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

TREBONIUS. TREBONIUS. 1171
Trebellius afterwards succeeded Petronius Turpili- should be continued till the ten were elected.
anus in the government of Britain, where he was (Liv. iii. 65, v. 10.)
hated by the army on account of his inactivity, 2. CN. TREBONIUS, tribune of the plebs B.c.
pusillanimity, and avarice. In the commotions 401, vigorously resisted the attempts of the patIes
which followed the death of Nero, Roscius Caelius, to undermine the law of his ancestor. (Liv. v. 11.)
the legate of Trebellius, induced the soldiers to 3. M. TREBONIUS, consular tribune in B. C. 383.
rise against their general. Trebellius quitted the (Liv. vi. 21.)
island, and fled to Vitellius. The latter, however, 4. P. TREBONIUS, consular tribune B. C. 379.
did not replace Trebellius in the government, but (Diod. xv. 51.) His name does not occur in Livy
sent Vettius Bolanus to occupy the vacant post. (vi. 30) among the consular tribunes of that year.
(Tac. Ann. xiv. 46, Hist. i. 60, ii. 65, Agr. 16.) 5. C. TREa0oNIUS, legatus of the consul L. PapiTREBE'LLIUS PO'LLIO, one of the six rius Cursor in B.c. 293. (Liv. x. 40.)
"Scriptores Historiae Augustae" [see CAPITO- 6. TREBONIUS, slew C. Lusius, a nephew of
LINUS]. His name is prefixed to the biographies C. Marinus, for attempting a criminal assault upon
of, 1. The two Valeriani, father and son; 2. The him. [LusIus.]
Gallieni; 3. The thirty tyrants; 4. Claudius; the 7. A. TREBONIUS, proscribed by Sulla. (Cic.
last-named piece being addressed to Constantine. Verr. i. 47.)
We learn from Vopiscus that the lives written by 8. P. TREBON'IUS, brother of No. 6, attempted
Trebellius Pollio commenced with Philippus and to leave his brother some property, but his will
extended down to Claudius. Of these, all as far was declared void by Verres. (Cic. 1. c.)
as the Valeriani, regarding whom but a short 9. A. TREBONIUS, a Roman eques and a
fragment remains, have been lost, thus accounting negotiator or money-lender in the provinces, was
for the gap in the series which we noticed under recommended by Cicero to the proconsul Lentulus
CAPITOLINUS. Vopiscus does not give Pollio a in B. C. 56. (Cic. ad Fazo. i. 3.)
very high character as an historian, for he accuses 10. C. TREBONIUS, a distinguished Roman
him (Aurelian. c. 2) of having recorded many eques, the father of the following. (Cic. ad Farn.
things meagrely and many things carelessly, but x. 28, Phil. xiii. 10.)
we have no reason to form very high expectations, 11. C. TREBONIUS, played rather a prominent
for he tells us himself, at the close of his book on part in the last days of the republic. Ie comthe Thirty Tyrants, that he did not write but dic- menced public life as a supporter of the aristocratated these memoirs, and with such rapidity that tical party, and in his quaestorship (B. c. 60) he
he could not draw his breath. He flourished as attempted to prevent the adoption of P. Clodius
we have seen above under Constantine, and was into a plebeian family, contrary to the wish of the
anterior to Vopiscus. For editions, translations, triumvirs. (Cic. ad Fam. xv. 21.) He changed
&c. see CAPITOLINUS. [WV. R.] sides, however, soon afterwards, and in his tribuM. TRE'BIUS GALLUS, one of Caesar's offi- nate of the plebs (B. c. 55) he was the instrucers in Gaul in B. C. 58. (Caes. B. G. iii. 7.) ment of the triumvirs in proposing that Pompey
TREIBIUS NIGER. [NIGER.] should have the two Spains, Crassus Syria, and
TRE'BIUS SERGIAtNUS, consul under Ha- Caesar the Gauls and Illyricum for another period
drian in A. D. 132, with C. Serius Augurinus of five years. This proposal received the appro(Fasti.) bation of the comitia, and is known by the name of
TRE'BIUS STA'TIUS. [STATIUS.] the Lex Trebonia. (Dion Cass. xxxix. 33; Cic. ad
TREBO'NIA GENS, plebeian, was of con- Att. iv. 8. b. ~ 2.) For this service he was residerable antiquity, and gained distinction as early warded by being appointed one of Caesar's legates
as B. C. 447, but none of its members obtained the in Gaul, where he remained till the breaking out
consulship under the republic, during which time of the civil war in B. C. 49. In the course of the
likewise we find none of them mentioned with any same year he was intrusted by Caesar with the
surname. command of the land forces engaged in the siege of
TREBONIA'NUS GALLUS, the Roman em- Massilia. (Caes. B. G. v. 24, vi. 40, B. C. i. 36,
peror, is spoken of under GALLUS, but as no coin ii. 1; Dion Cass. xli. 19; Cic. ad Att. viii. 3.
of his is given under that head, it is inserted ~ 7.) In B. C. 43 Trebonius was city-praetor, and
here. in the discharge of his duties resisted the seditious
attempts of his colleague M. Caelius Rufus to
obtain by force the repeal of Caesar's law respect-, ~,~ ~ —— ~ +ing the payment of debts. The history of these
-w' AS I[XAJP events is related elsewhere. [Vol. III. p. 672, b.]
(Caes. B. C. iii. 20, 21; Dion Cass. xlii. 22.). itSf 4M%5'l$'t 5 \lo iW1Towards the end of B. c. 47, Trebonius, as propraetor, succeeded Q. Cassius Longinus in the
government of Further Spain, but was expelled
from the province by a mutiny of the soldiers who
espoused the Pompeian party. Notwithstanding
COIN OF TREBONTANUS GALLUS. this want of success, he still continued to enjoy
the favour and confidence of Caesar, who raised
TREBO'NIUS. 1. L. TREBONIUS, tribune of him to the consulship in the month of October,
the plebs B. c. 447, obtained the surname of Asper B. C. 45, and promised him the province of Asia.
on account of his frequent attacks upon the patres. (Dion Cass. xliii. 29, 46.) In return for all these
He proposed and carried a plebiscitum, that if the honours and favours, Trebonius was one of thie
ten tribunes were not chosen before the comitia prime movers in the conspiracy to assassinate his
were dissolved, those who were elected should not benefactor, and among the many instances of black
fill up the number (co-optare), but that the comitia ingratitude on the fatal Ides of March, his was
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