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

272 GLABRIO. GLAUCIA.
(lb. 18; Pseudo-Ascon. in Verr. argum. p. 125, during the civlI wars, he, in return, was serviceablJ
Orelli), whose conduct in the preliminaries and the to his former advocate (Cic. ad Fam. vii. 30, 31).
presidency of the judicium he commends (in Verr. In Cic. ad Fam. xiii. 50, some editors read, for Aucto,
Act. ii. v. 29, 63), and describes him as active in Acilio, and refer it to this Glabrio. (Orelli, Onome.
his judicial functions and careful of his reputation Tull. p. 7.)
(in Verr. i. 10, 14), although, in a later work 7. M'. ACILIUS GLABRIO, was consul with
(Brat. 68), he says that Glabrio's natural indo- Trajan in A. D. 91. The auguries which promised
lence marred the good education he had received Trajan the empire, predicted death to his colleague
from his grandfather Scaevola. Glabrio was consul in the consulship. To gain the favour of Domitian,
with C. Calpurnius Piso in B.c. 67, and in the fol- Glabrio fought as a gladiator in the amphitheatre
lowing year proconsul of Cilicia (Schol. Gronov. in attached to the emperor's villa at Alba, and slew a
Cic. pro Leg. Man. pp. 438, 442, Orelli), to which, lion of unusual size. Glabrio was first banished
by the Gabinian law [GABINIUS], Bithynia and and afterwards put to death by Domitian. (Suet.
Pontus were added. (Sal. Hist. v. p. 243, ed. Ger- Dom. 10; Dion Cass. lxvii. 12, 14; Juv. Sat.
lach; Plut. Pomp. 30.) He succeeded L. Lucullus iv. 94.) [W. B. D.]
in the direction of the war against Mithridates GLA'PHYRA (rPa]ppa), an hetaera, whose
(Dion Cass. xxxv. 14; Cic. pro Leg. Man. 2. charms, it is said, chiefly induced Antony to give
~ 5), but his military career was'not answerable the kingdom of Cappadocia to her son Archelaiis,
to his civil reputation. Glabrio hurried to the in B. C. 34. (Dion Cass. xlix. 32; App. Bell. Civ.
East, thinking that Mithridates was already con- v. 7; comp. Vol. I. p. 263.) [E. E.]
quered, and that he should obtain an easy triumph. GLAUCE (rsatKo7). I. One of the Nereides,
But when, instead of a vanquished enemy, he the name of Glauce being only a personification of
found a mutinous army and an arduous campaign the colour of the sea. (Hom. It. xviii. 39.)
awaiting him, he remained inactive within the 2. One of the Danaides. (Apollod. ii. 1. ~ 5.)
frontiers of Bithynia. (Dion Cass. xxxv. 17; Cic. 3. An Arcadian nymph. (Paus. viii. 47. ~ 2.)
pro Leg. Man. 1. c.) Glabrio was indeed worse 4. The wife of Upis, the mother of what Cicero
than inefficient. He directly fomented the insub- (de Nat.Deor. iii. 23) calls the third Diana.
ordination in the legions of Lucullus by issuing, 5. A daughter of king Creon of Corinth. Jason,
soon after his arrival in Asia, a proclamation after deserting Medeia, engaged himself to her,
releasing Lucullus's soldiers from their military but Medeia took vengeance by sending her a wedobedience to him, and menacing them with punish- ding garment, the magic power of.which burnt the
ment if they continued under his command. (App. wearer to death. Thus Glauce and even her
Mithrid. 90.) Lucullus resigned part of his father perished. (Apollod. i. 9. ~ 28; Diod. iv.
army to Glabrio (Cic. pro Leg. Man. 9), who 55; Hygin. Fab. 25; comp. Eurip. A~[ed.)
allowed Mithridates to ravage Cappadocia, and to 6. A daughter of Cychreus of Salamis, who marregain the greater portion of the provinces which ried Actaeus, and became by him the mother of
the Romans had stripped him of. (Dion Cass. I.c.) Telamon. (Apollod. iii. 12. ~ 7.)
Glabrio was himself superseded by Cn. Pompey, 7. A daughter of Cycnus, who was slain by the
as soon as the Manilian law had transferred to him Greeks in the Trojan war, whereupon Glauce bethe war in the East. In the debate on the doom came the slave of the Telamonian Ajax. (Dict.
of Catiline's accomplices in December, B. C. 63, Cret. ii. 12, &c.) [L. S.]
Glabrio declared in favour of capital punishment, GLAU'CIA (rMauvda), a daughter of the riverbefore the speech of Cato determined the majority god Scamander. When Heracles went to war
of the senate (Cic. ad Alt. xii. 21), and he ap- against Troy, Deimachus, a Boeotian, one of the
proved generally of Cicero's consulship (Phil. ii. 5). companions of Heracles, fell in love with Glaucia.
He was a member of the college of pontiffs in But Deimachus was slain in battle before Glaucia
B. C. 57. (Har. Resp. 6, ad Q. fr. ii. 1.) had given birth to the child she had by him. She
6. M'. ACILIUS GLABRIO, son of the preceding fled for refuge to Heracles, who took her with him
and of Aemilia, daughter of M. Aemilius Scaurus, to Greece, and entrusted her to the care of Cleon,
consul in B. C. 115. Glabrio addressed the ju- the father of Deimachus. She there gave birth to
dices in behalf of his father-in-law, who was im- a son, whom she called Scamauder, and who afterpeached for extortion in B. C. 54. [ScAuaus.] wards obtained a tract of land in Boeotia, tra(Ascon. in Ca. Scaurrian. p. 29, Orelli.) Glabrio versed by two streams, one of which he called
was born in the house of Cn. Pompey, B. C. 8l,who Scamander and the other Glaucia. He was marmarried his mother after her compulsory divorce ried to Acidusa, from whom the Boeotian well,
from the elder Glabrio [No. 5]. Aemilia died in Acidusa, derived its name, and had three daughters,
giving birth to him. (Plut. Sull. 33, Pomp. 9.) who were worshipped under the name of "the
In the civil wars, B. C. 48, Glabrio was one of three maidens." (Plut. Quaesf. Gr. 41. [L. S.]
Caesar's lieutenants, and commanded the garrison GLAU'CIA, C. SERVI'LIUS, praetor in B. C.
of Oricum in Epeirus (Caes. B. C. iii. 15, 16, 39). 100, co-operated with C. Marius, then consul for
During the African war Glabrio was stationed in the sixth time, and with L. Appuleius Saturninus,
Sicily, and at this time, B. C. 46, Cicero addressed tribune of the plebs in the same year. Glaucia
to him nine letters (ad Fam. xiii. 30-39)' in held the comitia of the tribes at an irregular time
behalf of friends or clients to whom their affairs in and place, and thus procured the election of SaturSicily, or the casualties of the civil war, rendered ninus to the tribuneship. - He'was candidate for
protection important. When Caesar, in B. C. 44, the consulship in the year immediately succeeding'was preparing for the Parthian wars, Glabrio was his praetorship, although the laws appointed an insent forward into Greece with a detachment of the terval of at least two years. Glaucia was'the only
army, and succeeded P. Sulpicius Rufus in the praetor who accompanied Saturninus in his flight to
government of Achaia. He was twice defended on the Capitol, and when the fugitives were compelled
capital charges by Cicero, and acquitted; and by want of water to surrender, he perished with him.