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book of Topica, which he wrote to explain to him Tetricus, if we can believe the concurring testimony
this book of Aristotle. The lawyer had turned it of Pollio, Victor, and Eutropius, harassed and
over in Cicero's library at Tusculum, but he found alarmed by the insolence and factious spirit of his
that it was too difficult for him (Topica, c. 1, ad troops, privately invited the new sovereign to reFam. vii. 19), and he asked Cicero for an explana- lieve him from a load which he found intolerable,
tion. Trebatius enjoyed considerable reputation and betrayed his army to defeat at the great battle
under Augustus as a lawyer, and he was one of of Chalons. [AURELIANUS.] It is certain that
those whom Augustus consulted as to the giving a although Tetricus, along with his son, in the guise
legal effect to codicilli. Trebatius advised that of captives, graced the triumph of the conqueror,
these informal testamentary dispositions should be he was immediately afterwards treated with the
allowed to have legal effect: he said " that it was greatest distinction, appointed corrector of the
very useful and necessary for the Roman citizens whole of Italy, and even addressed by Aurelian as
that this should be so, on account of the long comrade, colleague, and imperator. Retiring subjourneys which people often took, during which, if sequently into private life, he died at a very ada man could not make his testament, he might yet vanced age.
make codicilli" (Inst. 2, tit. 25, De Codicillis). Ho- (Every circumstance connected with the history
race addressed to Trebatius the first Satire of the of Tetricus has been collected and arranged, with
Second Book. great industry and learning, by De Boze, in a disTrebatiuswas the master of Labeo, who, however, sertation contained in the Mimoires de l'Academie
often differs from him in opinion (Dig. 16. tit. 3. s. 1. de Sciences et Belles Leltres, vol. xxvi. p. 504; see
~ 41; 1 8. tit. 6. s. 1. ~ 2). In the passage last referred Trebell. Poll. Trig. Tyrann. xxiii.; Aurel. Vict. de
to, the opinion of Labeo is decidedly right, and that Caes. xxxv., Epit. xxxv.; Eutrop. ix. 9; Zonar.
of Trebatius as clearly wrong. Ile wrote some xii. 27.) [W. R.]
books (libri) De jure Civili, and nine books De
Rueligionibuis (Porphyrius, ad florat. Sat. ii. 1); but
Macrobius (Sat. iii. 3) quotes the tenth book Religionum. Trebatius is often cited in the Digest,
but there is no direct excerpt from his writings.
Pomponius speaks of several works of Trebatius
being extant in his time, but he adds that his
writings were not in great repute. His grammatical knowledge of his own language was ridiculously defective, for he said that Sacellum was COIN OF TETRICUS SENIOR.
composed of two words, sacrum and cella, a blunder
which Gellius corrects (vi. 6). TE'TRICUS, C. PESU'VIUS PIVE SUS,
The letters of Cicero to Trebatius are con- twenty-fourth on the list of Pollio, son of the pretained among those ad Famliliares (vii. 6 —22). ceding, although a child at the time of his father's
(Grotius, Vitae Jurisconsult.; Zimumern, Geschichte elevation, was forthwith proclaimed Caesar. Whedes Ronm. Privatsreclts, i. p. 297.) [G. L.] ther he subsequently received the title of Augustus
TETHYS (TpOihs), a daughter of Uranus and is a matter of doubt, since the evidence afforded
CGaea, and wife of Oceanus, by whom she was con- by medals, our surest guide in such matters, is in
ceived to be the mother of the Oceanides and the the present instance indistinct and contradictory.
numerous river-gods. She also educated Hera, lie shared the favour displayed towards his father
who was brought to her by Rhea. (Hes. Theog. by Aurelian, was treated with distinction by the
136, 337; Apollod. i. 1. ~ 3; Plat. Tim. p. 40; princes who followed, and passed with credit
Ov. Fast. v. 81; Virg. Georg. i. 31.) [L. S.] through all the grades of Senatorian rank, transTE'TRICtJS, C. PESU'VIUS, one of the mitting his patrimony, undiminished, to his heirs.
thirty tyrants enumerated by Trebellius Pollio The house of the Tetrici, on the Caelian hill, was
[AusEtoLus], was the last of the pretenders who still in existence when Pollio wrote, and contained a
ruled Gaul during its temporary separation from picture in which Aurelian was represented in the
the empire under Gallienus and his successor. He act of investing the father and son with senatorial
was of noble descent, a senator, a consular, and robes, receiving from them, in rcturn, a sceptre and
praefect of Aquitania at the period when, after the civic crown.
death of Postumus, of Laelianus, of Victorinus, We have given, above, the names of these two
and of Marius, in rapid succession, the supreme personages as exhibited by Eckhel. The family
power devolved on the popular Victoria, who, designation Pesuvius or Pesubius seems established,
feeling unable or unwilling to undertake a task so beyond a question, by coins and inscriptions, but
onerous and so fraught with danger, persuaded the we cannot so readily admit Pivesus, which Eckhel
soldiers to accept of her kinsman Tetricus as their supposes to have been derived by the son from a
ruler, and he was accordingly invested with the mother Pivesa. In the first place, Pesuvius and
purple at Bordeaux, in A. D. 267. Claudius Gothicus found his attention and resources so fully occupied by the wild tribes on the Danube and the /a\
coasts of the Euxine, that he considered it impolitic to commence hostilities against a chief who'
maintained tranquillity and order throughout the
limits of France and Spain, and kept at bay the,x
barbarians on the Rhenish frontier; indeed, we
mray conclude from medals, that he not merely
tolerated, but acknowledged the authority of his
rival. Upon the accession of Aurelian, however, COIN OF TETRICUS JUNIOR.
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