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134 PATERCULUS. - PATERCULUS.
in some excellent remarks upon this artist, in the PATE'RCULUS, C. SULPI'CIUS, constil
Anmalthea, vol. iii. pp. 293-297. This correction B.c. 258 with A. Atilius Calatinus in the first
being made also in a passage of Cicero, (de Divin. i. Punic war. (Pol. i. 24.) He obtained Sicily as
36), we obtain another important testimony re- his province, together with. his colleague Atilius,
specting our artist; and we learn that in one of but the latter took the chief management of the
his silver-chasings he represented the prodigy which war, and is therefore spoken of by some writers as
indicated the future renown of the infant Roscius the sole commander in Sicily. Paterculus neveras an actor. The true reading of this passage was theless obtained a triumph on his return to Rome,
first pointed out by Winckelmann (Gesch. d. Kunst, as we learn from the triumphal Fasti. The history
B. ix. c. 3. ~ 18). [P. S.] of the consulship of Paterculus and his colleague is
PASI'THEAX (IIaoOs0a). 1. -One of the given under CALATINUS.
Charites. (Hom. II. xiv. 268, 276; Paus. ix. 35. PATE'RCULUS, C. VELLEIUS, a Roman
~ I.) historian, contemporary with Augustus and Tibe2. A daughter of Nereus and Doris. (Hes. rius. He is not mentioned by any ancient writer,
Tlzeog. 247.) with the exception of a solitary passage of Priscian,
3. A Naiad, the wife of Erichthonius and but his own work supplies us with the leading
mother of Pandion. (Apollod. iii. 14. ~ 6; comp. events of his life. He was descended from one of
iii. 15. ~ 1, where she is called Praxithea.) [L. S.] the most distinguished Campanian families. Decius
PASSIE'NUS CRISPUS. [CRISPUS, p. 892, Magius, the leader of the Roman party at Capula
b.] in the second Punic war, was one of his ancestors
PASSIE'NUS PAULUS. [PaULUS.] and Minatius Magius, who did such good service to
PASSIE'NUS RUFUS. [RUFus.] the Romans in the Social war (B. c. 90), and who
PASSIE'NUS, VIBIUS, proconsul of Africa, was rewarded in consequence with the Roman
under Gallienus, assisted Celsus in aspiring to the franchise and the election of two of his sons to the
throne. (Trebell. Pollio, Trig. Tyr. 29.) praetorship, was the atavus of the historian. The
PASTOR. 1. A distinguished Roman eques, grandfather of Paterculus put an end to his life at
whose son Caligula put to death, and invited his Naples, since he was unable, through age and infather on the same day to a banquet (Senec. le Ira, firmities, to accompany Claudius Nero, the thther
iii. 33; comp. Suet. Cal. 27). Seueca does not of the emperor Tiberius, in his flight from Italy in
mention his gentile name, but he was probably the B. c. 40. His father held a high command in the
father of No. 2, more especially as it is stated by army, in which he was succeeded by his son, as is
Seneca that he had another son. mentioned below, and his uncle Capito was a
2. JULIUS PASTOR, was defended bythe younger member of the senate, and is mentioned as a supPliny in the court of the Centumviri, in the reign porter of the accusation against C. Cassius Lonof Domitian (Plin. Ep. i. 18, comp. iv. 24. ~ 1). ginus under the Lex Pedia, on account of the latter
This is the same Pastor of whom Martial begs a being one of Caesai's murderers. The family of
present (ix. 23). Paterculus, therefore, seems to have been one of
3. AIETITJS PASTOR, a rhetorician mentioned by wealth, respectability, and influence.
the elder Seneca (Controv. 3), probably belonged to Velleiuis Paterculus was probably born about
the same family. B. C. 19, tile year in which Virgil died. He
4. PA.STOR, consul in A. D. 163, with Q. Mius- adopted the profession of arms; and, soon after he
tius Priscus, may have been a descendant of one had entered the army, he accompanied C. Caesar
of the preceding persons. in his expedition to the East, and was present with
PATAECI (firalrtcor), Phoenician divinities the latter at his interview with the Parthian king,
whose dwarfish figures were attached to Phoe- in A. D. 2. Two years afterwards, A. D. 4, he
nician ships. (Ilerod. iii. 37; Suid. and Hesych. served under Tiberius in Germany, succeeding his
s. v.) [L. S.] father in the rank of Praefectus Equitum, having
PATAECUS (fIi'aracos), a Greek writer, who previously filled in succession the offices of tribune
said that he possessed the soul of Aesop, and from of the soldiers and tribune of the camp. For the
whom there is a long tale quoted by Plutarch, on next eight years Paterculus served under Tiberius,
the authority of Hermippus, respecting an interview either as praefectus or legatus, in the various cambetwveen Thales and Solon. (Plut. Sol. 6). paigns of the latter in Germany, Pannonia, and
PATAREUS (Ia~TapErs), a surname of Apollo, Dalmatia, and, by his activity and ability, gained
derived from the Lycian town of Patara, where he the favour of the future emperor. He was accordhad an oracle, and where, according to Servius ingly promoted to the quaestorship, and in A. D. 6,
(ad Aenz. iv. 143), the god used to spend the six when he was quaestor elect, he conducted to Tibewinter months in every year. (Hor. Cars7. iii. rius the forces which had been lately levied in the
4. 64; Lycoph. 920; Herod. i. 162; Strab. xiv. city. In his quaestorship in the following year,
p. 665, &c.; Paus. ix. 41. ~ 1.) [L. S.] A. D. 7, he was excused from drawing lots for a
PATELLA or PATELLA'NA, a Roman province, and continued to serve as legatus under
divinity, or perhaps, only a surname of Ops, by Tiberius. He accompanied his commander on his
which she was described as unfolding or opening return to Rome in A. D. 12, and mentions with
the stem of the corn plant, so that the ears might pride that he and his brother Magius Celer took a
be able to shoot forth. (August. De Civ. Dei, iv. prominent part in the triumphal procession of
8I; Arnob. Adv. Gent. iv. i.) [L. S.] Tiberius, and were decorated with military honours.
PATELLA'RII DII, divinities to whom sacri- Two years afterwards, A. n. 14, the names of Velfices were offered in dishes (patellae), were per- leius and his brother were put down by Augustus
haps no others than the Lares. (Plaut. Cistell. ii. for the praetorship; but as that emperor died
1. 45; Ov. Fast. ii. 634.) [L. S.] before the comitia were held, they were elected to
PATE'RCULUS, ALBI'NIUS. [ALBINiUS, this dignity at the commencement of the reign of
No. 1.] Tiberius. We have no further particulars of the