who was declared, that without Albinus the legions in
then a legate of the consul Porcius Cato, incorpo- Bithynia) would have gone over to Avidius Cas-
rated his troops with his own, but did not punish sius, and that he intended to have him chosen
the offenders. (Liv. Epit. 75; Plut. Sulla, 6. ) consul. The emperor Commodus gave Albinus a
24. A. POSTUMIUS ALBINUS was placed by command in Gaul and afterwards in Britain. A
Caesar over Sicily, B. C. 48. (Appian, B. C. ii. 48. ) false rumour having been spread that Commodus
25. D. JUNIUS BRUTUS ALBINUS, adopted by had died, Albinus harangued the army in Britain
No. 22, and commemorated in the annexed coin, on the occasion, attacking Commodus as a tyrant,
where Brutus is called ALBINV(S) BRVTL. F. and maintaining that it would be useful to the
(BRUTUS. )
Roman empire to restore to the senate its ancient
dignity and power. The senate was very pleased
with these sentimients, but not 0 the emperor,
who sent Junius Severus to supersede Albinus in
YAL DONDS
his command. At this time Albinus must have
been a very distinguished man, which we may
conclude from the fact, that some time before
Commodus had offered him the title of Caesar,
which he wisely declined. Notwithstanding the
ALBI'NUS, procurator of Judaea, in the reign appointment of Junius Severus as his successor,
of Nero, about A. D. 63 and 64, succeeded Festus, Albinus kept his command till after the murder of
and was guilty of almost every kind of crime in Commodus and that of his successor Pertinax in
his government. He pardoned the vilest criminals
A. D. 193. It is doubtful if Albinus was the
for money, and shamelessly plundered the pro secret author of the murder of Pertinax, to which
vincials. He was succeeded by Florus. (Joseph. Capitolinus makes an allusion. (Ib. 14. )
Ant. Jud. xx. 8. § 1; Bell. Jud. ii. 14. & 1. ) The
After the death of Pertinax, Didius Julianus
LUCEIUS ALBINUS mentioned below may possibly purchased the throne by bribing the praetorians ;
have been the same person.
but immediately afterwards, C. Pescennius Niger
ALBINUS ('Anoivos), a Platonic philosopher, was proclaimed emperor by the legions in Syria ;
who lived at Smyrna and was a contemporary of L. Septimius Severus by the troops in Illyricum
Galen. (Galen, vol. iv. p. 372, ed. Basil. ) A and Pannonia; and Albinus by the armies in Bri-
short tract by him, entitled 'Eigaywri els' Toustain and Gaul. Julianus baving been put to death
Nadtwvos Alaróyous, has come down to us, and is by order of the senate, who dreaded the power
published in the second volume (p. 44) of the first of Septimius Severus, the latter turned his arms
edition of Fabricius ; but omitted in the reprint against Pescennius Niger. With regard to Al-
by Harles, because it is to be found prefixed to binus, we must believe that Severus made a pro-
Etwall's edition of three dialogues of Plato, Oxon. visional arrangement with him, conferring upon
1771; and to Fischer's four dialogues of Plato, him the title of Caesar, and holding with him
Lips. 1783. It contains hardly anything of im- the consulship in A. D. 194. But after the defeat
portance. After explaining the nature of the and death of Niger in A. D. 194, and the complete
Dialogue, which he compares to a Drama, the discomfiture of his adherents, especially after the
writer goes on to divide the Dialogues of Plato fall of Byzantium in A. d. 196, Severus resolved
into four classes, λογικούς, ελεγκτικούς, φυσικούς, | to make himself the absolute naster of the Roman
Horkovs, and mentions another division of them empire. Albinus seeing the danger of his position,
into Tetralogies, according to their subjects. He which he had increased by his indolence, prepared
ad vises that the Alcibiades, Phaedo, Republic, and for resistance. He narrowly escaped being
Timaeus, should be read in a series.
assassinated by a messenger of Severus (ib. 7, 8),
The authorities respecting Albinus have been whereupon he put himself at the head of his army,
collected by Fabricius. (Bill. Graec. iii. p. 658. ) which is said to have consisted of 150,000 men.
He is said to have written a work on the arrange.
