Chap. 30.] EOMAN AUTHORS QUOTED. ' 269 



Curio' tlie Elder, Caelius", Arruntius^, Sebosus"*, Liciniua 

 Mucianus'^ Fabricius Tuscus^, L. Ateiiis^, Capito*, Ver- 

 riiis riaccus^, L. Piso^", Gellianus'', and Valerianus'". 

 FoEEiGN Authors quoted. — Artemidorus '^, Alexander 



the first Roman author who wrote a treatise on Geography. It is still 

 extant, and bears marks of great care, while it is written m pm'e and nii- 

 afiected language. 



^ C. Scribonius Curio, the third known of that name. He was the 

 first Roman general who advanced as far as the Danube. Like his son 

 of the same name, he was a violent opponent of Julius Caesar. He was 

 eloquent as an orator, but ignorant and uncultivated. His orations were 

 pubhshed, as also an invective against Caesar, in form of a dialogue, in 

 wliich his son was introduced as one of the interlocutors. He died B.C. 53. 



2 L. Caehus Antipater. See end of B. ii. 



3 L. Arruntius, Consul, A.D. 6. Augustus declared in his last iUness 

 that he was worthy of the empire. This, with his riches and talents, 

 rendered liim an object of suspicion to Tiberius. Being charged as an 

 accomphce in the crimes of Albucilla, he put himself to death by opening 

 his veins. It appears not to be certain whether it was this person or his 

 father who wrote a history of the first Punic war, in which he imitated 

 the style of Sallust. 



■* Statius Sebosus. See end of B. ii. 



^ Licinius Crassus Mucianus. See end of B. ii. 



® Of this writer no particulars whatever are known. 



7 In most editions this name appears as L. Ateius Capito, but SiUig 

 separates them, and with propriety it would appear, as the name of 

 Capito the great legist was not Lucius, Ateius here mentioned was 

 probably the person sumamed Praetextatus, and Philologus, a freedman 

 of the jurist Ateius Capito. For Sallust the historian he composed an 

 Abstract of Roman Histoiy, and for Asinius PoUio he compiled precepts 

 on the Art of Writing. His Commentaries were numerous, but a few 

 only were surviving in the time of Suetonius. 



^ C. Ateius Capito, one of the most famous of the Roman legists, and 

 a zealous partisan of Augustus, who had him elevated to the Consulsliip 

 A.D. 5. He was the rival of Labeo, the republican jurist. His legal 

 works were very vohuninous, aud extracts from them are to be fomid in 

 the Digest. He also wrote a work on the Pontifical Rights and the Law 

 of Sacrifices. 



^ A distinguished grammarian of the latter part of the first century 

 B.C. He was entrusted by Augustus vkith the education of his grandsons 

 Cains and Lucius Caesar. He died at an advanced age in the reign of 

 Tiberius. He wi'ote upon antiquities, history, and philosophy : among 

 his numerous works a History of the Etruscans is mentioned, also a 

 treatise on Orthography. Phny quotes liim very frequentlv. 



1" See end of B. ii. 



^^ He is mentioned in c. 17, but nothing more is knowTi of him 



^2 Nothing is known of him. The younger ]*liny addrcs'-rd three 

 Epistles to a person of this name, B. ii. Ep. 15, B. v. Ep. 4» 14, 



^ See end of B. ii. 



