His name leads us to suppose that he was descended from a family
of clients or freedmen of the _gens Aurelia_, in which the name of
_Cotta_ was hereditary.
of clients or freedmen of the _gens Aurelia_, in which the name of
_Cotta_ was hereditary.
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BITURIGES.
ANEPIGRAPHIC COINS.
Electrum. Staters with a peacock placed above the horse 2
[AR]. Head. ℞. horse and boar 1
[AR]. Head dressed with long locks of hair 1
[AR]. The same type. A branch above the horse 1
[AR]. The same type. A sword and pentagram 1
COINS WITH LEGENDS.
Electrum. ABVDOS. A stater 1
Æ. The same legend 9
Æ. The same type. OSNAII 1
Æ. The same type. ISVNIS 1
Electrum. SOLIMA. A stater 1
[AR]. The same legend 6
[AR]. DIASVLOS 7
Æ. The same type. YNO 4
[AR]. The same type. ƎIOV 1
Æ. Under the horse. ƆƐN 1
Æ. Under the horse. CAM (Cambolectres? ) 1
BUCIOS.
Æ. An unknown coin, at present unique 1
CADURCI.
Æ. Anepigraphic. Types of the coins of Lucterius 1
CARNUTES.
ANEPIGRAPHIC COINS.
Brass 7
Æ. Head. ℞. An eagle and serpent 4
Æ. Head. ℞. Eagle and young eagle 1
COINS WITH LEGENDS.
Æ. VANDIILIOS. 19
Æ. CALIAGIIS. 12
Æ. TASGIITIOS. Tasgetius 1
ÆDUI.
ANEPIGRAPHIC COINS.
[AR]. Old denarii. 27
COINS WITH LEGENDS.
[AR]. ΚΑΔ--ΕΔΟV. (Celts-Ædui). 2
[AR]. ANORBO-DVBNOREX. (Dumnorix). 14
[AR]. DVBNOREX-DVBNO-COV. (Dumnorix). 4
[AR]. DVBNOREX-DVBNO-COV. (Dumnorix. ) The
chief holds in his hand a man’s head cut off. 1
[AR]. LITA. Litavicus. 12
HELVII?
[AR]. EPOMIID. A lion. ℞. Two heads embracing. 4
LEMOVICES.
[AR]. A human head above the horse. 5
LEUCI.
Brass, with the boar. 1
LEAGUE AGAINST THE GERMANS.
[AR]. Quinarii with the horseman. 2
MANDUBII (OR LINGONES)?
Brass. 32
MASSALIETES.
[AR]. Oboli with the wheel. 2
PETROCORII.
[AR]. With the boar lying down 4
PICTONES.
Electrum. A stater with the hand. 1
Æ. Anepigraphic. 1
COINS WITH NAMES OF CHIEFS.
[AR]. VIIROTAL. A warrior standing. 10
[AR]. VIIROTAL. A lion. 1
REMI.
Æ. With three heads joined together. 2
SANTONES.
Electrum. A stater. Under the horse SA. 1
SENONES.
Brass, anepigraphic. Animals facing each other. 1
Æ. YLLYCCI 6
SEQUANI.
Brass, anepigraphic. 12
[AR]. SEQVANOIOTVOS. 16
[AR]. TOGIRIX. 72
[AR]. Q·DOCI SAM·F. 18
SUESSIONES.
Æ. Divitiacus. ΔEIOVICIA-COS. 1
TREVIRI.
[AR]. Anepigraphic 1
TRICASSES (OR LINGONES)?
Brass 2
VELIOCASSES.
Æ. A figure kneeling 1
VOLCÆ-ARECOMICI.
[AR]. 1
VOLCÆ-TECTOSAGES.
[AR]. 3
VOLCÆ-TECTOSAGES.
EMIGRANTS FROM GERMANY.
[AR]. 1
UNCERTAIN FROM THE SOUTH.
Æ. A horse drinking in a vase 3
UNDETERMINABLE.
[AR]. 1
Æ. and brass 14
APPENDIX D.
NOTICE ON CÆSAR’S LIEUTENANTS.
In his campaign against Ariovistus, Cæsar had six legions; he put at the
head of each either one of his lieutenants or his quæstor. (_De Bello
Gallico_, I. 52. ) His principal officers, then, were at that period six
in number, namely, T. Labienus, bearing the title of _legatus pro
prœtore_ (I. 21), Publius Crassus, L. Arunculeius Cotta, Q. Titurius
Sabinus, Q. Pedius, and C. Salpicius Galba.