He met the equal forces of Severus at Lugdunum
ment of the writings of Plato. Another Albinus (Lyons), in Gaul, and there fought with him on
is mentioned by Boethius and Cassiodorus, who I the 19th of February, 197 (Spartian. Sever. Il), a
GOS
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23
bloody battle, in which he was at first victorious, hand, was found in the bed of the river Anio.
but at last was entirely defeated, and lost his life Her sortes, or oracles, which belonged to the libri
either by suicide, or by order of Severus, after fatales, werc, at the command of the senate, depo-
having been made a prisoner. His body was ill sited and kept in the Capitol. The small square
treated by Severus, who sent his head to Rome, temple of this Sibyl is still extant at Tivoli. Re-
and accompanied it with an insolent letter, in specting the locality, see Kephalides, Reisen durch
which he mocked the senate for their adherence to Italirn, i. p. 125, &c.
(L. S. ]
Albinus. The town of Lugdunum was plundered ALBU'CIUS or ALBU'TIUS, a physician at
and destroyed, and the adherents of Albinus were Rome, who lived probably about the beginning or
cruelly prosecuted by Severus.
middle of the first century after Christ, and who is
Albinus was a man of great bodily beauty and mentioned by Pliny (H. N. xxix. 5) as having
strength; he was an experienced general ; a skil gained by his practice the annual income of two
ful gladiator ; a severe, and often cruel commander; hundred and fifty thousand sesterces (about 1953).
and he has been called the Catiline of his time. 2s. 6d. ). This is considered by Pliny to be a very
He had one son, or perhaps two, who were put to large sum, and may therefore give us some notion of
death with their mother, by order of Severus. It the fortunes made by physicians at Rome about the
is said that he wrote a treatise on agriculture, beginning of the enpire.
[W. A. G. )
and a collection of stories, called Milesian. (Capi- T. ALBU'CIUS or ALBU'TIUS, finished his
tolinus, Clodius Albinus : Dion Cass. lxx. 4–7; studies at Athens at the latter end of the second
Herodian, ii. 15, iii. 5-7. )
century B. C. , and belonged to the Epicurean sect.
There are several medals of Albinus. In the He was well acquainted with Greek literature, or
one annexed he is called D. CLOD. SEPT. ALBIN. rather, says Cicero, was almost a Greek. (Brut.
CAES.
[W. P. ] 35. ) On account of his affecting on every occasion
the Greek language and philosophy, he was sati-
rized by Lucilius, whose lines upon him are pre-
served by Cicero (de Fin. i. 3); and Cicero hiniself
speaks of him as a light-minded man. He accused,
but unsuccessfully, Q. Mucius Scaevola, the augur,
of maladministration (repetundae) in his province.
(Brut. 26, De Orat. ii. 70. ) In B. c. 105 Albucius
was praetor in Sardinia, and in consequence of
some insignificant success which he had gained
over some robbers, he celebrated a triumph in the
province. On his return to Rome, he applied to
ALBI’NUS, LUCE'IUS, was made by Nero the senate for the honour of a supplicatio, but this
procurator of Mauretania Caesariensis, to which was refused, and he was accused in B. c. 103 of
Galba added the province of Tingitana. After the repetundae by C. Julius Caesar, and condemned.
death of Galba, A. D. 69, he espoused the side of Cn. Pompeius Strabo had offered himself as the
Otho, and prepared to invade Spain. Cluvius accuser, but he was not allowed to conduct the
Rufus, who commanded in Spain, being alarmed at prosecution, because he had been the quaestor of
this, sent centurions into Mauretania to induce the Albucius. (De Prov. Cons. 7, in Pison. 38, Div. in
Mauri to revolt against Albinus. They accom- Caecil. 19, de Off. ii. 14. ) After his condemnation,
plished this without much difficulty ; and Albinus he retired to Athens and pursued the study of phi-
was murdered with his wife. (Tac. Hist
. ii. 58, 59. ) losophy. (Tusc. v. 37. ) He left behind him some
A'LBION or ALE'BION ('Alblw or 'Alebiwv), orations, which had been read by Cicero. (Brut. 35. )
a son of Poseidon and brother of Dercynus or Varro (de Re Rust. iii. 2. § 17) speaks of some
Bergion, together with whom he attacked Heracles, satires by L. Albucius written in the style of Luci-
when he passed through their country (Liguria) lius; he appears to be the same person as Titus.
with the oxen of Geryon. But they paid for their C. ALBUÄCIUS SILAS. [SILAS. ]
presumption with their lives. (Apollod. ii. 5. S 10; ALBUS OVIDIUS JUVENTI'NUS. [Ju-
Pomp. Mela, ii. 5. § 39. ) The Scholiast on Lyco VENTINUS]
phron (648) calls the brother of Alebion, Ligys. ALCAEUS ("Arraios). 1. A son of Perseus
The story is also alluded to in Hyginus (Poet. A str. and Andromeda, and married to Hipponome, the
ii. 6) and Dionysius. (i. 41. )
[L. S. ]
daughter of Menoeceus of Thebes, by whom he
ALBUCILLA, the wife of Satrius Secundus, became the father of Amphytrion and Anaxo.
