) When
a Latin translation was made at the command of Caesar afterwards went to Spain, Calenus again
Pope Martin V.
a Latin translation was made at the command of Caesar afterwards went to Spain, Calenus again
Pope Martin V.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
16) states, that Caldus regretted,
but his father obtained his pardon from Hannibal, throughout his life, having proposed this law, as it
who even invited father and son to a great en- did injury to the republic. In B. C. 94, he was
tertainment which he gave to the most distin- made consul, together with L. Domitius Aheno-
guished Campanians. But Perolla could not barbus, in preference to a competitor of very high
conquer his hatred of the Carthaginians, and rank, though he himself was à novus homo: and
went to the repast armed with a sword, intending after his consulship he obtained Spain as his pro-
to murder Hannibal. When Pacuvius Calavius vince, as is usually inferred from coins of the gens
left the banquet-room, his son followed him and Caelia which bear his name, the word His (pania)
told him of his plan; but the father worked upon and the figure of a boar, which Eckhel refers to the
the young man's feelings, and induced him to town of Clunia. (One of these coins is figured in
abandon his bloody design. (Liv. xxiii
. 2–4, the Dict. of Ant. s. v. Epulones. ) During the civil
8, 9. )
(L. S. ] war between Marius and Sulla, B. C. 83, Caldus was
CALA'VIUS SABI'NUS. [SABINUS. ] a steady supporter of the Marian party, and in con-
CALCHAS (Ráaxas), a son of Thestor of My- junction with Carrinas and Brutus, he endeavoured
cenae or Megara, was the wisest soothsayer among to prevent Pompey from leading his legions to Sulla.
the Greeks at Troy. (Hom. Il. i. 69, &c. , xiii. 70. ) But as the three did not act in unison, Pompey
He foretold the Greeks the duration of the Trojan made an attack upon the army of Brutus and
war, even before they sailed from Aulis, and while routed it, whereby the plan of Caldus was com-
they were engaged in the war he explained to them pletely thwarted. (Cic. de Orat. i. 25, Brut. 45,
the cause of the anger of Apollo. (II. ii. 322; Ov. in Verr. v. 70, de Petit. Cons. 3, pro Muren. 8;
Met. xii. 19, &c. ; Hygin. Fab. 97; Paus. i. 43. J. Obsequens, ill; Ascon. Aryum. in Cornel. p.
$ 1. ) An oracle had declared that Calchas should 57, ed. Orelli; Plut. Pomp. 7 ; Cic. ad Att. x. 12,
die if he should meet with a soothsayer superior to 14-16, de Orat. ii. 64; ad Herenn. ii. 13,
himself; and this came to pass at Claros, for Cal- though it is uncertain whether the Caelius men-
chas met the famous soothsayer Mopsus in the tioned in the last two paseages is the same as C
grove of the Clarian Apollo, and was defeated by Caelius Caldus or not; comp. Eckhel, v, p. 175. )
him in not being able to state the number of figs 2. C. CAELIUS CALDUS, a son of L. Caelius
on a wild fig-tree, or the number of pigs which a Caldus, and a grandson of No. 1, was appointed
sow was going to give birth to-things which quaestor in B. . 50, in Cilicia, which was then
Mopsus told with perfect accuracy.
Hereupon, under the administration of Cicero. When Cicero
Calchas is said to have died with grief. (Strab. departed from the province, he left the administra-
xiv. p. 642, &c. , 668; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 427,980. ) tion in tbe hands of Caldus, although be was not
Another story about his death runs thus : a sooth- fit for such a post either by his age or his charac-
sayer saw Calchas planting some vines in the grove ter. Among the letters of Cicero, there is one
of Apollo near Grynium, and foretold him that he (ad Fam. ii. 19) addressed to Caldus at the time
would never drink any of the wine produced by when he was quaestor designatus. (Cic. ad Fam.
