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for a 7 deliberative assembly than for the tumult of LAE'LIUS DE'CIMUS. 1. Was one' of Cn.
the forum. Cicero, indeed (Brit. 21),-and his Pompey's lieutenants in the Sertorian war. He
censure is oenfirmed by the author of the dialogue was slain in an* engagement near the town of
De Causis Corruptae Eloquentiae (25)- complains Lauro, B.C. 76, by Hirtuleius, a legatus of Ser-.of a certain harshness and crudity in the diction of torins. (Sallust. Schol. Bob. pro Flacc. p. 235,
Laelius. The grammarians resorted to his writings Orelli; Frontin. Strat. ii. 5. ~ 31; Obseq. de
*for archaisms (Festus, s. v. Saturan; Nonius, s. v. Prod. 119.) [HIRTULEIUS.] Lucilius, the saSamaisan), and he may have shown habits of study tirist, as cited by Cicero (De Or. ii. 6), and Cicero
rather than of business. But the defect was per- himself (lb.) speaks with some contempt of Laehaps as much in the organ he employed as in lius's pretensions to literature.
Laelius himself. The Latin tongue was yet in the 2. Son probably of the preceding, impeached L.
bondage of the old Saturnian forms (comp. Varr. Flaccus for extortion in his government of Asia
R. R. i. 2); and had not acquired the ductility Minor B. C. 59. (Cic. pro Flacc. 1, 6; Schol.
and copiousness it possessed in Cicero's age. A Bob. pro Flace. p. 228, Orelli.) [VALERIUS
fragment of the younger Scipio's orations, preserved FLACCUS, No. 15.] In the civil wars B. C. 49,
by Macrobius (Saturn. ii. 10), will afford a notion Laelius commanded a detachment of Cn. Pomof the language of Laelius. pey's fleet (Caes. B. C. iii. 5); conveyed PomThe titles of the following orations of Laelius pey's letters to the consuls (Cie. ad Att. viii.
have been preserved: —1. De Collegiis, delivered 11, D. 12, A.); watched M. Antony's passage over
ly Laelius when praetor, B.C. 145. It was directed the Adriatic (Caes. B. C. iii. 40); and, about the
against the rogation of C. Licinius Crassus, then time of the battle of Pharsalia, blockaded the hartribune of the' plebs, who proposed to transfer the hour of Brundisium. (Caes. B. C. iii. 100.) M.
election of the augurs from the college to the people Antony placed Laelius on the list of Pompeians
in their tribes. The bill was rejected through forbidden to return to Italy without licence from
Laelius' eloquence. (Cic. Brut. 21, de AImic. 25, Caesar; but. the prohibition was subsequently rede Repub. vi. 2, de NAat. Deor. iii. 2, 17, where'it moved. (Cic. ad Att. xi. 7, 14.) [W. B. D.]
is described as aureola oratiuncula; Nonius, s. v. LAE'LIUS, FELIX. [FF.LIX LAELIUS.]
Sam&rium.) 2. Pro Publicanis, B. C. 139. Laelius, LAENAS, the name of a distinguished plebeian
after twice pleading in behalf of the revenue-con- family of the gens Popillia. The name was
tractors, resigned their cause to his rival C. Servius derived, according to Cicero (Brut. 14), from
Galba, since it seemed to require a more acrimonious the sacerdotal cloak (laena)' with which the consul
style than his own. (Cic. Brut. 22.) 3. Dissuasio M. Popillius, who was at the same time flamen
Legis Papiriae, B.c. 131, against the law of C. Carmentalis, rushed fisom a public sacrifice into the
Papirius Carbo, which enacted that a tribune, forum, to pacify the plebeians, who were in open
whose office had expired, might be re-elected as revolt against the nobility. The name is to be
often: as the people thought advisable. Scipio spelt accordingly Laenas, as the Fasti Capitolini
Africanus the younger supported, and C. Gracchus and Diodorus (xvi. 15) have it, and not Lenas, as is
opposed Laelius in this debate. (Cic. de Amic. found in: some MSS. of Livy. The family of the
25; Liv. Epit. lix.) 4. Pro se. The date and Laenates was unfavourably distinguished even
immediate occasion of this speech are uncertain; among the Romans for their sternness, cruelty, and
but it: was probably in reply to Carbo or Gracchus. haughtiness of character.
An extract from it seems to have once been read in 1. M. POPILLIUS M. F. C. N. LAENAS, was
Festus (s. v. Satura; comp. Sallust. Jug. 29.) consul B. C. 359. The civil disturbances which he.- Laudationes P. Africani mninoris, written after is said to have suppressed by his authority and
B. C. 129. These were mortuary orations, which eloquence were perhaps more effectually quelled, as
Laelius, after the manner of Isaeus and the Greek Livy intimates (vii. 12), by a sudden attack in the
rhetoricians, composed for other speakers. Q. Tu- night of the Tiburtines on Rome. The city was
bero, the nephew of Africanus (Cic. de Orat. ii. full of consternation and fear: at daybreak, how84), delivered one, and Q. Fab. Maximus, brother ever, and as soon as the Romans hlad organised a
of the deceased, the other of these orations, at sufficient corps, and sallied forth with it, the enemy
Scipio's funeral. (Schol. Bob. pro l1ilon. p. 283, was repulsed. In the second year after this M.
Orelli; comp. Cic. pro Muraen. 36.) Laenas is mentioned (Liv. vii. 16) as prosecutor of
Laelius is the principal interlocutor in Cicero's C. Licinius Stolo for the transgression of his own
dialogue De Amicitia; one of the speakers in the law, which-limited the possession of public land to
De Senectute, and in the De Republica, maintains 500 jugera. Pighius (Anncales, vol. i. p. 284) has
the reality of justice against the sceptical acade- put down Popillius as praetor of the year B. C. 357,
mician Philus. His domestic life is pleasingly de- but this is not warranted by Livy's expression, as
scribed by Cicero (de Orat. ii. 6) and by Horace Drakenborch has shown (ad Liv. vii. 16); and it
(Sat. ii. 1. 65-74). He seems to have had a is even improbable, from the term (accusare) used
country house at Formiae (Cic. de Rep. i. 39). by Valerius Maximus (viii. 6. ~ 3). Perhaps PoHis two daughters were married, the one to Q. pillius was. aedile, whose duty it seems to have
Mucius Scaevola, the augur, the other to C. Fannius been to prosecute, the transgressors of agrarian as
Strabo (de Anmic. 8). Of his wit and playfulness well as usury laws. (Comp. Liv. x. 13.) Popil-hilaritas (de O.f: i. 30), only'two specimens lius was consul again in the next year (B. C. 356),
have been transmitted (de Orat. ii. 71; Sen. when he drove the Tiburtines into their towns.
Nat. Quaest. vi. 32). The opinion of his worth (Liv. vii. 17.) He was chosen consul for a third
seems to have been universal, and it is one of time B. C. 350, when he won a hard-fought battle
Seneca's injunctions to his friend Lucilius 1" to live against, the GatIls, in which he himself was
like Laelius." (Cic. Topic. 20, ~ 78:; Sen. Ep.:wounded (Liv. vii. 23; App. Celt. i. 2.), and for
104.) [VV. B. D.] which he celebrated a triumph- the first ever
LAE'LIUS BALBUS. [BALBus, No. 7.] obtained by a plebeian. Popillits concluded
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