and infamous for her many amours, was accused in (Apollod. ii. 4. & 5; Schol. ad Eurip. Hecub. 886. )
the last year of the reign of Tiberius (A. D. 37) of According to Pansanias (viii. 14. & 2) his wife's
treason, or impiety, against the emperor (impietatis name was Laonome, a daughter of the Arcadian
in principem), and, with her, Cn. Doinitius Aheno Guneus, or Lysidice, a daughter of Pelops.
barbus, Vibius Marsus, and L. Arruntius, as ac- 2. According to Diodorus (i. 14) the original
complices. She was cast into prison by command name of Heracles, given him on account of his
of the senate, after making an ineffectual attempt descent from Alcaeus, the son of Perseus. [HE-
to destroy herself. (Tac. Ann. vi. 47, 48. ) RACLES. ]
ALBÜ'NEA, a prophetic nymph or Sibyl, to 3. A son of Heracles by a female slare of Jar-
whom in the neighbourhood of Tibur a grove was darus, from whom the dynasty of the Heraclids
consecrated, with a well and a temple. Near it in Lydia were believed to be descended. (Herod.
was the oracle of Faunus Fatidicus. (Virg. Aen. i. 7. ) Diodorus (iv. 31) calls this son of Hera-
vü. 81, &c. ; Hor. Carm. i. 7. 12 ; Tibull
. ii. 5. cles, Cleolaus. (Comp. Héllanicus, ap. Steph. Byz.
69. ). Lactantius (De Sibyll
. i. 6) states, that the s. v. 'Akéàn; Wesseling, ad Diod. l. c. )
tenth Sibyl, called Albunea, was worshipped at 4. According to Diodorus (v. 79) a general of
Tibur, and that her image, holding a book in one Rhadamanthys, who presented him with the island
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of Paros. A pollodorus (ii. 5. $ 9) relates that he Alcheus, namely, Cicis and Antimenidas, fighting
was a son of Androgeus (the son of Minos) and under Pittacus against Melanchrus, who is de
brother of Sthenelus, and that when lleracles, on scribed as the tyrant of Lesbos, and who fell in the
Lis expedition to fetch the girdle of Ares, which conflict. (Diog. Laert, i. 74, 79; Strab.
Arad. ii. 45; Polub. xxxij. 1), and consul in 151 to punish all those who had been guilty of treason-
with L. Licinius Lucullus. He and his colleague able practices with Jugurtha. (Cic. Brut. 34 ;
were thrown into prison by the tribunes for con- comp. Sall. Jug. 40. )
ducting the leries with too much severity. (Lis. 21. A. POSTUMIL'S ALBINUS, brother of No. 20,
Epit. 48; Polyb. xxxv. 3; Oros. ir. 21. ) He and probably son of No. 19, was left by his bro-
was one of the ambassadors sent in 153 to make ther as pro-praetor, in command of the army in
peace between Attalus and Prusias (Polyb. xxxiii. Africa in B. c. 110. [See No. 20. ] He marched
il), and accompanied L. Mummius Achaicus into to besiege Suthal, where the treasures of Jugurtha
Greece in 146 as one of his legates. There was a were deposited ; but Jugurtha, under the promise
statue erected to his honour on the Isthmus. of giving him a large sum of money, induced him
(Cic. ad Att. xiii. 30, 32. ) Albinus was well ac- to lead his army into a retired place, where he
quainted with Greck literature, and wrote in that was suddenlr attacked by the Numidian king, and
language a poem and a Roman history, the latter only saved his troops from total destruction by
of which is mentioned by several ancient writers. allowing them to pass under the yoke, and under-
Polybius (xl. 6) speaks of ! nim as a vain and light taking to leave Numidia in ten days. (Sall. Jug.
headed man, who disparged his own people, and 36-38. )
was sillily devoted to the study of Greek literature. 22. A. POSTUMIUS A. F. Sp. X. ALBINI'S, grand-
He relates a tale of him and the elder Cato, who
son of No. 19, and probably son of No. 21, was
reproved Albinus sharply, because in the preface consul B. C. 99, with 11. Antonius. (Plin. H. N.
to his history he begged the pardon of his readers, vi. 7; Obseq. 106. ) Gellius (iv. 6) quotes the
if he should make any mistakes in writing in a words of a senatusconsultum passed in their con-
foreign language; Cato reminded him that he was sulship in consequence of the spears of Mars having
not compelled to write at all, but that if be chose to moved. Cicero says that he was a good speaker.
write, he had no business to ask for the indulgence (Brut. 35, post Red. ad Quir. 5. )
of his readers. This tale is also related by Gellius The following coin is supposed by Eckhel (vol.
