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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of the emperor Decius and Herennia Etruscilla was temple legend. (Masurius Sabinus, Memorial. ii.
styled Herennius Etruscus Messius Decius. There ap. Macrob. Sat. iii. 6; Serv. ad Aen. viii. 363.)
was both assumption and deposition of names in The latter, indeed, calls the pious merchant M.
this system. Thus Minius Cerrinius dropped the Octavius Eserninus, but his version of the story is
former of his appellations when he took that of substantially the same with that in Macrobius.
Herennius. (Comp. Giittling, Staatsverfassung der 5. C. HERENNIUS, was the hereditary patron
R1m. p. 5, &c.) [W. B. D.] of the Marii, and possessed probably a patrimonial
estate near Arpinum. When C. Marius the elder,
about B. C. 115, was impeached for bribery at his
praetorian comitia, Herennius was cited, but refused to give evidence against him, alleging that
it was unlawful for a patron to injure his client.
(Plut. Mar. 5.)
6. M. HERENNIUS, was consul in B.C. 93.
(Fast.; Obseq. 112.) Although a plebeian and an
COIN OF HERENNIA GENS. indifferent orator, he carried his election against the
high-born and eloquent L. Marcius Philippus.
The preceding coin, which represents on the ob- (Cic. Brut. 45, pro Muren. 17.) Pliny (H. N.
verse a female head, with the legend PIETAS, and 19, 3) mentions the consulate of Herennius as reon the reverse a son carrying his father in his arms, markable for the quantity of Cyrenaic silphiumhas reference to the celebrated act of filial affec- ferula Tingitana (Sprengel, Rei Herbar. p. 84.),
tion of two brothers of Catana, who carried off their then brought to Rome. This costly drug was
aged parents in the midst of an eruption of Mount worth a silver denarius the pound; and the merAetna. (Comp. Claudian, Idyll. 7; Eckhel, vol. cantile connections of the Herennii in Africa may
i. p. 203, vol. v. p. 224.) have caused this unusual supply.
HERE'NNIUS. 1. C. HERENNIUS, was, ac- 7. C. HERENNIUS, was tribune of the plebs in
cording to some annalists, one of three commis- B. C. 80, and opposed a rogatio of L. Sulla, the
sioners for assigning lands to the Latin colony at dictator, for recalling Cn. Pompey from Africa.
Placentia, in B.c. 218. An insurrection of the (Sall. Hist. ii. ap. Gell. x. 20; comp. Plut.
Boian Gauls compelled Herennius and his colleagues Pomp. 13.) After the death of Sulla, this Herento take refuge in Mutina. (Liv. xxi. 25.) Ac- nius probably joined Sertorius in Spain, B. C. 76cording to Polybius (iii. 40), the commissioners 72: since a legatus of that name was defeated and
fell into the hands of the insurgents. slain by Pompey near Valentia. (Plut. Pomp.
2. HERENNIUS BASSUS, was one of the principal 18; Zonar. x. 2; Sall. Hist. iii. fragyn. p. 215.
citizens of Nola in Campania. The ruling order ed. Gerlach. min.) Whether C. Herennius, a
in Nola was Sabellian (Liv. ix. 28; Strab. v. p. senator, convicted (before B. C. 69) of peculation
249); but from its zealous emulation of Cumae (Cic. in Verr. i. 13. ~ 39), were the same person,
and Neapolis, Nola was almost a Greek city (Dio: is uncertain.
nys. xv. 5.fragm. Mai), and thence may have pro- 8. T. HERENNIUS, a banker at Leptis in Africa,
ceeded its staunch preference of a Roman to a whom C. Verres, while praetor in Sicily, B. C. 73
Carthaginian alliance: for Herennius was the — 71, put to death, although his character and
spokesman of his fellow-citizens when, in B.C. 215, innocence were attested by more than a hundred
they rejected Hanno's proposals to revolt to Han-. Roman citizens resident at Syracuse. (Cic. in Verr.
nibal. (Liv. xxiii. 43.) i. 5, v. 59.)
3. HERENNIUS CERRINIUS, was the son of 9. C. HERENNIUS, to whom the treatise on
Paculla Minia, a Campanian woman, who lived at rhetoric-RRhetoricorum ad C. Herennium Libri IV.
Rome. Paculla was the arch-priestess, and Heren- -is addressed, cannot be identified with any of
nius one of the chief hierophants of the Baccha- the preceding or following Herennii (ad Herenn. i.
nalia in that city, B. C. 186. (Liv. xxxix. 13, 19.) 1, ii. 1, iv. 1, 56). Respecting this work, see
It is probable that the son of Paculla became an CICERO, p. 726, &c.
Herennius by marriage with Herennia, according 10. M. HERENNIUS, decurio of Pompeii, about
to the Sabellian practice of annexing the wife's B.C. 63. Shortly before the conspiracy of Catiname to the paternal or family appellation. (See line, Herennius was killed by lightning from a
HERENNIA GENS and Giittling, Staatsveifassung cloudless sky. This was accounted a prodigy in
der RMim. p. 5.) augural law, and the death of Herennius was
4. M. OCTAVIUS HERENNIUS, was originally reckoned among the portents which announced the
a flute-player, but afterwards engaged in trade, danger of Rome from treason. (Plin. II. N. ii.
and throve so well that he dedicated to Hercules a 51.)
tenth of his gains. Once, while sailing with his 11. C. HERENNIUS, son of Sext. Herennius
wares, Herennius was attacked by pirates, but he (Cic. ad Att. i. 18), was tribune of the plebs in
beat them off valiantly, and saved his liberty and B. C. 59, when he zealously seconded P. Clodius
cargo. Then Hercules showed Herennius in a [CLAUDIUS, No. 40] in his efforts to pass by adopdream that it was he who had given him strength tion into a plebeian family. [FONTEIUS, No. 6.]
in his need. So, when he came back to Rome, (Cic. ad Att. i. 18, 19.)
Herennius besought the senate for a piece of 12. L. HERENNIUS, a friend of Cicero, who
ground, whereon he built a chapel to Hercules, seconded L. Atratinus [ATRATINus, No. 7] in his
and placed in it an image of the god, and wrote un- accusation of M. Caelius Rufus, B. c. 56. (Cic.
derneath the image -" Herculi Victori," in token of pro C6el. 11.)
his deliverance from the pirates. The chapel stood 13. L. HERENNIUS BALBUS, demanded that the
near the Porta Trigemina, at the foot of the Aven- slaves (familia) of Milo and Fausta his wife should
tine. The story of its foundation is probably a be submitted to the torture, in order to elicit their
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