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PUPIENUS. PURPUREO. 605
ceeded L. Junius Brutus, but who died a few days was elected emperor with Balbinns, in A. D. 238
after his appointment. (Liv. ii. 8; Dionys. v. 19; when the senate received intelligence of the death
Plnt. Publ. 12.) Some of the annalists, however, of the two Gordians in Africa. For particulars,
stated that Horatius was the immediate successor see BALBIN Us.
of Brutus (Liv. ii. 8), while Polybius (iii. 22)
mentions Brutus and Horatius together as the first A d I
consuls. There is a difference between Dionysius ~ o
and Livy respecting another point. Dionysius iu4'
(v. 21) makes Horatius consul a second time with
P. Valerius Publicola, in the third year of the re-' A - a ~
public, B. C. 507, but Livy (ii. 15) speaks of P., 4o
LTucretius as the colleague of Publicola in that year,
and makes no mention of a second consulship of
Horatius. The account of Dionysius is supported
by Tacitus (Hist. iii. 72), who speaks of the second
consulship of Horatius. The name of Horatius PUPILLUS, ORBI'LIUS. [ORBmLIUS.]
Pulvillus is chiefly celebrated by his dedication PU'PTUS. 1. P. PuPrus, was one of the first
of the temple in the Capitol, which was conse- plebeian quaestors, elected B.C. 409. (Liv. iv. 54.)
crated by him in his second consulship, according 2. CN. PUPIUS, and K. Quintius Flamininus,
to Dionysius and Tacitus. The story runs, that it were appointed duumviri in a. c. 216, for building
had been decided by lot that Horatius should have the temple of Concord. (Liv. xxii. 33.)
this honour, and that as he was on the point of 3. L. PUPIus, aedile B. c. 185, and praetor B. C.
pronouncing the solemn words of dedication, M. 183, when he obtained by lot the charge of
Valerius, the brother of his colleague, came to him Apulia. (Liv. xxxix. 39, 45.)
with the false news that his son was dead, hoping 4. M. PUPiUS, was an old man when he adopted
that Horatius would utter some sound of lamenta- Piso [No. 5]. (Cic. pro Dom. 13.)
tion, which would have interrupted the. ceremony, 5. M. PUPIUS PIsn, consul I c. 61, is spoken
and thus secured the dedication for Publicola. But of under PIso [No. 18].
Horatius did not allow himself to be disturbed by 6. CN. PruPius, an agent of the company that
the dreadful tidings, and only replying " Carry out farmed the Bithynian revenues, is recommended by
the dead," calmly proceeded to finish the dedica- Cicero to Crassipes (ad Fain. xiii. 9).
tion. (Liv. ii. 8, vii. 3; Plut. Publ. 14; Dionys. 7. L' PUPIuS, a centurio primi pili, fell into
v. 35; Cic. pro Dom. 54; Tac. Hist. iii. 72.) Caesar's hands, when he entered Italy at the
2. C. HORATIUS M. F. M. N. PULVILLUS, said beginning of B. C. 49, but was dismissed by him
to be a son of No. 1, was consul, B. c. 477, with uninjured. (Caes. B. C. i. 13.)
T. Menenius Lanatus. He was sent to carry on PU'PIUS, a Roman dramatist, whose composithe war against the Volsci, but was recalled to op- tions are characterised by Horace, whether ironically
pose the Etruscans, who had taken possession of or not we cannot tell, as the " lacrymosa poemata
the Janiculum and crossed the Tiber, after gaining Pupi." The sum total of our information regardtwo victories, first over the Fabii at the Cremera, ing this personage is derived from the scholiast on
and subsequently over the consul Menenius. In the passage in question (Ep. i. 1. 67): " Pupius,
the first battle, which Horatius fought with the Tragoediographus, ita affectus spectantium movit
Etruscans near the temple of Hope, neither party ut eos flere compelleret. Inde istum versum fecit:
gained any advantage; but in the second, which
took place at the Colline gate, the Romans were Flebunt amici et bene noti mortem meain,
slightly the superior. (Liv. ii. 51; Dionys. ix. 18, Nam populus in me vivo lacrymatu' est satis."
&c.; Diod. xi. 53; Gell. xvii. 21, where he is er- (Burmann, Anthol. Lat. ii. 213, or No. 79, ed.
roneously called iearcusinstead of Caius.) Hora- Meyer; comp. Weichert, Poet. Lat. Reliq. p.
tius was consul a second time twenty years after- 276.) [W. R.]
wards, in B. C. 457, with Q. Minucius Esquilinus PURPU'REO, L. FU'RIUS, was tribune of
Angurinus. He carried on war against the Aequi, the soldiers B. c. 210 under the consul Marcellus,
whom he defeated, and destroyed Corbio. He died and praetor B. C. 200, in which year he obtained
B. C. 453, of the pestilence, which carried off many Cisalpine Gaul as his province. He gained a brildistinguished men in that year. He was one of liant victory over the Gauls, who had laid siege to
the college of augurs. (Liv. iii. 30, 32; Dionys. Cremona under the command of the Carthaginians
x. 26, &c.) Hamilcar. More than 35,000 Gauls were killed
3. L. HORATIUS PULVILLUS, consular tribune, or taken prisoners, and Hamilcar and three noble
B. C. 386. (Liv. vi. 6.) Gallic chiefs also fell in the battle. The senate voted
4. M. HORATIUS PULVILLUS, perhaps a brother a thanksgiving of three days in consequence of the
of the preceding, was consular tribune, B. C. 378. victory, and the honour of a triumph was granted to
(Liv. vi. 31.) Purpureo, though not without some opposition. He
PU'PIA GENS, plebeian, never attained any was consul a. c. 196 with M. Claudius Marcellus, and
importance, and it was only by the adoption of a with his colleague defeated the Boii. Purpureo
member of the noble family of Piso, that its name vowed three temples to Jupiter, two in the Gallic war
became enrolled in the consular Fasti. The Piso during his praetorship, and the other during his conadopted by one of this gens is usually called M. sulship: one of these was consecrated in B. C. 194,
Pupius Piso, and obtained the consulship in B. C. and the other two in B. C. 192. After the conquest
61. We find on Greek coins the cognomen of of Antiochus by Scipio, Purpureo was one of the
RuFus, which is the only surname'that occurs in ten commissioners sent by the senate to settle the
the gens. affairs of Asia. He is mentioned again in B. c.
PUPIE'NUS MA'XIMUS, M. CLO'DIUS, 187, as one of the vehement opponents of the