A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

PTOLEMAEUS. PUBLICIA. 599
PTOLEMAEUS XIII. (nroAs/oaos), king of was at this time very young, and the adminisEGYPT, was the youngest son of Ptolemy Auletes. tration of affairs fell in consequence, in great
He was declared king by Caesar in conjunction measure, into the hands of his freedmen. Great
with Cleopatra, after the death of his elder bro- disorders ensued, and many of the Mauritanians
ther Ptolemy XII., B. C. 47: and although he was joined the standard of the Numidian Tacfarinas,
a mere boy, it was decreed that he should marry who carried on a predatory warfare against the
his sister, with whom he was thus to share the Romans. But in A. D. 24 Tacfarinas himself was
power. Both his marriage and regal title were, of defeated and killed by P. Dolabella, and Ptolemy
course, purely nominal: ill B. C. 45, Cleopatra took himself rendered such efficient assistance to the
him with her to Rome, but shortly after the death Roman general in his campaign, that an embassy
of Caesar she put the poor boy to death, after he had was sent to reward him, after the ancient fashion,
enjoyed his titular sovereignty a little more than with the presents of a toga picty and sceptre, as a
three years, B. C. 43. (Porphyr. ap. Eusseb. Arm. sign of the friendship of the Roman people. (Tac.
p. 118; Hirt. B. Alex. 33; Dion Cass. xlii. 44, Ann. iv. 23-26.) He continued to reign withxliii. 27; Strab. xvii. p. 797; Suet. Caes. 35.) out interruption till A. D. 40, when he was sumConcerning the history of the Ptolemies in moned to Rome by Caligula, and shortly after put
general, see Vaillant, Historia Ptolenmaeorunm Re- to death, his great riches having excited the cug.utm Aegypti, fol. Amstel. 1701; Champollion- pidity of the emperor. (Dion Cass. lix. 25; Suet.
Figeac, Annales des Lagides, 2 vols. 8vo. Paris, Cal. 26; Senec. de Tranquil. 11.) We learn
1815; Letronne, Recherches pour servir a l'sis- nothing from history of his character;but from the
toire d'Egypte, 8vo. Paris, 1823, and Recueil des circumstance that a statue was erected in his
Inscriptions Grecques en Egypfe, 4to. Paris, 1842; honour by the Athenians (Stuart's Antiq. of
Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. Appendix, ch. 5. Much Athsens, vol. iii. p. 55; Visconti, Iconographie
light has been thrown upon the history of the Grecque, vol. iii. p. 275), we may probably infer
earlier Ptolemies by Niebuhr, Kleine Sclrioften, that he inherited something of his father's taste
pp. 179-305, and by Droysen, Hellenismus, vol. for literature. The annexed coin belongs to this
ii., but a good history of this dynasty is still a Ptolemy; the curule chair and sceptre, on the
desideratum. reverse, probably refer to the honours decreed him
Of the coins of the Ptolemies it may be ob- by the Roman senate, as already mentioned.
served, that most of them can only be assigned to [E. H. B.]
the several monarchs of the name by conjecture;
very few of them bearing any title but those of
HITOAEMAIOT BA:IAEn2Z. Hence they are of
little or no historical value. (See on this subject =< _
Eckhel, vol. iv. pp. 4-25; Visconti, Iconographie
Grecqse, vol. iii. chap. 18.) [E. H. B.] -
PTOLEMAEUS (WroAXetIa7os), king of EPEIRUS, was the second son of Alexander II., king of
EIpeirus, and Olympias, and grandson of the great COIN OF PTOLEAIE, RING OF MAURITANIA.
Pyrrhus. He succeeded to the throne on the
death of his elder brother, Pyrrhus II., but reigned PTOLEMAEUS, son of MENNAEUS. [PTOonly a very short time, having set out on a mili- LEMAEUS, tetrarch of CHALCIS.]
tary expedition, during the course of which he fell PTO'LICHUS (ITro'AIXos), statuaries. 1. Of
sick and died. (Justin. xxviii. 1, 3; Pans. iv. 35. Aegina, the son and pupil of Synnodn, flourished
~ 3.) The date of his reign cannot be fixed with from about 01. 75 to about 01. 82 B. c. 480-448.
certainty, but as he was contemporary with Deme- [ARomTocLEe]. The only works of his, which are
trius II. king of Macedonia, it may be placed be- mentioned, are the statues of two Olmp ic victors
tween 239-229, B. C. [E. H. B.] Theognetus of Aegina, and Epicradius of Mantineia (Paus. vi. 9. ~ 1, 10. ~ 2).
2. Of Corcyra, the pupil of Critios of Athens
(Paus. vi. 3. ~ 2. s. 5). Pausanias does not men( / f7(fix < \ /\ ttV,.t t ~tion any work of his, but merely gives his name as
i\.'I,'one of the following artistic genealogy of teachers
and pupils: Critios of Athens, Ptolichus, Amphion,
Pison of Calauria, Damocritus of Sicyon. As Critios flourished chiefly about 01. 75, B. c. 477, we
may place Ptolichus about 01. 83, B. C. 448. He
COIN' OF PTOLEMAEUS, ING OF EPEIRUS. was therefore a contemporary of Pheidias. [P. S.]
PTOUS (ITros), a son of Athamas and ThePTOLEMAEUS, kings of MACEDONIA. [PTO- misto, from whom mount Ptoum and the sasncLEMAEUS of ALORIuS, and PTOLEMAEUS CERAU- tuary of Apollo, which was situated upon it, were
NUS.] believed to have derived their name. (Pass. ii.
PTOLEMAEUS (ImroXsuaos), king of MAuRI- 23. ~ 3; Apollod. i. 9. ~ 2.) Ptous also occurs as
TANIA, was the son and successor of Juba II. By a surname of Apollo. (Paus. iv. 32. ~ 5, ix. 23.
his mother Cleopatra he was descended from the ~ 3.) [L. S.]
kings of Egypt, whose name he bore. The period PUBLI'CIA. 1. The wife of L. Postuminls
of his accession and the death of his father cannot Albinus, consul B. C. 154, was accused of murderbe determined with certainty, but wl know that ing her husband. She gave bail to the praetor for
Ptolemy was already on the throne when Strabo her appearance, but was put to death by order of
wrote, about 18 or 19, A. D. (Strab. xvii. pp. her relations, consequently by a judicium domlesti828, 840; Clintoln. F. II. vol. iii. p. 203.) He cues. (Val. Max. vi. 3. ~ 8; Liv. Epit. 48; lRein,
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