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1126 TIGELLINUS. TIGELLINUS.
celebrates the cooptation of Messalinus, the son of jealousy or his avarice against the noblest members
Messala, into the college of the Quinqueviri. But of the senate and the most pliant dependants of
this second book no doubt did not appear till after the court. C. Rubellius Plautus [Vol. II. p. 411],
the death of Tibullus. With it, according to our Cornelius Sulla, Minucius Thermus, and C. Petroconjecture, may have been published the elegies of nius, Nero's master of the ceremonies, were suchis imitator, perhaps his friend and associate in the cessively his victims (Tac. Ann. xiv. 57, xvi. 18),
society of Messala, Lygdamus (if that be a real and he actively promoted the emperor's divorce
name), i. e. the third book: and likewise the from Octavia and his marriage with Poppaea. A. D.
fourth, made up of poems belonging, as it were, to 63. (Tac. Ann. xiv. 60-64; Dion Cass. lxii. 13.)
this intimate society of Messala, the Panegyric by In A. D. 65, Tigellinus entertained Nero in his
some nameless author, which, feeble as it is, seems Aemilian gardens, with a sumptuous profligacy
to be of that age; the poems in the name of Sul- unsurpassed even in that age, and in the same
picia, with the concluding one, the thirteenth, a year shared with him the odium of burning Rome,
fragment of Tibullus himself. since the conflagration had broken out on the scene
I. The first edition of Tibullus, with Catullus, of the banquet. (Tac. Ann. xv. 37-40; Dion
Propertius, and the Silvae of Statius, 4to. maj., was Cass. lxii. 15.) In the prosecutions that followed
printed at Venice by Vindelin de Spira, 1472. the discovery of Piso's conspiracy ill the following
II. The second, likewise, of these four authors year, Nero found in Tigellinus an able and merat Venice, by John de Colonia, 1475. ciless agent for his revenge. Tigellinus attached
III. The first of Tibullus, with only the Epistle himself to Poppaea's faction, and it was said comof Ovid from Sappho to Phaon, by Florentius de monly in Rome, that the imperial privy-council
Argentina, Venice (?) about 1472. (Tac. Ann. xv. 61) contained only three members,
IV. Schweiger mentions two other very early the praetorian prefect, Nero and his wife. The
editions. cruelty and rapacity of Tigellinus filled all ranks
V. Opus Tibulli Albii cum Commentariis Ber- with dismay. "Pone Tigellinum," says Juvenal
nardini Cyllenii Veronensis, Romae, 1475. (i. 155) using his name proverbially, and the
Of modern editions, that (VI.) of Vulpius, VII. stake and faggot will be your portion. Annlaells
that of Brookhusius, were surpassed by the VIII. Mela, the younger brother of Seneca the philoTibullus a Heyne, 1st ed. Lipsiae, 1755. The sopher, was one only of many persons who besecond and third improved editions, 1777-1798. queathed a large share of his property to TigelIX. Albius Tibullus et Lygdamus, a J. U. Voss. linus and his son-in-law, Cossutianus Capito, that
Heidelberg, 1811. the residue might be secured to the rightful heirs
X. Albii Tibulli Libri IV. ex recensione Caroli (Tac. Ann. xvi. 17; Dion Cass. lxii. 27), and those
Lachmann. Berolini, 1829. who escaped from the real or imputed guilt of
XI. Albii Tribulli Carmina ex recensione Car. conspiring with Piso owed their exemption, not to
Lachmanni passim mutata. Explicuit Ludolphus their innocence, but to their bribes. (Dion Cass.
Dissenus. Gbttingen, 1835. ib. 28). It was probably about this time that
We have selected these last from several other Apollonius of Tyana was brought before Tigellinus
modern editions published in Germany. [H.H.M.] on a charge of having traduced the emperor. But
L. TIBU'RTIUS, a centurion in the civil war the philosopher managed to impress his judge with
B. C. 48. (Caes. B. C. iii. 19.) such a dread of his supernatural powers that he
TICHOINIUS. [TvCHONIUS.] was dismissed unharmed. (Philostr. Ap. Tyan. iv.
L. TI'CIDA, one of Caesar's officers, was taken 42-44.) The history of Tigellinus is so inwoven
prisoner along with Q. Cominius in B. c. 46. (Hirt. with that of his master, that we may refer to the
B. Afr. 44, 46.) [COMINIUS, No. 7.] life of Nero and briefly add, that the minister preTI'CIDA, a Roman poet, who wrote epigrams sided at the emperor's nuptials with Sporus, that
in which he spoke of his mistress under a fictitious he accompanied him to Greece, and distinguished
name. (Ov. Trist. ii. 432; Suet. Grcnamns. 11.) himself every where by his venality, his shameP. TICI'NIUS MENA, was the first person lessness, and his rapacity. (Tac. Ann. xv. 59;
who introduced barbers into Italy from Sicily in Dion Cass. lxiii. 11, 12, 13.) He encouraged Nero
the 454th year after the foundation of the city. to degrade the imperial dignity as a public singer
(Varr. R. R. ii. 11. ~ 10; Plin. H. N. vii. 59.) on the stage, and contributed to his downfal as
TIGELLI'NUS, SOPHO'NIUS, the son of a much by his own unpopularity as by pampering
native of Agrigentum, owed his rise from poverty his master's vices. (Dion Cass. ib. 21.) Tigeland obscurity to his handsome person and his un- linus returned to Rome in A. D. 68, and shortly
scrupulous character. He was banished to Scylta- afterwards Nero was dethroned by the indignant
ceum (Squillace) in Bruttii (A. D. 39-40), for an legions and the long-suffering senate and people.
intrigue with Agrippina [AGRIPPINA, No. 2] and In his deepest distress (Suet. Ner. 48) the emJulia Livilla [JuLIA, No. 8], sisters of Caligula, peror retained some faithful adherents, but Tigelliand respectively the wives of L. Domitius Ahe- nus was not of the number. He joined with
nobarbus [No. 10] and M. Vinucius, cos. A. n. Nymphidius Sabinus, who had succeeded Fenius
30. (Vet. Schol. in Jiu. i. 155; Dion Cass. Rufus as praetorian prefect, in transferring the
lix. 23.) allegiance of the soldiers to Galba. By large
Tigellinus was probably among the exiles restored bribes to T. Vinius, Galba's freedman, and to
by Agrippina, after she became empress, since early Vinius's daughter he purchased a reprieve from
in Nero's reign he was again in favour at court, and the sentence which, on all occasions, the Roman
on the death of Burrus (A.D. 63) was appointed prae- people clamorously demanded, and he even obtained
torian prefect jointly with Fenius Rufus. (Tac. Ann. from Galba a decree rebuking the populace for
xiv. 48, 51.) Tigellinus ministered to Nero's worst their petition, and informing them that Tigellinus
passions, and of all his favourites was the most was sinking rapidly under consumption. On the
obnoxious to the Roman people. I-Ie inflamed his atcession of Otho, however, in January, A. D. 70.