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

AQUILLIA.
78.) He was ore of Caesar's murderers, and afterwards served as a legate of Brutus at the beginning
of B. c. 43 in Cisalpine Gaul. He defeated T.
Munatius Plancus, and drove him out of Pollentia,
but was killed himself in the battle fought against
Antony by Hirtius. He was honoured with a
statue. (Appian, B. C. ii. 113; Dion Cass. xlvi.
38, 40; Cic. Phil. xi. 6, xiii. 12, ad Fam. x. 33.)
Pontius Aquila was a friend of Cicero, and is frequently mentioned by him in his letters. (Ad Fam.
v. 2-4, vii. 2, 3.)
A'QUILA ROMA'NUS, a rhetorician, who
lived after Alexander Numenius but before Julius
Rufinianus, probably in the third century after
Christ, the author of a small work intitled, deFiguris
Sententiarum et Elocutionis, which is usually printed
with Rutilius Lupus. The best edition is by
Ruhnken, Lugd. Bat. 1768, reprinted with additional notes by Frotscher, Lips. 1831. Rufinianus
states, that Aquila took the materials of this work
from one of Alexander Numenius on the same
subject. [See p. 123, a.]
A'QUILA, VE'DIUS, commander of the thirteenth legion, one of Otho's generals, was present
in the battle in which Otho's troops were defeated
by those of Vitellius, A. u. 70. He subsequently
espoused Vespasian's party. (Tac. Hist. ii. 44, iii. 7.)
AQUI'LIA SEVE'RA, JU'LIA, the wife of;he emperor Elagabalus, whom he married after
livorcing his former wife, Paula. This marriage,ave great offence at Rome, since Aquilia was a
festal virgin; but Elagabalus said that he had!ontracted it in order that divine children might
)e born from himself, the pontifex maximus, and a
'estal virgin. Dion Cassius says, that he did not
ive with her long; but that after marrying three
thers successively, he again returned to her. It
ppears from coins that he could not have married
er before A. D. 221. (Dion Cass. lxxix. 9; Heroian. v. 6; Eckhel, vii. p. 259.)

ARACHNE. 253
B. c. 44, and says, in another, that young Quintus
would not endure her as a step-mother. (ad Alt.
xiv. 13, 17.)
AQUILLIA GENS, patrician and plebeian.
On coins and inscriptions the name is almost always
written Aquillius, but in manuscripts generally with
a single 1. This gens was of great antiquity. Two
of the Aquillii are mentioned among the Roman
nobles who conspired to bring back the Tarquins
(Liv. ii. 4); and a member of the house, C. Aquillius Tuscus, is mentioned as consul as early as
B. c. 487. The cognomens of the Aquillii under
the republic are CoRvus, CRAssus, FLORUS, GALLUS, Tuscus: for those who bear no surname, see
AQUILLIUS.
AQUI'LLIUS. 1. M'. AQUILLIUS, M'. F. M'. N.
Consul B. c. 129, put an end to the war which had
been carried on against Aristonicus, the son of
Eumenes of Pergamus, and which had been almost
terminated by his predecessor, Perperna. On his
return to Rome, he was accused by P. Lentulus of
maladministration in his province, but was acquitted by bribing the judges. (Flor. ii. 20; Justin.
xxxvi. 4; Vell. Pat. ii. 4; Cic. de Nat. Deor. ii. 5,
Div. in Caecil. 21; Appian, B. C. i. 22.) He
obtained a triumph on account of his successes in
Asia, but not till B. c. 126. (Fast. Capitol.)
2. M'. AQUILLIUS M'. F. M'. N., probably a son
of the preceding, consul in B. c. 101, conducted the
war against the slaves in Sicily, who had a second
time revolted under Athenion. Aquillius completely subdued the insurgents, and triumphed on
his return to Rome in 100. (Florus, iii. 19; Liv.
Epit, 69; Diod. xxxvi. Eel. 1; Cic. in Verr. iii. 54,
v. 2; Fast. Capitol.) In 98, he was accused by
L. Fufius of maladministration in Sicily; he was,
defended by the orator M. Antonius, and, though
there were strong proofs of his guilt, was acquitted
on account of his bravery in the war. (Cic. Brut.
52, de Off. ii. 14, proFlacc. 39, de Orat. ii. 28, 47.)
In B. c. 88, he went into Asia as one of the consular legates to prosecute the war against Mithridates and his allies. He was defeated near Protostachium, and was afterwards delivered up to
Mithridates by the inhabitants of Mytilene. Mithridates treated him in the most barbarous manner,
and eventually put him to death by pouring molten
gold down his throat. (Appian, Mithr. 7, 19, 21;
Liv. Epit. 77; Vell. Pat. ii. 18; Cic. pro Leg.
Man. 5; Athen. v. p. 213, b.)
AQUI'LLIUS JULIA'NUS. [JULIANUS.]
AQUI'LLIUS RE'GULUS. [REGULUS.]
AQUI'LLIUS SEVE'RUS. [SEvERUS.]
AQUI'NIUS, a very inferior poet, a contemporary of Catullus and Cicero. (Catull. xiv. 18;
Cic. Tusc. v. 22.)
M. AQUINIUS, a Pompeian, who took part
in the African war against Caesar. After the defeat of the Pompeians, he was pardoned by Caesar,
B. c. 47. (De Bell. Afric. 57, 89.)
ARABIA'NUS ('Apagtavos), an eminent Christian writer, about 196 A. D., composed some books
on Christian doctrine, which are lost. (Euseb. H.
E. v. 27; Hieron. de Vir. Illust. c. 51.) [P. S.]
ARA'BIUS SCHOLA'STICUS ('Apadlos 2XoXaarrTds), the author of seven epigrams in the
Greek Anthology, most of which are upon works
of art, lived probably in the reign of Justinian.
(Jacobs, xiii. p. 856.) [P. S.]
ARACHNE, a Lydian maiden, daughter of
Idmon of Colophon, who was a famous dyer in

COIN OF JULIA AQUILIA SEVERA.
AQUILI'NUS, a cognomen of the Herminia
Ims.
1. T. HERMINIUS AQUILINUS, one of the heroes
the lay of the Tarquins, was with M. Horatius
Scommander of the troops of Tarquinius Superbus
ten he was expelled from the camp. He was
Sof the defenders of the Sublician bridge against
whole force of Porsenna, and took an active
-t in the subsequent battle against the Etruscans.
Swas consul in B. c. 506, and fell in the battle
the lake Regillus in 498, in single combat with
milius. (Liv. ii. 10, 11, 20; Dionys. iv. 75,
12, 23, 26, 36, vi. 12; Plut. Poplic. 16.)
L. LAR HERMINIUS T. F. AQUILINUS, Cos.. 448. (Liv. iii. 65; Dionys. xi. 51.)
kQ U I'LLIA, whom some had said that Quintus
oro, the brother of the orator, intended to marry.
ero mentions the report in one of his letters,