them. When the grapes had grown ripe and wine ii. 15, ad Atl. vi. 2, 4-6, vii. 1. )
was made of them, Calchas invited the soothsayer 3. CALDUS, the last member of the family who
among his other guests. Even at the moment occurs in history. He was one of the Romans
when Calchas held the cup of wine in his hand, who were taken prisoner by the Germans in the
the soothsayer repeated his prophecy. This excited defeat of Varus, a. D. 9, and seeing the cruel tor-
Calchas to such a fit of laughter, that he dropped tures which the barbarians inflicted upon the pri-
the cup and choked. (Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vi. 72. ) soners, he grasped the chains in which he was fet-
A third tradition, lastly, states that, when Calcbastered and dashed them against his own head with
disputed with Mopsus the administration of the such force, that he died on the spot. (Vell. Pat.
oracle at Claros, he promised victory to Amphima- i. 120. )
chus, king of the Lycians, while Mopsus said that
The name Caldus occurs on several coins of the
he would not be victorious. The latter prophecy Caelia gens. One of the most important is given,
was fulfilled ; and Calchas, in his grief at this de- as is mentioned above, in the Dict. of Ant. [L. S. ]
feat, put an end to his life. (Conon, Narrat. 6. )
Respecting the oracle of Calchas in Daunia, see
Dict. of Ant. s. v. Oraculum.
(L. S. ]
CALDUS, the name of a family of the plebeian
The word caldus is a shortened
form of calidus, and hence Cicero (de Invent. ii. 9)
says, “ aliquem Caldum vocari, quod temerario et
repentino consilio sit. ”
1. C. Caelius Caldus, a contemporary of L. CALE’CAS, JOANNES ('Iwávvns Kartkas),
Crassus, the orator. No member of his family was patriarch of Constantinople from a. D. 1333 to
had yet obtained any of the great offices, but he
to 1347.
(Cantacuz. Hist. Byz. iii. 21. ) He was
an
Caelia gens.
CALDIA
20
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662
CALENUS.
CALENUS.
3
a native of the town of Apri or Aprus in Thrace, | bill was supported by Q. Hortensius, though he
and before he was made patriarch he held a high thought it impossible that Clodius should be ac-
ecclesiastical office at the court of the emperor quitted. However the law was passed, and Fufius
Andronicus. He delivered a great number of homi- Calenus gained his end. In B. c. 59, he was
lies at Constantinople, which created great sensa- elected praetor by the influence of Caesar, in
tion in their time, and sixty of which are said 10 whose cause he continued to be very active ever
be still extant in MS. But only two of them afterwards. In this year he carried a law, that
have been published by Grester (De Cruce, ii. cach of the three classes of judges, senators, equites,
p. 1363, &c. , and 1477, &c. ), and the latter under and tribuni aerarii, should give their votes sepa-
the erroneous nanie of Philotheus. (Cave, list. rately, so that it might always be seen in what
Lit. ii. p. 497, &c. , ed. Lond. ; Fabric. Bill. way each of them voted. Being generally known
Graec. xi. p. 591, &c. )
(L. S. ] as the tool of Caesar, he also shared in the hatred
CALE'CAS, MANUEL (Mavourla Kalnkas), which the latter drew upon himself, and was ac-
a relative of Joannes Calecas, appears to have cordingly treated, says Cicero (al Aut. ii. 18), with
lived about a. D. 1360, as he combated the doc- contempt and hisses by all the good citizens.
trines of Palamas. He is said to have been a monk In B. c. 52, Calenus is stated to have supported
of the Dominican order, and was the author of the Clodian party after Clodius had been murdered
several works. Though he himself was a Greek, by Milo, and in the year following we find him
he wrote against the Greek church and in favour as legate of Caesar in Gaul. On the outbreak
of that of Rome, for which he is, of course, highly of the civil war in B. C. 49, Calenus hastened in the
praised by the adherents of the Roman church. month of March to meet Caesar at Brundusium,
The following list contains those of his works and on his journey thither he called upon Cicero
which are published: - 1. “ Libri iv adversus at his Formian Villa, on which occasion he called
errores Graecorum de Processione Spiritus Sancti. " Pompey a criminal, and charged the senate with
The Greek original has not yet been printed, but levity and folly. (Cic. ad Att. ix. 5.
