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more success Gentius represented that he could 2. CN. GENUCIUS, was tribune of the plebs in
not stir without money, which the Macedonian B. C. 473, and used the most vehement exertions to
king was unwilling to grant; and it was not till carry into effect the agrarian law, for the evasion
the fourth year of the war (B. c. 168) that Perseus, of which he brought a charge against L. Furius and
alarmed at the successes of the Romans, consented C. Maulius, the consuls of the preceding year. The
to secure the alliance of the Illyrian by the pay- patricians were greatly alarmed, and assassinated
ment of a sum of 300 talents. A treaty having Genucius in his bed on the night before the accubeen concluded on these terms, and confirmed by sation was to be brought before the people. (Liv.
oaths and the sending of mutual hostages, Gentius ii. 54; Dionys. ix. 37, &c., x. 38; Zonar. vii.
allowed himself to be led into acts of direct 17; comp. Niebuhr, Ilist. of Rome, vol. ii. p.
hostility against the Romans, before he had actu- 208, &c.)
ally received the stipulated sum: but as soon as 3. GENUCIUS, a tribune of the people, who was
Perseus saw that he was so far committed that he insulted by the Faliscans, against whom, in concould no longer withdraw from the contest, he im- sequence, the Romans declared war. (Plut. C.
mediately recalled the messengers, who had actually Gracch. 3.) To what time this event belongs is
set out with the money, and refused to fulfil his not quite certain, though it may refer to the last
agreement. (Polyb.xxviii. 8, 9, xxix. 2, 3, 5; Liv. war against the Faliscans, which broke out in B. C.
xliv. 23-27.) Yet, though thus scandalously 241.
defrauded by his ally, Gentius made no attempt to 4. L. GENUCIUS, was sent in B.C. 210' as ambasavert the war, but assembled forces both by sea and sador to Syphax, king of Numidia. (Liv. xxvii. 4.)
land. The contest was, however, very brief: no 5. M. GENUCIuS, tribune of the soldiers in B. C.
sooner had the Roman praetor, L. Anicius, entered 193, under the consul L. Cornelius Merula, fell in
Illyricum at the head of an army, than many battle against the Boians. (Liv. xxxv. 5.)
towns submitted to him. Gentius threw hiinself 6. GENUCIUS, a priest of the Magna Mater, that
into the strong fortress of Scodra; but having is, a gallus. A legacy had been left him, and he
been defeated in a combat beneath the walls, he had been pronounced the legitimate heir by the
despaired of success, and placed himself at the praetor Ch. Aufidius Orestes; but the consul
mercy of the Roman general. The whole war is said Mam. Aemilius Lepidus (B. C. 77) declared that he
to have been terminated within the space of thirty could not take possession of the inheritance, being
days. Anicius spared the life of his captive, but neither a man nor a woman, but an eunuch. (Val.
sent him to Rome, together with his wife and Max. vii. 7. ~ 6.). [L. S.]
children, to adorn the triumph which he celebrated GEOR'GIUS (redpyyLos), historical, the name of
the following year (B. C. 167). From thence several persons mentioned by the Byzantine. hisGentius was sent a prisoner to Spoletium, where he torians, but none of them were of much imporprobably ended his days in captivity. (Liv. xliv, tance.
30-32, xlv. 43; Polyb. xxx. 13; Appian, Illyr. 1. One of the officers (Theophanes describes him
9; Eutrop. iv. 6.) as icoupd-rwp Re-v Maperws, "steward of the lands
According to Polybius, Gentius was immode- or revenues of Marina ") of Justinian I., on whose
rately given to drinking, which inflamed his natu- illness (A. D. 561) he was accused by the ex-praerally cruel and violent disposition, and led him fect, Eugenius, of wishing to raise Theodore, the
to commit great excesses. Soon after his acces- son of Peter Magister, to the empire. The charge
sion he put to death his brother, Pleuratus, who was supported by the praefects, Aetherius of Anhad been. engaged to marry Etuta, the daughter of tioch and Gerontius of Constantinople; but on exa Dardanian prince, and kept the intended bride amination, it could not be proved; and the accuser,
for himself. (Polyb. xxix. 5; Liv. xliv. 30.) He Eugenius, was himself punished, though not capisubsequently'married a princess of the name of tally. (Theoph. ChLronog. vol. i. p. 363, ed. Bonn.)
Etleva, who was sent captive to Rome together 2. Collector of the revenue in the cities of the
with him. (Liv. xliv. 32.) According to Pliny eastern part of the Byzantine empire, was sent
(H. N. xxv. 34) and Dioscorides (iii. 3), the herba as ambassador by the emperor Mauricius shortly
Gentiana, well known for its medicinal properties, before his death in A. D. 602 to Chosrbes or Khosru
derives its name from this Gentius, who first made II., king of the Persians. (Theophylact. Simocat.
known its value. [E.H.B.] Hist. viii. 1; Phot. Bibl. cod. 65, p. 32, ed. Bekker.)
GENU'CIA GENS, patrician, as is clear from 3. Turmarchus, or commander of a division of the
the fact of T. Genucius Augurinus having been troops of the thema Armeniacum in the sixth Perconsul in B.c. 451, and M. Genucius Augurinus in sian campaign of Heraclius (A. D. 626 or 627)
B. C. 445, since in those years plebeians were not against Chosroes or Khosru II. (Theoph. C'Lronog.
yet allowed to hold the consulship. In the earliest vol. i. pp. 492, 499, ed. Bonn.)
as well as in the later times we find plebeian 4. Praefectus Militarium Tabularum, in the
Genucii, who acted as strenuous champions of their reign of the emperor Theophilus (who reigned
order; and they had probably become plebeians from A. D. 829 to 842), mentioned on one or two
in the usual manner, either by mixed marriages or occasions by the continuator of Theophanes. An
by transition to the plebs. The cognomens of this Arabian prophetess or fortuneteller, whom the
gens are AVENTINENSIS, AUGURINUS, CIPUS, emperor had sent for to court, is said to have
CLEPSINA. [L. S.] foretold.that George would be killed by a sling
GENU'CIUS. 1. T. GENUCIUS, was tribune in the Hippodrome, and his property confiscated.
of the plebs in B. C. 476; and in conjunction with (Theoph. Continnat. lib. iii. De Theophilo Mihis colleague, Q. Considius, he brought forward an chaelis Filio, c. 27; Sym. Mag. De Tleophilo,
agrarian law, and also accused T. Menenius La- c. 14.)
natus, who was charged with being the cause of the 5. Brother to the emperor Michael IV., the
destruction of the Fabii on the Cremera. (Liv. ii. Paphlagonian, before whose elevation George (who
52; Dionys. ix. 26; comp. CONSIDIUS, No. 1.) was an eunuch) was in a low condition, but was
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