)
had brought the war in Spain to a conclusion ; and
9.
had brought the war in Spain to a conclusion ; and
9.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
§ 3; Apollod.
i.
9.
§ 2.
) Ptous also occurs as
TANIA, was the son and successor of Juba II. By a surname of Apollo. (Paus. iv. 32. & 5, ix. 23.
his mother Cleopatra he was descended from the $ 3. )
(L. S. )
kings of Egypt, whose name he bore. The period PUBLICIA. 1. The wife of L. Postumius
of his accession and the death of his father cannot | Albinus, consul B. c. 154, was accused of murder-
be determined with certainty, but we know that ing her husband. She gave bail to the praetor for
Ptolemy was already on the throne when Strabo her appearance, but was put to death by order of
wrote, about 18 or 19, A. D. (Strab. xvii. pp. her relations, consequently by a judiciuin domesti-
828, 840 ; Clinton. F. H. vol. iii
. p. 203. ) He I cum. (Val. Max. vi. 3. $ 8 ; Liv. Epit. 48 ; Rein,
areAEMAIOY
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600
PUBLICIUS.
PUBLICOLA.
C. P.
1
seoca
Criminalrecht der Römer, p. 407. ) (Comp. LICINIA, PUBLI'CIUS CELSUS. (Celsus. )
No. 1. ]
PUBLI'CIL'S CERTUS, was the accuser of
2. The wife of Lentulus, the flamen Martialis. the younger Helvidius, who was slain by Domitian.
(Macrob. Sat. ii. 9. )
As a reward for this service he was nominated
PUBLICIA GENS, plebeian. The ancient praefectus aerarii and was promised the consulship ;
form of the name was Publicius, which we find on but after the death of the tyrant, he was accused
coins and in the Fasti Capitolini. This gens rose by the younger Pliny in the senate, A. D. 96, of
into importance in the time between the first and se- the part he had taken in the condemnation of Hel-
cond Punic wars, and the first member of it who ob- vidius. The emperor Nerva did not allow the
tnined the consulship was M. Publicius Malleolus, in senate to proceed to the trial of Publicius ; but
B. c. 232. During the republic it was divided into Pliny obtained the object he had in view, for Pub
two families, that of MALLEOLUS, which was the licius was deprived of his office of praefectus aerari,
most important, and that of BIBULUS, which has been and thus lost all hope of the consulship. The
accidentally omitted under that head, and is there- account of his impeachment, which was afterwards
fore given below. Besides these names, there are published, is related by Pliny in a letter to Qna-
a few cognomens of freedmen and of persons in the dratus (Ep. ix. 13). Publicius died a few days
imperial period, which are likewise given below. after the proceedings in the senate, and it was sup-
The cognomen Malleolus is the only one that apposed by some that his death was hastened by fear.
pears on coins of this gens, and there are also other PUBLI'CIUS GE'LLIUS. (Gellius. )
coins which bear no burname. Of the latter we CN. PUBLI'CIUS MENANDER, a freed-
subjoin a specimen. The obverse represents a
man mentioned by Cicero, in his oration for Balbus
female head covered with a helmet, the reverse Her- (c. 11).
cules strangling a lion, with the legend C. POBLICI PUBLI'COLA, or POPLI'CULA, or POPLI'-
It is not known who this C. Poblicius was. COLA, a Roman cognomen, signified “one who
(Eckhel, vol. v. p. 279. )
courts the people” (from populus and colo), and
thus “a friend of the people. ” The form Pop? i-
cula or Poplicola was the most ancient. Poplicola
generally occurs in inscriptions, but we also find
Poplicula (Orelli, Inscr. No. 547). Publicola was
the more modern form, and seems to have been the
one usually employed by the Romans in later times.
We find it in the best manuscripts of Livy, and in
the palimpsest manuscript of Cicero's De Republica.
COIN OF PUBLICIA GENS.