) When
a Latin translation was made at the command of Caesar afterwards went to Spain, Calenus again
Pope Martin V. by Ambrosius Camaldulensis, and followed him as legate ; and after Caesar had gone
was edited with a commentary by P. Stenartius, to Epeirus, Calenus was sent to fetch over the re-
Ingolstadt, 1616, 4to. A reprint of this transla- mainder of the troops from Italy. But while he
tion is contained in the Biblioth. Patr. vol. xxvi. was crossing over from Epeirus to Italy with his
p. 382, &c. , ed. Lugdun. 2. “ De Essentia et empty ships, Bibulus captured most of them: Ca-
Operatione Dei” (nepi ovolas kal évepyelas), was lenus himself escaped to the Italian coast and after-
edited with a Latin translation and notes by Com- wards returned to Epeirus with Antony. Before
befisius, in vol. ij. of his Auctarium Novissimum the battle of Pharsalia Caesar sent him to Achaia,
Bibl. Patr. pp. 1–67, ed. Paris, 1672, fol. This and there he took Delphi, Thebes, and Orchome-
work is directed against the heresies of Palamas, nos, and afterwards Athens, Megara, and Patrae.
and was approved by the synod of Constantinople In B. C. 47, Caesar caused him to be raised to the
of 1351. 3. “ De Fide deque Principiis Catholicae consulship.
Fidei” (περί πίστεως και περί των αρχών της καθο- After the murder of Caesar, in B. C. 44, Calenus
λικής πίστεως). This work, consisting of ten joined M. Antony, and during the transactions of
chapters, was edited with a Latin translation and the early part of B. C. 43, he defended Antony
notes by Combensius, in his Auctarium mentioned against Cicero. The speech which Dion Cassius
abore, ii. pp. 174–285. The Latin translation is (xlii. 1, &c. ) puts into his mouth, does not, proba-
reprinted in the Bibl. Patr. vol. xxvi. p. 315, &c. , bly, contain much genuine matter, and is, perhaps,
ed. Lugdun. About ten more of his works are only an invention of the historian. After the war
extant in MS. , but have never yet been published. against Brutus and Cassius, Calenus served as the
(Wharton's Append. to Care's Hist. Lit. i. p. 5. 5, legate of M. Antony, and the legions of the latter
&c. ; Fabric. Biblioth. Graec. xi. p. 453, &c. ) [L. S. ] were placed under his command in northern Italy.
CALENUS. [OLENUS. ]
When the Perusinian war terminated, in B. C. 41,
CALENUS, the name of a family of the Fufia with the defeat of L. Antonius, Octavianus was
gens, is probably derived from Cales, a municipium anxious to get possession of the army of Calenus,
in Campania ; but whether the name merely indi- which was stationed at the foot of the Alps; for-
cated the origin of the family, or whether the first tunately for Octavianus, Calenus just then died,
who bore it, derived it from having conquered the and his son, who was a mere youth, surrendered
town of Cales is unceriain, though the latter is the the army to Octavianus without striking a blow.
more probable supposition. The name occurs on It is related by Appian (B. c. iv. 47), that during
a coin of the Fufia gens. (Eckhel, v. p. 220, &c. ) the proscription of (B. C. 43) the life of the great
1. Q. Furius CALENUS is mentioned only by M. Terentius Varro was saved by Calenus, and it
Cicero (Philip. viii. 4) as one who thought, that is not improbable that the letter of Varro to
P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica was the greatest man Fufius, which is still extant (Fragm. p. 199. ed
in the republic, because he had delivered the state Bipont. ) was addressed to our Q. Fufius Calenus.
from the obnoxions Tib. Gracchus. From this (Cic. aŭ Fam. v. 6, ad Att. i. 14, 15, xi. 15, 16;
sentiment it may be inferred, that Fufius Calenus Schol. Bobiens. pp. 330, 235; Ascon. ad Milon.
occupied a considerable portion of the public land. p. 43, ed. Orelli; Cic. Philip. viii. 4, &c. ; Caes.