1. T. ATTIUS LABIENUS.
T. Attius Labienus had been tribune of the people in 691, and had, in
this quality, been the accuser of C. Rabirius. He served Cæsar with zeal
during eight years in Gaul. Although he had been loaded with his
favours, and had, thanks to him, amassed a great fortune (Cicero,
_Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 7. --Cæsar, _De Bello Civili_, I. 15), he
deserted his cause as soon as the civil war broke out, and in 706 became
Pompey’s lieutenant in Greece. After the battle of Pharsalia, he went,
with Afranius, to rejoin Cato at Corcyra, and passed afterwards into
Africa. When Scipio was vanquished, Labienus repaired to Spain, to Cn.
Pompey. He was slain at the battle of Munda. Cæsar caused a public
funeral to be given to the man who had repaid his benefits by so much
ingratitude. (Florus, IV. 2. --Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 105. --Dio
Cassius, XLIII. 30, 38. )
2. PUBLIUS LICINIUS CRASSUS.
Publius Licinius Crassus Dives, youngest son of the celebrated triumvir,
started with Cæsar for the war in Gaul, made the conquest of Aquitaine,
and was employed to conduct to Rome the soldiers who were to vote in
favour of Pompey and Crassus. He quitted Cæsar’s army in 698, or at the
beginning of 699. Taken by his father into Syria, he perished, in 701,
in the war against the Parthians, still very young; for Cicero, attached
to him by an intimate friendship (_Epist. Familiar. _, V. 8), speaks of
him as _adolescens_ in a letter to Quintus (II. 9), written in May, 699.
He was, nevertheless, already augur, and the great orator succeeded him
in that dignity. (Cicero, _Epist. Familiar. _, XV. 4. --Plutarch,
_Cicero_, 47. )
3. L. ARUNCULEIUS COTTA.
The biography of Arunculeius Cotta, before his arrival in Gaul, is not
known.
His name leads us to suppose that he was descended from a family
of clients or freedmen of the _gens Aurelia_, in which the name of
_Cotta_ was hereditary. The mother of Cæsar was an Aurelia.
4. QUINTUS TITURIUS SABINUS.
The antecedents of Quintus Titurius Sabinus are no more known than those
of Arunculeius Cotta, whose melancholy fate he shared. His name shows
that he descended from the family of Sabine origin of the Titurii, which
had given different magistrates to the Republic. The name of Titurius is
found on several consular medals; it is also found in some inscriptions
posterior to the time of Cæsar.
5. Q. PEDIUS.
Q. Pedius was the son of a sister of Cæsar. (Suetonius, _Cæsar_, 83. )
Elected ædile in the year 700 (Cicero, _Orat. pro. Plancio_, 7), he must
have quitted the army of Gaul at the latest in 699. When the civil war
broke out, he remained one of the firmest adherents of his uncle, whose
interests he sustained, in 705, at Capua. (Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_,
IX. 14. ) He was prætor when he was besieged in Cosa, by Milo, a partisan
of Pompey. He was sent into Spain with Q. Fabius. (Cæsar, _De Bello
Civili_, III. 22; _De Bello Hispan. _, 2. --Dio Cassius, XLIII. 31. ) Made
by Cæsar’s will the heir of one-eighth of his wealth, he gave up what
was left to him to Octavius. (Suetonius, _Cæsar_, 83. --Appian, _Civil
Wars_, III. 94. ) It was at the motion of Q. Pedius, then consul, that
the law was passed which has received its name from him, and which was
directed against the murderers of the Dictator. (Velleius Paterculus,
II. 65. --Suetonius, _Nero_, 3. ) Q. Pedius remained faithful to Octavius,
yet he proposed the retractation of the declaration of war launched
against Antony and Lepidus. He was admitted to the secret of the
triumvirate, which was on the point of being concluded, and died
suddenly before the end of the year 711. (Dio Cassius, XLVI. 52--Appian,
_Civil Wars_, IV. 6. )