PUBLI'COLA, GE'LLIUS. 1. L. GELLIUS
PUBLICOLA, was the contubernalis of the consul
PUBLI'CIUS. 1. PUBLicius, an Italian seer, C. Papirius Carbo, B. C. 120 (Cic. Brut. 27).
is mentioned twice by Cicero along with the None of his family had held any of the higher
Marcii. (Cic. de Div. i. 50, ii. 55. ) [See Vol. II. offices of the state before him, and we do not know
p. 944, b. ]
how he rose into distinction. He must, at all
2. L. PubliciuS BIBULUS, tribunus militum of events, have been far advanced in years when he
the second legion, B. c. 216. (Liv. xxii. 53. ) attained the consulship. The year of his praetor-
3. C. PubliciuS BIBULUS, tribune of the plebs ship is not mentioned ; but after his praetorship
B. C. 209, distinguished himself by his hostility to he received the province of Achaia, with the title
M. Claudius Marcellus, whom he endeavoured to of proconsul ; and during his government he offered,
deprive of his imperium ; but Marcellus made such in mockery, his mediation to the rival philosophers
a triumphant reply to the accusations of Publicius, of Athens, to reconcile their disputes (Cic. de Leg.
that not only was the bill for taking away his im- i. 20). In B, c. 74 he defended the cause of M.
perium rejected, but he was elected consul on the Octavius Ligur, whose adversary was unjustly fa-
next day. (Liv. xxvii. 20, 21. )
roured by the praetor Verres (Cic. Verr. i. 48).
4. C. PUBLICIUS, whose saying respecting P. In B. c. 72 Gellius was consul with Cn. Cornelius
Mummius is mentioned by Cicero (de Orat. ii. 67), | Lentulus Clodianus. The two consuls carried on
on the authority of Cato. He may have been the war against Spartacus. Gellius at first defeated
bame person as No. 3, as Glandorp has conjectured. Crixus, one of the principal generals of Spartacus,
5. L. PUBLICIUS, an intimate friend of Sex. near mount Garganus in Apulia, and Crixus lost
Naevius, and a slave-dealer, mentioned by Cicero his life in the battle. The two consuls then marched
in B. C. 81. (Cic. pro Quint. 6. )
against Spartacus, who was attempting to escape
6. Publicius, a Roman eques, celebrated for across the Alps into Gaul. But they were no
conducting bribery at the elections at Rome, about match for the leader of the gladiators. Spartacus
B. c. 70. (Pseudo-Ascon. in Verr. p. 135. ) attacked each of them separately, in the Apen-
7. Q. Publicius, praetor B. C. 69, before whom nines, and conquered them in succession. The
Cicero defended D. Matrinius. (Cic. pro Cluent. two consuls then united their forces, but were
45. )
again defeated in Picenum, by their indefatigable
8. Publicius, one of Catiline's crew, B. c. 63. adversary. It was about this time that Pompey
(Cic. Cat. ii. 2.
)
had brought the war in Spain to a conclusion ; and
9. Publicius, a tribune of the plebs, of uncer-
as he had conferred the Roman citizenship upon
tain date, brought forward a law that presents of many persons in that country, the consuls brought
wax-candles (cerei) at the Saturnalia should be forward a law to ratify his acts (Cic. pro Balb. 8,
made to the patrons only by those clients who were 14). The consuls also proposed in the senate, that
in good circumstances, as the making of these no one in the provinces should be accused of capital
presents had become a very burdensome obligation crimes in their absence. This was directed against
to many clients. (Macrob. Sat. i. 7. )
Verres. (Cic. Verr, ii, 39).
1
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PUBLICOLA.
PUBLICOLA.
