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

MILO. MILO. 1085
2. An Athenian, of considerable wealth and in- of the succeeding events until the murder of Clodius
fluence, was a violent and bitter enemy of Demos- in B. C. 52, is inseparable from that of his rival, and
thenes, the orator. His hostility he first displayed has already been related [P. CLODIuJS PULCHER,
when he broke violently into the house of Demos- No. 40]. We shall, therefore, merely recapitulate
thenes, with his brother Thrasylochus, to take the principal features of their quarrel. Milo was
possession of it,-Thrasylochus having offered, in deeply in debt, and a wealthy province alone could
the case of a trierarchy, to make an exchange of extricate him. But without eloquence or political
property with Demosthenes (drtioarLs; see Dict. talents, the member of a comparatively obscure
of Ant. s. v.), under a private understanding with family could not hope to attain the consulate, unless
the guardians of the latter that, if the exchange he identified his own interest with that of some
were effected, the suit then pending against them one or other of the great leaders of the commonshould be dropped. (Dem. c. ileid. p. 540, c. wealth. Milo, therefore, attached himself to Cn.
Aplob. p. 841; Bickh, Publ. Econ. of Athens, Pompey, and Cicero's recall from exile was the imbk.- iv. ch. 16.) The opposition offered by Demos- mediate pretext of their alliance. In procuring
thenes, though to no purpose, to the proposal for Cicero's restoration, Milo, from his daring and unsending aid against Callias and Taurosthenes of scrupulous character, was by far the most efficient
Chalcis to Plutarchus, the tyrant of Eretria, and the of the tribunes. He combated Clodius with his'friend of Meidias, no doubt further exasperated own weapons. He purchased, after. a faint and
the hatred of the latter, and he not only assailed fruitless trial of constitutional means, a band of:Demosthenes with a charge of neglect of military gladiators, and the streets of Rome were the scene
duty (NhXeroraltouv 8Kim), but endeavoured also, of almost daily and always deadly conflict between
with the grossest malice, to implicate him in the the two leaders of these paid assassins. Cicero's
accusation of murdering one Nicodemus. (Aesch. return did not, however, tranquillise the city.
c. Ctes. pp. 65, 66; Dem. De Pac. p. 58, c. A/Meid. Clodius renewed his attacks on the person and propp. 547-554.) For the remainder of the trans- perty of the great orator, and Milo twice rescued
actions between Demosthenes and Meidias, see him from the hands of the Clodian mob. Pompey
above, Vol. 1. pp. 982, 983, and comp. Clint. F. H. also had become an object of Clodius' hate, and
vol. ii. sub annis 350,- 348, App. ch. 20. Milo and his gladiators, who served without being
3. The son-in-law of Mania. [MEIDIAS.] [E.E.-I expressly employed by him, were a valuable guard
MI'DIAS, the engraver of a gem in the Royal to one who prized the concealment of his sentiments
Library at Paris. (Clarac, Descr. des Antiques du little less than the safety of his person. The success
lAfuse Royal, p. 420; Raoul-Rochette, Leltre a of the combatants was-nearly equal. Milo's houses
M. Schora, p. 45.) [P. S.] in Rome, the Anniana' on the Capitoline and
MIGONI'TIS (Mtcwvc'ZrTs), a surname of Aphro- another on the hill Germalus, were assailed by the
dite, derived from a place, Migonium, in or near Clodians, but Clodius was twice driven from the
the island of Cranne in Laconia, where the goddess forum, and the last time narrowly escaped with
had a temple. (Paus. iii.'22. ~ 1.) [L. S.] life. Nor did the rivals restrict their warfare to
MILA'NION. [MEILANION.] the swords of their adherents.' With equal justice
MILE'TUS (Mi[MTos), a son of Apollo and' and consistency they accused each other of a breach
Areia of Crete. Being beloved by Minos and Sar- of the Lex Plotia de Vi, and with equal violence
pedon, he attached himself to the latter, and fled both eluded the results of prosecution. Clodius,
from Minos to Caria, where he built a town, which however, notwithstanding Milo's repeated disruphe called after his own name (Apollod. iii. 1. ~ 2; tion of the comitia, succeeded in carrying his
Paus. vii. 2. ~ 3; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 186). election for the curule-aedileship in B. c. 56, and
Ovid (Alfet. ix. 442) calls him a son of Apollo and was thus during his year of office' exempt from
Deione, and hence Deionides. A different genea- impeachment. Milo, whose tribunate expired in
logy and story about him is preserved in Antonius December B. C. 57, was on the other hand open to
Liberalis (30). [L. S.] legal proceedings, and Cicero from dread of Crassus,
MI'LICHUS, a freedman of Flavius Scaevir who favoured Clodius, refused to undertake his denus, gave Nero the first information of Piso's con- fence. It was, therefore, necessary for his safety
spiracy in A. D. 66. Milichus was liberally re- that he should again hold an office of the state.
warded by the emperor, and assumed the surname But his bankrupt condition did not allow him to
of Soter, or the Preserver. (Tac. Ann. xv. 54, 55, risk the expenses of the curule-aedileship, and
71.)' [W. B. D.] there is no authentic record of his'praetorship.
MILO, T. A'NNIUS PAPIA'NUS, was the In those convulsionary years of Rome it is indeed
son of C. Papius Celsus and Annia [ANNIA, No. likely that the sequence of magistracies was not
2]. He was born at Lanuvium, of which place he very strictly observed. Milo, however, although
was in B. C. 53, chief magistrate-dictator.: Miloe never aedile, exhibited aedilitian games of unusual
derived the name of Annius from his adoption by and, according' to Cicero, of insane magnificence.
his maternal grandfather T. Annius Luscus. But He was enabled to give them by the bequest of a
the appellation by which he is best known, was an deceased curule-aedile, whose name is lost, and he
Italiot-Greek name, common in the South' of Italy, exhibited them in the year previous to his canvass
the fruitful nursery of Gladiators. Since his an- for the consulship. In B. C. 53 Milo was candidate
cestors, neither in the Papian nor Annian families, for the consulship, and Clodius for the praetorship
bore this name, and Milo was notorious as a leader of the ensuing year. The gladiatorial combats were
of mercenary swordsmen, and for his'lawless and revived, and Clodius upbraided Milo in the senate
ferocious life, a by-name has probably superseded with his insolvency. Cicero, to whom Milo's election
his birth-names. The year of his quaestorship is was of vital importance, defended him in -the
unknown. He was tribune of the plebs in B. c. speech de Aere alieno vMilonis, of which a few frag57, when his memorable and fatal contest with P. ments are still extant. The contest, however, beClodius began. The history of his tribunate and tween the rival ruffians was brought to an end by