6. SERVIUS SULPICIUS GALBA.
Servius Sulpicius Galba, whom the Emperor Galba reckoned among his
ancestors, was of the illustrious family of the Sulpicii; he descended
from Sulpicius Galba, consul in 610, who had left the reputation of a
great orator. S. Sulpicius Galba, Cæsar’s lieutenant in Gaul, had
already served in the war in that country under C. Pomptinus, in 693
(Dio Cassius, XXXVII. 48), which explains the choice made of him by the
future Dictator. He must have quitted Cæsar’s army at latest in 699, for
he was, at his recommendation, elected prætor in 700. (Dio Cassins,
XXXIX. 65. ) He solicited the consulship in vain in 705. Pressed by the
creditors of Pompey, for whom he had made himself surety, he was
relieved from his difficulties by Cæsar, who paid his debts. (Valerius
Maximus, V. 2, §11. ) Finding himself finally deceived in his hope of
arriving at the consulship, S. Galba joined the conspiracy against his
old chief. (Suetonius, _Galba_, 3. --Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 113. ) He
served in the war against Antony, under the Consul Hirtius. We have a
letter from him to Cicero, written from the camp of Modena. (Cicero,
_Epist. Familiar_. , X. 30. ) Prosecuted, in virtue of the law Pedia, as a
murderer of Cæsar, (Suetonius, _Galba_, 3), he was condemned, and died
probably in exile.
The Senate granted Cæsar, in 608, ten lieutenants: Labienus, Arunculeius
Cotta, Titurias Sabinus, already in Gaul, Decimus Brutus, P. Sulpicius
Rufus, Munatius Plancus, M. Crassus, C. Fabius, L. Roscius, and T.
Sextius. As to Sulpicius Galba, P. Crassus, and Q. Pedius, they had
returned to Italy.
7. DECIMUS JUNIUS BRUTUS.
Decimus Junius Brutus, belonging to the family of the _Junii_, was son
of Decimus Junius Brutus, elected consul in the year 677, and of
Sempronia, who performed so celebrated a part in Catiline’s conspiracy.
He was adopted by A. Postumius Albinus, consul in 655, and took, for
this reason, the surname of Albinus, by which we find him sometimes
designated. When Cæsar took him into Gaul, he was still very young; the
“Commentaries” apply to him the epithet _adolescens_. He must have
returned to Rome in January, 704, since a letter of Cicero mentions his
presence there at that period. (_Epist. Familiar. _, VIII. 7. ) The year
following he commanded Cæsar’s fleet before Marseilles. (Cæsar, _De
Bello Civili_, I. 36. --Dio Cassius, XLI. 19. ) He gained, although with
unequal forces, a naval victory over L. Domitius. (Cæsar, _De Bello
Civili_, II. 5. ) Having received from Cæsar, in 706, the government of
Transalpine Gaul, he repressed, in 708, an insurrection of the
Bellovaci. (Titos Livius, _Epitome_, CXIV. ) An object of the special
favours of his old general, who felt for him a warm affection, D.
Brutus, along with Antony and Octavius, was associated in the triumph
which Cæsar celebrated in 709, on his return from Spain, and mounted
with them on the car. (Plutarch, _Antony_, 13. ) By his will of the Ides
of September, the Dictator named him one of the guardians of Octavius,
and made him one of his second heirs (Dio Cassius, XLIV. 35. --Appian,
_Civil Wars_, II, 143. --Suetonius, _Cæsar_, 83); he caused to be given
him, for the year 712, the government of Cisalpine Gaul. In spite of
this friendship, of which Cæsar had given him so many proofs, and which
the latter believed to be paid by a requital, Brutus, who had remained
faithful to his benefactor in the civil war, lent his ear to the
proposals of the conspirators, and yielded to the seductions of M.
Brutus, his kinsman. He not only went to the Senate to assist in
striking the victim, but he accepted the mission of going to persuade
the Dictator, who was hesitating, to repair to the curia. (Dio Cassius,
XLIV. 14, 18. --Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 115. --Plutarch, _Cæsar_, 70. )
Exposed to public hatred (Cicero, _Philippic. _, X. 7), and intimidated
by the threats of Antony, he left Rome to go and take possession of the
province which Cæsar had caused to be assigned to him. (Cicero, _Epist.
ad Atticum_, XIV. 13. )
He appears, however, to have acted but feebly in favour of the party he
had embraced. Antony, having obtained from the people, in exchange for
Macedonia, the province commanded by Brutus (Appian, _Civil Wars_, III.
