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p. cclxxxvii. ), and d. Röm. i. p. 88, &c. ; Klausen, Aeneas u. d. Penat.
that from the success with which he followed in the p. 761, &c. )
[L. S. )
foot-steps of Aurunca’s bard, he was known as the CAECUS, a surname of Ap. Claudius, censor
Lucilius of his day. Hence the expression “ Lu- B. C. 312 and consul in 307 and 296. His life is
cilli (Lucili) pobile pignus” applied to his son, and related under Claudius, as he is better known
hence the mistake of those historians of literature under the latter name.
who have included a Lucillus or Lucullus (corrupt CAEDI'CLA GENS, plebeian. A person of
forms of Lucilius) among the satirical writers of the this name was a tribune of the plebs as early as
fifth century. Lastly, the persons who hold the B. C. 475, but the first of the gens who obtained
above opinions believe that the epigrams in the the consulship was Q. Caedicius Noctua, in B. C.
Greek Anthology bearing the name of Lucillius, and 289. The only cognomen occurring in this gens
assigned by Fabricius to a writer who lived at the is Noctua : for those who have no surname, see
end of the fourth century, are in reality the pro- CAEDICIUS. The name does not occur at all in
ductions of the subject of this article. (Fabric. the later times of the republic; but a Caedicius is
Bibl. Gracc. vol. ii. p. 719. )
mentioned twice by Juvenal (xiii. 197, xvi. 46).
The web of conjecture by which all these facts CAEDI'CIUS. 1. L. CAEDICIUS, tribune of
are connected has been very ingeniously woven by the plebs, B. C. 475, brought to trial Sp. Servilius
Wernsdorff, but in many places the tissue is too Priscus Structus, the consul of the preceding year.
frail to bear rough handling. (Wernsdorff, Poet. (Liv. ii. 52; Dionys. ix. 28. )
Latin. Min. vol. iii. p. xxii. , vol. v. p. 182. ) (W. R. ] 2. M. CAEDICIUS, is said to have told the tri-
C. CAE'CIUS, a friend of Lentulus Spinther, bunes of the plebs, in B. c. 391, that he had heard,
the younger, spoken of by Cicero in B. c. 49. (Cic. in the silence of the night, a superhuman voice,
ad Att. ix. 11, 13. )
commanding him to inform the magistrates that
CAECULUS, an ancient Italian hero of Prae the Gauls were coming. (Liv. v. 32; Plut. Camill.
The account which Servius (ad Aen. vii. 14; Zonaras, vii. 23. ) This appears to be the
678) gives of him runs as follows : At Praeneste same Caedicius, a centurion, who was elected as
there were pontifices and dii indigetes as well as their commander by the Romans that had fled to
at Rome. There were however two brothers called Veii after the destruction of the city by the Gauls,
indigetes (the common reading is dü instead of in- B. C. 390. He led out his countrymen against the
digetes, but is evidently wrong) who had a sister. Etruscans, who availed themselves of the misfor-
On one occasion, while she was sitting by the fire tunes of the Romans to plunder the Veientine ter-
of the hearth, a spark fell into her lap, whereby ritory. After this he proposed that Camillus should
neste.
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532 CAELIOMONTANUS.
CAELIUS.
be invited to become their general, and according costus, and the name of Cneliomontanus was un-
to another account he himself carried to Camillus doubtedly given to the family dwelling on the
the decree of the senate appointing him to the com- Caelian hill, to distinguish it from others of the
mand. (Liv. v. 45, 46; Appian, Celt. 5. )
same gens.
3. C. Caevicius, one of the legates of the con- 1. T. VIRGINIUS TRICOSTUS CAELIOMONTANUS,
sul L. Papirius Cursor, commanded the cavalry in consul B. C. 496 with A. Postumius Albus Regil-
the great battle with the Samnites in B. C. 293. lensis, in which year, according to some annalists,
(Liv. X. 40. )
the battle at the lake Regillus was fought. Ac-
4. Q. Caedicius Q. F. Q. N. , consul B. c. 256, cording to the same accounts, Postumius resigned
died in his consulship, and was succeeded in the the consulship because he suspected his colleague,
office by M. Atilius Regulus. (Fast. Capit. ) and was afterwards made dictator. The battle,
CAÈDICUS, two mythical personages in Vir- however, is usually placed two years earlier. (Al-
gil's Aeneid (ix. 360, x. 747).
