Chap. 30.] BOMAN ATJTHOHS QUOTED. 269 



Curio' the Elder, Caelius', Arruntius', SebosuB^, Licinius 

 Mucianus*, Fabricius Tuscus", L. Ateius', Capito*, Ver- 

 mis Flaccus', 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 in pure and un- 

 atiected 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 Csesar. He was 

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

 published, as also an invective against Csesar, in form of a dialogue, in 

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



' L. Csehus Antipater. See end of B. ii, 



• L. Arruntius, Consul, a.d. 6. Augustus declared in his last iUnesa 

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

 rendered him 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 hia 

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

 the style of Sallust. 



* Statins 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 Sillig 

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

 Capito the great legist was not Lucius. Ateius here mentioned waa 

 probably the person sumamed Prsetextatus, and Philologxis, a fi-eedman 

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

 Abstract of Roman History, and for Asinius Pollio he compiled precepts 

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

 only were smrtdving 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 Consulship 

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

 works were very volimiinous, and extracts from them are to be found in 

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

 ol Sacrifices. 



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

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

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

 Tiberius. He wrote upon antiquities, history, and philosophy : among 

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

 treatise on Orthography. Pliny quotes him very frequently. 



i» SeeendofB. ii. 



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



^2 Nothing is known of him. The yoimger Pliny addressed thi-ee 

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



^ See end of B. ii. 



