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360 HATERIUS. HATERIUS.
29, 30; Liv. Epit. ii.; Oros. iv. 22, 23; Flor. ii. to" be without a head? "-an offensive question,
14.) Polybius, from whom all our accounts of since it obliged Tiberius to declare his intentions,
this war are directly or indirectly derived, has and he gravely rebuked its author. (Suet. Tib.
drawn the character of Hasdrubal in the blackest 29.) When the senate broke up, Haterius repaired
colours, and probably not without prejudice: the to the palace to implore pardon. He found the
circumstances in which he was placed must have emperor walking, attended by a guard. Either to
palliated, if not excused, many arbitrary acts; and escape his importunity (Suet. Tib. 27), or in anger
however justly he may be reproached with cruelty, at his presumption (Tac. ib. 13), Tiberius turned
there seems strong evidence of his being a man of away from Haterius, who, in the energy of supmuch greater ability than the historian is willing plication, had cast himself at his feet. Accidentto allow. Nor must we forget that he refused to ally, or in struggling to be rid of the suppliant,
purchase his own personal safety so long as there Tiberius himself fell to the ground, and Haterius
remained even the slightest chance of obtaining narrowly avoided being slain by the guard. The
that of his country. intercession of the empress-mother, Livia, at length
14. A grandson of Masinissa by the mother's rescued Haterius from peril. We find him afterside, but apparently a Carthaginian by birth. He wards, in A. D. 16, advocating a sumptuary law, to
was appointed to the chief command within the restrain the use of gold-plate and silk garments
walls of the city, when the Carthaginians, in B. C. (Tac. ib. ii. 33), and in 22 moving that a decree of
149, prepared for their last desperate resistance the senate, which conferred the Tribunicia Potestas
against the Roman consuls Censorinus'and Mani- on Drisus, the emperor's son, be inscribed in letters
lius. How far we are to ascribe to his authority of gold, and affixed to the walls of the curia (Tac.
or directions the energetic measures adopted for the ib. iii. 57)-a useless piece of adulation, since the
defence of the city, or the successful resistance decree was little more than matter of course. If
opposed for more than a year to the Roman arms, the systematic legacy-hunter mentioned by Seneca
we know not, as his name is not again mentioned (de Ben. vi. 38) were the same Q. Haterius, it acby Appian until after the defeat of Calpurnius cords well with his servility as a senator.
Piso at Hippo in the following year, B.C. 148. The reputation of Haterius was, however, higher
This success following, the repeated repulses of in the rhetorical schools than in the senate. His
Manilius in his attacks on Nepheris, had greatly character as a declaimer is sketched by Seneca the
elated the Carthaginians; and in this excitement rhetorician, who had heard him (Exceropt. Controy.
of spirits, they seem to have been easily led to be- Proem.-iv. p. 422, Bipont. ed.), and by Seneca the
lieve a charge brought by his enemies against Has- philosopher (Ep. 40). Their accounts are confirmed
drubal of having betrayed their interests for the by Tacitus (Ann. iv. 61), and may be thus comsake of his brother-in-law, Gulussa. The accusa- pressed. His voice was sonorous, his lungs untion was brought forward in the senate, and before wearied, his invention fertile, and his sophistical
Hasdrubal, astounded at the unexpected charge, ingenuity, though it sometimes betrayed him into
could utter a word in his defence, a tumult arose, ludicrous blunders, was extraordinary. There was
in the midst of which he was struck down, and much to applaud, more to excuse or condemn, in his
despatched with blows from the benches of the declamation. Augustus said that his eloquence
senators used as clubs. According to Appian, his needed a drag-chain —" Haterius noster sufflanmidestruction was caused by the intrigues of his rival nandus est " —it not only ran, but it ran downand namesake, No. 13. (Appian, Pun. 93, 111; hill. He had so little control over his volubility,
Oros. iv. 22.) [E. H. B.] that he employed a freedman to punctuate his disHATERIA'NUS, the name of one of the course while speaking, and the partitions and tranearly commentators on Virgil quoted in the sitions of his theme were regulated by this monitor.
Virgilii Maronis Interpretes Veteres, published Seneca, the philosopher (I. c.), censures him sefrom a Verona Palimpsest, by Ang. Mai, Mediolan. verely. He began impetuously, he ceased abruptly.
1818. [W. R.] His manner was abhorrent from common sense,
HATE'RIUS. The name, like Adrian, Atria, good taste, and Roman usage. The evolutions of
&c., is frequently written Aterius, but the aspirated Cicero were slow and decorous; but the rapid
form is preferable. (Orelli, Inser. n. 1825.), verbiage of Haterius was suitable only to the hack1. HATERIus, a jurist, contemporary withCicero. nied demagogue, and excitable crowd of a Greek
[ATERIUS.] agora. The elder Seneca frequently cites the de2. HATERIUS was proscribed by Augustus, An- clamations of Haterius (Suas. 2, 3, 6,' 7, Controv.
tony, and Lepidus, in B.C. 43, and betrayed by 6, 16, 17, 23, 27, 28, 29), but Tacitus says- that
one of his slaves, who received his freedom in re- his works were in his age nearly obsolete. (Ann.
compence. The sons of Haterius wished to purchase iv. 61.) The best specimens of the rhetoric of Hatetheir father's confiscated estate, but were outbid rius are,' Sen. Suas. 6, 7, and Controv. 6, Excerpt.
and insulted by his betrayer. His insolence, how- ex Controv. i.; in the latter, Seneca praises the
ever, aroused the sympathy of the people, and the pathos of the declaimer. Haterius died at the end
triumvirs reduced him to his former servile con-'of A. D. 26, in the eighty-ninth year of his age.
dition, and assigned him to the family of his late (Tac. Ann. iv. 61; Euseb. Clhron. n. 2040, p. 157;
master. (Appian, B. C. iv. 29.) Hieron. Ep. ad Pammach. adv. error. Joan. Hie3. Q. HATERIUS, a senator and rhetorician' in rosol.) His sons appear to have died before him.
the age of Augustus and Tiberius, and, in what (Sen. Excerpt. Controv. Proem. Bip. ed. p. 422.)
year is unknown, a supplementary consul. (Tac. It is worth'noting, that Haterius is accused by
Ann. ii. 33.) In the contest of mutual distrust Seneca (1. c.) of archaisms, but those archaisms
and dissimulation between the senate and Tiberius were words or phrases from Cicero-so brief was
on his accession, A. D. 14 (Tac. Ann. i. 11-13), the meridian of Latin prose.
Haterius unguardedly asked the cautious emperor, 4. D. HATERIUS AGRIPPA, a son of the pre" how long he meant -to suffer the commonwealth ceding. [AGRIPPA, p.' 77 a.]..~~~~~~~