601
Two years afterwards, B. C. 70, Gellius was tioned agnin, he probably perished in the actior. .
censor with Lentulus, his former colleague in the (Dion Cass. xlvii. 24 ; Liv. Epit. 122 ; Dion Casa.
consulship. They exercised their office with great xlix. 24 ; Plut. Ant. 65, 66 ; Vell. Pat. ii. 85. )
severity, and expelled many persons from the 3. Gellius PUBLICOLA, probably a brother of
senate, among whom was C. Antonius. It was No. 1, is called a step-son of L. Marcius Philippus,
during their censorship that Pompey, who was then consul B. c. 91, and a brother of L. Marcius Phi-
consul, appeared as an ordinary eques at the solemn lippus, consul B. C. 56. According to Cicero's
muster of the equites, and, amid the applause of account he was a profligate and a spendthrift, and
the spectators, led his horse by the curule chair having dissipated his property, united himself to
of the censors, and answered the ordinary questions. P. Clodius. “As an intimate friend of the latter, he
In B. c. 67 and 66 Gellius served as one of Pom- of course incurs the bitterest enmity of Cicero,
pey's legates in the war against the pirates, and whose statements with respect to him must, there
had the charge of the Tuscan sea. In the first fore, be received with caution. (Cic. pro Sext. 51,
conspiracy of Catiline an attempt was made to 52, in Putin. 2, de Ilurusp. Resp. 27, ad Att. iv.
obtain possession of his fleet, and, though the 3. § 2, ad Q. Fr. ii. 1. § 1; Schol. Bob. pro Sexl.
mutiny was put down, Gellius had a narrow escape p. 304, ed. Orelli. )
of his life. In consequence of the personal danger 4. GELLIUS Publicola, had been the quaestor
be had previously incurred, he was one of the of Junius Silanus in Asia, in the reign of Tiberius,
warmest supporters of Cicero in his suppression of and was subsequently one of his accusers in A. D.
the second conspiracy, and accordingly proposed ! 22. (Tac. Ann. iji. 67. )
that Cicero should be rewarded with a civic crown. 5. L. Gellius PUBLICOLA, one of the consules
From this time he appears as a steady friend of suffecti in the reign of Caligula, A. D. 40 (Fasti).
Cicero and the aristocratical party. In B. c. 59 he (For an account of the Gellii see Drumann, Ges-
opposed the agrarian law of Caesar, and in B. c. 57 chichte Roms, vol. ii. pp. 64–67. )
he spoke iu favour of Cicero's recall from exile. He PUBLI'COLA, VALE'RIUS. 1. P. VALE-
was alive in B. C. 55, when Cicero delivered his rius VOLUSIF. PUBLICOLA, the colleague of
fpeech against Piso, but probably died soon after- Brutus in the consulship in the first year of the
wards. He was married twice. (Appian, B. C. i. republic. The account given of him in Livy, Plu-
117; Plut. Crass. 9; Oros. v. 24 ; Flor. iii. 20. tarch, and Dionysius cannot be regarded as a real
§ 10 ; Eutrop. vi. 7 ; Liv. Epit. 96, 98 ; Plut. history. The history of the expulsion of the Tarquing
Pomp. 22; Cic. pro Cluent. 42; Ascon. in Tog. and of the infancy of the republic has evidently
Cand. p. 84, ed. Orelli ; Appian, Mithr. 95; Flor. received so many poetical embellishments, and has
ii. 6. $ 8 ; Cic. post Red. ad Quir. 7 ; Gell. v. 6 ; been so altered by successive traditions, that probably
Cic. ad Alt. xii. 21; Plut. Cic. 26 ; Cic. in Pis. we are not warranted in asserting any thing more
3; Val. Max. v. 9. 8 1. ) Orelli, in his Onomas- respecting Publicola than that he took a prominent
ticon Tullianum (vol. ji. p. 269), makes the L. part in the government of the state during the first
Gellius, the contubernalis of Carbo, a different few years of the republic. The common story, how-
person from the consul of B. C. 72 ; but this is ever, runs as follows. P. Valerius, the son of Vo-
clearly an error, for Cicero speaks of the contuber- lusus, belonged to one of the noblest Roman houses,