2. Q. Fufius Q. F. C. N. CALENUS, son of No. B. G. viii. 39, B. C. iii. 8, 26, 55; Dion Cass.
1, was tribune of the plebs in B. c. 61, and patro xxxviii. 8, xlii. 14, 55, xlviii. 10, 20; Appian,
nized P. Clodius, whom he endeavoured to save B. C. ii. 58, v. 3, 12, 24, 33, 51, 61; comp. Orelli,
from condemnation for his violation of the myste- Onom. Tuli. ii. p. 259. )
ries of the Bona Dea. With this view he pro- 3. CALENUS, L. (Fufius), is mentioned only
posed a law, that Clodius should not be tried by by Cicerc (c. Verr. ii. 8) as one of the witnesses
special judges, but by the ordinary court. This against Verres.
[L. S. ]
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CALIDIUS.
563
CALIGULA.
CALE'NUS, JU’LIUS, an Aeduan. After his recall from banishment. (Quintil. x. i. $ 23;
the battle of Cremona, in A. D. 69, in which the Cic. post. Red. in Sen. 9. ) In B. c. 54, he defended,
army of Vitellius was defeated by Antonius Pri- in conjunction with Ciccro and others, M. Aemilius
mus, Julins Calenus, who had himself belonged to Scaurus, who was accused of extortion. (Ascon. in
the Vitellian party, was sent to Gaul as a living Scaur. p. 20. ) He also spoke in the same year on
proof of their defeat. (Tac. Hist. iii. 35. ) [L. S. ] behalf of the freedom of the inhabitants of Tenedos,
CALE'NUS, M. VALERIUS CORVUS. and in support of Gabinius. (Cic. ad Q. Fr. ii. 11,
(CORVUS. )
iii. 2. ) In B. c. 52, Calidius was one of the sup-
CALE'TOR (KanhtWp), a son of Clytius, slain porters of Milo, after the death of Clodius (Ascon.
at Troy by the Telamonian Ajax. (Hom.
but his father obtained his pardon from Hannibal, throughout his life, having proposed this law, as it
who even invited father and son to a great en- did injury to the republic. In B. C. 94, he was
tertainment which he gave to the most distin- made consul, together with L. Domitius Aheno-
guished Campanians. But Perolla could not barbus, in preference to a competitor of very high
conquer his hatred of the Carthaginians, and rank, though he himself was à novus homo: and
went to the repast armed with a sword, intending after his consulship he obtained Spain as his pro-
to murder Hannibal. When Pacuvius Calavius vince, as is usually inferred from coins of the gens
left the banquet-room, his son followed him and Caelia which bear his name, the word His (pania)
told him of his plan; but the father worked upon and the figure of a boar, which Eckhel refers to the
the young man's feelings, and induced him to town of Clunia. (One of these coins is figured in
abandon his bloody design. (Liv. xxiii
. 2–4, the Dict. of Ant. s. v. Epulones. ) During the civil
8, 9. )
(L. S. ] war between Marius and Sulla, B. C. 83, Caldus was
CALA'VIUS SABI'NUS. [SABINUS. ] a steady supporter of the Marian party, and in con-
CALCHAS (Ráaxas), a son of Thestor of My- junction with Carrinas and Brutus, he endeavoured
cenae or Megara, was the wisest soothsayer among to prevent Pompey from leading his legions to Sulla.
the Greeks at Troy. (Hom. Il. i. 69, &c. , xiii. 70. ) But as the three did not act in unison, Pompey
He foretold the Greeks the duration of the Trojan made an attack upon the army of Brutus and
war, even before they sailed from Aulis, and while routed it, whereby the plan of Caldus was com-
they were engaged in the war he explained to them pletely thwarted. (Cic. de Orat. i. 25, Brut. 45,
the cause of the anger of Apollo. (II. ii. 322; Ov. in Verr. v. 70, de Petit. Cons. 3, pro Muren. 8;
Met. xii. 19, &c. ; Hygin. Fab. 97; Paus. i. 43. J. Obsequens, ill; Ascon. Aryum. in Cornel. p.
