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more prbbable' that he meant to refer to the less whbm A. Gellius places between Valeritis Aeditilus
celebrated of the two, writers. (Krause, Vitae et and Q. Lutatius Catulus, consul B. c. 104, and who,
Fragm. vet. Hist. Rom. p. 213; Perizon. Animad. therefore, probably lived in the latter part of the
Hist. p. 349.) second century, B. c. Gellius quotes an epigram of
LI'CINUS, PO'RCIUS. 1. L. PoRcIus LIcI- Licinus, which seems to be taken from the Greek,
NUS, lived in the second Punic war. He is first and likewise cites the commencement of a poem of
mentioned in B. C. 211, when he served with dis- his on the history of Roman poetry, written in
tinction as legate in the army that was besieging trochaic tetrameters. He seems to be the same as
Capua. In the following year (B. c. 210) he was the Porcius mentioned in the life of Terence,
plebeian aedile, and with his colleague, Q. Catius, ascribed to Suetonius, but must not be confounded,
celebrated the public games with great splendour. as he has been by some modern writers, with the
He was praetor in B. C. 207, and obtained Cisalpine consul of this name. [No. 2.] (Gell. xix. 9, xvii.
Gaul as his province. In co-operation with the 2; Anthol. Lat. Nos. 25, 26, ed. Meyer; Madvig,
consuls of the year, C. Claudius Nero and M. de L. Attii Didascalcis, p. 20.)
Livius Salinator, he had a share in the glory of the LICY'MNIA, spoken of by Horace (Carm. ii.
defeat of Hasdrubal, the brother of Hannibal, at 12. 13, &c.), is maintained at great length by
the battle of the Metaurus, in Umbria. (Liv. xxvi. Weichert (Poetar. Latin. Reliquiae, p. 462, &c.)
6, xxvii. 6, 35, 36, 39, 46-48.) to be the same as Terentia, the wife of Maecenas;
2. L. PORCIus LICINUS, the son of the preceding, but it seems impossible that Horace could have
was praetor B, C. 193, and received Sardinia as his used such - amatory language as he employs in
province. He sued unsuccessfully for the consul- this ode in reference to the wife of Maecenas.
ship at first, but at length obtained it, in B. C. 184; (Comp. Teuffel, in Zeitsc7liiftJiir die Alterlthumsw.
and in conjunction with his colleague, P. Claudius p. 46, &c., 1845.)
Pulcher, carried on the war against the Ligurians. LICY'MNIUS (ALtec6vios), a son of Electryon
(Liv. xxxiv. 54, 55, xxxix. 32, 33, 45, xl. 34-; and the Phrygian slave Mideia, and consequently
Cic. Brut. 15.) a half-brother of Alcmene. (Paus. iii. 15. ~ 4.)
3. L. PoRcIus LCINUS, the son of No. 2, dedi- He was married to Perimede, by whom he became
cated, as duumvir in B. C. 181, the temple to Venus the father of Oeonus, Argeius, and Melas. He
Erycina, which his father had vowed in the Ligurian was a friend of Heracles, whose son Tlepoleinus
wvar. This temple, which was called after the cele- slew him, according to some unintentionally, and
brated temple of Venus at Eryx in Sicily, was according to others in a fit of anger. (Pind. 01.
situated outside the Colline gate, and is mentioned vii. 50, &c.; Apollod. ii. 8. ~ 2, ii. 4. ~ 5, comp.
by Livy, by prolepsis, as in existence as early as Hom. II. ii. 663.) His tomb was shown in afterthe year B. C. 202. (Liv. xxx. 38.) Licinus was times at Argos. (Paus. ii. 22. ~ 8; Plut. PPyrrh.
appointed in B.C. 172 to conduct to Brundusium 34.) [L. S,]
from the docks at Rome the fleet which was to LICY'MNIUS (Aucl6K ios). 1. Of Chios, a
convey to Greece the troops destined for the war distinguished dithyrambic poet, of uncertain date.
against Perseus. (Iiv. xl. 34; Strab. vi. p. 272; Some writers, on the authority of a passage of
Ov. Fast. iv. 874; App. B. C. i. 93; Liv. xlii. Sextus Empiricus (Adv. MV1ath. 49, p. 447, xi.
27.) pp. 700, 701; Fabric. p. 447; Pacard. p. 556,.
4. L. PoaRcIs LICINuS, occurs only on coins, of Bekker), place him before Simonides; but this
which a specimen is given below, The obverse is not clearly made out, and it is perhaps more
represents the head of Pallas, with L. PORCI LICI.; likely, from all we know of his poetry, that he bethe reverse the naked figure of Mars driving a longed to the later Athenian dithyrambic school
chariot and hurling a spear, with the legend L. LIC. about the end of the fourth century B. C.; indeed
CN, DOM. We have coins of the Aurelia and Spengel and Schneidewin identify him with the
Cosconia gentes exactly the same as the pre- rhetorician(No. 2). He is mentioned by Aristotle
ceding, with the sole exception of the difference of (Rhet, iii. 12), in conjunction with Chaeremon, as
name, those of the former bearing the name of M. among the poets whose works were rather fit for
Aurelius Scaurus, and those of the latter L. Cos- reading than forexhibition (dh'ayworrtcoe). Among
conius. [CoscoNIvS; SCAvRvs.] Now, as all the poems ascribed to him was one in praise of
the three sets of coins have on the obverse L. LIC. health; a pretty sure indication of a late date, if
CN. DOM., it is supposed that they were struck in we could be certain that the poem was his. A
the censorship of L. Licinius Crassus and Cn. Do- fragment of this poem is preserved by Sextus
mitius Ahenobarbus, B. C. 92, and that L. Por- Empiricus (1. c.), in which three lines out of six are.
cius Licinus, M. Aurelius Scaurus, and L. Cosconius, identical with lines in the paean of Ariphron to.
were triumvirs of the Mint in that year. Eckhel health; and it seems likely that it was a mere
(vol. v. p. 1 96), however, thinks that these coins mistake in Sextus to quote the poem as by Licymmust have been struck at an earlier time; but on nius. A poem of his on the legend of Endymion
this point see Drumann, Gesch. Roms, vol. v, p. 95. is mentioned by Athenaeus (xiii, p. 564, c.), who
also refers to one of his dithyrambs on thelove of'.......X Argynnus for Hymenaeus (xiii. p. 603, d.). Parthenius (c. 22) quotes from him an account of the
taking of Sardis, which has every mark of a late
and fictitious embellishment of the event. Eustathius (ad Hom. Od. iii. 267) mentions ALICVtvOPV
we ale su iBov7rparLea, doJMv. (Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graec. pp.
839, 840; Schmidt, Diatrib. in Dithyramb. pp. 84
- COIN OF L. PORCIUS- LICINUS. — 86.; Ulrici, Gesch. d. Hellen. Dichtk. vol. ii. p.
497; Bode, Gesch. d. Lyr, Dichtk. vol. ii. pp. 303,
5. PORCIus LCINiVS, an ancient Roman, poet, 304,)
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