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tiedida, Paraterusa, Philopator, Tlirasyleon, Veli- LIVS Q. F. Q. N. TURRINUS, consul B. C. 239 with
terna (?) have been preserved, together with a few Q. Valerius Falto. (Fasti Capit.; Gell. xvii. 21,
fragments which will be found collected in the 43, where the reading is C. Manilius.)
Poetarum Latii Scenicorum Fragmenta of Bothe, 2. Q. MAMILIUS TURRINUS, plebeian aedile
vol. ii. p. 76. 8vo. Lips. 1834. Of the above, the B.C. 207 and praetor B. c. 206, obtained by lot the
Thrasyleon appears to have been taken from Me- jurisdictio peregrina, but was sent by the senate
nander, the Demetrius and the Leucadia from into Gaul. (Liv. xxviii. 10.)
Alexis. According to Hieronymus, in the Euse- TURRUS or THURRUS, one of the most
bian Chronicle, Turpilius died, when very old, at powerful of the Celtiberian chiefs conquered by
Sinuessa in B. C. 101. He stands seventh in the Gracchus in B. c. 179, became a faithful ally of the
scale of Volcatius Sedigitus. [SEDIGITUS.] [W.R.] Romans. (Liv. xl. 49.)
TURPI'LIUS S1LA'NUS. [SILANUS.] L. TURSE'LIUS, made M. Antonius his heir,
TU'RPIO, L. AMBI'VIUS, a very celebrated disinheriting his own brother. (Cic. Phil. ii. 16.)
actor in the time of Terence, in most of whose P. TURUILIUS or TURU'LLIUS, one of
plays he acted. (Didascaliae Terentianae; Cic. de Caesar's assassins, was quaestor of Cassius LongiSen. 14; Tac. Dial. de Orat. 14; Symmach. Ep. i. nus in B. c. 43, and received the command of the
25, x. 2.) fleet which had been raised by Tillius Cimber in
TU'RPIO, ANTI'STIUS, fought in single Bithynia. After the battle of Philippi, in B. C. 42,
combat Q. Pompeius Niger in the Spanish war in Turulius joined Cassius Parmensis, and subseB. C. 45. (Auctor, B. Ilisp. 25.) quently took refuge with Antony, with whom he
TU'RPIO, NAE'VIUS. [NAEvIus, No. 7.] lived on intimate terms. In order to please OctaTURRA'NIUS or TURA'NIUS. 1. D. TUR- vian, Turulius was surrendered to him by Antony
RANIUS NIGER, a friend of Varro, to whom the after the battle of Actium, and was put to death
latter dedicated the second book of his work De Re by order of Octavian in the island of Cos that he
Rustica. He was also a friend of Q. Cicero, whom might appear to offer satisfaction to Aesculapius, the
he accompanied to Cilicia, when Quintus went trees of whose sacred grove he had previously cut
there as the legatus of his brother Marcus. (Varr. down for the use of Antony's navy. (Cic. ad Fam.
R. R. ii. Praef.; Cic. ad Att. i. 6, vi. 9, vii. 1; in xii. 13; Appian, B. C. v. 2; Dion Cass. li. 8;
one of these passages the name is written Turan- Val. Max. i. 1. ~ 19.)
nius.) He is perhaps the same as the writer Tur- TURU'LLIUS CERIA/LIS, a primipilaris in
ranius Gracilis, quoted by the elder Pliny. [GRA- A. D. 69. (Tac. Hist. ii. 22.)
CILIS.] TUSCE'NIIIS, an obscure person, whom Q.
2. M'. TURRANIUS, praetor B. C. 44, refused a Cicero compelled in B. C. 60 to disgorge some -disprovince which was offered him by Antony, and honest gains. (Cic. ad Q. Fr. i. 1. ~ 6, i. 2. ~ 2.)
is therefore called by Cicero "homo summa inte- TUSCIA'NUS (TovacLavds), of Lydia, a disgritate atque innocentia." (Cic. Phil. iii. 10.) tinguished rhetorician in the fourth century of the
3. TURRANIUS, a tragic poet mentioned by Christian aera. (Eunap. Jul. p. 95, Proacr. p. 111;
Ovid (ex Pont. iv. 16. 29). Suidas, s. v.)
4. C. TURRANIUS, praefectus annonae at the TUSCI'LIUS NOMINA'TUS, an orator and
death of Augustus, A. D. 14, was one of the first a contemporary of the younger Pliny, who mento swear allegiance to Tiberius upon his accession. tions him in his correspondence (Ep. v. 4, 14).
He continued to hold this office till the reign of TUSCUS, C. AQUI'LLIUS, consul B. C. 487
Claudius, for he is spoken of as praefectus rei fru- with T. Sicinius Sabinus, carried on war against
mentariae in A. D. 48. (Tac. Ann. i. 7, xi. 31.) the Hernici, whom he defeated, and obtained in
5. TURRANIUS RUFINUS. [RUFINUS, No. 1.] consequence an ovation or lesser triumph. (Fasti
TURRIA'NUS, a Volscian of Fregellae, was Capit.; Iliv. ii. 40; Dionys. viii. 64, 65, 67.)
an eminent statuary in clay, in the early Etruscan TUSCUS, CAECI'NA. [CAECINA, No. 8.]
period, and the maker of a statue of Jupiter, which TUSCUS, CLO'DIUS, to whom Asinius Capito
was dedicated by Tarquinius Priscus, and which wrote a letter, which is quoted by Gellius (v.
was painted with vermilion on great festivals. 20).
This is according to the common text of Pliny TUSCUS, CORNEILIUS, an historian, and
(H. Nr. xxxv. 12. s. 45); but the reading is so very described by Seneca as a man " quam improbi
doubtful, and the critical discussion of it so com- animi, tam infelicis ingenii," accused Mamercus
plicated, with so very little hope of a satisfactory Aemilius Scaurus of majestas in A. D. 34. (Senec.
result, that we must be content to refer the reader Suas. 2, sub fin.; Tac. Ann. vi. 29.)
to the following works, in which the question is TUSCUS, FABRI'CIUS, a Roman writer, of
treated at length. (Sillig's Pliny, 1. c., and Jan's whom nothing is known except that he was used
Supplement; Sillig,' Catal. Artif. Append. s. v.; by Pliny in drawing up his Natural History (Index,
Jan, in the Jen. Litt. Zeitung, 1838, p. 258; lib. iii. foll.).
Kunstblatt, 1832, No. 49, 1833, No. 51; Miiller, TUTELI'NA, an agricultural divinity among
Etrusker, vol. ii. p. 246, and Archiaol. d. Kunst, the Romans, or, perhaps, rather an attribute of
~ 171, ed. Welcker.) [P. S.] Ops, by which she is described as the goddess
TURRI'NUS, CLO'DIUS, the name of two protecting the fruits which have been brought in
rhetoricians, fatherland son, spoken of with praise at the harvest time from the fields. Tutelina, Secia
by the elder Seneca, who gives a short account of and Messia had three pillars with altars before
them. The elder by his eloquence obtained wealth them in the Circus. (August. De Civ. Dei,'iv. 8;
and honour, and held an important public office in Macrob. Sat. i. 16; Plin. H. N. xviii. 2; Varro, De
Spain. The son was an intimate friend of Seneca. Ling. Lat. v. 74.) [L. S.]
(Senec. Controv. v. Praef. p. 333, ed. Bip., Suas. 2, TUTICA'NUS, a friend of Ovid, who addressed'Contr. 30-35.) to him one of his extant epistles from Pontus (iv.
TURRI'NUS, MAMI'LIUS. 1. C. MAMI- 12). Tuticanus had made a free translation into