$ 1. ) An oracle had declared that Calchas should 57, ed. Orelli; Plut. Pomp. 7 ; Cic. ad Att. x. 12,
die if he should meet with a soothsayer superior to 14-16, de Orat. ii. 64; ad Herenn. ii. 13,
himself; and this came to pass at Claros, for Cal- though it is uncertain whether the Caelius men-
chas met the famous soothsayer Mopsus in the tioned in the last two paseages is the same as C
grove of the Clarian Apollo, and was defeated by Caelius Caldus or not; comp. Eckhel, v, p. 175. )
him in not being able to state the number of figs 2. C. CAELIUS CALDUS, a son of L. Caelius
on a wild fig-tree, or the number of pigs which a Caldus, and a grandson of No. 1, was appointed
sow was going to give birth to-things which quaestor in B. . 50, in Cilicia, which was then
Mopsus told with perfect accuracy.
Hereupon, under the administration of Cicero. When Cicero
Calchas is said to have died with grief. (Strab. departed from the province, he left the administra-
xiv. p. 642, &c. , 668; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 427,980. ) tion in tbe hands of Caldus, although be was not
Another story about his death runs thus : a sooth- fit for such a post either by his age or his charac-
sayer saw Calchas planting some vines in the grove ter. Among the letters of Cicero, there is one
of Apollo near Grynium, and foretold him that he (ad Fam. ii. 19) addressed to Caldus at the time
would never drink any of the wine produced by when he was quaestor designatus. (Cic. ad Fam.
them. When the grapes had grown ripe and wine ii. 15, ad Atl. vi. 2, 4-6, vii. 1. )
was made of them, Calchas invited the soothsayer 3. CALDUS, the last member of the family who
among his other guests. Even at the moment occurs in history. He was one of the Romans
when Calchas held the cup of wine in his hand, who were taken prisoner by the Germans in the
the soothsayer repeated his prophecy. This excited defeat of Varus, a. D. 9, and seeing the cruel tor-
Calchas to such a fit of laughter, that he dropped tures which the barbarians inflicted upon the pri-
the cup and choked. (Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vi. 72. ) soners, he grasped the chains in which he was fet-
A third tradition, lastly, states that, when Calcbastered and dashed them against his own head with
disputed with Mopsus the administration of the such force, that he died on the spot. (Vell. Pat.
oracle at Claros, he promised victory to Amphima- i. 120. )
chus, king of the Lycians, while Mopsus said that
The name Caldus occurs on several coins of the
he would not be victorious. The latter prophecy Caelia gens. One of the most important is given,
was fulfilled ; and Calchas, in his grief at this de- as is mentioned above, in the Dict. of Ant. [L. S. ]
feat, put an end to his life. (Conon, Narrat. 6. )
Respecting the oracle of Calchas in Daunia, see
Dict. of Ant. s. v. Oraculum.
(L. S. ]
CALDUS, the name of a family of the plebeian
The word caldus is a shortened
form of calidus, and hence Cicero (de Invent. ii. 9)
says, “ aliquem Caldum vocari, quod temerario et
repentino consilio sit. ”
1. C. Caelius Caldus, a contemporary of L. CALE’CAS, JOANNES ('Iwávvns Kartkas),
Crassus, the orator. No member of his family was patriarch of Constantinople from a. D. 1333 to
had yet obtained any of the great offices, but he
to 1347.
(Cantacuz. Hist. Byz. iii. 21. ) He was
an
Caelia gens.
CALDIA
20
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662
CALENUS.
CALENUS.