(L. S. ) BINUS, No. 1. ) (Liv. ii. 21; Dionys. vi. 2. )
CAELES or CAELIUS VIBENNA, the 2. A. VIRGINIUS A. F. TRICOSTUS CAELIOMON-
leader of an Etruscan army, who is said to have TANUS, called by Dionysius A. Virginius Montanus,
come to Rome at the invitation of one of the early consul B. C. 494, the year in which the plebs
Roman kings, and to have settled with his troops seceded to the Sacred Mountain. Previous to the
on the hill called after him the Caelian. In whose secession he had marched against the Volsci, whoin
reign however he came, was differently stated, as he had defeated in battle, and had taken one of
Tacitus observes. (Ann. iv. 65. ) Tacitus himself their chief towns, Velitrae. He is mentioned by
places his arrival at Rome in the reign of Tarqui- Dionysius as one of the ten envoys sent by the
nius Priscus, and this is in accordance with a senate to treat with the plebs. (Liv. ii. 28--30;
mutilated passage of Festus (s. v. Tuscum vicum), Dionys. vi. 34, 42, 69; Ascon. in Cornel. p. 76,
in which, moreover, Caeles and Vibenna are spoken ed. Orelli. )
of as brothers. Festus, however, in another pas- 3. A. VIRGINIUS A. F. A. N. TricostUs CAE-
sage (s. v. Caclius Mons), Dionysius (ii. 36), and LIOMONTANUS, son of No. 2, consul in 469, marched
Varro (L. L. v. 46, ed. Müller), state that Caeles against the Aequi, whom he eventually defeated
came to Rome in the age of Romulus to assist him through the valour of his soldiers, though his army
against the Sabines. The Etruscan story, which was nearly destroyed in consequence of his own
is preserved in the speech of the emperor Claudius, negligence. (Liv. ii. 63; Dionys. ix. 56 ; Diod.
of which considerable fragments were discovered at xi. 70. )
Lyons, differs considerably from the preceding 4. Sy. VIRGINIUS A. F. A. N.
TRICOSTUs Cae-
ones. According to the Etruscan account, Servius LIOMONTANUS, son of No. 2, consul B. C. 456, in
Tullius, afterwards king of Rome, was originally whose consulship the ludi saeculares are said to
a follower of Caeles Vivenna, whose fortunes be have been celebrated the second time. (Liv, iii.
"shared, and that afterwards overcome by a multi-31; Dionys. x. 31 ; Diod. xii. 4; Censor. de Die
tude of disasters he migrated to Rome with the Nat. 17. )
remains of the army of Caeles, and occupied the 5. T. VIRGINIUS T. F. TRICOSTUS CAELIOMON-
Caelian hill, which he called after the name of his TANUs, consul B. C. 448. (Liv. iï. 65; Dionys.
former commander. It is probable that these dif- xi. 5); Diod. xii. 27. )
ferent accounts refer to two distinct Etruscan CAELIUS or COE'LIUS. 1. M. CAELIUS,
migrations to Rome, and that Caeles Vibenna is tribune of the plebs in the time of M. Cato, the
thius represented as the leader of each. (Niebuhr, censor, whom Cato attacked in a speech, in which
Hist. of Rome, vol. i. p. 381, &c. ; Müller, Etrusker, among other hard things he said, that Caelius would
vol. i. p. 116, &c. )
speak or hold his tongue for a piece of bread. (Gell.
CAÉLESTI'NUS, an historian of the Empire i. 15. )
referred to by Trebellius Pollio in the biography 2. L. CAELIUS, commanded as legate in Illyri-
of the younger Valerian. We know nothing more cum in the war against Perseus, B. C. 169, and
about him.