30), the latter refused to abandon his government, and, supported by
Cicero, he obtained from the Senate an edict maintaining him in it
(Cicero, _Philippic. _, III. 4. --Appian, _Civil War_, III. 45), which led
to an armed contest between the two competitors. Pursued by his rival,
Brutus threw himself into Modena, and there sustained a long siege
(Appian, _Civil Wars_, III. 49. --Titus Livius, _Epitome_, CXVII), which
had for its final result the celebrated battle in which Antony was
defeated. D. Brutus, overlooked among new actors in this sanguinary
drama, remained in it almost a mere spectator. (Dio Cassius, XLVI. 40. )
He then ranged himself on the side of Octavius, yet without the
existence of any very close or very sincere intimacy between these two
men. He continued to exercise an important command during the war, but
fortune was not long in turning against him. Pressed by Antony, who had
united with Lepidus, and threatened personally by the prosecutions which
Octavius, armed with the law Pedia, was directing against the murderers
of Cæsar (Titus Livius, _Epitome_, CXX. --Dio Cassius, XLVI. 53), he
found himself deserted by his troops, and, after a vain attempt to cross
into Macedonia, he directed his steps with a small escort towards
Aquileia; but a Gaulish chief, named Camillus, betrayed towards him the
rites of hospitality, kept him prisoner, and sent information of what he
had done to Antony. The old lieutenant of Cæsar immediately sent Furius
with a party of cavalry, who slew Brutus, and carried away his head.
(Appian, _Civil Wars_, III. 97, 98. --Velleius Paterculus, III. 63, 64. )
Brutus was one of the correspondents of Cicero, who gives him praise,
especially for his constancy in friendship, of which he was certainly
little worthy.
8. PUBLIUS SULPICIUS RUFUS.
Publius Sulpicius Rufus, who belonged to the same family as S. Sulpicius
Galba, served, in 705, the cause of Cæsar in Spain (Cæsar, _De Bello
Civili_, I. 74); he commanded in the following year, with the title of
prætor, the fleet which was cruising at Vibo, on the coast of Bruttium
(Cæsar, _De Bella Civili_, III. 101); subsequently he obtained the
government of Illyria, a country where he had served in the ranks of the
Cæsarians, and consequently succeeded Q. Cornificius (Cæsar, _De Bello
Afric. _, 10; _De Bello Alexandrin. _, 42). A letter of Cicero, addressed
to him (_Epist. Familiar. _, XIII. 77), shows that he was still in that
province in 709. We know nothing certain relating to his actions. It has
been supposed with probability that he is the same with a P. Sulpicius,
censor under the triumvirate, and mentioned in a Latin inscription
_(Tabula Collatina_), to which Drumann refers (tom. i. , p. 528).
9. LUCIUS MUNATIUS PLANCUS.
Lucius Munatius Plancus, whose name is found in several inscriptions and
on a rather great number of medals (see especially Orelli,
_Inscriptions_, N. 591), belonged to an illustrious plebeian family.
Intimate at first with Cato, he subsequently gained the entire affection
of Cæsar (Plutarch, _Cato of Utica_, 42. --Cicero, _Epist. Familiar. _, X.
24), and remained faithful to him to the last. After having served in
Gaul, he became, in 705, one of his most active lieutenants in Spain
(Cæsar, _De Bello Civili_, I. 40), and afterwards in Africa. (Cæsar, _De
Bello Afr. _, 4. ) Cæsar caused to be given to him, for the year 710, the
government of Transalpine Gaul, without the Narbonnese and Belgic Gaul
(Appian, _Civil Wars_, III. 46--Cicero, _Philipp. _, III. 15), and named
him, with P. Brutus, for the consulship in 712 (Velleius Paterculus, II.
63. --Dio Cassius, XLVI. 53); he was then in great favour with the
Dictator: Cicero made his approaches through him to obtain Cæsar’s
favour. (_Epist. Familiar. _, X. 3; XIII. 29. )
After the murder of Cæsar, Plancus, who no doubt, like Antony, feared
the vengeance of the party of the conspirators, proposed an amnesty, in
concert with him and Cicero (Plutarch, _Brutus_, 22), and hastened to go
into the province which had been assigned to him. In Gaul he founded the
colonies of Lugdunum and Raurica (Orelli, _Inscriptiones_, No. 590. --Dio
Cassius, XLVI. 50); subsequently, gained by Antony, he abandoned to his
vengeance, during the proscription, Plotius, his own brother. (Appian,
_Civil Wars_, IV. 12. --Valerias Maximus, VI. 8, § 5. ) In 712, Plancus
took, with Lepidus, on the 1st of January, the consulship which Cæsar
had destined for him.