(xi. 8), Macrobius (Preface to Saturn. ), Plutarch v. p. 288) and others to refer to this Albinus. On
(Cato," 12), and Suidas (s. r. Aủaos Tootbuius). one side is the head of a female with the letters
Polybius also says that Albinus imitated the worst Hispax, which may perhaps have reference to the
paris of the Greek character, that he was entirely victory which his ancestor L. Albinus obtained in
devoted to pleasure, and shirked all labour and Spain. [See No. 15. ) On the other side a man
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ALBINUS.
ALBINUS.
93
was
ASIH
is represented stretching out his hand to an cagle, I wrote in Latin some works on music and gear
a military standard, and behind him are the fasces metry.
[B. J. )
with the axe. On it are the lettcrs A. POST. A. F. ALBI'NUS, CLO'DIUS, whose full name
N. 8. ABIN (so on the coin, instead of ALBIN. ). On Decimus Clodius Ceionius Septimius Al-
the coins of the Postumia gens the praenomen binus, the son of Cejonius Postuinius and
Spurius is alway written s. and not sp.
Aurelia Messalina, was born at Adrumetum in
Africa; but the year of his birth is not known.
According to his father's statement (Capitol.
Clod. Albin. 4), he received the name of Albi-
nus on account of the extraordinary whiteness of
his body. Shewing great disposition for a military
life, he entered the army at an early age and
served with great distinction, especially during the
rebellion of Avidius Cassius against the emperor
Marcus Aurelius, in a. D. 175. His merits were
acknowledged by the emperor in two letters (il.
23. A. PostumiUS ALBINUS, a person of prae-10) in which he calls Albinus an African, who re-
torian rank, commanded the fleet, B. c. 89, in the sembled his countrymen but little, and who was
Marsic war, and was killed by his own soldiers praise worthy for his military experience, and the
under the plea that he meditated trcachery, but in gravity of his character. The emperor likewise
reality on account of his cruelty. Sulla, who was declared, that without Albinus the legions in
then a legate of the consul Porcius Cato, incorpo- Bithynia) would have gone over to Avidius Cas-
rated his troops with his own, but did not punish sius, and that he intended to have him chosen
the offenders. (Liv. Epit. 75; Plut. Sulla, 6. ) consul. The emperor Commodus gave Albinus a
24. A. POSTUMIUS ALBINUS was placed by command in Gaul and afterwards in Britain. A
Caesar over Sicily, B. C. 48. (Appian, B. C. ii. 48. ) false rumour having been spread that Commodus
25. D. JUNIUS BRUTUS ALBINUS, adopted by had died, Albinus harangued the army in Britain
No. 22, and commemorated in the annexed coin, on the occasion, attacking Commodus as a tyrant,
where Brutus is called ALBINV(S) BRVTL. F. and maintaining that it would be useful to the
(BRUTUS. )
Roman empire to restore to the senate its ancient
dignity and power. The senate was very pleased
with these sentimients, but not 0 the emperor,
who sent Junius Severus to supersede Albinus in
YAL DONDS
his command. At this time Albinus must have
been a very distinguished man, which we may
conclude from the fact, that some time before
Commodus had offered him the title of Caesar,
which he wisely declined. Notwithstanding the
ALBI'NUS, procurator of Judaea, in the reign appointment of Junius Severus as his successor,
of Nero, about A. D. 63 and 64, succeeded Festus, Albinus kept his command till after the murder of
and was guilty of almost every kind of crime in Commodus and that of his successor Pertinax in
his government. He pardoned the vilest criminals
A. D. 193. It is doubtful if Albinus was the
for money, and shamelessly plundered the pro secret author of the murder of Pertinax, to which
vincials. He was succeeded by Florus. (Joseph. Capitolinus makes an allusion. (Ib. 14. )
Ant. Jud. xx. 8. § 1; Bell. Jud. ii. 14. & 1. ) The
After the death of Pertinax, Didius Julianus
LUCEIUS ALBINUS mentioned below may possibly purchased the throne by bribing the praetorians ;
have been the same person.