Dalis of Carbo as his friend (Brut. 27), and that and was a descendant of the Sabine Volusus, who
he reached a great age is evident from many pas- settled at Rome with Tatius, the king of the Sa-
sages. (Cic. Brus. 47; Plut. Cic. 26. )
bines. (VALERIA Gens. ) When Lucretia sum-
2. L. Gellius PUBLICOLA, the son of the pre moned her father from the camp, after Sextus Tar-
ceding by his first wife. He was accused of com- quinius had wrought the deed of shame, P. Va-
mitting incest with his step-mother, and of con- lerius accompanied Lucretius to his daughter, and
spiring against his father's life ; but although the was by her side when she disclosed the villany of
latter was nearly convinced of his guilt, he allowed Sextus and stabbed herself to the beart. Valerius,
him to plead his cause before a large number of in common with all the others who were present,
senators, and, in consequence of their opinion, swore to avenge her death, which they forth with
declared him innocent (Val. Max. v. 9. & 1). After accomplished by expelling the Tarquins from the
the death of Caesar in B. C. 44, Gellius espoused city. Junius Brutus and Tarquinius Collatinus
the republican party, and went with M. Brutus to were first elected consuls, B. C. 509 ; but as the
Asia. Here he was detected in plotting against very name of Tarquinius made Collatinus an object
the life of Brutus but was pardoned at the inter- of suspicion to the people, he was obliged to resign
cession of his brother, M. Valerius Messalla. his office and leave the city, and Valerius was
Shortly afterwards he entered into a conspiracy to chosen in his
stead. Shortly afterwards the people
take away the life of Cassius, but again escaped of Veii and Tarquinii espoused the cause of the
unpunished, through the intercession of his mother Tarquins, and marched with them against Rome,
Polla. It would hence appear that Polla had been at the head of a large army. The two consuls ad-
divorced from her first husband Gellius, and had vanced to meet them with the Roman forces. A
subsequently married Messalla. Gellius, however, bloody battle was fought, in which Brutus fell ; and
showed no gratitude for the leniency which had both parties claimed the victory, till a voice was
been shown him, but deserted to the trium virs, heard in the dead of the night proclaiming that the
Octavian and Antony ; and while in their service Romans had conquered, as the Etruscans had lost
he had coins struck, on which he appears with the one man more. Alarmed at this, the Etruscans fled,
title of Q. P. , that is, Quaestor Propraetore (Eckhel, and Valerius entered Rome in triumph. Valerius was
vol. v. p. 223). He was rewarded for his treachery now left without a colleague ; and as he began
by the consulship in B. c.
TANIA, was the son and successor of Juba II. By a surname of Apollo. (Paus. iv. 32. & 5, ix. 23.
his mother Cleopatra he was descended from the $ 3. )
(L. S. )
kings of Egypt, whose name he bore. The period PUBLICIA. 1. The wife of L. Postumius
of his accession and the death of his father cannot | Albinus, consul B. c. 154, was accused of murder-
be determined with certainty, but we know that ing her husband. She gave bail to the praetor for
Ptolemy was already on the throne when Strabo her appearance, but was put to death by order of
wrote, about 18 or 19, A. D. (Strab. xvii. pp. her relations, consequently by a judiciuin domesti-
828, 840 ; Clinton. F. H. vol. iii
. p. 203. ) He I cum. (Val. Max. vi. 3. $ 8 ; Liv. Epit. 48 ; Rein,
areAEMAIOY
004
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600
PUBLICIUS.
PUBLICOLA.
C. P.
1
seoca
Criminalrecht der Römer, p. 407. ) (Comp. LICINIA, PUBLI'CIUS CELSUS. (Celsus. )
No. 1. ]
