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

LOLLIUS.,QLOILITUS? 79r.Cass. Ix. 3.) A.sepulchre to her honour was not fort, Caricinum in Samnium, from thidch h ma;de
elrected till the reign of theemperor Nero. (Tac. predatory excursions, until he was overpowered
Ann. xiv. 12.) [V. I.] and the fort taken by Q. Ogulnius Gallus arnd C.
LO'LLIA' GENS, plebeian,,4hich does not Fabius Pictor, B. c. 269. (Zonar. vnii. 17; Diooccur in Roman history till -the last century of the nys. ap. Mai, Script. Vet. Nov. Collect. vol. ii. p.
republic. It would appear to have been either of 526.)
Samnite or Sabine origin, for a Samnite of this 2. Q. LoTLLus, a Roman eues'in Sicily, was
name is mentioned in the war with Pyrrhus [LoL- nearly ninety years old at the time of Verres' adLIUS, No. 1]; and M. Lollius Palicanus, who was ministration-of Sicily (B. c. 73 —71 ), and was most
tribune of the plebs B. c. 71, is described as a native shamefully treated by Q. Apronius, one of the most
of Picenum. [PALICANUS.] The first member infamous creatures of Verres.. His age and infirm
of the gens who obtained the consulship was M. health prevented him from coming forward as a
Lollius, B. c. 21. The only cognomen of the witness against Verres when he was accused by
Lollii in the time of the republic was PALICANUS; Cicero; but his son, M. Lollius, appeared in his
but under the empire we find a few more, which stead. He had another son, Q. Lollins, who had
are given below under LOLLIUSi accused Calidius, and had set out for Sicily for the
LOLLIA'NUS, one of the so-called thirty purpose of collecting information against Verres,
tyrants under the Roman empire, is spoken of but was murdered on the road, according to general
under LAELIANUS. opinion, at the instigation of Verres. (Cic, Verr.
LOLLIA'NUS (Aoxxiavds), a celebrated Greek iii. 25.)
sophist in the time of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, 3. L. LOLLIUS, a legate of Pompey in the
was a native of Ephesus, and received his training Mithridatic war (Appian, Mitlr. 95), may perhaps
in the school of the Assyrian Isaeus. [IsAEUS, be the same as the L. Lollius whom Caelius men.
No. 2.] He was the first person nominated to the tions in a letter to Cicero. (Ad Faim. viii. 8.)
professor's chair (,~pJvos) of sophistik at Athens, 4. CN. LOILIUS, a triumvir nocturnus, was con.
where he also filled the office of o'pa7ryys earl demned, with his colleagues, M. Mulvius and L,;r /v 0i1r/cov, which, under the emperors, had become Sextilius, when accused by the tribunes of the.plebs
merely a prae.fectura annonae. The liberal manner before the people, because they had come too late
in which he discharged —the duties of this office in to extinguish a fire which had broken out in thq
the time of a famine is recorded with well-merited Sacra Via. (Val. Max. viii. i, damn. 5.)
praise by Philostratus. Two statues were erected 5. M. LOLLIUS, M. F. is first mentioned as
to him at Athens, one in the agora, and the other governing the province of Galatia as propraetor,
in the small grove which he is said to have planted (Eutrop. vii. 10.) He was consul B. c. 21, with Q.
himself. Aemilius Lepidus (Dion Cass.:liv. 6; Hor, Ep. i. 20,
The oratory of Lollianus was distinguished by 28); and in B.C. 16 he commanded as legate in
the skill with which he brought forward his proofs, Gaul. Some German tribes, the Sigambri,' Usipetes
and by the richness of his style: he particularly and Tenctheri, who had crossed the Rhine; were at
excelled in extempore speaking, He gave his first defeated by Lollius (Obsequ. 131), but they
pupils systematic instruction in rhetoric, on which subsequently conquered the imperial legate in a
he wrote several works. These are all lost, but battle, in which the eagle of. the fifth legion was
theyare frequently referred to by the commentators lost. Although this defeat is called by Suetonius
6n Hermogenes, who probably made great use of (Aug. 23) "majoris infamiae quam detrimenti,"
them. The most important of these works are yet-it was considered of sufficient importance to
cited under the following titles: TXe'vrl lTOpPKl,r summon Augustus from the city to Gaul; and it
repl irpool.wv, KicaC 8lyjrw4ov, Irepl dqpop/cZ, is usually classed, with the loss of the army of
CPTopIC3VY, &c. (Philostr. Vit. Soph. i. 23; Suidas, Varus, as one of the two great Roman disasters in
s. v.;.Westermann, Gesceh. der G(riech. Beredt- the reign of Augustus. (Lollicanae Vaeranaeque
samkeit, ~ 95, 18.) clades, Tac. Ann. i. 10; Suet. I.c.) On the arIt was generally supposed till recently, as, for rival of Augustus, the Germans retired and
instance, by Bdickh, that the above-mentioned re-crossed the Rhine. (Dion Cass. liv. 20; Vell.
Lollianus is the same as the L.' Egnatius Victor Pat. ii. 97.)
Lollianus whose name occurs in two inscriptions The misfortune of Lollius did not, however, de(Biickh, Corp. Inscrip. vol. i.. n. 377 and n. 1624), prive him of the favour of Augustus. Ile was subin one of which'he is described.as P4-rp; and' in sequently appointed by the emperor as tutor to his
the other as proconsul of Achaia. But it has been grandson, C. Caesar, whom he accompanied to the
satisfactorily shown by Kayser, in, the treatise East in B.c. 2. But it would appear that he did
mentioned below, that these inscriptions do not not deserve this confidence; for Pliny (H. N. ix.
refer to- the sophist at all; and it appears from an 35. s. 58) tells us thathe acquired immense wealth
inscription containing -an epigram of four lines re- by receiving presents from the kings in the East
cently discovered by Ross at Athens, that the full and his character is drawn in still darker colours,
name of the sophist was P. Hordeonius Lollianus, by Velleius Paterculus, who describes him (ii. 97)
who would therefore seem, to have been a client of as a' man more eager to make money than to act
one of the Hordeonii. This inscription is printed honourably, and as pretending to purity and virtue
by Welcker in the Rkeiniscses lluseunm (vol. i. p. while guilty of every kind of vice. This estimate210, Neue Folge),' as well as by Kayser.- (C. L. of his character, however, ought probably to beh
Kayser, P. Hordeonius Lollianus, geschildert nach taken with some deductions, as Velleits is equally
einer noch nicht herausgegebenen A.t/eniscen In- lavish in his praises of the friends, and in his abuse.c.rift, Heidelberg, 1841.) of the enemies of Tiberius; and Lollius, we know,
LO'LLIUS. 1. A Samnite hostage after the was a personal enemy of Tiberius, and prejudiced.
war with Pyrrhus, who fled from Rome, collected C, Caesar against him. (Suet. Tib. 12; Tac. Ann,
a body of adventurers, and took possession of a iii. 48.) The commendation which Horace bestows