BITURIGES.
ANEPIGRAPHIC COINS.
Electrum. Staters with a peacock placed above the horse 2
[AR]. Head. ℞. horse and boar 1
[AR]. Head dressed with long locks of hair 1
[AR]. The same type. A branch above the horse 1
[AR]. The same type. A sword and pentagram 1
COINS WITH LEGENDS.
Electrum. ABVDOS. A stater 1
Æ. The same legend 9
Æ. The same type. OSNAII 1
Æ. The same type. ISVNIS 1
Electrum. SOLIMA. A stater 1
[AR]. The same legend 6
[AR]. DIASVLOS 7
Æ. The same type. YNO 4
[AR]. The same type. ƎIOV 1
Æ. Under the horse. ƆƐN 1
Æ. Under the horse. CAM (Cambolectres? ) 1
BUCIOS.
Æ. An unknown coin, at present unique 1
CADURCI.
Æ. Anepigraphic. Types of the coins of Lucterius 1
CARNUTES.
ANEPIGRAPHIC COINS.
Brass 7
Æ. Head. ℞. An eagle and serpent 4
Æ. Head. ℞. Eagle and young eagle 1
COINS WITH LEGENDS.
Æ. VANDIILIOS. 19
Æ. CALIAGIIS. 12
Æ. TASGIITIOS. Tasgetius 1
ÆDUI.
ANEPIGRAPHIC COINS.
[AR]. Old denarii. 27
COINS WITH LEGENDS.
[AR]. ΚΑΔ--ΕΔΟV. (Celts-Ædui). 2
[AR]. ANORBO-DVBNOREX. (Dumnorix). 14
[AR]. DVBNOREX-DVBNO-COV. (Dumnorix). 4
[AR]. DVBNOREX-DVBNO-COV. (Dumnorix. ) The
chief holds in his hand a man’s head cut off. 1
[AR]. LITA. Litavicus. 12
HELVII?
[AR]. EPOMIID. A lion. ℞. Two heads embracing. 4
LEMOVICES.
[AR]. A human head above the horse. 5
LEUCI.
Brass, with the boar. 1
LEAGUE AGAINST THE GERMANS.
[AR]. Quinarii with the horseman. 2
MANDUBII (OR LINGONES)?
Brass. 32
MASSALIETES.
[AR]. Oboli with the wheel. 2
PETROCORII.
[AR]. With the boar lying down 4
PICTONES.
Electrum. A stater with the hand. 1
Æ. Anepigraphic. 1
COINS WITH NAMES OF CHIEFS.
[AR]. VIIROTAL. A warrior standing. 10
[AR]. VIIROTAL. A lion. 1
REMI.
Æ. With three heads joined together. 2
SANTONES.
Electrum. A stater. Under the horse SA. 1
SENONES.
Brass, anepigraphic. Animals facing each other. 1
Æ. YLLYCCI 6
SEQUANI.
Brass, anepigraphic. 12
[AR]. SEQVANOIOTVOS. 16
[AR]. TOGIRIX. 72
[AR]. Q·DOCI SAM·F. 18
SUESSIONES.
Æ. Divitiacus. ΔEIOVICIA-COS. 1
TREVIRI.
[AR]. Anepigraphic 1
TRICASSES (OR LINGONES)?
Brass 2
VELIOCASSES.
Æ. A figure kneeling 1
VOLCÆ-ARECOMICI.
[AR]. 1
VOLCÆ-TECTOSAGES.
[AR]. 3
VOLCÆ-TECTOSAGES.
EMIGRANTS FROM GERMANY.
[AR]. 1
UNCERTAIN FROM THE SOUTH.
Æ. A horse drinking in a vase 3
UNDETERMINABLE.
[AR]. 1
Æ. and brass 14
APPENDIX D.
NOTICE ON CÆSAR’S LIEUTENANTS.
In his campaign against Ariovistus, Cæsar had six legions; he put at the
head of each either one of his lieutenants or his quæstor. (_De Bello
Gallico_, I. 52. ) His principal officers, then, were at that period six
in number, namely, T. Labienus, bearing the title of _legatus pro
prœtore_ (I. 21), Publius Crassus, L. Arunculeius Cotta, Q. Titurius
Sabinus, Q. Pedius, and C. Salpicius Galba.
