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4. C. JULIUS, C. F. C. N., JULUS, son of No. 2, tribunes entered upon their office on the kalends of
was consul in B. C. 447, with M. Geganius Mace- October instead of the ides of December, which
rinus, and again in, B. C. 435, with L. Verginius was the usual time, in consequence of a defeat susTricostus. In the latter year Rome was visited tained by their predecessors before Veii; and their
with such a grievous pestilence, that not only were own year of office was distinguished by the number
the Romans unable to march out of their own ter- of foreign wars and civil broils. In the latter year
ritory to devastate the enemy's, but even offered Julius, with his colleague, Postumius, fell upon the
no opposition to the Fidenates and Veientes, who Tarquinienses, who had made a plundering inroad
advanced almost up to the Colline gate. While into the Roman territory, and stripped them of the
Julius manned the walls, his colleague consulted booty they had gained. (Liv. v. 9, 10, 16; Diod.
the senate, and eventually named a dictator. (Liv. xiv. 44, 85.)
iii. 65, iv. 21; Diod. xii. 29, 49.) According to 10. L. JULIUS JULUS, consular tribune in B. C.
Licinius Macer, Julius was elected consul for the 388, with five colleagues; and a second time in
third time in the following year, with his colleague B. C. 379, with seven colleagues. (Liv. vi. 4, 30
of the preceding. Other accounts mentioned other Diod. xv. 23, 51.)
persons as the consuls; and others again gave 11. C. JULIUS JULUfi, was nominated dictator
consular tribunes this year. (Liv. iv. 23.) in B. C. 352, under pretence of an apprehended was
5. L. JULIUS, VOP. F. C. N., JULUS, son of with the Etruscans, but in reality to carry the
No. 3, one of the three consular tribunes in B.C. election of two patricians in the consular comitie,
438. (Liv. iv. 16; Diod. xii. 38.) He was ma- in violation of the Licinian law. (Liv. vii. 21.)
gister equitum in B. C. 431 to the dictator, A. Pos- JULUS ANTO'NIUS. [ANTONIUS, No. 19.]
tumius Tubertus, who left him and the consul for JUNCUS, a Greek philosopher, from whose
the year, C. Julius Mento, in charge of the city, treatise " On Old Age " (Wrepi y0ows) considerable
while he marched against the Aequians and Vol- extracts are made by Stobaeus, but of whose life
scians. (Liv. iv. 26, 27; Diod. xii. 64, who places and age we know nothing. The work was in the
the dictatorship in the preceding year.) In the form of a dialogue, and the writer appears to have
following year, B. C. 430, L. Julius (erroneously been a Platonic philosopher. (Stobaeus, Fiorileg.
called by Cicero C. Julius) was consul with C. tit. 115. ~ 26, 116. ~ 49, 117. g 9, 121. ~35, ed.
Papirius Crassus. Having learnt from the treachery Gaisford.)
of one of the tribunes, that the latter intended to Tacitus (Ann. xi. 35) speaks of a Roman senator,
bring forward a law which was much wished for by Juncus Vergilianus, who was put to'death in the
the people, imposing a pecuniary fine instead of the reign of the emperor Claudius: but perhaps we
one in cattle, which had been fixed by the Aternia should read Junius instead of Juncus.'
Tarpeia lex., B. c. 454, the consuls anticipated their JU'NIA. 1. The' wife of C.' Marcellus, the
purpose, and proposed a law by which a small sum augur, and the mother of C. Marcellus, who was
of money was to be paid in place of each head of consul in B. C. 50.' She' is mentioned with great
cattle (multaram aestimatio). This law *was occa- respect by Cicero in his congratulatory letters to her
sioned, according to Cicero, by the censors, L. son and husband upon the election of the former to
Papirius and P. Pinarius, having, through the in- the consulship. (Cic. ad Fam. xv. 7, 8.)
fliction of fines, deprived private persons of an im- 2. The daughter of Servilia: and D. Junius Simense quantity of cattle, and brought them into lanus, consul in B.C. 62. She was also the halfthe possession of the state. (Liv. iv. 30; Diod. sister of M. Junius Brutus, the murderer of Caesar,
xii. 72; Cic. de Rep. ii. 35; Niebuhr, Romn. list. who was the son of Servilia by her first husband,
vol. ii. note 690.) M. Junius. Brutus, tribune of the plebs in B. C. 83.
6. SEX. JULIUS JULUS, consular tribune in B. C. Junia was married to M. Lepidus, subsequently the
424, with three colleagues. (Liv. iv. 35; Diod. triumvir. When Cicero was in Cilicia, in B, c. 50, he
xii. 82.) was told that she was not faithful to Lepidus: he
7. C. JULIUS, L. F. VOP. N., JULUS, grandson speaks of her portrait being found'among the chatof No. 3, consular tribune in B. C. 408, with two tels of the debauchee P. Vedius, and expresses his
colleagues, and again in B. C. 405, with five col- surprise at her brother and husband taking no
leagues. In the former year he and his colleague, notice of her conduct. He afterwards speaks of her
Cornelius Cossus, vehemently opposed the nomina- in one of the Philippics in terms of praise (probation of a dictator; and in the latter year he took tissimac uxor). She seems, at all events, to have
part with his colleagues in the commencement of won the affections of her husband; and when she
the siege of Veii. (Liv. iv. 56, 61; Diod. xiii. became involved in the conspiracy formed by her
104, xiv. 17.) He was censor in B. C. 393, and son Lepidus against the life of Octavian, after the
died in his year of office. (Liv. v. 31, ix. 34; Plut. battle of Actium, her husband offered to become
Camill. 14.) security for her. (Cic. ad Att. vi. 1, xiv. 8, Phil.
8. L. JULIUS JULUS, consular tribune in B. C. xiii. 4; Vell. Pat. ii. 88; Appian, B. C. iv. 50.)
403, with five colleagues, according to the Capito- 3. JUNIA TERTIA, or TERTULLA; own sister of
line Fasti. Diodorts mentions only five tribunes, the preceding, and consequently half-sister of M.
but Livy increases the number to eight. Six is Brutus. The enemies of the dictator, Caesar,
probably the real number, to which Livy has added spread abroad the report that her mother, Servilia,
the two censors. The consular tribunes of this year had introduced her to Caesar's favour, when; she
continued the siege against Veii during'the winter. herself became advanced in years., Tertia was' the
(Liv. v. 1, 2; Died. xiv. 35.) - wife of C. Cassius, one of Caesar's murderers; but
9. J. JULIUS, L. F., VOP. N., JUIUS, the son of she survived her husband a long while, for she did
No. 5, and the grandson of No. 3, consular tribune not die till the sixty-fourth year after the battle of
in B. C. 401, with five colleagues, and a second time Philippi, A.D.'22, under the reign of Tiberius.
in n.. 397, with the same number of colleagues. Her property was very large; but though she left
In the former of these two years, the consular legacies to almost all the great men of Rome, sho
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