PUBLI'CIL'S CERTUS, was the accuser of
2. The wife of Lentulus, the flamen Martialis. the younger Helvidius, who was slain by Domitian.
(Macrob. Sat. ii. 9. )
As a reward for this service he was nominated
PUBLICIA GENS, plebeian. The ancient praefectus aerarii and was promised the consulship ;
form of the name was Publicius, which we find on but after the death of the tyrant, he was accused
coins and in the Fasti Capitolini. This gens rose by the younger Pliny in the senate, A. D. 96, of
into importance in the time between the first and se- the part he had taken in the condemnation of Hel-
cond Punic wars, and the first member of it who ob- vidius. The emperor Nerva did not allow the
tnined the consulship was M. Publicius Malleolus, in senate to proceed to the trial of Publicius ; but
B. c. 232. During the republic it was divided into Pliny obtained the object he had in view, for Pub
two families, that of MALLEOLUS, which was the licius was deprived of his office of praefectus aerari,
most important, and that of BIBULUS, which has been and thus lost all hope of the consulship. The
accidentally omitted under that head, and is there- account of his impeachment, which was afterwards
fore given below. Besides these names, there are published, is related by Pliny in a letter to Qna-
a few cognomens of freedmen and of persons in the dratus (Ep. ix. 13). Publicius died a few days
imperial period, which are likewise given below. after the proceedings in the senate, and it was sup-
The cognomen Malleolus is the only one that apposed by some that his death was hastened by fear.
pears on coins of this gens, and there are also other PUBLI'CIUS GE'LLIUS. (Gellius. )
coins which bear no burname. Of the latter we CN. PUBLI'CIUS MENANDER, a freed-
subjoin a specimen. The obverse represents a
man mentioned by Cicero, in his oration for Balbus
female head covered with a helmet, the reverse Her- (c. 11).
cules strangling a lion, with the legend C. POBLICI PUBLI'COLA, or POPLI'CULA, or POPLI'-
It is not known who this C. Poblicius was. COLA, a Roman cognomen, signified “one who
(Eckhel, vol. v. p. 279. )
courts the people” (from populus and colo), and
thus “a friend of the people. ” The form Pop? i-
cula or Poplicola was the most ancient. Poplicola
generally occurs in inscriptions, but we also find
Poplicula (Orelli, Inscr. No. 547). Publicola was
the more modern form, and seems to have been the
one usually employed by the Romans in later times.
We find it in the best manuscripts of Livy, and in
the palimpsest manuscript of Cicero's De Republica.
COIN OF PUBLICIA GENS.
PUBLI'COLA, GE'LLIUS. 1. L. GELLIUS
PUBLICOLA, was the contubernalis of the consul
PUBLI'CIUS. 1. PUBLicius, an Italian seer, C. Papirius Carbo, B. C. 120 (Cic. Brut. 27).
is mentioned twice by Cicero along with the None of his family had held any of the higher
Marcii. (Cic. de Div. i. 50, ii. 55. ) [See Vol. II. offices of the state before him, and we do not know
p. 944, b. ]
how he rose into distinction. He must, at all
2. L. PubliciuS BIBULUS, tribunus militum of events, have been far advanced in years when he
the second legion, B. c. 216. (Liv. xxii. 53. ) attained the consulship. The year of his praetor-
3. C. PubliciuS BIBULUS, tribune of the plebs ship is not mentioned ; but after his praetorship
B. C. 209, distinguished himself by his hostility to he received the province of Achaia, with the title
M. Claudius Marcellus, whom he endeavoured to of proconsul ; and during his government he offered,
deprive of his imperium ; but Marcellus made such in mockery, his mediation to the rival philosophers
a triumphant reply to the accusations of Publicius, of Athens, to reconcile their disputes (Cic. de Leg.
that not only was the bill for taking away his im- i. 20). In B, c. 74 he defended the cause of M.
perium rejected, but he was elected consul on the Octavius Ligur, whose adversary was unjustly fa-
next day. (Liv. xxvii. 20, 21. )
roured by the praetor Verres (Cic. Verr. i. 48).
4. C. PUBLICIUS, whose saying respecting P. In B. c. 72 Gellius was consul with Cn. Cornelius
Mummius is mentioned by Cicero (de Orat. ii. 67), | Lentulus Clodianus. The two consuls carried on
on the authority of Cato. He may have been the war against Spartacus. Gellius at first defeated
bame person as No. 3, as Glandorp has conjectured. Crixus, one of the principal generals of Spartacus,
5. L. PUBLICIUS, an intimate friend of Sex. near mount Garganus in Apulia, and Crixus lost
Naevius, and a slave-dealer, mentioned by Cicero his life in the battle. The two consuls then marched
in B. C. 81. (Cic. pro Quint. 6. )
against Spartacus, who was attempting to escape
6. Publicius, a Roman eques, celebrated for across the Alps into Gaul. But they were no
conducting bribery at the elections at Rome, about match for the leader of the gladiators. Spartacus
B. c. 70. (Pseudo-Ascon. in Verr. p. 135. ) attacked each of them separately, in the Apen-
7. Q. Publicius, praetor B. C. 69, before whom nines, and conquered them in succession. The
Cicero defended D. Matrinius. (Cic. pro Cluent. two consuls then united their forces, but were
45. )
again defeated in Picenum, by their indefatigable
8. Publicius, one of Catiline's crew, B. c. 63. adversary. It was about this time that Pompey
(Cic. Cat. ii. 2.
