A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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and, when curule aedile, in B. C. 60, seduced the Chron.; comp. Tac. Ann. xii. 1.) Memmius died
wife of M. Lucullus, whence Cicero, combining in.. D. 63. (Tac. Ann. xiv. 47.)
this intrigue with Memmius's previous hostility to 12. C. MEMMIUS REGTJLUS, son, probably, of
L. Lucullus, calls him a Paris, who insulted not the preceding, was consul in A. D. 63. (Fasti;
only Menelaus (M. Lucullus), but Agamemnon also Tac. Ann. xv. 23; Gruter, Inscr. p. 8.)
(L. Lucullus). (Cic. ad Att. i. 18. ~ 3; comp. 13. L. MEMMIUS POLLIO, was supplementary
Val. Max. vi. 1. ~ 13.) Memmius was praetor in consul in B.C. 49. Memmius was a creature of
B. C. 58. (Cic. ad Quint. Fr. i. 2, 5, 15.) He Agrippina's, the wife of Claudius, and was embelonged at that time to the Senatorian party, ployed by her to promote the marriage of her son
since he impeached P. Vatinius, consul in B. C. 47 Nero with the emperor's daughter Octavia. (Tac.
(Cic. in Vatin. 14); opposed P. Clodius (id. ad 4nn. xii. 9.)
4tt. ii. 12); and was vehement in his invectives 14. C. MEMMIUs, C. F., is only known from
against Julius Caesar (Suet. Caes. 23, 49, 73; coins of the republican period, a specimen of which
Schol. Bob. in Cic. pro Sest. p. 297, in Cic. is annexed. The obverse bears the head of Ceres,
Vatinian. p. 317, 323, Orelli); and attempted to with c. MEMMI, c. F.: the reverse a trophy supbring in a bill to rescind the acts of his consulate. ported by a captive, with c. MEMMIVS IMPERATOR.
Before, however, Memmius himself competed for This coin is of beautiful workmanship. [W. B. D.]
the consulship, B. c. 54, he had been reconciled to
Caesar, who supported him with all his interest....
(Cic. ad Att. iv. 15, 17; Suet. Caes. 73.) But..
Memmius soon again offended Caesar by revealing d t
a certain coalition with his opponents at the comi- 8
tia. (Cic. ad Quint. Fr. ii. 15, ad Ait. iv. 16, 18.)
Memmius was impeached for ambitus, and, re- >
ceiving no aid from Caesar, withdrew from Rome
to Mytilene, where he was living in the year of
Cicero's proconsulate. (Cic. ad Quint. Fr. iii. 2, COIN OF C. MEMMIUS.
8, ad Fam. xiii. 19, ad Att. v. 11, vi. 1.) Mem- MEMNON (M4wuwv), a son of Tithonus and
mius married Fausta, a daughter of the dictator Eos, and brother of Emathion. In the Odyssey
Sulla, whom he divorced after having by her at and Hesiod he is described as the handsome son of
least one son C. Memmius [No. 9]. (Ascon. in Eos, who assisted Priam with his Ethiopians
Jic. pro M. Aemil. Scaur. p. 29, Orelli; Cic. against the Greeks. He slew Antilochus, the son
pro Sull. 19.) He was eminent both in literature of Nestor, at Troy. (Hes. Theog. 984, &c.; Hom.
and in eloquence, although in the latter his indo- Od. iv. 188, xi. 522; Apollod. iii. 12. ~ 4.) Some
lence, his fastidious taste, and exclusive preference writers called his mother a Cissian woman (Klaaoi),
of Greek to Roman models rendered him less effec- from the Persian province of GCissia. (Strab. p. 728
tive in the forum. (Cic. Brut. 70.) Lucretius de- Herod. v. 49, 52.) As Eos is sometimes identical
dicated his poem, De Rerum Natura, to this Mem- with Hemera, Memnon's mother is also called
mius, and Cicero addressed three letters to him Hemera. [Eos.] Homer makes only passing
(ad Famrn. xiii. 1-3). allusions to Memnon, and he is essentially a post9. C. MEMMIJS, son of the preceding by Fausta, Homeric hero. According to these later traditions,
daughter of Sulla the dictator, was tribune of the lie was a prince of the Ethiopians, and accordingly
plebs in B. C. 54. He prosecuted A. Gabinius, black (Ov. Amor. i. 8. 4, Epist. ex Pont. iii. 3.
consul in B. C. 58, for malversation in his province 96; Paus. x. 31. ~ 2); he came to the assistance
of Syria (Cic. ad Quint. Fr. iii. 1. 5, 15, 2. 1, 3. of his uncle Priam, for Tithonus and Priam were
2, pro Rabir. Post. 3; Val. Max. viii. 1. ~ 3), and step-brothers, being both sons of Laomedon by
Domitius Calvinus for ambitus at his consular co- different mothers. (Tzetz. ad Lyc. 18.) Respectmitia in B. c. 54 (Cic. ad Quint. Fr. iii. 2. ~ 3, 3. ing his expedition to Troy there are different
2). Memmius addressed the judices in behalf of legends. According to some Memnon the Ethiothe defendant at the trial of M. Aemilius Scaurus pian first went to Egypt, thence to Susa, and
in the same year (Ascon. in Cie. Scaurian. p. 29, thence to Troy. (Paus. i. 42. ~ 2.) At Susa,
Orelli). Memmius was step-son of T. Annius which had been founded by Tithonus, Memnon
Milo who married his mother after her divorce by built the acropolis which was called after him the
C. Memmius (No. 7). (Ascon. 1. c.; Cic. pro Memnonium. (Herod. v. 53, vii. 151; Strab. p.
SBull. 19.) Memmius was consul suffectus in B.C. 728; Paus. iv. 31. ~ 5.) According to some
34, when he exhibited games in honour of one of Tithonus was the governor of a Persian province,
the mythic ancestors of the Julian house, Venus and the favourite of Teutamus; and Memnon obGenetrix. (Dion Cass. xlix. 42.) tained the command of a large host of Ethiopians
10. P. MEMMIUS, was cited a witness for the and Susans to succour Priam. (Diod. ii. 22, iv.
defendant at the trial of A. Caecina, B. C. 69. (Cic. 75; Paus. x. 31. ~ 2.) A third tradition states
pro Caec. 10.) [CAECINA, No. 1.] that Tithonus sent his son to Priam, because Priam
11. P. MEMMIUS REGULUS, was supplementary had made him a present of a golden vine. (Serv.
consul in A. D. 31 (Fasti; Dion Cass. lviii. 9), and ad Aen. i. 493.) Dictys Cretensis (iv. 4) makes
afterwards praefect of Macedonia and Achaia, in Memnon lead an army of Ethiopians and Indians
which office he received orders from Caligula to from the heights of Mount Caucasus to Troy. In
remove to Rome the statue of the Pheidian Jupiter the figh.t against the Greeks he was slain by
from Olympia. (Joseph. Antiq. xix. 1; Pausan. Achilles. The principal points connected with his
ix. 27; comp. Dion Cass. 1. 6.) Memmius was exploits at Troy are, his victory -over Antilochus,
the husband of Lollia Paulina, and was compelled his contest with Achilles, and lastly, his death and
by Caligula to divorce her. (Tac. Ann. xii. 23; the removal of his body by his mother. With
Suet. Cal. 25; Dion Cass. lix. 12; Euseb. in regard to the first, we are told that Antilochus, the
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