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

840 LUPUS.'LUPUS.
was defeated and driven into Vetera Castra, the a man named Curtisius attempted to excite an inlfortifications of which he repaired, and where he surrection among the slaves. Lupus, with the aid.
maintained himself bravely against the insurgents, of the crews of three vessels which happened to
till his'soldiers, starving and dispirited, and solicited arrive, suppressed the movement. (Tac. Ann. iv.
by the emissaries of Classicus, surrendered to 27.) [C. P. M.]
Civilis, A. D. 69-70. [CIVILIS; CLASSICUS.] LUPUS, JU'NIUS, a Roman senator, who
Lupercus was sent among the presents to the Ger- brought a charge of treason against L. Vitellius, the'man prophetess Veleda, who had predicted the father of A. Vitellius, for the way in which he
~success of the insurgents; but he was killed on abetted Agrippina in her irregularities. But the
the journey. (Tac. Hist. iv. 18, 22, 23, 61.) [P.S.] emperor yielded to' the threats or entreaties of
LUPUS, bishop of Troyes, hence surnamed Agrippina, and Lupus was banished, A. D. 51.
-Trecensis, whose praises are loudly proclaimed by (Tac. Ann. xii. 42.) - [C. P. M.]'Sidonius Apollinaris, was born at Toul towards LUPUS, NUMI'SIUS, was commander of
the close of the fourth century. By'descent and one of the three legions (the eighth) stationed in,marriage he was allied to the most distinguished the province of Moesia. A decisive victory having
ecclesiastics of the age and country to which he been gained over the Rhoxolani, a Sarmatian tribe,
belonged, for his mother was sister of St. Germanus, who invaded the province, Lupus and his fellowbishop of Auxerre, his brother Vincentius is by commanders received the insignia of consuls, A. D.
-many believed to be the celebrated Vincentius 69. (Tac. Hist. i. 79, iii. 10.) [C. P. M.]
Lirinensis, and he wedded in A. D. 419 Pimeniola, LUPUS, RUTI'LIUS. 1. P. RUTILIUS, L.
sister of Hilarius, bishop of Arles. Being seized F. L. N. LvPvs, consul, with L. Julius Caesar, in
with the prevailing passion for a life of solitary B. C. 90, the year in which the Social or Marsic
contemplation, he quitted the world, and entered war broke out. [CAESAR, No. 9.] While his
-the monastery of Lerins, from whence he was colleague was engaged against the Samnites, Lupus
summoned'in 427, to preside over the see of Troyes. was to prosecute the war against the Marsi. He:Two years afterwards he was thought worthy of had chosen' as his legate Marius, who was his re-;being associated with his uncle in a mission to lation, but he refused to listen to the advice of the
Britain, for the purpose of arresting the progress of' veteran, who recommended him to accustom his
the Arian heresy in that island. Lupus returned soldiers to a little more training before he ventured
-to his native country in 430, and died in 479, to fight a battle. The enemy had taken up their
after having occupied the episcopal chair for a position on the Liris under the command of Vettins
space of fifty-two years. Scato.'Lupus'divided his army into two bodies,
Two letters of this prelate are still extant:- one under his own command and the other under
I. The first written later than 443, jointly with that of Marius, and threw two bridges across the
Euphronius, bishop of Autun, is entitled Epistola river without experiencing any opposition from the
ad Talasium Episcopumn Andegavensern (of Angers) enemy. Vettius Scato, with the'main body of his
de Vigiliis Natalis Domini, Epiphaniae et PascIaee; forces, encamped opposite Marius, but during the
de Biganmis; de iis qui conzjugati assumuntur. First night' he concealed a strong detachment in some
-published by Sirmond in the Concilia Galliae,- fol. broken ground near the bridge of Lupus. AccordParis, 1629, vol. i. p. 122. ingly, when Lupus crossed the river on the folII. Ad Sidoniu'n, Apollinarem, written in 471, lowing day, he was attacked by the troops in amto congratulate him on his appointment to the see bush; lost 8000 of his men, and died shortly
of Clermnont in Auvergne. First published by the afterwards of a wound which he had received in
Benedictine D'Achery in his Spicilegiurn veterum the battle. Marius was first informed of the
aliquot Scr-iptorum, 4to. Paris, 1661, vol. v. p. 579, calamity by the dead bodies of the Romans which
or vol. iii. p. 302, of the 2nd edit. fol. 1717. Both floated down the river. The battle was fought on
will be found under their best form in the Biblio- the festival of the Matralia, the 11th of June. (Ov.'tieca Patrum of Galland, vol. ix. p. 576, fol.Venet. Fast. vi. 563.) No consul was elected to supply
-1773; see also Prolegoinena, c. xviii. (Sidon. the place of Lupus, as his colleague was unable to
Apollin. Ep. vi. 4, 9, ix. 11; Schionemann, Bibliot/. come to Rome to hold the comitia. (Appian, B. C.
Pat'runs Latt. vol. ii. ~ 29; Bihr, Gesckzichlte der i. 40, 43; Oros.- v. 18; Vell. Pat. ii. 15,16; Liv..Rsi. Iitterat. Suppl. Band. ~ 151.) [W. R.] Epit. 73; Plin. H. N. ii. 29, s. 30; Flor. iii. 18;
LUP US, a friend of Cicero and Brutus, who is Obsequ. 1] 15 Cic. pro Font. 15.)
mentioned more than once in Cicero's letters. (Ad 2. P. RUTILIUS LUPUS, probably son of the
Farn. xi. 5, 6, 7, 12, 25.) He frequently carried preceding, tribune of the plebs, B. c. 56, was a very
messages:and letters from the one to the other. warm partisan of the aristocracy. Immediately
Whether he is identical with either of the Rutilii after entering upon his office in the December of
or Cornelii is uncertain. [C. P. M.]' the preceding year, he proposed the repeal of the
LUPUS, artists. 1. A gem-engraver, whose agrarian law of Caesar; and he also took an active'name appears on a gem in the Berlin Museum. part in the disputes relating to the restoration of
(Stosch. vi. 26). Ptolemy Auletes to Egypt. (Cic. ad Qu. Fr. ii.
2. C. SEVIUS LUPUS, all architect, known from 1, ad Fam. i. 1, 2.) He was praetor in B. c.'49,
an inscription in Gruter (p. 57. 7). [P. S.] and was stationed at Tarracina with' three cohorts,
LUPUS, CORNE'LIUS LENTULUS, con- but he was deserted by his men as soon as they
sul in B. C. 156. [LENTULUS, No. 13.] saw Caesar's cavalry approaching. Instead, howLUPUS, CU'RTIUS, was quaestor in A.D. ever, of hastening to Brundisium to join Pompey,
24. Lipsius supposes that he was one of the four he returned to Rome, and administered justice
quaestoresprovinciales, having a province where his there for a short time, but must have quitted the
head-quarters were at Cales. Others suppose that city before Caesar's arrival.'(Caes. B. C. i. 24;
he was inspector of the roads and forests (ca/les). Cic. ad Att. viii. 12, A. ~ 4, ix. 1. ~ 2.) Shortly
While he was in the neighbourhood of Brundisium afterwards he crossed over to Greece, and was sent