1. T. ATTIUS LABIENUS.
T. Attius Labienus had been tribune of the people in 691, and had, in
this quality, been the accuser of C. Rabirius. He served Cæsar with zeal
during eight years in Gaul. Although he had been loaded with his
favours, and had, thanks to him, amassed a great fortune (Cicero,
_Epist. ad Atticum_, VII. 7. --Cæsar, _De Bello Civili_, I. 15), he
deserted his cause as soon as the civil war broke out, and in 706 became
Pompey’s lieutenant in Greece. After the battle of Pharsalia, he went,
with Afranius, to rejoin Cato at Corcyra, and passed afterwards into
Africa. When Scipio was vanquished, Labienus repaired to Spain, to Cn.
Pompey. He was slain at the battle of Munda. Cæsar caused a public
funeral to be given to the man who had repaid his benefits by so much
ingratitude. (Florus, IV. 2. --Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 105. --Dio
Cassius, XLIII. 30, 38. )
2. PUBLIUS LICINIUS CRASSUS.
Publius Licinius Crassus Dives, youngest son of the celebrated triumvir,
started with Cæsar for the war in Gaul, made the conquest of Aquitaine,
and was employed to conduct to Rome the soldiers who were to vote in
favour of Pompey and Crassus. He quitted Cæsar’s army in 698, or at the
beginning of 699. Taken by his father into Syria, he perished, in 701,
in the war against the Parthians, still very young; for Cicero, attached
to him by an intimate friendship (_Epist. Familiar. _, V. 8), speaks of
him as _adolescens_ in a letter to Quintus (II. 9), written in May, 699.
He was, nevertheless, already augur, and the great orator succeeded him
in that dignity. (Cicero, _Epist. Familiar. _, XV. 4. --Plutarch,
_Cicero_, 47. )
3. L. ARUNCULEIUS COTTA.
The biography of Arunculeius Cotta, before his arrival in Gaul, is not
known.
His name leads us to suppose that he was descended from a family
of clients or freedmen of the _gens Aurelia_, in which the name of
_Cotta_ was hereditary. The mother of Cæsar was an Aurelia.
4. QUINTUS TITURIUS SABINUS.
The antecedents of Quintus Titurius Sabinus are no more known than those
of Arunculeius Cotta, whose melancholy fate he shared. His name shows
that he descended from the family of Sabine origin of the Titurii, which
had given different magistrates to the Republic. The name of Titurius is
found on several consular medals; it is also found in some inscriptions
posterior to the time of Cæsar.
5. Q. PEDIUS.
Q. Pedius was the son of a sister of Cæsar. (Suetonius, _Cæsar_, 83. )
Elected ædile in the year 700 (Cicero, _Orat. pro. Plancio_, 7), he must
have quitted the army of Gaul at the latest in 699. When the civil war
broke out, he remained one of the firmest adherents of his uncle, whose
interests he sustained, in 705, at Capua. (Cicero, _Epist. ad Atticum_,
IX. 14. ) He was prætor when he was besieged in Cosa, by Milo, a partisan
of Pompey. He was sent into Spain with Q. Fabius. (Cæsar, _De Bello
Civili_, III. 22; _De Bello Hispan. _, 2. --Dio Cassius, XLIII. 31. ) Made
by Cæsar’s will the heir of one-eighth of his wealth, he gave up what
was left to him to Octavius. (Suetonius, _Cæsar_, 83. --Appian, _Civil
Wars_, III. 94. ) It was at the motion of Q. Pedius, then consul, that
the law was passed which has received its name from him, and which was
directed against the murderers of the Dictator. (Velleius Paterculus,
II. 65. --Suetonius, _Nero_, 3. ) Q. Pedius remained faithful to Octavius,
yet he proposed the retractation of the declaration of war launched
against Antony and Lepidus. He was admitted to the secret of the
triumvirate, which was on the point of being concluded, and died
suddenly before the end of the year 711. (Dio Cassius, XLVI. 52--Appian,
_Civil Wars_, IV. 6. )
