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

PUBLICOLA. PUB1LICOLA. 601
Two years afterwards, B. c. 70, Gellius was tioned again, he probably perished in the action.
censor with Lentults, his former colleague in the ('Dion Cass. xlvii. 24; Liv. Epit. 122; Dion Cass.
consulship. They exercised their office with great xlix. 24; Plut. Ant. 65, 66; Vell. Pat. ii. 85.)
severity, and expelled many persons from the 3. GELLIUS PUBLICOLA, probably a brother of
senate, among whom was C. Antonius. It was No. 1, is called a step-son of L. Marcius Philippus,
during their censorship that Pompey, who was then consul B. C. 91, and a brother of L. Marcius Phiconsul, appeared as an ordinary eques at the solemn lippus, consul B. C. 56. According to Cicero's
muster of the equites, and, amid the applause of account he was a profligate and a spendthrift, and
the spectators, led his horse by the curule chair having dissipated his property, united himself to
of the censors, and answered the ordinary questions. P. Clodius. As an intimate friend of the latter, he
Ill B. C. 67 and 66 Gellius served as one of Pom- of course incurs the bitterest enmity of Cicero,
pey's legates in the war against the pirates, and whose statements with respect to hil must, therehad the charge of the Tuscan sea. In the first fore, be received with caution. (Cic. pro Seat. 51,
conspiracy of Catiline an attempt was made to 52, in Vatin. 2, de Harusp. Resp. 27, ad A tt. iv.
obtain possession of his fleet, and, though the 3. ~ 2, ad Q. Fr. ii. 1. ~ 1; Sclhol. Bob. p-ro Sext.
mutiny was put down, Gellius had a narrow escape p. 304, ed. Orelli.)
of his life. In consequence of the personal danger 1 4. GELLIUS PUBLICOLA, had been the quaestor
he had previously incurred, he was one of the I of Junius Silanus in Asia, in the reign of Tiberius,
warmest supporters of Cicero in his suppression of and was subsequently one of his accusers in A. Dn.
the second conspiracy, and accordingly proposed 22. (Tac. Ann. iii. 67.)
that Cicero should be rewarded with a civic crown. 5. L. GELLIUS PUBLICOLA, one of the consoles
From this time he appears as a steady friend of suffecti in the reign of Caligula, A. D. 40 (Fasti).
Cicero and the aristocratical party. In B. C. 59 he (For an account of the Gellii see Drumann, Gesopposed the agrarian law of Caesar, and in B. c. 57 c/sichte Roms, vol. ii. pp. 64-67.)
he spoke in favour of Cicero's recall from exile. He PUBLL'COLA, VALEtRIUS. 1. P. VALEwas alive in B. C. 55, when Cicero delivered his RIUS VOLUSI F. PUBLICOLA, the colleague of
speech against Piso, but probably died soon after- Brutus in the consulship in the first year of the
wards. He was married twice. (Appian, B. C. i. republic. The account given of him in Livy, Plu117; Plut. Crass. 9; Ores. v. 24; Flor. iii. 20. tarch, and Dionysius cannot be regarded as a real
~ 10; Eutrop. vi. 7; Liv. Epit. 96, 98; Plut. history. The history of the expulsion of the Tarquins
Pomp. 22; Cic. pro Cluenzt. 42; Ascon. in Tog. and of the infancy of the republic has evidently
Cand. p. 84, ed. Orelli; Appial, lA]iltsr. 95; Flor. received so many poetical embellishments, and has
iii. 6. ~ 8; Cic. post l/ed. ad QaLir7. 7; Gell. v. 6; been so altered by successive traditions, that probably
Cic. ad Att. xii. 21; Plut. Cic. 26; Cic. in Pis. we are not warranted in asserting any thing more
3; Val. Max. v. 9. ~ 1.) Orelli, in his Gnomas- respecting Publicola than that he took a prominent
ticon Tullianum (vol. ii. p. 269), makes the L. part in the government of the state during the first
Gellius, the contubernalis of Carbo, a different few years of the republic. The common story, howperson from the consul of B. C. 72; but this is ever, runs as follows. P. Valerius, the son of Voclearly an error, for Cicero speaks of the contuber- lusus, belonged to one of the noblest Roman houses,
nalis of Carbo as his friend (Brut. 27), and that and was a descendant of the Sabine Volusus, who
he reached a great age is evident from many pas- settled at Rome with Tatius, the king of the Sasages. (Cic. Braul. 47; Plat. Cic. 26.) bines. [VALERIa GENS.] When Lucretia sum2. L. GELLIUS PUBLICOLA, the son of the pre- moned her father from the camp, after Sextus Tarceding by his first wife. lie was accused of corn- quinius had wrought the deed of shame, P. Vamitting incest with his step-mother, and of con- lerius accompanied Lucretius to his daughter, and
spiring against his father's life; but although the was by her side when she disclosed the villany of
latter was nearly convinced of his guilt, he allowed Sextus and stabbed herself to the heart. Valerius,
hiim to plead his cause before a large number of in common with all the others who were present,
senators, and, in consequence of their opinion, swore to avenge her death, which they forthwith
declared him innocent (Val. Max. v. 9. ~ I). After accomplished by expelling the Tarquins from the
the death of Caesar in B. C. 44, Gellius espoused city. Junius Brutus and Tarquinius Collatinus
the republican party, and went with M. Brutus to were first elected consuls, B.C. 509; but as the
Asia. Here he was detected in plotting against very name of Tarquinius made Collatinus an object
the life of Brutus but was pardoned at the inter- of suspicion to the people, he was obliged to resign
cession of his brother, MI. Valerius Messalla. his office and leave the city, and Valerius was
Shortly afterwards he entered ielto a conspiracy to chosen in his stead. Shortly afterwards the people
take away the life of Cassiuc, but again escaped of Veii and Tarquinlii espoused the cause of the
unpunished, through the intercession of his mother Tarquins, and marched with them against Ronle,
Polla. It would hence appear that Polla had been at the head of a large army. The two consuls addivorced froml her first husband Gellius, and had vanced to meet them with the Roman forces. A
subsequently nmarried Messalla. Gellius, however, bloody battle was fought, in which Brutus fell; and
showed no gratitude for the leniency which had both parties claimed the victory, till a voice was
been shown him, but deserted to the triumvirs, heard in the dead of the night proclaiming that the
Octavian and Antony; and while in their service Romans had conquered, as the Etruscans had lost
he had coiens struck, on which he appears with the one man more. Alarmed at thi3. the Etruscans fled,
title of Q. P., that is, Quaestor Proplruetore (Eckhel, and Valerius entered Rome in triumph. Valerius was
vol. v. p. 223). He was rewarded for his treachery now left without a colleague; and as he began
by the consulship in B. C. 36. In the war between at the same time to build a house on the top of
Octavian and Antony, he espoused the side of the the hill Velia, which looked down upon the
latter, and commanded the right wing of Antony's forum, the people feared that he was atiming at
fleet at the battle of Actium. As he is not men- kingly power. As soon as Valerius became aware