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PTIILIPPUS. PHILIPPUS. 287
mediately: all parties in the state who had just begin (Cic. de Or. ii. 78): hence in his old age
before united in favour of Drusus, now began to it was with both contempt and anger that he used
look upon hint with mistrust and suspicion. In to listen to the studied periods of Hortensius (Cic.
this state of affairs, Philippus became reconciled to Brat. 95). Philippus was a man of luxurious
the senate, and to the leading members of that habits, which his wealth enabled him to gratify:
body, with whom he had hitherto been at deadly his fish-ponds were particularly celebrated for their
feud; and accordingly, on the proposition of the magnificence and extent, and are mentioned by
consul, who was also an augur, a senatus consul- the ancients along with those of Lucullus and
turn was passed, declaring all the laws of Drusus Hortensius (Varr. R. R. iii. 3. ~ 10; Colum. viii
to be null and void, as having been carried against 16; Plin. II. A. ix. 54. s. 80). Besides his son,
the auspices (Cic. de Prov. Cons. 9, de Leg. ii. L. Philippus, who is spoken of below [No. 6], he
12, Frayom. vol. iv. p. 449, ed. Orelli; Ascon. in had a step-so ( Gellius Publicola [PUvLICOLLA].
Cornel. p. 68). Nothing else is recorded of the (Our knowledge respecting Philippus is chiefly
consulship of Philippus, except that he recom- derived from Cicero, the various passages in whose
mended the senate to lay claim to Egypt, in con- writings relating to him are collected in Orelli,
sequence of its having been left to them by the will enor7. Tull. vol. ii. p. 380, &c.; comp Meyer,
of Alexander. (Cic. de Leg. Agr. ii. 16.) Orator. Roman. FragCYn. p. 323, &c., 2d fAd.; WesIn B. c. 86, Philippus was censor with M. Per- termann, Gesch. der MRmIs. Beredtsaoskdei/, ~ 43.)
perna, and it is recorded of him that he expelled 6. L. MAnRCUS L. F. Q. N. PHILIPPUS, the son
his own uncle App. Claudius from the senate. (Cic. of the preceding, seems to have been praetor in
p7o Dosn. 32.) B. C. 60, since we find him propraetor in Syria in
In the civil wars between Marius and Sulla, B. C. 59 (Appian, Syr. 51). He was consul in B. C.
Philippus took no part. His original predilections 56, with Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus. Phimight have led him to join Marius; but the ex- lippus was closely connected with Caesar's family.,
perience he had had of the Roman mob in his con- Upon the death of C. Octavius, the fisther of the
sulship, together with his reconciliation to the emperor Augustus, Philippus married his widow
senate, led him probably to desire the success of Atia, who was the daughter of Julia, the sister of
Sulla. Cicero speaks of him as belonging to the the dictator, and he thus became the step-father of
party of the latter; but as he continued at Rome Augustus (Suet. Octav. 8; Vell. Pat. ii. 59, 60;
during Cinna's usurpation, and was stuffered to re- Cic. Phil. iii. 6; Appian, B. C. iii. 10, 13; Plut.
main unmolested, ihe must have been regarded as Cic. 41). Ovid, indeed, says (Fast. vi. 809), that
neutral in the strife (Cic. ad Att. viii. 3). On he married the sister of the mother (natertera)
Sulla's death, he deprecated any immediate change, of Augustus, and hence it has been conjectured
and accordingly resisted the attempts of Lepidus, that Philippus may have married both sisters in
B.c. 78, to alter the constitution that had been succession, for that he was the step-father of Aurecently established (Sall. Hist. i. 18, 19). But gustus cannot admit of dispute. (The question is
Philippus was no friend to the aristocracy in heart, discussed by Orelli, Onores. Tuoll. vol. ii. p. 382.)
and accordingly gave his support to Pompey, by Notwithstanding his close connection with
whose means the people eventually regained most Caesar's family, Philippus remained neutral in
of their former political power. Thus he was one the civil wars. He was at Rome when the senate
of those who advocated sending Pompey to con- took open measures against Caesar at the beginduct the war in Spain against Sertorius, and is re- ning of B. C. 49; and in the division of the proported on that occasion to have said "Non se vinces among the leading members of the senate,
Pompeium sua sententia pro consule, sed pro con- he was purposely passed over (Caes. B. C. i. 6).
sulibus mittere." (Cic. pro Leg. dilan. 21, Phil. He subsequently obtained permission from Caesar
xi. 8; Plat. Poo1op. 17.) He appears, likewise, to to take no part in the struggle, and remained
have been a personal friend of Pompey, for he had quietly in Italy during the whole of the war.
defended him previously in B. C. 86, when he was Caesar, hoowever, with his usual magnanimity, did
accused of having appropriated to his own use the not resent this lukewarmness in his cause, but
booty taken at Asculum in the Marsic war, B.c. 89. continued to show him marks of friendship and
(Cic. Brat. 64; Val. Max. vi. 2. ~ 8; Plut. Posop. esteem. Philippus was also on good terms with
4.) It would seem that Philippus did not live to Cicero, who mentions him not unfrequently, and,see the return of Pompey from Spain. calls him in joke Assyntae filius, in allusion to his
Philippus was one of the most distinguished name Philippus (Cic. ad Att. ix. 12, 15, 16, 18,
orators of his time. His reputation continued even xiii. 52).
to the Augustan age, whence we read in Horace Philippus was a timid man. After the assassi(Elpist. i. 7. 46): - nation of Caesar, he endeavoured to dissuade his
"Strenuus et fortis causisque Phlippus agendis step-son, the young Octavius, from accepting the
Clarus." ausosque ooppus agenos minheritance which the dictator had left him (Vell.
Pat. ii. 60; Suet. Aug. 8; Appian, B. C. iii. 10,
Cicero says that Philippus was decidedly in- 13; comp. Cic. ad Att. xiv. 12). When Antony
ferior as an orator to his two great contemporaries and the senate came to an open rupture,.Philippus
Crassus and Antonius, but was without question was one of the ambassadors sent to the former at
next to them. In speaking he possessed much Mutina by the senate, and was much blamed by
fieedom and wit; he was fertile in invention, and Cicero, because, being the ambassador of the senate,
clear in the development of his ideas; and in alter- lihe brought back to that body the shameless decation he was wvitty and sarcastic. He was also mands of Antony. (Cic. ad Fanm. xii. 4, Phil. viii.
well acquainted with Greek literature for that 10, ix. 1.)
time (Cic. Brut. 47). He was accustomed to speak Philippus must have attained a good old age. He
extempore, and, when he rose to speak, he fre- lived till his step-son had acquired the supremacy
quently did not know with what word he should of the Roman world, for we find him mentioned as