6. SERVIUS SULPICIUS GALBA.
Servius Sulpicius Galba, whom the Emperor Galba reckoned among his
ancestors, was of the illustrious family of the Sulpicii; he descended
from Sulpicius Galba, consul in 610, who had left the reputation of a
great orator. S. Sulpicius Galba, Cæsar’s lieutenant in Gaul, had
already served in the war in that country under C. Pomptinus, in 693
(Dio Cassius, XXXVII. 48), which explains the choice made of him by the
future Dictator. He must have quitted Cæsar’s army at latest in 699, for
he was, at his recommendation, elected prætor in 700. (Dio Cassins,
XXXIX. 65. ) He solicited the consulship in vain in 705. Pressed by the
creditors of Pompey, for whom he had made himself surety, he was
relieved from his difficulties by Cæsar, who paid his debts. (Valerius
Maximus, V. 2, §11. ) Finding himself finally deceived in his hope of
arriving at the consulship, S. Galba joined the conspiracy against his
old chief. (Suetonius, _Galba_, 3. --Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 113. ) He
served in the war against Antony, under the Consul Hirtius. We have a
letter from him to Cicero, written from the camp of Modena. (Cicero,
_Epist. Familiar_. , X. 30. ) Prosecuted, in virtue of the law Pedia, as a
murderer of Cæsar, (Suetonius, _Galba_, 3), he was condemned, and died
probably in exile.
The Senate granted Cæsar, in 608, ten lieutenants: Labienus, Arunculeius
Cotta, Titurias Sabinus, already in Gaul, Decimus Brutus, P. Sulpicius
Rufus, Munatius Plancus, M. Crassus, C. Fabius, L. Roscius, and T.
Sextius. As to Sulpicius Galba, P. Crassus, and Q. Pedius, they had
returned to Italy.
7. DECIMUS JUNIUS BRUTUS.
Decimus Junius Brutus, belonging to the family of the _Junii_, was son
of Decimus Junius Brutus, elected consul in the year 677, and of
Sempronia, who performed so celebrated a part in Catiline’s conspiracy.
He was adopted by A. Postumius Albinus, consul in 655, and took, for
this reason, the surname of Albinus, by which we find him sometimes
designated. When Cæsar took him into Gaul, he was still very young; the
“Commentaries” apply to him the epithet _adolescens_. He must have
returned to Rome in January, 704, since a letter of Cicero mentions his
presence there at that period. (_Epist. Familiar. _, VIII. 7. ) The year
following he commanded Cæsar’s fleet before Marseilles. (Cæsar, _De
Bello Civili_, I. 36. --Dio Cassius, XLI. 19. ) He gained, although with
unequal forces, a naval victory over L. Domitius. (Cæsar, _De Bello
Civili_, II. 5. ) Having received from Cæsar, in 706, the government of
Transalpine Gaul, he repressed, in 708, an insurrection of the
Bellovaci. (Titos Livius, _Epitome_, CXIV. ) An object of the special
favours of his old general, who felt for him a warm affection, D.
Brutus, along with Antony and Octavius, was associated in the triumph
which Cæsar celebrated in 709, on his return from Spain, and mounted
with them on the car. (Plutarch, _Antony_, 13. ) By his will of the Ides
of September, the Dictator named him one of the guardians of Octavius,
and made him one of his second heirs (Dio Cassius, XLIV. 35. --Appian,
_Civil Wars_, II, 143. --Suetonius, _Cæsar_, 83); he caused to be given
him, for the year 712, the government of Cisalpine Gaul. In spite of
this friendship, of which Cæsar had given him so many proofs, and which
the latter believed to be paid by a requital, Brutus, who had remained
faithful to his benefactor in the civil war, lent his ear to the
proposals of the conspirators, and yielded to the seductions of M.
Brutus, his kinsman. He not only went to the Senate to assist in
striking the victim, but he accepted the mission of going to persuade
the Dictator, who was hesitating, to repair to the curia. (Dio Cassius,
XLIV. 14, 18. --Appian, _Civil Wars_, II. 115. --Plutarch, _Cæsar_, 70. )
Exposed to public hatred (Cicero, _Philippic. _, X. 7), and intimidated
by the threats of Antony, he left Rome to go and take possession of the
province which Cæsar had caused to be assigned to him. (Cicero, _Epist.
ad Atticum_, XIV. 13. )
He appears, however, to have acted but feebly in favour of the party he
had embraced. Antony, having obtained from the people, in exchange for
Macedonia, the province commanded by Brutus (Appian, _Civil Wars_, III.