but immediately afterwards, C. Pescennius Niger
ALBINUS ('Anoivos), a Platonic philosopher, was proclaimed emperor by the legions in Syria ;
who lived at Smyrna and was a contemporary of L. Septimius Severus by the troops in Illyricum
Galen. (Galen, vol. iv. p. 372, ed. Basil. ) A and Pannonia; and Albinus by the armies in Bri-
short tract by him, entitled 'Eigaywri els' Toustain and Gaul. Julianus baving been put to death
Nadtwvos Alaróyous, has come down to us, and is by order of the senate, who dreaded the power
published in the second volume (p. 44) of the first of Septimius Severus, the latter turned his arms
edition of Fabricius ; but omitted in the reprint against Pescennius Niger. With regard to Al-
by Harles, because it is to be found prefixed to binus, we must believe that Severus made a pro-
Etwall's edition of three dialogues of Plato, Oxon. visional arrangement with him, conferring upon
1771; and to Fischer's four dialogues of Plato, him the title of Caesar, and holding with him
Lips. 1783. It contains hardly anything of im- the consulship in A. D. 194. But after the defeat
portance. After explaining the nature of the and death of Niger in A. D. 194, and the complete
Dialogue, which he compares to a Drama, the discomfiture of his adherents, especially after the
writer goes on to divide the Dialogues of Plato fall of Byzantium in A. d. 196, Severus resolved
into four classes, λογικούς, ελεγκτικούς, φυσικούς, | to make himself the absolute naster of the Roman
Horkovs, and mentions another division of them empire. Albinus seeing the danger of his position,
into Tetralogies, according to their subjects. He which he had increased by his indolence, prepared
ad vises that the Alcibiades, Phaedo, Republic, and for resistance. He narrowly escaped being
Timaeus, should be read in a series.
assassinated by a messenger of Severus (ib. 7, 8),
The authorities respecting Albinus have been whereupon he put himself at the head of his army,
collected by Fabricius. (Bill. Graec. iii. p. 658. ) which is said to have consisted of 150,000 men.
He is said to have written a work on the arrange.
He met the equal forces of Severus at Lugdunum
ment of the writings of Plato. Another Albinus (Lyons), in Gaul, and there fought with him on
is mentioned by Boethius and Cassiodorus, who I the 19th of February, 197 (Spartian. Sever. Il), a
GOS
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bloody battle, in which he was at first victorious, hand, was found in the bed of the river Anio.
but at last was entirely defeated, and lost his life Her sortes, or oracles, which belonged to the libri
either by suicide, or by order of Severus, after fatales, werc, at the command of the senate, depo-
having been made a prisoner. His body was ill sited and kept in the Capitol. The small square
treated by Severus, who sent his head to Rome, temple of this Sibyl is still extant at Tivoli. Re-
and accompanied it with an insolent letter, in specting the locality, see Kephalides, Reisen durch
which he mocked the senate for their adherence to Italirn, i. p. 125, &c.
(L. S. ]
Albinus. The town of Lugdunum was plundered ALBU'CIUS or ALBU'TIUS, a physician at
and destroyed, and the adherents of Albinus were Rome, who lived probably about the beginning or
cruelly prosecuted by Severus.
middle of the first century after Christ, and who is
Albinus was a man of great bodily beauty and mentioned by Pliny (H. N. xxix. 5) as having
strength; he was an experienced general ; a skil gained by his practice the annual income of two
ful gladiator ; a severe, and often cruel commander; hundred and fifty thousand sesterces (about 1953).
and he has been called the Catiline of his time. 2s. 6d. ). This is considered by Pliny to be a very
He had one son, or perhaps two, who were put to large sum, and may therefore give us some notion of
death with their mother, by order of Severus. It the fortunes made by physicians at Rome about the
is said that he wrote a treatise on agriculture, beginning of the enpire.
[W. A. G. )
and a collection of stories, called Milesian. (Capi- T. ALBU'CIUS or ALBU'TIUS, finished his
tolinus, Clodius Albinus : Dion Cass. lxx. 4–7; studies at Athens at the latter end of the second
Herodian, ii. 15, iii. 5-7. )
century B. C. , and belonged to the Epicurean sect.
There are several medals of Albinus. In the He was well acquainted with Greek literature, or
one annexed he is called D. CLOD. SEPT. ALBIN. rather, says Cicero, was almost a Greek. (Brut.
CAES.
