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12832 VOLUMNIUS, VOLUSIUS.
dernned. The patricians in revenge charged Vol- 4. VOLUMNITIS, or more correctly VOLNIUS, the
scius with falsehood; and in B. c. 459 the quaestors author of some Tuscan tragedies. [VOLNIUS.]
accused him before the comitia of the curiae or 5. P. VOLUMNIUS, described by Plutarch as a
the centuries, of having borne false witness against philosopher, accompanied M. Brutus in his camKaeso, but the tribunes prevented them from pro- paign against the triumvirs, and wrote an account
secuting the charge. In the following year, B. C. of the prodigies which appeared before the death
458, L. Cincinnatus, the father of Kaeso, was ap- of Brutus, probably in a life of the latter. (Plut.
pointed dictator, and presided in the comitia for Brut. 48.)
the trial of Volscius. The tribunes dared not 6. VOLUMNIUS EUTRAPELTS. [EUTRAPEoffer any further opposition, and Volscius was LUS.]
obliged to go into exile. (Liv. iii. 13, 24, 25, 29; VOLU'PIA, the personification of sensual
Dionys. x. 7; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. pleasure among the Romans, who was honoured
pp. 289, 298.) with a temple near the porta Romanula. (Plin.
VOLTEIA GENS, known chiefly from coins, Epist. viii. 20, H. N. iii. 5; Varro, De Ling. Lat.
of which we have a considerable number. Some v. 164; Macrob. Sat. i. 10; August. De Civ. Dei,
bear the name of L. VOLTEIUS STRABO [STRABO]; iv. 8.) She is also called Voluptas. (Cic. De Nat.
and others have on them M. VOLTEIUS M. F. Of Deor. ii. 23.) [L. S.]
the latter a specimen is annexed: the obverse re- VOLUSE'NUS QUADRA'TUS. [QUADpresents the head of Jupiter, the reverse a temple RATUS.]
with four columns. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 344.) VOLUSLA'NUS, the son of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus, upon whose elevation in A. D.
251 he was styled Caesar and Princeps Juventutis. The year following he held the office of
_____ S e1<AX at!Fconsul, and was invested with the title of AuI 1 l ~uatbniw}gustus. As far as we can gather from the scanty
\i MU W s @ _ ItRi l illr i ~notices of historians, his character resembled that
of his father, along with whom he perished at
Interamna in A. D. 253 or 254. [GALLUS TRECOIN OF M. VOLTEIUS. BONIANUS.] The names borne by this prince, as
collected from medals and descriptions, appear to
VOLTEIUS or VULTEIUS. 1. L. VOL. have been C. VIBIUS VOLUSIANUS TREBONIANUS
TEIUS, a friend of L. Metellus, who was propraetor ASINIUS GALLUS VELDUMNIANUS or VENDUMof Sicily, B.C. 70. (Cic. Verr. iii. 66.) NIANUS (Aurel. Vict. de Caes. 30, Epit. 30;
2. A tribune of the soldiers in Caesar's army, Eutrop. ix. 5; Zosim. i. 24; Zonar. xii. 21;
B. c. 48. (Flor. iv. 2. ~ 33.) Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 369.) [W. R.]
3. VOLTEIUS MENAS, a praeco mentioned by
Horace (Epist. i. 7, 55, feoll.).
T. VOLTIT'RCIUS, or VULTU'RCIUS, of ~
Crotona, one of Catiline's conspirators, was sent by
Lentulus to accompany the ambassadors of the
Allobroges to Catiline. Arrested along with the X
ambassadors on the Mulvian bridge, and brought 0
before the senate by Cicero, Volturcius turned informer upon obtaining the promise of pardon, and
after giving his evidence was amply rewarded by
the senate. (Sall. Cat. 44, 45, 47, 50; Cic. Cat.
iii. 2, 4, iv. 3; Appian, B. C. ii. 4.) VOLU'SIUS. 1. An haruspex in the cohors
VOLU'MNIA. 1. The wife of Coriolanus. of Verres. (Cic. Yerr. iii. 11, 21.)
[CORIOLANUS.] 2. Q. VOLUSIUS, a pupil of Cicero in oratory,
2. The freedwoman of Volumnius Eutrapelus, accompanied Cicero to Cilicia, where he held some
and the mistress of Antony, is better known under office under him. (Cic. ad Fam. v. 10, 20, ad Att. v.
her name of Cytheris. [CYTHERIS.] 21.) In one passage (ad Att. v. 1.1) he is called
VOLU'MNIA GENS, patrician and plebeian. Cn. Volusius, for there can be little doubt that this
It was of great antiquity, for the wife of Corio- Cneius is the same person who is elsewhere called
lanus belonged to it, and one of its members, P. Marcus.
Volumnius Gallus, held the consulship as early as 3. M. VoLUvsIs, is mentioned by Cicero in
B. C. 461, but it never attained much importance. B. C. 49 (ad Fam. xvi. 12). He is probably the
The Volumnii bore the cognomens of GALLUS with same as the M. Volusius who was plebeian aedile
the agnomen Asmintinus, and of FLAMMA with the in B. C. 43, and was proscribed by the triumvirs,
agnomen Violens. A few persons of the name are but escaped by assuming the disguise of a priest
mentioned without any surname. [VOLUMNIUS.] of Isis. (Val. Max. vii. 3. ~ 8; Appian, B. C.
VOLU'MNIUS. 1. M. VOLUMNIUS, slain by iv. 47.)
Catiline, at the time of Sulla. (Ascon. in Tog. L. VOLU'SIUS MAECIAiNUS, a jurist,
Cand. p. 84, ed. Orelli.) was in the consilium of Antoninus Pius. (Capitol.
2. P. VOLUMNIuTS, a judex on the trial of Clu.- Antonin. Pius, c. 12.) Among the many illusentius. (Cic. pro Cluent. 70.) trious men who formed the character of Marcus
3. L. VOLUMlNITS, a senator with whom Cicero Aurelius, was Maecianus: Aurelius was one of his
was intimate (Cic. ad Fam. vii. 32; comp. Varr. auditores. (Capitol. Antonin. Pihilosopi. c. 3.) A
R. R. ii. 4), is perhaps the same as the V olumnius rescript of the Divi Fratres (Dig. 37. tit. 14. s. 17),
Flaccus, who was a friend of D. Brutus. (Cic. ad speaks of him in these terms: "Volusius Maecianus
Fato. xi. 12, 18.) amicus noster, &c." Marcus in his Tiv el's eavnV