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the figures of animals (,/IpLa) with which they De suas Virtutibus contra Thermnum, which is cited
were adorned: vases thus decorated are frequently by Festus (pp. 182, 234), and other grammarians.
referred to by ancient authors, and numerous spe- Meyer (Ibid. p. 45, foll.) supposes that Cato accimens of them have been discovered. It is quite cused Thermus in B. C. 189, and that this oration
impossible, within the limits of this article, to state was spoken in this year; but this is improbable,
even the leading arguments on the two sides of as we know that Thermus served under Scipio
the question; and no opinion ought to be expressed Asiaticus in this year in the war against Antiochus.
upon it without a pretty full statement of the rea- He and his brother Lucius were sent by Scipio to
sons for the conclusions come to. We must, there- receive the oath of Antiochus to the treaty which
fore, be content to refer readers, who are curious in was concluded at the end of the war. In the
such archaeological minutiae, to the treatises above course of the same year he was nominated by the
mentioned, only adding an important observation senate one of the ten commissioners to settle the
made by another great scholar upon Welcker's affairs of Asia. He was killed in the following
arguments -' Welckerus iis usus est argumentis, year, B. c. 188, while fighting under Cn. Manlius
quae, ut mihi quidem videtur, labefactari possunt Vulso against the Thracians. (Appian, Syr. 39;
tantum non onlia." (Meineke, Fray. Coin. Graec. Polyb. xxii. 26; Liv. xxxvii. 55, xxxviii. 41, 46.)
vol. iii. p. 221.) [P. S.] 2. L. MINucius THERMUS, brother of the preTHERI'MACHUS (~ijpipAaXos), was the Spar- ceding, served under Scipio Asiaticus, and along
tan harnlost at Methymna in Lesbos, when the with his brother received the oath of Antiochus to
city was attacked by Thrasybulus, the Athenian, the treaty concluded in B. c. 189. In B. c. 178 he
in B. C. 390. Therimachus gave battle to the served as legatus under the consul A. Manlius
enemy, and was defeated and slain. These events Vulso, in Istria. (Polyb. xxii. 26; Liv. xli. 8.)
are placed by Diodortus in B. c. 392. (Xen. Hell. 3. MINucius THERMUS, accompanied the conv. 8. ~~ 28, 29; Diod. xiv. 94.) [E. E.] sul L. Valerius Flaccus into Asia, in B. c. 86, and
THERI'MACHUS, a painter and statuary, was there left by him in command of the troops
flourished at 01. 107, B. c. 352, with Echion, who in the following year. He was, however, deprived
also practised both arts. No works of his are of the command by Fimbria shortly afterwards.
mentioned. (Plin. II. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 19, xxxv. (Appian, ll/lit/r. 52; Dion Cass. Fraym. 129, p.
10. s. 36. ~ 9.) [P. S.] 52. 31, ed. Reimar.)
THERMUS, MINU'CIUS. 1. Q. MINcIvs s 4. M. MINUCiUS THERMUS, propraetor ill B. c.
Q. F. L. N. THERMUS (Fasti Capit.), served under 81, accompanied L. Murena, Sulla's legate, into
Scipio as tribunus militum in the war against Han- Asia. Thernius was engaged in the siege of Mynibal in Afica inn B. c. 202, was tribune of the plebs tilene, and it was under him that Julius Caesar
B. C. 201, curmue aedile B. c. 197, and in the same served his first campaign, and gained his first
year was appointed one of the triumviri for found- laturels (Suet. Cacs. 2). [CAESAR, p. 539, b.].
ing six colonies on the coast of Italy (Appian, Pun. This Thermus has frequently been confounded
36, 44; Liv. xxx. 40, xxxii. 27, 29, xxxiv. 45). with No. 3; but it must be observed that they
In the following year, B. C. 196, he was praetor, were in Asia at different times, and moreover that
and received the province of Nearer Spain, where No. 3 must have been an adherent of Marius,
lie carried onl the war with great success, and re- while No. 4 belonged to Sulla's party. (Comp.
ceived in consequence the honour of a triumph on Drumann, Geschiichle Romns, vol. iii. p. 132, note
his return to Rome in B. C. 195 (Liv. xxxiii. 24, 96.)
26, 44, xxxiv. 10; Appian, Hisp. 39). In B. C. 5. A. MINUCIUS THERMUS, was twice defended
193 he was consul with L. Cornelius Merula. He by Cicero ill B. c. 59, and on each occasion acobtained Liguria as his province, where a for- quitted. It is not stated of what crime he was
Imidable insurrection had just broken out. He accused. (Cic. pro Flacc. 39; comip. Druinann,
made Pisae his head-quarters, and carried on the Geschichlte Rows, vol. v. p. 619.) As Cicero says
war with vigour; but in consequence of his in- that the acquittal of Thermus caused great joy
feriority to the enemy in numbers, he was obliged among the Roman people, we may conclude that
to remain (In the defensive and was twice in he had previously filled some public office, and
great peril during the camipaign. In the follow- thus he may be the same as the Thermus who,
ing year B. C. 192, his imperium was prolonged, when curator vise Flaminiae, sued for the consuland he received additional troops, by means of ship in B. c. 65. (Cic. ad Att. i. 1.)
which he was able to assume the offensive, and to 6. Q. MIN UCIUS THERMUS, was propraetor B. C.
gain a decisive victory over the Ligurians. Next 51 and 50 in Asia, where he received many letters
year his imperium was again prolonged, and he from Cicero, who praises his administration of the
tgain gained a victory over the Ligurians, who had province (ad Faol. xiii. 53-57, comp. ad Att. v.
made an unexpected attack upon his camp in the 13, 20, 21. ~ 14, vi. 1. ~ 13). On the breaking
night. He returned to Rome in B. C. 190, and out of the civil war he espoused the side of Pomsued for a triumph, but it was refused him, chiefly pey, and was sent with five cohorts to occupy
through the influence of M. Cato, who delivered Iguvium; but on the approach of Culio with three
on the occasion his two orations intitled De decemn cohorts, he fled from the town. In B. C. 43 he was
Nlonzinibus and De falsis Pugnis. Cato accused him sent by M. Lepidus as ambassador to Sex. Pomof having unjustly put to death ten freemen in his peius. He appears afterwards to have followed the
province, and of having in his petition for the fortunes of Sex. Pompeius, for he is mentioned
triumph invented many false battles, and exag- among the distinguished adherents of Ponipeius,
gerated the number of the enemy that had been who deserted the latter in B. c. 3-5, and went
slain (Liv. xxxiv. 54, 55, xxxv. 3, 11, 20, 21, over to Antonius. (Caes. B. C. i. 12; Cic. ad Att.
xxxvi. 38, xxxviii. 46; Gell. x. 3, xiii. 24; Meyer, vii. 13, Phil. xiii. 6; Appian, B. C. v. 139.)
Oratorutn Romanorumn Fragmenta, pp. 40-44, 7. MINUCIUS THERMUS, was a friend of Se2d ed.). There was also an oration of Cato intitled janus, and on the fall of the latter was put to