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JIJVENTIUS. IXION. 691
of G, Fabricius, fol. Basil. 1564; in the Opera et the T. Juventius Thalna who was praetor in B. c.
Fragmenta. vet. Poet. Lat. of Maittaire, fol. Lond. 194. [THALNA.]
1713; in the Bibliotheca Patr. Mac. Lugdun. 3. A comic poet, who probably lived in the
1677, vol. iv. p. 55; and was published separately middle of the second century B. C. He is referred
with a collection of commentaries, by Reuschius, to by Varro (L. L. vi. 50, vii. 65, ed. Muller) and
8vo. Lips. 1710. A. Gellius (xviii. 12).
The Liber in Genesim first appeared in its com- 4. P., praetor in B. c. 149, who was defeated
plete form in Martene et Durand, Scriptorum et and slain in battle in Macedonia by the usurper
AMonumeidorum- Amplissimna Collectio, fol. Paris, Andriscus (Pseudophilippus). [ANDRIscus.] (Liv.
1723, vol. ix. p. 14, from whence it was reprinted, Epit. 50; Flor. ii. 14; Eutrop. iv. 13; Oros. iv.
along with the Historie Evangelica, in the Biblio- 22.)
tlseca Patrum7 of Galland, fol. Venet. 1]770, vol. iv. 5. A beautiful youth, to whom Catullus has
p. 587. addressed several of his poems. (Carm. 24, 48,
(Hieron. De Vir. Ill. 84, Ep. ad Ml1agnum, 99.)
Ctron. Euseb. ad A. D. cccxxix.; Gebser, De C. C. JUVE'NTIUS, a Roman jurist, one of the
Vettii Aquilini Juvenci Vita et Scriptis, 8vo. Jen. numerous auditores of Q. Mucius, P.f. Scaevola,
1827.) [W. R.] the Pontifex Maximus. He is mentioned by PomJUVENTAS. [HEBE.] ponius along with Aquilius Gallus, Balbus Lucilius,
JUVE'NTIA GENS, an ancient plebeian gens, and Sextus. Papirius, as one of the four most emiwhich came from Tusculum (Cic. pro Planc. 8), nent pupils of Mucius. Nothing more is known of
and settled in Rome, probably in the course of the him. His works possessed high authority, and
fourth century B.C. According to the statement were incorporated by Servius Sulpicius in his
of L. Cassius, who united with L. Juventius La- own writings. In the time of Pomponius, the
terensis in accusing Cn. Plancius, Cicero's client, original productions of the disciples of Mucius
the first plebeian aedile was a member of the Ju- were scarce, and were known chiefly through the
ventia gens. The correctness of this statement is books of Servius Sulpicius. (Dig. i. tit. 2. s. 2. ~
denied by Cicero; but whether true or false, the 42.) [J. T. G.]
fact of its being made sufficiently proves the an- T. JUVE'NTIUS, an advocate, who was much
tiquity of the gens. (Cic. pro Plane. 24.) The employed in private causes. He was a slow and
name does not occur again in history till the year rather cold speaker, but a wily disputant. He posB. C. 197 [JUVENTIUS, No. 1]; and the first of sessed considerable legal knowledge, as did also his
the gens who obtained the consulship was M. Ju- disciple Q. Orbius, who was a contemporary of
ventius Thalna in B. c. 163. Notwithstanding Cicero. (Brut. 48.) Ch. Ad. Ruperti thinks that
their antiquity and nobility, none of the Juventii the T. Juventius mentioned by Cicero is the same
played any prominent part in history, and the with the disciple of Mucius, to whom Pomponius
name is indebted for its celebrity chiefly to the two gives the praenomen Caius. (Aninzad. in Enchirid
jurists who lived in the second century of the Pozmponii, iii. 8.) [J. T. G.]
Christian aera. [CELSUS, JUVENTIUS.] IXI'ON ('Itokv), a son of Phlegyas (Schol. ad
The family-names of this gens are CELsUS, LA- Apollon. Rhod. iii. 62; comp. Strab. x. p. 442, who
TERENSIS, PEDO, THALNA: a few occur without calls him a brother of Phlegyas), or, according to
a surname. Owing to the common interchange of others, a son of Antion by Perimela, of Pasion, or
B and V, the name is frequently written Juben- of Ares. (Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. ii. 39; Diod. iv.
tius in manuscripts and inscriptions. 69; Hygin. Fab. 62.) According to the common
JUVENTI'NUS A'LBIUS OVI'DIUS, the tradition, his mother was Dia, a daughter of Dei
name attached to thirty-five distichs entitled Ele- oneus. He was king of the Lapithae or Phlegyes,
gia de Philomela, containing a collection of those and the father of Peirithous. (Apollod. i. 8. ~ 2;
words which are supposed to express appropriately Hygin. Fab. 14.) When Deloneus demanded of
the sound uttered by birds, quadrupeds, and other Ixion the bridal gifts he had promised, Ixion treaanimals. Take as a specimen, cherously invited him, as though it were to a
banquet, and then contrived to make him fall into
Mus avidus mintrit, velox mustecula drindit, a pit filled with fire. As no one purified Ixion of
Et grillus grillat, desticat inde sorex. this treacherous murder, and all the gods were indignant at him, Zeus took pity upon him, purified
The age of the author is quite unknown, but him, and invited him to his table. But Ixion was
from the last couplet in the piece it would appear ungrateful to his benefactor, and attempted to win
that he was a Christian. Bernhardy has en- the love of Hera. Zeus made a phantom resemdeavoured to prove from Spartianus (Grundriss der bling Hera, and by it Ixion became the father of a
Roim. Litt. p. 135), that this and other trifles Centaur, who again having intercourse with Magof a similar description were composed by the nesian mares, became the father of the Hippocontemporaries of the emperor Geta, the son of centaurs. (Pind. Pyth. ii. 39, &c. with the Schol.;
Septimius Severus and the brother of Caracalla. Schol. ad Eurip. Psoen. 1185; Lucian, Dial. Deor.
(Burman. Anthol. Lat. v. 143, or n. 233, ed. 6.) Ixion, as a punishment, was chained by
Meyer; Wernsdorf, Poet. Lat. Mfinores, vol. vii. Hermes with his hands and feet to a wheel, which
p. 178. and:p. 279.) [W. R.] is described as winged or fiery, and said to have
JUVE'NTI.US. 1. T., a tribune of the soldiers rolled perpetually in the air or in the lower world.
who fell in battle in'B. c. 197, when the consul He is further said to have been scourged,.and comQ. Minucius Rufus was defeated by the Cisalpine pelled to exclaim, " Benefactors should be hoGauls. (Liv. xxxiii. 22.) noured." (Comp. Schol. ad Hornm. Od. xxi. 303;
2. T., mentioned by Livy (xlii. 27). as one of Hygin. Fab. 33, 62; Serv. ad Virg. Aen. vi. 601,
the legati sent into Apulia and Calabria to pur- Georg. iii. 38, iv. 484; Schol. Venet. ad II. L
chase corn in B. C. 172, is probably the same as 266.) [L. S.]
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