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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who' had to superintend the public vectigalia and place' of Spurius Carvilius, who had died; and in
to prosecute those who had before managed them B. c. 203 he was curule aedile, and, conjointly
badly. In the reign of Galba he was praefect of with his colleague, he dedicated a golden quadriga
the city. (Tac. Ann. xv. 18, Hist. i. 14.) [L. S.] on the Capitol. In the year same he was magisGE'MINUS, FU'FIUS. In B.C. 35, when ter equitum to the dictator, P. Sulpicius Galba,
Octavianus, after subduing the Paunonians, retired with whom he travelled through Italy, to exto Rome, he left Fufius Geminus, with a part of amine the causes which had led several towns to
his army, behind in Pannonia. Soon after the de- revolt against Rome. In B. C. 202 he was consul
parture of Octavianus, the Pannonians rose again; with Tib. Claudius Nero, and obtained Etruria for
but Geminus succeeded in compelling them, by his province, which he occupied with his two
several battles, to remain quiet, although he had at legions, and in which his imperium was prolonged
first been driven by them from the town of Siscia. for the year following. In B. C. 200 he was one of
[Dion Cass. xlix. 36.) He seems to be the same the ten commissioners to distribute land in Samnium
person as the one whom Florus (iv. 12. ~ 8) calls and Appulia among the veterans of Scipio. In
Vibius. Whether he stood in any relation to C. B. C. 197 lie was one of the triumvirs appointed
Fufius Geminus, who was consul in A. D. 29, is for a period of three years, to establish a series of
inknown. (Tac. Ann. v. 1.) [L. S.] colonies on the western coast of Italy. In B. C.
GE'MINUS, L. RUBE'LLIUS, consul in 167, during the disputes as to whether a triumph
i. D. 29, with C. Fufius Geminus. (Tac. Ann. was to be granted to Aemilius Paullus, the conr. 1.) [L. S.] queror of Macedonia, M. Servilius addressed the'
GE'MINUS, SERVI'LIUS. 1. P. SERVILIUS, people in favour of Aemilius Paullus. (Liv. xxvi.
F. F. CN. N. GEMINUS, was consul in B.C. 252, 23, xxix. 38, xxx..24, 26, 27, 41, xxxi. 4, xxxii.,
with C. Aurelius Cotta. Both consuls carried on 29, xxxiv. 45, xlv. 36, &c.);he war in Sicily against the Carthaginians, and 4. M. SERVILIUS GEMINUS was consul in A. D.:;ome towns were taken-by them. Himera was 3, with L. Aelius Lamia (Val. Max. i. 8. ~ 11);
unong the number; but its inhabitants had been but it must be observed that his cognomen, though.arried off by the Carthaginians. In B. C. 248 he mentioned by Valerius Maximus, does not occur
sas consul a second time, with his former colleague, in the Fasti. [L. S.]
mtd besieged Lilybaeum and Drepana, while Car- GE'MINUS, TANU'SIUS, a Roman historian;halo endeavoured to make a diversion by a descent who seems to have lived about the time of Cicero.
ipon the coast of Italy. (Zonar. viii. 14, 16.) The exact nature of his work is uncertain, although
2. CN. SERVILIUS, P. F. Q. N. GEMINUS, a son we know that in it he spoke of the time of Sulla.
)f No. 1, was consul in B.C. 217, with C. Flami- (Suet. Caes. 9.) Plutarch (Caes. 22) mentions an
iius. He entered his office on the ides of March, historian whom he calls Favv'eos, and whom Vosmnd had Gaul for his province. He afterwards sius (de Ilist. Lat. i. 12) considers to be the same
rave up his army to the dictator, Q. Fabius, and as our Tanusius. Seneca (Epist. 93) speaks of
srhile his colleague fought the unfortunate battle of one Tamusius as the author of annals; and it is:
ake Trasimenus, Cn. Servilius sailed with a fleet not improbable that this is merely a slight mistake
)f 120 ships round the coasts of Sardinia and in the name, for Tanusius; and if this be so,
aorsica in chase of the Carthaginians; and having Tanusius Geminus wrote annals of his own time,!eceived hostages everywhere, he crossed over into which are lost with the exception of a fragment
kfrica. On his voyage thither he ravaged the quoted by Suetonius. [L. S.]
sland of Meninx, and spared Cercina only on the GE'MINUS, TU'LLIUS, a poet of the Greek:eceipt of ten talents from its'inhabitants. After Anthology. There are ten epigrams in the Anie had landed with his troops in Africa, they in- thologyunder the name of Geminus (Brunck, Anal.
lulged in the same system of plunder; but being vol. ii. p. 279; Jacobs, Anths. Graec. vol. ii. p. 254),
areless and unacquainted with the localities, they of which the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and
were taken by. surprise and put to flight by the tenth are inscribed, in the Vatican MS. simply
nhabitants. About one thousand of them were reulvov, and the eighth raqilvov: the first is in-,
milled, the rest sailed to Sicily, and the fleet being scribed, in the Planudean Anthology, TvXAAou
here entrusted to P. Sura, who was ordered to rEsvov, and the seventh has the same heading in-;ake it back to Rome, Cno Servilius himself tra- the Vatican MS: the 9th is inscribed, in the Pla7elled on' foot through Sicily; and being called nudean, TvuAAov res4ivov, and, in the Vatican,:
)ack by the dictator, Q. Fabius Maximus, he crossed TvuAAov 9ae4vmov (i. e. Sabini). It is doubtful;he straits, and went to Italy. About the autumn whether the Tullius, whose epigrams were, inle undertook the command of the army of Minu- cluded in the collection of Philip, was Tullius Ge*ius, and, in conjunction with his colleague M. minus or Tullius Laurea. Most of the epigrams of
ktilius Regulus, he carried on the war against Geminus are descriptions of works of art. They are
Hannibal, though he carefully avoided entering written in a very affected manner. (Jacobs, Anth.
nto any decisive engagement. His imperium was Graec. vol. xiii. p. 897; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol,
)rolonged for the year 216; and before the battle iv. p. 498.) [P. S.]
sf Cannae he was the only one who agreed with GE'MINUS, VETU'RIUS. [CICUNvsUS.]:he consul L. Aemilius Paullus in the opinion that GEMISTUS, GEO'RGIUS (reeipyos o rFEOLbattle should not be ventured upon. However, AonJs), or GEO'RGIUS PLETHO (J HA7'0wv),;he battle was fought, and Cn. Servilius himself one of the later and most celebrated Byzantine
mas found among the dead. (Liv. xxi. 57, xxii. writers, lived in the latter part of the fourteenth
i, 31, 32, 43, 49; Polyb. iii. 75, 77, 88, 96, 106, and in the beginning of the fifteenth century. He
114, 116; Appian, Annib. 8, 12, 16, 18, 19, 22 was probably a native of Constantinople, but passed
-24; Cic. Tusc. i. 37.) most of his life in the Peloponnesus. In 1426 he
3. M. SERVILIUS, C. F. P. N. PALEx GE- held a high office, under the emperor Manuel Pa[IONUS, was elected augur in B. C. 211, in the laeologus.:Hewas called re LLtosS, or rIlkhOav,on