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80(; LONGUS. LONGUS.
LONGUS, L. MU'SSIDIUS, not mentioned Boii, and, in BC. 191 he served as legate to the
by ancient writers, but whose name frequently consul M'. Acilius Glabrio, in his campaign against
occurs on the coins of Julius Caesar and the tri- Antiochus in Greece. In B. C. 184 he was an unumvirs. successful candidate for the censorship. (Liv. xxxi.
20, xxxii. 27, 29, xxxiii. 24, 26, 43, xxxiv. 42,
45, 46, 47, xxxv. 5, xxxvi. 22, xxxix. 40.) He
died B.c. 174. (Liv. xli. 21.)
3. C. SEMPRONIUS LONGUS was elected de\\e.t5 W ~ cemvir sacris faciundis in the place of Ti. Sempronius Longus [No. 2], who died in the great
pestilence B. C. 174. (Liv. xli. 21.) He may have
been a son of No. 2, and thus succeeded his father
COIN OF AIUSSIDIUS LONUIS.
in the priestly office.
LONGUS, SEMPRO'NIUS. 1. TI. SEam- 4. P. SEMPRONIus LONGUS, praetor B. C. 184,
PRONIUS C. F. C. N. LONGUS, consul with P. Cor- obtained Further Spain as his province. (Liv,
nelius Scipio B. C. 218, the first year of the second xxxix. 32, 38.)
Punic war. Sicily was assigned to him as his LONGUS, SULPI'CIUS. 1. Q. SULPICIUS
province, since the Romans did not dream that LoNGUS, one of the consular tribunes B. C. 390, the
Hannibal would be able to cross the Alps, and year in which Rome was taken by the Gauls. He
invade Italy itself. Sempronius accordingly crossed is mentioned two or three times in the legends of
over to Sicily, and began to prosecute the war the period, and is said to have been the tribune
against the Carthaginians with vigour. He con- who made the agreement- with Brennus for the
quered the island of Melita, which was held by a withdrawal of his troops. (Liv. v. 36, 47, 48;
Carthaginian force, and on his return to Lilybaeum Diod. xiv. 110; Macrob. Saturn. i. 16.)
was preparing to go in search of the enemy's fleet, 2. C. SULPICIUS SER. F. Q. N. LONGUS, grandwhich was cruising off the northern coast of Sicily son of the preceding, was a distinguished comand Italy, when he was summoned to join his col- mander in the war against the Samnites. He was
league in Italy, in order to oppose Hannibal As consul for the first time, B. C. 337, with P. Aelius
it was now winter, Sempronius feared to sail Paetus; for the second time, in B. C. 323, with Q.
through the Adriatic, and, accordingly, he crossed Aulius Cerretanus; and for the third time, B. C.
over the straits of Messana with his troops, and in 314, with M. Poetelius Libo. In the last year
forty years marched through the whole length of Sulpicius, with his colleague Poetelius, gained a
Italy to Ariminum. From this place he effected a great and decisive victory over the Samnites not
junction with his colleague, who was posted on the far from Caudium but it appears from the Trihills on the left.bank of the Trebia. As Sempronius umphal Fasti that Sulpicius alone triumphed. (Liv.
was eager for an engagement, and Hannibal was viii. 15, 37, ix. 24-27; Diod. xvii. 17, xviii. 26,
no less anxious, a general battle soon ensued, in xix. 73.) It is conjectured from a few letters of
which the Romans were completely defeated, with the Capitoline Fasti, which are mutilated in this
heavy loss, and the two consuls took refuge within year, that Sulpicius was censor in B. C. 319; and
the walls of Placentia. (Liv. xxi. 6, 17, 51-56; we know from the Capitoline Fasti that he was
Polyb. iii. 40, 41, 60-75; Appian, Annib. 6, 7.) dictator in B.c. 312.
Sempronius Longus afterwards commanded in LONGUS, M'. TU'LLIUS, consul, B. C. 500,
Southern Italy, and defeated Hanno [HANNO, with Ser. Sulpicius Camerinus Cornutus in the
No. 15] near Grumentum in Lucania, B. C. 215. tenth year of the republic. For the events of
(Liv. xxiii. 37.) He was decemvir sacris faciun- the year see CAMERINUS, No. 1. Tullius died in
dis, and died B. C. 210. (Liv. xxvii. 6.) his year of office. (Liv. ii. 19; Dionys. v. 52;. 2. TI. SEMPRONIUS TI. F, C. N. LONGUS, son Zonar. vii. 13; Cic. Brut. 16.)
of the preceding, seems to have been elected de- LONGUS, VE'LIUS, a Latin grammarian,
cemvir sacris faciundis in place of his father in B. C. known to us from a treatise De Orthographia, still
210, and likewise augur in the same year, in place extant. He was older than Charisius, who refers
of T. Otacilius Crassus. Livy (xxvii. 6) speaks to his writings twice; first (i. 18. ~ 2) to some
of the augur and decemvir as Ti. Sempronius Tif. work of which the title has not been preserved,
Longus; and though it is rather strange that he and afterwards (ii. 9. ~ 4) to notes on the second
should have obtained the augurate before he had book of the Aeneid. In a third reference (ii. ] 3.
held any of the higher magistracies, yetwe must ~ 149) to certain observations on Lucretius, his
suppose him to be the same as the subject of the name is an interpolation. The commentary on
following notice, since Livy gives his name with Virgil is mentioned by Macrobius (Sat. iii. 6) as if
so much accuracy, and we know of no one else of it were one of the earlier compilations of this class
the same name at this time. Hie was tribune of (hune multi alii oomnmentatores secuti sunt), is nothe plebs B. C. 210, curule aedile B. C. 197, and in ticed by Servius also (Ad Virg. Aen. x. 145), and
the same year one of the triumviri for establishing in the collection of scholiasts upon Virgil published
colonies at Puteoli, Buxentum, and various other by Mai at Milan in 1.818 from a Verona palimpplaces in Italy; praetor B. C. 196, with Sardinia as sest. (Suringar, Hist. Sciloliast. Lat. p. 184.)
his province, which was continued to him another The De Orthographia was brought to light by
year; and consul B. C. 194 with P. Cornelius Scipio George Merula, and published by Fulvius Ursinus
Africanus. In his consulship he assisted as triumvir in his "' Notae ad M. Varronem de Re Rustica,"
in founding the colonies which had been determined 8vo. Rom. 1587. It will be found in the " Gramupon in B. c. 197, and he fought against the Boii maticae Latinae Auctores Antiqui " of Putschius,
with doubtful success. In the year after his con- 4to. Hanov. 1605, p. 2214-2239. [W. R.]
sulship, B. c. 193, he served as legate to the consul LOPHON, one of the statuaries, who made
L. Cornelius Merula,- in his campaign against the "tathletas et armatos et venatores sacrificantesque."