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

MATINIUS. MATTHAEUS. 973
in the aedileship, a second celebration of the ple- for a large loan to Matinius, who had advanced it
beian games. Next year, B. C. 205, he was one of in partnership with one M. Scaptius, also a client
the ambassadors sent to Delphi to make an offering of Brutus and a money-lender. As Scaptius was
to the god from the booty obtained by the victory principal in this transaction, it is more fully
over Hannibal; the following year, B. c. 204, he related under SCAPTIIJS. (Cic. ad Att. v. 21, vi.
was elected praetor. He obtained Sicily as his 1, 3.) [W. B. D.]
province, and was ordered by the senate to inquire C. MAITIUS CALVE'NA. [CALVENA.]
into the complaints made by the inhabitants of MATO. [MATHO.]
Locri against P. Scipio. The province was con- MA'TREAS (Mafrpeas), called d 7rAdvos or
tinued to Matho for another year (B. C. 203), and Aae7rAdvos, the Deceiver or Imposter, appears to
he was appointed to the command of the fleet, have been the author of various enigmas or riddles,
which was to protect Sicily, while P. Scipio was one of which is mentioned by Athenaeus and
prosecuting the war in Africa. (Liv. xxviii. 10, Suidas. He also wrote a parody of the Problems
45, xxix. 11, 13, 20-22, xxx. 2, xxxi. 12.) of Aristotle; for such seems to have been the naMATI'DIA, the daughter of Marciana, who ture of the work mentioned by Athenaeus. (Athen.
was the sister of Trajan, was the mother of Sabina, i. p. 19, d, with Schweighaiuser's note; Suidas,
who was married to Hadrian in the lifetime of s. v.) He must have been a different person from
Trajan. We do not know the name of her hus- Matreas or Matron of Pitana. [MATRON.]
band, and we have no particulars of her life. She MATRI/NIUS. 1. T. MATRINIUS, one of
survived Trajan, whose ashes she brought to the those whom C. Marius presented with the Roman
city, along with Plotina, the wife of Trajan (Spart. citizenship, was afterwards accused by L. Antisladr. 5). We learn from coins and inscriptions tius. (Cic.pro Balb. 21.)
that Matidia received the title of Augusta in her 2. C. MATRINIUS, a Roman eques, who had
lifetime, and was enrolled among the gods after her estates in Sicily, was robbed by Verres during his
decease. (Eckhel, vol. vi. p. 469, &c.) absence in Rome. (Cic. Verr. v. 7, comp. iii. 24.)
3. D. MATRINIUS, a writer of the aediles (scriba
-aedilicus) was defended by Cicero, about B. C. 69.
(Cic. pro Cluent. 45.)
-w4\ rii,4 jtX iMATRIS (Mi-rplS), of Thebes, is called dyvo7 ypa'pos by Ptolemy Hephaestion (ap. Phot. Bibl.
p. 148, b. 1, ed. Bekker), and may therefore be
-~~~ ~f ~~-~~''~~~' (y>_ identified with the Matris mentioned by Athenaeus
(x. p. 412, b.) as the author of an encomium upon
Heracles. In another passage (ii. p. 44, d.) AtheCOIN OF MATIDIA. naeus copies from Hephaestion the story of his
MATIE'NUS. 1. P. MATIENUS, a tribune of great abstemiousness, but calls him an Athenian.
the soldiers in the army of P. Scipio in Sicily, was Diodorus Siculus (i. 24) refers to his etymology of
sent by Scipio with M. Sergius, another tribune, the name'HpaKhAir, as if from the hero's gaining
to Q. Pleminius, who commanded as propraetor in his fame (Khtos) on account of Hera. Longinus
Rhegium, to co-operate with him in taking the (~ 3) criticises his inflated style. [P. S.]
town of Locri. After the town had been taken a MATRON (Mdcpwv), of Pitana, a celebrated
quarrel arose between the soldiers of the tribunes writer of parodies upon Homer, often quoted by
and those of Pleminius, and in the fight which en- Eustathius and Athenaeus. (Eustath. ad Horn.
sued the latter were defeated. Pleminius enraged pp. 1067, 1571, &c.; Ath. i. p. 5, a., p. 31, b., xv.
commanded the tribunes to be scourged; but they p. 699, e., &c.) Athenaeus (iv. pp. 134-137 )
were rescued, after receiving a few blows, by their quotes a long fragment from a poem of his, in which
own soldiers, who, in retaliation, fell upon the pro- an Athenian feast was described, beginning
praetor and handled him most unmercifully. Scipio r o
arrived a few days after at Locri, and having in- 7TOAd.
vestigated the case, he acquitted Pleminius of
blame, but ordered the tribunes to be put into He was probably a contemporary of Hegemon of
chains and sent to Rome to the senate. This, how- Thasos, about the end of the fifth and the beginever, did not satisfy Pleminius, who burned for ning of the fourth centuries B. C., but at all events
revenge; and, accordingly, no sooner had Scipio he cannot be placed later than the time of Philip
returned to Sicily, than he commanded the tribunes of Macedon. Athenaeus calls him Marpeas in
to be put to death with the most excruciating tor- some places, but this is clearly an error of the
tures, and then would not allow their corpses to be transcriber. The fragments of his parodies were
buried. (Liv. xxix. 6, 9.) printed by H. Stephens, in the Dissertation on
2. C. MATIENUS, was appointed duumvir navalis Parodies, appended to the Contest of Homer and
with C. Lucretius in B. C. 181, in which year he Hesiod, 1573, 8vo., and in Brunck's Analecta,
took thirty-two of the Ligurian ships. (Liv. xl. vol.-ii. p.245. (Fabric. Bibl. Grec. vol. i. p.550;
26, 28.) G. H. Moser, Ueber Matron den Parodiker, in
3. M. MATIENUS, praetor B. C. 173, obtained Daub and Creuzer's Studien, vol. vi. p. 293; Ulrici,
the province of Further Spain, which he plundered Gesch. d. Hellen. Dichtk. vol. ii. p. 324.) [P. S.]
and oppressed. On his return to Rome he was MATTHAEUS, CANTACUZE'NUS (MaTaccused by the provincials and went into exile at Oaos 6 KavraKov4vYos), co-emperor of Constan.,
Tibur. (Liv. xli. 28, xlii. 1, xliii. 2.) tinople, was the eldest son of John VI., who
P. MATI'NIUS, was a Roman money-broker associated him ih the supreme government in 1359,
who was strongly recommended by M. Brutus with a view of thwarting the schemes of John
to Cicero, when proconsul of Cilicia, in B. C. 51. Palaeologus, who, although then an exile in TeneThe citizens of Salamis in Cyprus, were debtors dos, enjoyed great popularity, and had a fair pro