)
had brought the war in Spain to a conclusion ; and
9. Publicius, a tribune of the plebs, of uncer-
as he had conferred the Roman citizenship upon
tain date, brought forward a law that presents of many persons in that country, the consuls brought
wax-candles (cerei) at the Saturnalia should be forward a law to ratify his acts (Cic. pro Balb. 8,
made to the patrons only by those clients who were 14). The consuls also proposed in the senate, that
in good circumstances, as the making of these no one in the provinces should be accused of capital
presents had become a very burdensome obligation crimes in their absence. This was directed against
to many clients. (Macrob. Sat. i. 7. )
Verres. (Cic. Verr, ii, 39).
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PUBLICOLA.
PUBLICOLA.
601
Two years afterwards, B. C. 70, Gellius was tioned agnin, he probably perished in the actior. .
censor with Lentulus, his former colleague in the (Dion Cass. xlvii. 24 ; Liv. Epit. 122 ; Dion Casa.
consulship. They exercised their office with great xlix. 24 ; Plut. Ant. 65, 66 ; Vell. Pat. ii. 85. )
severity, and expelled many persons from the 3. Gellius PUBLICOLA, probably a brother of
senate, among whom was C. Antonius. It was No. 1, is called a step-son of L. Marcius Philippus,
during their censorship that Pompey, who was then consul B. c. 91, and a brother of L. Marcius Phi-
consul, appeared as an ordinary eques at the solemn lippus, consul B. C. 56. According to Cicero's
muster of the equites, and, amid the applause of account he was a profligate and a spendthrift, and
the spectators, led his horse by the curule chair having dissipated his property, united himself to
of the censors, and answered the ordinary questions. P. Clodius. “As an intimate friend of the latter, he
In B. c. 67 and 66 Gellius served as one of Pom- of course incurs the bitterest enmity of Cicero,
pey's legates in the war against the pirates, and whose statements with respect to him must, there
had the charge of the Tuscan sea. In the first fore, be received with caution. (Cic. pro Sext. 51,
conspiracy of Catiline an attempt was made to 52, in Putin. 2, de Ilurusp. Resp. 27, ad Att. iv.
obtain possession of his fleet, and, though the 3. § 2, ad Q. Fr. ii. 1. § 1; Schol. Bob. pro Sexl.
mutiny was put down, Gellius had a narrow escape p. 304, ed. Orelli. )
of his life. In consequence of the personal danger 4. GELLIUS Publicola, had been the quaestor
be had previously incurred, he was one of the of Junius Silanus in Asia, in the reign of Tiberius,
warmest supporters of Cicero in his suppression of and was subsequently one of his accusers in A. D.
the second conspiracy, and accordingly proposed ! 22. (Tac. Ann. iji. 67. )
that Cicero should be rewarded with a civic crown. 5. L. Gellius PUBLICOLA, one of the consules
From this time he appears as a steady friend of suffecti in the reign of Caligula, A. D. 40 (Fasti).