[W. P. ] 35. ) On account of his affecting on every occasion
the Greek language and philosophy, he was sati-
rized by Lucilius, whose lines upon him are pre-
served by Cicero (de Fin. i. 3); and Cicero hiniself
speaks of him as a light-minded man. He accused,
but unsuccessfully, Q. Mucius Scaevola, the augur,
of maladministration (repetundae) in his province.
(Brut. 26, De Orat. ii. 70. ) In B. c. 105 Albucius
was praetor in Sardinia, and in consequence of
some insignificant success which he had gained
over some robbers, he celebrated a triumph in the
province. On his return to Rome, he applied to
ALBI’NUS, LUCE'IUS, was made by Nero the senate for the honour of a supplicatio, but this
procurator of Mauretania Caesariensis, to which was refused, and he was accused in B. c. 103 of
Galba added the province of Tingitana. After the repetundae by C. Julius Caesar, and condemned.
death of Galba, A. D. 69, he espoused the side of Cn. Pompeius Strabo had offered himself as the
Otho, and prepared to invade Spain. Cluvius accuser, but he was not allowed to conduct the
Rufus, who commanded in Spain, being alarmed at prosecution, because he had been the quaestor of
this, sent centurions into Mauretania to induce the Albucius. (De Prov. Cons. 7, in Pison. 38, Div. in
Mauri to revolt against Albinus. They accom- Caecil. 19, de Off. ii. 14. ) After his condemnation,
plished this without much difficulty ; and Albinus he retired to Athens and pursued the study of phi-
was murdered with his wife. (Tac. Hist
. ii. 58, 59. ) losophy. (Tusc. v. 37. ) He left behind him some
A'LBION or ALE'BION ('Alblw or 'Alebiwv), orations, which had been read by Cicero. (Brut. 35. )
a son of Poseidon and brother of Dercynus or Varro (de Re Rust. iii. 2. § 17) speaks of some
Bergion, together with whom he attacked Heracles, satires by L. Albucius written in the style of Luci-
when he passed through their country (Liguria) lius; he appears to be the same person as Titus.
with the oxen of Geryon. But they paid for their C. ALBUÄCIUS SILAS. [SILAS. ]
presumption with their lives. (Apollod. ii. 5. S 10; ALBUS OVIDIUS JUVENTI'NUS. [Ju-
Pomp. Mela, ii. 5. § 39. ) The Scholiast on Lyco VENTINUS]
phron (648) calls the brother of Alebion, Ligys. ALCAEUS ("Arraios). 1. A son of Perseus
The story is also alluded to in Hyginus (Poet. A str. and Andromeda, and married to Hipponome, the
ii. 6) and Dionysius. (i. 41. )
[L. S. ]
daughter of Menoeceus of Thebes, by whom he
ALBUCILLA, the wife of Satrius Secundus, became the father of Amphytrion and Anaxo.
and infamous for her many amours, was accused in (Apollod. ii. 4. & 5; Schol. ad Eurip. Hecub. 886. )
the last year of the reign of Tiberius (A. D. 37) of According to Pansanias (viii. 14. & 2) his wife's
treason, or impiety, against the emperor (impietatis name was Laonome, a daughter of the Arcadian
in principem), and, with her, Cn. Doinitius Aheno Guneus, or Lysidice, a daughter of Pelops.
barbus, Vibius Marsus, and L. Arruntius, as ac- 2. According to Diodorus (i. 14) the original
complices. She was cast into prison by command name of Heracles, given him on account of his
of the senate, after making an ineffectual attempt descent from Alcaeus, the son of Perseus. [HE-
to destroy herself. (Tac. Ann. vi. 47, 48. ) RACLES. ]
ALBÜ'NEA, a prophetic nymph or Sibyl, to 3. A son of Heracles by a female slare of Jar-
whom in the neighbourhood of Tibur a grove was darus, from whom the dynasty of the Heraclids
consecrated, with a well and a temple. Near it in Lydia were believed to be descended. (Herod.
was the oracle of Faunus Fatidicus. (Virg. Aen. i. 7. ) Diodorus (iv. 31) calls this son of Hera-
vü. 81, &c. ; Hor. Carm. i. 7. 12 ; Tibull
. ii. 5. cles, Cleolaus. (Comp. Héllanicus, ap. Steph. Byz.
69. ). Lactantius (De Sibyll
. i. 6) states, that the s. v. 'Akéàn; Wesseling, ad Diod. l. c. )
tenth Sibyl, called Albunea, was worshipped at 4. According to Diodorus (v. 79) a general of
Tibur, and that her image, holding a book in one Rhadamanthys, who presented him with the island
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