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

LURCO. LUSCINUS. 84.1
-by Pompey to'take the charge of Achaia. (Caes. M. LU'RIUS, praefect of Sardinia, under
B. 0. iii. 55.) He may have been the father Augustus, in B.c.'40, was expelled from that.of Rutilius Lupus, the grammarian, spoken of island by Menas, Sextus Pompey's lieutenant.
below.... Lurius commanded the right wing of the Caesarian
LU'PUS, RUTI'LIUS, is the name attached fleet attthe battle of Actium, B. C. 31. (Dion Cass.
to a rhetorical treatise in two books, entitled De xlviii. 30; Vell. Pat. ii. 85; comp. Plut. Ant. 65,
Pliguris Sententiarum et Elocutionis, which appears 66; Appian, B. C. v..55.) No family of the
to have been originally an abridgement of a work Lurii is known: but there is extant a coin of the
(exrXja &lavoias Kal Ae'Ews), by Gorgias of Athens, m'oneyers of Augustus bearing on its obverse the
one of the preceptors of young M. Cicero, but legend "' P. LURIUS AGRIPPA 1II. VIR. A. A. A. F. F."
which has evidently undergone many changes in (Ursin. Fa. Rom.; Vaillant, "LURII.") [W.B.D.J
the hands of those by whom it was used for the LUSCIE'NUS. [LUCIENUS.]
purposes of instruction. Its chief value is derived LUSCI'NUS, FABRI'CIUS. 1. C. FABRIfrom the numerous translations which it contains civs C. F. C. N. LUscINus, one of the most popular
of striking passages from the works of Greek heroes in the Roman annals, who, like Cincinnatus
orators now lost. At, one time the author of this and Curius, is the' representative of the poverty and
piece was believed to be the person spoken of by honesty of the good old times. He is first menQuintilian as contemporary with himself; but the tioned in B. c. 285 or 284, when he was sent as
reading Tutilium has been substituted for Rutilium ambassador to the Tarentines and other allied
in the passage in question by the best editors, on states, to dissuade them from making war against
the authority of good MSS. and of all the earlier Rome, but he was apprehended by them, while
impressions. Lupus is now generally supposed to, they sent embassies to the Etruscans, Umbrians,
have been the son of P. Rutilius Lupus, mentioned and Gauls, for the purpose of forming a general
above.. coalition against Rome. (Dion Cass. Frag. 144,
The Editio Princeps of the De FiPuris was ed. Reimar.) He'must, however, have been reprinted along with Aquila Romanus by Zoppinus leased soon afterwards, for he was consul in B. c.
at Venice, 8vo. 1M9. It will be found in the 282 with Q. Aemilius Papus. In his consulship
Aniiqui Rihetores Latini of F. Pithou, 4to. Paris, he had to carry on war in Southern Italy against
1599, p. 1; and under its best form, along with the Samnites, Lucanians, and Bruttii. He marched
Aquila and Julius Ruffinianus, in the edition of first to the relief of the town of Thurii, to which
Ruhnken, 8vo. Lug. Bat. 17.68, reprinted, with the Lucanians and Bruttii had laid siege, under
lmany additions, by C. H. Frotscher, 8vo. Leip. the command of Statilius; but on leading out his
1831. (Quintil. iii. 1. ~ 21, ed. Spalding. Ruhn- army against the enemy, his soldiers lost courage
ken, in his preface, has collected every thing at seeing that their forces were much smaller than
known with regard to Lupus. See also Biihr, those of the foe, when suddenly a youth of gigantic
ClGeschichlte der Rnzischlen Litteratur, 3te Ausgabe, stature appeared at their front, carrying a scaling
~ 262.) [W. R.] ladder, with which he began to mount the ramparts
LUPUS, VI'RIUS, governor of Britain in the of the enemy. The youth was discovered to be
-reign of the emperor Alexander Severus, was obliged Mars the Father; and Niebuhr remarks, that this
to purchase peace of the Maeatae, a people bordering narrative is the last episode in Roman history that
upoIn the Caledonians. The name of Virius Lupus belongs to poetry. A great victory, however, was
frequently occurs in inscriptions found in various gained by the Romans; the town of Thurii was
parts of Britain. (Dion Cass. lxxv. 5, with. the relieved, and, the grateful inhabitants erected a
note of Reimarus.) statue to the victorious consul. Fabricius followed
LURCO, M. AUIFID'IUS, tribune of the plebs, up his success by gaining various other victories
in B. c. 61. was the author of the Lex Aidiauwi de over the Lucanians, Bruttians, and Saninites, and
Ambitu, which enacted, among other things, that taking several of their towns; and he obtained so
if a candidate promised and paid money to a tribe much booty, that, after giving up a large portion to
nit the comi'tia, he should pay besides to that tribe the soldiers, and returning to the citizens the
3000 sesterces- yearly during his life: but if he'tribute which they had paid the year before, he
merely proinised and did not pay, he should be brought into the treasury after his triumph more
exempt. (Diet. of Antiq. s. v. A4nmbitus.) This, than 400 talents. (Val. Max. i. 8. ~ 6, Plin.
however, is Cicero's version of the principal clause H. N. xxxiv. 6, s. 15; Dionys. Exc. Leg.. pp.
of the Lex Aufidia, and,:.since it is part of his ac- 2344, 2355, ed. Reiske; Liv. Epit. 12; Niebuhr,
count of a wit-combat between himself and P. Clo- Hist. of Rome, vol. iii. p. 437.)
dius in the senate (ad Att. i. 16), B. C. 61, it is pro- In B. C. 281 Pyrrhus landed at Tarentum, and
bably exaggerated. Three years afterwards B. c. 59, in the following year, B. C. 280, the consul P. ValeLurco was one of the witnesses for the defence at the rius Laevinus was sent against him. Fabricius proimpeachment of L. Valerius Flaccus [L. VALER.IUS bably served under him' as legate, and was thus
~FLACCUS, No. 15], and then it suited Cicero's present at the unfortunate battle of Heracleia, on the'
purpose to call him an honest man and his gobd Siris, where the Romans were defeated by Pyrrhus.
friend (pro Flacc. iv.' 34).. In B. C. 52-1, Lurco The subsequent history of the campaign belongs to
prosecuted and procured the conviction of Sextus the life of Pyrrhus [PYRRHUS]; and it is only
Clodius, for bringing the corpse of P. Clodius into necessary to state here, that after the king of Epeithe Curia Hostilia, and for other acts of violence ras had advanced almost up to the gates of Rome,
(Ascon. in Cic. Milon. p. 55, Orelli). Lurco was he found it necessary to retreat, and eventually
the maternal grandfather of the empress Livia, wife took up his winter-quarters at Tarentum. While
of Augustus. (Suet. Cal. 23.) He was the first stopping in this city, the Romans sent to him an
person in Rohie who fattened peacocks for sale, and embassy, with Fabricius at its head, to negotiate
he derived a large income from this source. (Varr. a ransom or exchange of prisoners. The conduct
R. R. iii. 6(; Plin. H. N. x. 20.) [W. B. D.] of Fabricius on this occasion formed one of the