3
a native of the town of Apri or Aprus in Thrace, | bill was supported by Q. Hortensius, though he
and before he was made patriarch he held a high thought it impossible that Clodius should be ac-
ecclesiastical office at the court of the emperor quitted. However the law was passed, and Fufius
Andronicus. He delivered a great number of homi- Calenus gained his end. In B. c. 59, he was
lies at Constantinople, which created great sensa- elected praetor by the influence of Caesar, in
tion in their time, and sixty of which are said 10 whose cause he continued to be very active ever
be still extant in MS. But only two of them afterwards. In this year he carried a law, that
have been published by Grester (De Cruce, ii. cach of the three classes of judges, senators, equites,
p. 1363, &c. , and 1477, &c. ), and the latter under and tribuni aerarii, should give their votes sepa-
the erroneous nanie of Philotheus. (Cave, list. rately, so that it might always be seen in what
Lit. ii. p. 497, &c. , ed. Lond. ; Fabric. Bill. way each of them voted. Being generally known
Graec. xi. p. 591, &c. )
(L. S. ] as the tool of Caesar, he also shared in the hatred
CALE'CAS, MANUEL (Mavourla Kalnkas), which the latter drew upon himself, and was ac-
a relative of Joannes Calecas, appears to have cordingly treated, says Cicero (al Aut. ii. 18), with
lived about a. D. 1360, as he combated the doc- contempt and hisses by all the good citizens.
trines of Palamas. He is said to have been a monk In B. c. 52, Calenus is stated to have supported
of the Dominican order, and was the author of the Clodian party after Clodius had been murdered
several works. Though he himself was a Greek, by Milo, and in the year following we find him
he wrote against the Greek church and in favour as legate of Caesar in Gaul. On the outbreak
of that of Rome, for which he is, of course, highly of the civil war in B. C. 49, Calenus hastened in the
praised by the adherents of the Roman church. month of March to meet Caesar at Brundusium,
The following list contains those of his works and on his journey thither he called upon Cicero
which are published: - 1. “ Libri iv adversus at his Formian Villa, on which occasion he called
errores Graecorum de Processione Spiritus Sancti. " Pompey a criminal, and charged the senate with
The Greek original has not yet been printed, but levity and folly. (Cic. ad Att. ix. 5.
) When
a Latin translation was made at the command of Caesar afterwards went to Spain, Calenus again
Pope Martin V. by Ambrosius Camaldulensis, and followed him as legate ; and after Caesar had gone
was edited with a commentary by P. Stenartius, to Epeirus, Calenus was sent to fetch over the re-
Ingolstadt, 1616, 4to. A reprint of this transla- mainder of the troops from Italy. But while he
tion is contained in the Biblioth. Patr. vol. xxvi. was crossing over from Epeirus to Italy with his
p. 382, &c. , ed. Lugdun. 2. “ De Essentia et empty ships, Bibulus captured most of them: Ca-
Operatione Dei” (nepi ovolas kal évepyelas), was lenus himself escaped to the Italian coast and after-
edited with a Latin translation and notes by Com- wards returned to Epeirus with Antony. Before
befisius, in vol. ij. of his Auctarium Novissimum the battle of Pharsalia Caesar sent him to Achaia,
Bibl. Patr. pp. 1–67, ed. Paris, 1672, fol. This and there he took Delphi, Thebes, and Orchome-
work is directed against the heresies of Palamas, nos, and afterwards Athens, Megara, and Patrae.
and was approved by the synod of Constantinople In B. C. 47, Caesar caused him to be raised to the
of 1351. 3. “ De Fide deque Principiis Catholicae consulship.
Fidei” (περί πίστεως και περί των αρχών της καθο- After the murder of Caesar, in B. C. 44, Calenus
λικής πίστεως). This work, consisting of ten joined M. Antony, and during the transactions of
chapters, was edited with a Latin translation and the early part of B. C. 43, he defended Antony
notes by Combensius, in his Auctarium mentioned against Cicero. The speech which Dion Cassius
abore, ii. pp. 174–285. The Latin translation is (xlii. 1, &c. ) puts into his mouth, does not, proba-
reprinted in the Bibl. Patr. vol. xxvi. p. 315, &c. , bly, contain much genuine matter, and is, perhaps,
ed. Lugdun. About ten more of his works are only an invention of the historian. After the war
extant in MS. , but have never yet been published. against Brutus and Cassius, Calenus served as the
(Wharton's Append. to Care's Hist. Lit. i. p. 5. 5, legate of M. Antony, and the legions of the latter
&c. ; Fabric. Biblioth. Graec. xi. p. 453, &c. ) [L. S. ] were placed under his command in northern Italy.
