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1252 VIBIENUS. VIBULANUS.
consul in B.c. 6 with D. Laelius Balbus; and as B. C. 52. (Cic. pro Mil. 14; Ascon. in Mil. p. 33,
he lived to see both his sons consuls, he must have Orelli.)
been alive at least as late as A. D: 28. (Dion Cass. VIBI'LIUS or VIBI'LL1US, king of the HerIv. 9; Vell. Pat. ii. 43.) He was a friend of Vel- munduri, expelled Catualda from his dominions at
leius Paterculus, from whom we learn (l.c.) that the beginning of the reign of Tiberius, and subVetus was a pontifex. sequently united with Vangio and Sido in ex4. C. ANTISTIUS VETUS, son of No. 3, was pelling Vannius, king of the Suevi, from his
consul A. D. 23 with C. Asinius Pollio. (Vell. Pat. country, ill the reign of Claudius. (Tac. Ainn. ii.
ii. 43; Dion Cass. Index, lib. lvii.; Tac. Ann. iv. 63, xii. 29.) [CAT1iALDA; VANNIUS.]
17; Frontin. Aqu,ed. 102.) VI BIUS. 1. VIBIUs ACCUAEUS, apparently
5. I. ANTISTIUS VETUS, son of No. 3, was so called fiom the town of Accua, was a cornconsul suffectls A. D. 28. (Vell. Pat. ii. 43; mander of a Pelignian cohort in the Roman army
Fasti.) in B. C. 212, and distinguished himself by his
6. C. ANTISTIUS VETUS, probably son of No. 4, bravery. (Liv. xxv. 14; Val. Max. iii. 2. ~ 20.)
was consul lnlder Claudius A. D. 50 with M. Sui- 2. VIBIUs, one of the Bruttii, the br.:ther of
lius Nerulinus. (Tac. Ann. xii. 25.) Paccius, B. C. 209. (Liv. xxvii. 15.) [PAccIus,
7. L. ANTISTIUS VETUS, probably also a son No. 2.]
of No. 5, was consul with the emperor Nero in the 3. VIBIus, bore such a striking resemblance to
first year of his reign, A. D. 55. Three years after- Pompeius Magnus, that he was frequently miswards, A. D. 583, Vetus commanded a Roman army takenl for the latter. (Val. Max. ix. 14. ~ 1;
in Germany, and as he had no war to carry on, lie Plil. H. N. vii. 10. s. 12.)
formed the project, ill order that his soldiers might 4. L. VIBuvs, a Roman eques, was magister or
not remain idle; of connecting the Mosella(Moselle) manager of the company, which farmed the cusand the Arar (Saone) by a canal, by which means tomls at Syracuse. (Cic. Verr. ii. 74.)
a water communication would be established be- 5. SEX. VIBITJS, of Larinurn, slain by Oppiatween the Mediterranean and the Northern Ocean, nicus. (Cic. plo- Cluent. 8.)
as troops could be conveyed down the Rhone and 6. VIBIUS CAPPADOX, of Larinum, said to have
the Saone into the Moselle through the canal, and been poisoned by A. Cluentits. (Cic. pr-o Cl/uet.
down the Moselle into the Rhine, and so into the 60.) The cognomen Cappadox is suspicious, but
Ocean. The daughter of Vetus was married to it is found in all the best MSS.
Rubellius Plautus; and when Nero resolved upon 7. VBIcus, from whom Cicero received the books
the death of the latter in A. D. 62, his father-in- of the poet Alexander Lychnus (Cic. ad Att. ii. 20),
law pressed him to take up arms against the em- is probably the same person as Vibius Curius.
peror. [PLAUTUS, p. 411, b.J Plautus was put [CURIUS, p. 904, a.]
to death, but Vetus escaped for a time. Three 8. C. Vibius, one of the accusers of Libo Drusus,
years later, A. D. 65, the tyrant resolved upon his A. D. 16. (Tac. Ann. ii. 30.)
death, and Vetus accordingly anticipated his sen- VI'BIUS, the engraver of a precious stone,
tence by opening his veins in the bath. His namely, a carnelion engraved in intaglio, representmother-in-law Sextia and his daughter Pollutia ing an Othriad, on whose buckler the artist's name
likewise opened their veins and perished along is inscribed thus, VIBIUS F. (Caylus, Recueil, iii.
with him. (Tac. Ann. xiii. 11, 53, xiv. 57, 58, pt. xxi. No. 5, pp. 83, 84; R. Rochette, Lettre a
xvi. 10, 11.) i4. Schorn, p. 158, 2d ed.) [P. S.]
8 C. ANTISTIUS VETUS, consul with C. Man- VI'BIUS CRISPUS. [CRISPUS.]
lius Valens in the last year of the reign of Do- VI'BIIUS CU'RIUS. [Cuvrvs.]
niitian, A. D. 96. (Dion Cass. lxvii. 14.) VI'BIUS FRONTO. [FRONTO.]
9. ANTISTIUS VETUS, consul under Trajan, VI'BIUS MARSUS. [MARs us.]
A. D. 116, with Aelianus. (Fasti.) VI'BIUS PACIACUS. [PACIACUS.]
10. ANTISTIUS VETUS, con1sul under Antoninus VI'BIUS PANSA. [PANsA.]
Pins, A. D. 150, with Gallicanus. (Fasti; Cod. 2. VI'BIUS PO'STUMUS. [PosTvMUS.]
tit. 13. s. 1.) VI'BIUS RUFUS. [RUFUS.]
VIBENNA CAELES or CAE'LIUS. [CAE- VI'BIUS SECUTNDUS. [SECUNDUS.]
LES VIBENNA.] VIFBIUS SEQUESTER. [S.QUESTER.]
VI'BIA GENS, plebeian. No Romans of VI'BIUS SERE'NUS. [SERENUS.]
this name are mentioned till the latter end of the VI'BIUS TREBONIA'NUS. [TREBONIrepublic; but we meet with several persons of the ANUS.]
name among the Italian nations in the second VI'BIUS VARUS. [VARUS.]
Punic war. [See below, VIBIus, Nos. 1, 2; VI'BIUS VI'RRIUS, of Capua, induced his
VIBIUS VaRRIus.] The first of the genls, who countrymen to revolt from the Romans and to
obtained the consulship, was C. Vibius Pansa in espouse the cause of Hannibal after the battle of
B. C. 43; and several Vibii appear inl the Consular Cannae, B. C. 216. When Capua, after its long
Fasti under the empire. Two of the Roman em- siege by the Ronmans, could hold out no longer,
perors, TREBONIANUS GALLUS and VOLUSIANUTS, B. C. 211, Vibius recommended the senators to put
bore the name of Vibius. The coins of the Vibia themselves to death, rather than fall into the powver
gens have on them the surnames of Pansa and of the Romans. Twenty-seven of the senators reVarus. [PANSA; VARUS.] solved to follow his advice, and accompanied him
VIBI'DIA, the eldest of the Vestal virgins, to his house, where after a sumptuous banquet they
besought the emperor Claudius to spare Messalina. all took poison. (Liv. xxiii. 6, xxvi. 13, 14.)
(Tac. Ann. xi. 32, 34.) VIBULA'NUS, the name of the most ancient
VIBI'DIUS VARRO. [VARRO.] family of the Fabia glens. It was so powerful in
C. VIBIE'NUS, a senator, lost his life in the the early times of the republic that three brothers
riots which took place at the burial of Clodius in of the family held the consulship for seven years