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

498 tHIRTIUS. HISTIAEUS.
Aug. 11; Tac. Ann. i. 10; Pseudo-Brut. ad Cic. HIRTULEIUS, quaestor after the year B. c;
i. 6.) 86, was the author of an amendment on the law of
Whether the "A. HIRTIus, a. f." mentioned in L. Valerius Flaccus, consul in the same year. [L.
an inscription discovered at Ferentinum, as having, VALERIUS FLACCUS, No. 1.] The Valerian law
while censor or quinquennalis in the reign of Au- had cancelled debts by decreeing that only a quagustus, repaired or restored the walls of that town, drans should be paid to the creditor. The amend~vere the son of the consul of B. C. 43 is'uncertain. ment of Hirtuleius, by tripling the dividend to be
(Orelli, Inscr. n. 589, id. vol. ii. p. 172; Westphal, paid, rendered the law almost nugatory. (Cic. pro
Camrp. Romragn. p. 84.) The Hirtius mentioned Font. 1.) It is doubtful whether this Hirtuleius
by Appian (B. C. iv. 43, 84) as compelled by pro- were the same with the quaestor and legatus of
scription to fly to Sex. Pompeius, may have been Sertorius in Spain (Plut. Sert. 12; Front. Strat. i.
the same person, since many of the Pompeians were 5. ~ 8), who in B. C. 79, on the banks of the Anas,
restored and even favoured by Augustus after the defeated L. Domitius Ahenobarbus [AHENOBARtreaty at Misenum, in B. C. 39. BUS, No. 15], -- Therius, legatus of Q. Metellus
HIRTIA, whom Cicero, after his repudiation of Pins, and L. Manilius, praetor of Narbonne, in the
Terentia, in B. C. 46, had some thoughts of marry- neighbourhood of Lerida. But early in the following, was a sister of Hirtius. He declined her, ing spring Hirtuleius was himself routed and slain
saying, that he could not undertake a wife and near Italica in Baetica by Metellus. Hirtuleius was
philosophy at once (Hieron. in Jovin. i. 38), and so highly esteemed as an officer by Sertorius, that
the words "Nihil vidi foedius" are supposed to the latter is said to have stabbed the messenger
refer to her. But, as he shortly afterwards, without who brought the news of his death, that the report
apology, espoused the young, beautiful, and rich of it might not discourage his own soldiers. (Liv.
Publilia, it is probable that Hirtia wanted youth Epit. 90; Flor. iii. 22; Appian, B. C. i. 109; Schol.
and a good dower, as well as good looks. Bob. in Cie. pro Flacc. p. 235, ed. Orelli; Eutrop.
The character of Hirtius is easy to delineate. A vi. 1; Oros. v. 23; Front. Strat. ii. 1. ~ 2, 3. ~ 5,
revolution brought him into notice; ordinary times 7. ~ 5, ii. 5. ~ 31, iv. 5. ~ 19; Sallust. Hist. ii. ap.
would have left him in obscurity. He was a good Non. s. v. Sagurn.) [W. B. D.]
officer, without military genius-for his last cam- HISAGUS, a river god, who, according to one
paign with Antony shows nothing beyond second- tradition, gave decision in the dispute between
ary talent, and a skilful negotiator when the terms Athena and Poseidon about the possession of
were prescribed. But Hirtius merits without Athens. (Serv. ad Aen. iii. 377.) [L. S.]
abatement the praise of unwavering loyalty to his HI'SPALA FECE'NIA, by birth a slave, but
patron, of moderation in political prosperity, and afterwards a freed woman, was in B. c. 186 the
of using his influence with Caesar unselfishly. A mistress of one P. Aebutius, who lived in the
staunch Caesarian, he protected the Pompeians, Aventine quarter of Rome. To prevent her
and while he deplored his benefactor's murder, he lover's initiation in the Bacchanalian mysteries,
opposed the lawless and prodigal ambition of An- she partially disclosed to him the nefarious nature
tony. Cicero frequently mentions his addiction to of their rites, which, while a slave in attendance
the pleasures of the table (ad Fam. ix. 16, 18, 20, on her mistress, she had occasionally witnessed.
ad Att. xii. 2, xvi. 1), and Q. Cicero describes him Aebutius revealed to the consul, Sp. Postumius
as a licentious reveller (ad Fam. xvi. 17). Both Albinus [ALBINUS, No. 12], what Hispala had
charges were probably exaggerated, in the one case imparted to him. She was in consequence sumby political, in the other by personal dislike. But moned by the consul, who, partly by promises,
Hirtius had tastes more refined; and Caesar, when partly by threats, drew from her a full disclosure
he commissioned him to answer the Cato of Cicero, of the place, the practices, and the purposes of the
must have thought highly of his literary attain- Bacchanalian society. After the association was
ments. Hirtius divides with Oppius the claim to put down, Hispala was rewarded with the privithe authorship of the eighth book of the Gallic war, leges of a free-born matron of Rome; and lest
as well as that of the Alexandrian, African, and revenge or superstition should prompt any of the
Spanish. (Suet. Caes. 52. 53, 56; Plin. xi. 105; worshippers of Bacchus to attempt her life, her
Voss. de Hist. Lat. p. 64; Dodwell. Dissert. de security was made by a special decree of the senate
Auct. lib. viii. de B. G. et Al. Af. et Hisp. in Ouden- the charge of the consuls for the time being. And
dorp's Caesar, vol. ii. p. 869, ed. 1822.) Without besides these immunities, a million of sesterces was
determining the question, we may allow that Hir- paid from the treasury to Hispala. (Liv. xxxix.
tius was quite capable of writing the best of these, 9-19; comp. Val. Max. vi. 3. ~ 7.) [W. B. D.]
the eighth of the commentaries on the Gaulish war, HISPALLUS, an agnomen of Cn. Cornelius
and the single book of the Alexandrine war, and Scipio, consul in B. C. 176. [SCIPIO.]
that he certainly did not write the account of Cae- HISPO ROMANUS. [RoMANsUS.]
sar's last campaign in Spain. (Niebuhr, ectures HISPO, CORNE'LIUS, a rhetorician menon Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. pp. 46, 47, ed. Schmitz.) tioned by Seneca, who gives an extract from one of[W. B. D.] his declamations, " de uxore torta a tyranno pro
marito." (Sen. Contr. 13.) [Xr. B. D.]
oo0000Oo0 ooQO0j0 HISTIAEA ('I'rdiata), a daughter of Hyrieus,
ffiga~tX xe~o //40 ~O~from whom the town of Histiaea, in Euboea, was
<(b~QgQJ i ~ {0 f ) S said to have derived its name. (Eustath. ad Hom.
p. 280; comp. Strab. p. 445.) [L. S.]
HISTIAEUS ('Io''a os), tyrant of Miletus,
Xc 4!9 x t/ commanded his contingent of Ionians in the service
of Dareius in the invasion of Scythia by the Persians (B. C. 513), when he was left with his counCOIN OF A. HIRTIUS. trymen to guard the bridge of boats by which the