Chap. 30.] BOMAN AUTHOES QUOTED. 269 
Curio^ the Elder, Cselius^, Arruntius^, Sebosus^, Licinms 
Mucianus^ Tabricius Tuscus^ L. Ateius^, Capito^, Vei« 
rius Placcus^, L. Piso^^, Gellianus^^ and Yalerianus^^. 
EoREiGK AuTHOES QUOTED. — Artemidorus Alexander 
the first Roman author who wrote a treatise on Q-eography. It is still 
extant, and bears marks of great care, while it is written in pure and un- ' 
affected language. 
1 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 
which 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 illness 
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 his 
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 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 surnamed Prsetextatus, and Philologus, a freedman 
of the jin-ist 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 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 Consulship 
A. D. 5. He was the rival of Labeo, the repubhcan jurist. His legal 
works were very voluminous, aud extracts from them are to be found in 
the Digest. He also wrote a work on the Pontifical Rights and the Law 
oi 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 
Caius and Lucius Caesar. 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. PHny quotes him very frequently. 
i« Seeendof B. ii. 
He is mentioned in c. 17, but nothing more is known of him 
^2 Nothing is known of him. The younger Pliny addressed three 
Epistles to a person of this name, B. ii. Ep. 15, B. v. Ep. 4* 14, 
13 See end of B. ii. 