(W. R. ] was defeated in an attempt which he made to ob
CAE'LIA or COEʼLIA, the third wife of the tain possession of Uscana in the country of the
dictator Sulla, whom he divorced on account of Penestae, a town which was garrisoned by the
barrenness. (Plut. Sull. 6. )
Macedonians. (Liv. xliii. 21. )
CA E’LIA or COE'LIA GENS, plebeian. In 3. P. CAELius, was placed in the command of
manuscripts the name is usually written Caelius, Placentia by the consul Cn. Octavius, B. C. 87, and
while on coins it generally occurs in the form of when the town was taken by Cinna's army, he
Coelius or Coilius, though we find on one coin L. caused himself to be put to death by L. Petronius,
Caelius Tax. (Eckhel, v. pp. 156, 175. ) From that he might not fall into the hands of the Marian
the similarity of the names, Caelius is frequently party. (Val. Max. iv. 7. & 5. )
confounded with Caecilius. The gens traced its 4. P. Caelius, perhaps a son of the preceding,
origin to the Etruscan leader, Caeles Vibenna, in praetor with Verres, B. c. 74. (Cic. c. Verr. i. 50. )
the time of the Roman kings, but no members of 5. M. CAELIUS, a Roman knight, from whom
it obtained the higher offices of the state till the Verres took away, at Lily baeuin, several silver
beginning of the first century B. C. : the first who vases. (Cic. Verr. iv. 47. ) As Cicero says that
obtained the consulship was C. Caelius Caldus in this Caelius was still young at this time, 8. c. 71,
B. c. 94. There were only two family-liames in this he may be the same M. Caelius who is mentioned
gens, Caldus and Rufus: the other cognomens in the oration for Flaccus, B. c. 59. (Cic. pro
are personal surnames, chiefly of freedmen. For Flucc. 4. )
those without a surname see CAELIUS.
6. C. CAELIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 51,
CAELIOMONTANUS (not Coeliomontanus), put his veto with several of his colleagues upon the
the name of a family of the Virginia gens. Almost decrees of the senate directed against Caesar
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CAEPIO.
7. Q. CAELIUS, a friend and follower of M. An- M. CAEPA'RIUS. l. Of Tarracina, a town
tonius, attacked by Cicero. (Phil. xiii. 2, 12. ) in Latium, was one of Catiline's conspirators, who
8. CAELIUS, an usurer, with whom Cicero had was to induce the shepherds in Apulia to rise, and
some dealings. (Cic. ad Alt. xii. 5, 6, vii. 3, who was on the point of leaving Rome for the
xiii. 3. )
purpose when the conspirators were apprehended
CAÉLIUS ANTIPATER. (ANTIPATER. ] by Cicero. He escaped from the city, but was
CAELIUS APICIUS. (APICIUS. ]
overtaken in his flight, carried back to Rome, and
CAELIUS AURELIANUS. (AURELIANUS. ] committed to the custody of Cn. Terentius. He
CAELIUS BALBINUS. (BALBINUS. ] was afterwards executed with the other conspira-
CAELIUS CURSOR. [Cursor. )
tors in the Tullianum, B. C. 63. (Cic. in Cai. iii.
CAELIUS POLLIO. [Pollio. ]
6; Sall. Cat. 46, 47, 55. )
CAELIUS ROSCIUS. (Roscius. ]
2. A different person from the preceding, men-
CAELIUS SABINUS. [SABINUS. ]
tioned by Cicero in B. c. 46. (Ad Fam. ix. 23. )
CAELIUS FIRMIANUS SYMPOSIUS. C. and L. CAEPA'SII, two brothers, contem-
(SYMPOSIUS. )
poraries of the orator Hortensius, obtained the
CAELIUS VINICIANUS. (VINICIANUS. ] quaestorship, though they were unknown men, by
CAENIS, the concubine of Vespasian, was ori- means of their oratory. They were very indus-
ginally a freedwoman of Antonia, the mother of trious and laborious, but their oratory was of rather
the emperor Claudius. After the death of his wife a rude and unpolished kind. (Cic. Brut. 69, pro
Flavia Domitilla, Vespasian took her to live with Cluent. 20, 21; Julius Victor, p. 248, ed. Orelli;
him and treated her almost as his legal wife. She Quintil. iv. 2. & 19, vi.