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

TUDITANUS. TUDITANUS. 1181
2. L. HOSTILIUS TUBULUS, praetor. c. 142, consul B. c. 240 with C. Claudius Centho, and cenreceived bribes in such an open manner, when he sor B. C. 230 with Q. Fabius Maximus. (Gell. xvii.
was presiding at a trial for murder, that in the 21; Cic. Brut. 18, Tusc. i. 1, de Senect. 14; Fasti
following year P. Scaevola, the tribune of the plebs, Capit.)
proposed and carried a plebiscitum for an inquiry 2. P. SEMrrONIus TUDITANUS, was a tribune
into his conduct; whereupon Tubulus forthwith of the soldiers at the battle of Cannae in B. C. 216,
went into exile. Cicero more than once speaks of and one of the few Rtoman officers who survived
him as one of the vilest of men, and quotes a pas- that fatal day. When the smaller of the two
sage of Lucilius, in which the name of Tubulus Roman camps in which he had taken refuge was
occurs as an instance of a sacrilegious wretch. (Cic. besieged by the Carthaginians, he bravely cut his
ad Att. xii. 5. ~ 3, de Fin. ii. 16, iv. 28, v. 22, de way through the enemy with six hundred men,
Nat. Deor. i. 23, iii. 30, pro Scaur. 1.) Accord- reached the larger camp, and from thence marched
ing to Asconius (in Scaur. p. 23, ed. Orelli) Tu- to Canusium, where he arrived in safety. Two
bulus was brought back from exile on account of years afterwards (B. c. 214) Tuditanus was curule
his numerous crimes, and took poison of his own aedile, and in the next year (B. C. 213) praetor,
accord, to escape being put to death in prison. with Ariminum as Iis province. He took the
The following coin was struck by a L. Hostilius town of Aternnrm, and was continued in the same
Tubulus, but it is doubtful whether by the same command for the two following years (B. c. 212,
person as the preceding. It has on the obverse 211). He was censor in B. c. 209 with M. Cornelius
the head of Pallas, and on the reverse a laurel Cethegus, although neither he nor his colleague
wreath with the legend L. H. TVB. (i. e. L. Hosti- had yet held the consulship. In B. C. 205 he was
lius Tubulus), and underneath ROMA. (Eckhel, sent into Greece with the title of proconsul, and at
vol. v. p. 227.) the head of a military and naval force, for the
purpose of opposing Philip, with whom however
he concluded a preliminary treaty, which was
/joy readily ratified by the Romans, who were anxious
to give their undivided atten'tion to the war in
-E Y 1'Q -IAfrica. Tuditanus had, during his absence, been
elected consul for the year 204 together with M.
Cornelius Cethegus, his colleague in the censorship.
lie received Bruttii as his province with the conduct of the war against Hannibal. In the neighCOIN OF L. HOSTILIUS TUBULUS. bourhood of Croton Tuditanus experienced a repulse, with a loss of twelve hundred men; but he
TUCCA, PLO'TIUS, a friend of Horace and shortly afterwards gained a decisive victory over
Virgil. The latter poet left Tucca one of his heirs, Hannibal, who was obliged in consequence to shut
and bequeathed his unfinished writings to him and himself up within the walls of Croton. It was in
Varius, who afterwards published the Aeneid by this battle that he vowed a temple to Fortuna
order of Augustus. (Hor. Sat. i. 5. 40, i. 10. 81; Primigenia, if he should succeed in routing the
Donat. Vit. Virgil. ~~ 52. 53, 56; Schol. ad Pers. enemy. In B. C. 201 Tuditanus was one of the
Sat. ii. 42; Weichert, Po'tarum Latinlorsum Reli- three ambassadors sent to Ptolemy, king of Egypt.
quiae, p. 217, foll.) (Liv. xxii. 50, 60; Appian, Annib. 26; Liv. xxiv.
TUCCA, C. SERVI'LIUS, consul B.C. 284 43, 44, 47, xxv. 3, xxvi. 1, xxvii. 11, 38, xxis.
with L. Caecilius Metellus Denter. (Fasti.) 11, 12; Cic. Brut. 15, de Senect. 4; Liv. xxix. 13,
TU'CCIA, a Vestal Virgin, accused of incest, 36, xxxi. 2.)
appealed to the goddess to prove her innocence, and 3. M. SEMPRONIUS TUDITANUS, one of the
had power given to her to carry a sieve full of water officers of Scipio at the capture of New Carthage
from the Tiber to the temple. (Val. Max. viii. 1. in Spain. (Liv. xxvi. 48.)
absol. 5; Plin. I. N. xxviii. 2; Dionys. ii. 69; AU- 4. C. SEMPRONIUS TUDITANUS, plebeian aedile
gustin. de Civ. Dei, x. 16.) This miracle is comme- B. C. 198 and praetor B. c. 197, when he obtained
morated on an ancient gem, of which an engraving Nearer Spain as his province. Hie was defeated
is given in the Dict. of Antiq. p. 1191, a, 2d ed. by the Spaniards with great loss, and died shortly
TU'CCIUS. 1. M. Tucclus, curule aedile afterwards in consequence of a wound which he
B. C. 192, and praetor B. C. 190, with Apulia and had received in the battle. He was pontifex at
Bruttii as his province, where he also remained the time of his death. (Liv. xxxii. 27, 28, xxxiii.
for the two following years as propraetor. In 25,42; Appian, Hisp. 39.)
B. C. 185 he was one of the triumviri appointed for 5. M. SEMPRONIUS M. F. C. N. TUDITANUS, trifounding colonies at Sipontum and Buxentum. bune of the plebs B. C. 193, proposed and carried a
(Liv. xxxv. 41, xxxvi. 45, xxxvii. 2, 50, xxxviii. plebiscitum, which enacted that the law about
36, xxxix. 23.) money lent should be the same for the Socii and
2. M. TuccIus, accused C. Sempronius Rufus the Latini as for the Roman citizens. (Diet. of
of vis in B. C. 51, and was in his turn accused by Antiq. s. v. Lex &Selnpronia de Fenore.) He was
Rufus of the same offence. (Cael. ap. Cic. ad Farn. praetor B. C. 189, when he obtained Sicily as his
viii. 8.) province, and consul B.c. 185 with Ap. Claudius
TUDITA'NUS, the name of a plebeian family Pulcher. In his consulship he carried on war, in
of the Sempronia gens. The name was supposed Liguria, and defeated the Apuani, while his colby Ateius the philologist to have been originally league was equally successful against the Ingauni.
given to one of the Sempronii, because he had a Tuditanus was an unsuccessful candidate for the
head like a tzldes (tudit-is) or mallet. (Festus, consulship in B. C. 184, but was elected one of the
p. 352, ed. MUller.) pontifices in the following year. He was carried
1. M. SEsIrIsrONIus C. F. M. N. TUDITANUS, Off by the great pestilence which devastated Ronre