CALENUS. [OLENUS. ]
When the Perusinian war terminated, in B. C. 41,
CALENUS, the name of a family of the Fufia with the defeat of L. Antonius, Octavianus was
gens, is probably derived from Cales, a municipium anxious to get possession of the army of Calenus,
in Campania ; but whether the name merely indi- which was stationed at the foot of the Alps; for-
cated the origin of the family, or whether the first tunately for Octavianus, Calenus just then died,
who bore it, derived it from having conquered the and his son, who was a mere youth, surrendered
town of Cales is unceriain, though the latter is the the army to Octavianus without striking a blow.
more probable supposition. The name occurs on It is related by Appian (B. c. iv. 47), that during
a coin of the Fufia gens. (Eckhel, v. p. 220, &c. ) the proscription of (B. C. 43) the life of the great
1. Q. Furius CALENUS is mentioned only by M. Terentius Varro was saved by Calenus, and it
Cicero (Philip. viii. 4) as one who thought, that is not improbable that the letter of Varro to
P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica was the greatest man Fufius, which is still extant (Fragm. p. 199. ed
in the republic, because he had delivered the state Bipont. ) was addressed to our Q. Fufius Calenus.
from the obnoxions Tib. Gracchus. From this (Cic. aŭ Fam. v. 6, ad Att. i. 14, 15, xi. 15, 16;
sentiment it may be inferred, that Fufius Calenus Schol. Bobiens. pp. 330, 235; Ascon. ad Milon.
occupied a considerable portion of the public land. p. 43, ed. Orelli; Cic. Philip. viii. 4, &c. ; Caes.
2. Q. Fufius Q. F. C. N. CALENUS, son of No. B. G. viii. 39, B. C. iii. 8, 26, 55; Dion Cass.
1, was tribune of the plebs in B. c. 61, and patro xxxviii. 8, xlii. 14, 55, xlviii. 10, 20; Appian,
nized P. Clodius, whom he endeavoured to save B. C. ii. 58, v. 3, 12, 24, 33, 51, 61; comp. Orelli,
from condemnation for his violation of the myste- Onom. Tuli. ii. p. 259. )
ries of the Bona Dea. With this view he pro- 3. CALENUS, L. (Fufius), is mentioned only
posed a law, that Clodius should not be tried by by Cicerc (c. Verr. ii. 8) as one of the witnesses
special judges, but by the ordinary court. This against Verres.
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CALIDIUS.
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CALIGULA.
CALE'NUS, JU’LIUS, an Aeduan. After his recall from banishment. (Quintil. x. i. $ 23;
the battle of Cremona, in A. D. 69, in which the Cic. post. Red. in Sen. 9. ) In B. c. 54, he defended,
army of Vitellius was defeated by Antonius Pri- in conjunction with Ciccro and others, M. Aemilius
mus, Julins Calenus, who had himself belonged to Scaurus, who was accused of extortion. (Ascon. in
the Vitellian party, was sent to Gaul as a living Scaur. p. 20. ) He also spoke in the same year on
proof of their defeat. (Tac. Hist. iii. 35. ) [L. S. ] behalf of the freedom of the inhabitants of Tenedos,
CALE'NUS, M. VALERIUS CORVUS. and in support of Gabinius. (Cic. ad Q. Fr. ii. 11,
(CORVUS. )
iii. 2. ) In B. c. 52, Calidius was one of the sup-
CALE'TOR (KanhtWp), a son of Clytius, slain porters of Milo, after the death of Clodius (Ascon.
at Troy by the Telamonian Ajax. (Hom.