30), the latter refused to abandon his government, and, supported by
Cicero, he obtained from the Senate an edict maintaining him in it
(Cicero, _Philippic. _, III. 4. --Appian, _Civil War_, III. 45), which led
to an armed contest between the two competitors. Pursued by his rival,
Brutus threw himself into Modena, and there sustained a long siege
(Appian, _Civil Wars_, III. 49. --Titus Livius, _Epitome_, CXVII), which
had for its final result the celebrated battle in which Antony was
defeated. D. Brutus, overlooked among new actors in this sanguinary
drama, remained in it almost a mere spectator. (Dio Cassius, XLVI. 40. )
He then ranged himself on the side of Octavius, yet without the
existence of any very close or very sincere intimacy between these two
men. He continued to exercise an important command during the war, but
fortune was not long in turning against him. Pressed by Antony, who had
united with Lepidus, and threatened personally by the prosecutions which
Octavius, armed with the law Pedia, was directing against the murderers
of Cæsar (Titus Livius, _Epitome_, CXX. --Dio Cassius, XLVI. 53), he
found himself deserted by his troops, and, after a vain attempt to cross
into Macedonia, he directed his steps with a small escort towards
Aquileia; but a Gaulish chief, named Camillus, betrayed towards him the
rites of hospitality, kept him prisoner, and sent information of what he
had done to Antony. The old lieutenant of Cæsar immediately sent Furius
with a party of cavalry, who slew Brutus, and carried away his head.
(Appian, _Civil Wars_, III. 97, 98. --Velleius Paterculus, III. 63, 64. )
Brutus was one of the correspondents of Cicero, who gives him praise,
especially for his constancy in friendship, of which he was certainly
little worthy.
8. PUBLIUS SULPICIUS RUFUS.
Publius Sulpicius Rufus, who belonged to the same family as S. Sulpicius
Galba, served, in 705, the cause of Cæsar in Spain (Cæsar, _De Bello
Civili_, I. 74); he commanded in the following year, with the title of
prætor, the fleet which was cruising at Vibo, on the coast of Bruttium
(Cæsar, _De Bella Civili_, III. 101); subsequently he obtained the
government of Illyria, a country where he had served in the ranks of the
Cæsarians, and consequently succeeded Q. Cornificius (Cæsar, _De Bello
Afric. _, 10; _De Bello Alexandrin. _, 42). A letter of Cicero, addressed
to him (_Epist. Familiar. _, XIII. 77), shows that he was still in that
province in 709. We know nothing certain relating to his actions. It has
been supposed with probability that he is the same with a P. Sulpicius,
censor under the triumvirate, and mentioned in a Latin inscription
_(Tabula Collatina_), to which Drumann refers (tom. i. , p. 528).
9. LUCIUS MUNATIUS PLANCUS.
Lucius Munatius Plancus, whose name is found in several inscriptions and
on a rather great number of medals (see especially Orelli,
_Inscriptions_, N. 591), belonged to an illustrious plebeian family.
Intimate at first with Cato, he subsequently gained the entire affection
of Cæsar (Plutarch, _Cato of Utica_, 42. --Cicero, _Epist. Familiar. _, X.
24), and remained faithful to him to the last. After having served in
Gaul, he became, in 705, one of his most active lieutenants in Spain
(Cæsar, _De Bello Civili_, I. 40), and afterwards in Africa. (Cæsar, _De
Bello Afr. _, 4. ) Cæsar caused to be given to him, for the year 710, the
government of Transalpine Gaul, without the Narbonnese and Belgic Gaul
(Appian, _Civil Wars_, III. 46--Cicero, _Philipp. _, III. 15), and named
him, with P. Brutus, for the consulship in 712 (Velleius Paterculus, II.
63. --Dio Cassius, XLVI. 53); he was then in great favour with the
Dictator: Cicero made his approaches through him to obtain Cæsar’s
favour. (_Epist. Familiar. _, X. 3; XIII. 29. )
After the murder of Cæsar, Plancus, who no doubt, like Antony, feared
the vengeance of the party of the conspirators, proposed an amnesty, in
concert with him and Cicero (Plutarch, _Brutus_, 22), and hastened to go
into the province which had been assigned to him. In Gaul he founded the
colonies of Lugdunum and Raurica (Orelli, _Inscriptiones_, No. 590. --Dio
Cassius, XLVI. 50); subsequently, gained by Antony, he abandoned to his
vengeance, during the proscription, Plotius, his own brother. (Appian,
_Civil Wars_, IV. 12. --Valerias Maximus, VI. 8, § 5. ) In 712, Plancus
took, with Lepidus, on the 1st of January, the consulship which Cæsar
had destined for him.
