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

CIMBER.
to defend Caesar from this charge. The real motive
for the crime seems to have been, thait Marcellus
refused to advance Cilo a sum of money to relieve
him from his embarrassments. (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 10,
ad Fam. iv. 12.) Valerius Maximus (ix. 11. ~ 4)
says, that Cilo had served under Pompey, and
that he was indignant at Marcellus preferring another friend to him. Livy (Epit. 115) calls him
Cn. Magius.
CILO SEPTIMIA'NUS, L. FA'BIUS, to
whom an inscription quoted by Tillemont after
Onuphrius Panvinius gives the names Catinius
Acilianus Lepidus Fulginianus, was consul in A. D.
193 and 204, and was the chosen friend of Septimius Severus, by whom he was appointed praefect of the city and tutor to his two sons. Having
endeavoured to mediate between the brothers, he
incurred the hatred of the elder, who after the
murder of Geta gave orders that the man who had
ever acted towards him the part of a father, and
whom he had often addressed by that title, should
be included in the massacre which followed. The
soldiers hastened to the mansion of Cilo, and after
plundering it of all the costly furniture and other
precious effects, dragged him from the bath, compelled him to walk through the streets in his
"wooden slippers and a single scanty garment,
buffeting him as they hurried along with the intention of putting him to death when they should
have reached the palace. This gratuitous cruelty
proved his salvation. For the populace, beholding
one whom they had been wont to honour treated
with such indignity, began to murmur, and were
joined by the city-guards. A tumult was imminent, when Caracalla came forth to meet the mob,
and partly through fear, partly perhaps touched
for a moment with compunction, threw his own
cloak over the shoulders of his former preceptor,
once more addressed him as father and master,
gave orders that the tribune and his attendants
who had been sent to perpetrate the crime should
themselves be put to death, not, says Dion, because
they had wished to slay their victim, but because
they had failed to do so, and continued to treat
him with the outward semblance at least of respect. The only other anecdote preserved with
regard to Cilo is, that he saved the life of Macrinus
at the time when the latter was upon the point of
sharing the fate of Plautianus [PLAuTIANUS],
whose agent he was, and thus the destruction of
Caracalla was indirectly hastened by the friend
and benefactor whom he had sought to destroy.
(Dion Cass. lxxvii. 4, lxxviii. 11; Spartian. Caracall. 4; Aurel. Vict. Epit. 20.) [W. R.]
CIMBER, C. A'NNI US, the son of Lysidicus,
had obtained the praetorship from Caesar, and was
one of Antony's supporters in B. c. 43, on which
account he is vehemently attacked by Cicero. He
was charged with having killed his brother, whence
Cicero calls him ironically Philadelphus, and perpetrates the pun Nisi forte jure Germanum Cimber
occidit, that is, " unless perchance he has a right
to kill his own countryman," as Cimber is the
name of a German people, and Germanus signifies
in Latin both a German and a brother. (Cic.
Phil. xiii. 12, xi. 6; Quintil. viii. 3. ~ 27; comp.
Cic. ad Att. xv. 13; Suet. Aug. 86.) Cimber
was an orator, a poet, and an historian, but his
merits were of a low order, and he is ridiculed by
Virgil in an epigram preserved by Quintilian (1. c.).
(Hluschke, De C. Annio Cimbro, Rostoch. 1824.)

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CIMBER, P. GABI'NIUS, one of the Catilinarian conspirators, B. c. 63. (Cic. in Cat. iii. 3,
5, 6, iv. 6.)
CIMBER, L. TILLIUS (not Tullius), one of
the murderers of Caesar, B. c. 44. When Caesar
first became supreme, Cimber was one of his
warmest supporters (Cic. Philipp. ii. 11; Senec.
de Ira, iii. 30); and we find Cicero making use of
his influence with the Dictator in behalf of a
friend (Ad Fam. vi. 12). He was rewarded
with the province of Bithynia. But for some
reason (Seneca says from disappointed hopes) he
joined the conspirators. On the fatal day, Cimber
was foremost in the ranks, under pretence of pre.
senting a petition to Caesar praying for his brother's
recall from exile. Caesar motioned him away;
and Cimber then, seizing the Dictator's gown with
both hands drew it over his neck, so as to pull
him forward. After the assassination, Cimber
went to his province and raised a fleet, with which
(if we may believe the author of the Pseudo-Brutus Epistles to Cicero, i. 6) he defeated Dolabella.
When Cassius and Brutus marched into Macedonia, Cimber co-operated with the fleet, and appears
to have done good service. (Appian, B. C. iv. 102,
105.) He was a bold active man, but addicted to
wine and riotous living, so that he asked jokingly,
Ego quemquam feram, qui vinum ferre non possum?
(Senec. Epist. 83. 11.) [H. G. L.]
CIMON (KilAwv). 1. Nicknamed from his silliness KoaiAseos (Plut. Cim. 4), will be best described by the following table.
Cypselus T the same wife Stesagoras I.
Miltiades I. Cimon I.
(Herod. vi. 35.)
Stesagoras II. Miltiades II.
(Her. vi. 38.) (The victor at Marathon.)
Married H-egesipyle, the
daughter of Olorus, a
Thracian king.
Cimon II. Elpinice.
He was banished by Peisistratus from Athens,
and during his banishment won two Olympic
victories with his four-horse chariot. He allowed
Peisistratus to be proclaimed victor at the second,
and was in consequence suffered to return to
Athens. But when after the death of Peisistratus
he gained another Olympic victory with the same
horses, he was secretly murdered by order of the
sons of the tyrant. (Herod. vi. 103.)
2. Grandson of the preceding, and son of the
great Miltiades, is mentioned in Herodotus as paying his father's fine and capturing Eion. (vi. 136,
vii. 107.) This latter event, the battle of Eurymedon, the expedition in aid of Sparta, and his
death in Cyprus, are the only occasions in which
he is expressly named by his relation, Thucydides;
whose summary, moreover, of the history of this
period leaves us by its briefness necessarily dependent for much on the additional authorities, which
form the somewhat heterogeneous basis of Plutarch's biography. We find here the valuable contemporary recollections of Ion of Chios (cc. 5. 9),
and the almost worthless contemporary gossip and
scandal of the Thasian Stesimbrotus: some little