Cicero and the aristocratical party. In B. c. 59 he (For an account of the Gellii see Drumann, Ges-
opposed the agrarian law of Caesar, and in B. c. 57 chichte Roms, vol. ii. pp. 64–67. )
he spoke iu favour of Cicero's recall from exile. He PUBLI'COLA, VALE'RIUS. 1. P. VALE-
was alive in B. C. 55, when Cicero delivered his rius VOLUSIF. PUBLICOLA, the colleague of
fpeech against Piso, but probably died soon after- Brutus in the consulship in the first year of the
wards. He was married twice. (Appian, B. C. i. republic. The account given of him in Livy, Plu-
117; Plut. Crass. 9; Oros. v. 24 ; Flor. iii. 20. tarch, and Dionysius cannot be regarded as a real
§ 10 ; Eutrop. vi. 7 ; Liv. Epit. 96, 98 ; Plut. history. The history of the expulsion of the Tarquing
Pomp. 22; Cic. pro Cluent. 42; Ascon. in Tog. and of the infancy of the republic has evidently
Cand. p. 84, ed. Orelli ; Appian, Mithr. 95; Flor. received so many poetical embellishments, and has
ii. 6. $ 8 ; Cic. post Red. ad Quir. 7 ; Gell. v. 6 ; been so altered by successive traditions, that probably
Cic. ad Alt. xii. 21; Plut. Cic. 26 ; Cic. in Pis. we are not warranted in asserting any thing more
3; Val. Max. v. 9. 8 1. ) Orelli, in his Onomas- respecting Publicola than that he took a prominent
ticon Tullianum (vol. ji. p. 269), makes the L. part in the government of the state during the first
Gellius, the contubernalis of Carbo, a different few years of the republic. The common story, how-
person from the consul of B. C. 72 ; but this is ever, runs as follows. P. Valerius, the son of Vo-
clearly an error, for Cicero speaks of the contuber- lusus, belonged to one of the noblest Roman houses,
Dalis of Carbo as his friend (Brut. 27), and that and was a descendant of the Sabine Volusus, who
he reached a great age is evident from many pas- settled at Rome with Tatius, the king of the Sa-
sages. (Cic. Brus. 47; Plut. Cic. 26. )
bines. (VALERIA Gens. ) When Lucretia sum-
2. L. Gellius PUBLICOLA, the son of the pre moned her father from the camp, after Sextus Tar-
ceding by his first wife. He was accused of com- quinius had wrought the deed of shame, P. Va-
mitting incest with his step-mother, and of con- lerius accompanied Lucretius to his daughter, and
spiring against his father's life ; but although the was by her side when she disclosed the villany of
latter was nearly convinced of his guilt, he allowed Sextus and stabbed herself to the beart. Valerius,
him to plead his cause before a large number of in common with all the others who were present,
senators, and, in consequence of their opinion, swore to avenge her death, which they forth with
declared him innocent (Val. Max. v. 9. & 1). After accomplished by expelling the Tarquins from the
the death of Caesar in B. C. 44, Gellius espoused city. Junius Brutus and Tarquinius Collatinus
the republican party, and went with M. Brutus to were first elected consuls, B. C. 509 ; but as the
Asia. Here he was detected in plotting against very name of Tarquinius made Collatinus an object
the life of Brutus but was pardoned at the inter- of suspicion to the people, he was obliged to resign
cession of his brother, M. Valerius Messalla. his office and leave the city, and Valerius was
Shortly afterwards he entered into a conspiracy to chosen in his
stead. Shortly afterwards the people
take away the life of Cassius, but again escaped of Veii and Tarquinii espoused the cause of the
unpunished, through the intercession of his mother Tarquins, and marched with them against Rome,
Polla. It would hence appear that Polla had been at the head of a large army. The two consuls ad-
divorced from her first husband Gellius, and had vanced to meet them with the Roman forces. A
subsequently married Messalla. Gellius, however, bloody battle was fought, in which Brutus fell ; and
showed no gratitude for the leniency which had both parties claimed the victory, till a voice was
been shown him, but deserted to the trium virs, heard in the dead of the night proclaiming that the
Octavian and Antony ; and while in their service Romans had conquered, as the Etruscans had lost
he had coins struck, on which he appears with the one man more. Alarmed at this, the Etruscans fled,
title of Q. P. , that is, Quaestor Propraetore (Eckhel, and Valerius entered Rome in triumph. Valerius was
vol. v. p. 223). He was rewarded for his treachery now left without a colleague ; and as he began
by the consulship in B. c.
