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640 RACILIUS. RALILA.
dotti da G. Montanari "; and in 1835 Kreyssig RAICIUS CONSTANS, governor of Sardinia,
published " Commentatio de C. Sallustii Crispi His- under Septimius Severus, by whom he was put to
toriarum Libr. III. fragmentis, &c. atque Carminis death. (Dion Cass. lxxv. 16.)
Latini de Bello Actiaco sive Alexandrino frag- RADAGAISUS ('Po3oyad'os, according to Zomenta" (8vo. Misen. 1835), which contains a simus), invaded Italy at the head of a formidable
condensed view of the discussions to which these host of barbarians, in the reign of the emperor
morsels have giyen rise. Honorius. The swarm of barbarians collected by
Fulgentius Planciades in his exposition of the him beyond the Rhine and the Danube amounted
word Absteimius quotes a line from " Rabirius in to 200,000, or perhaps to 400,000 men, but it
Satyra," where some MSS. give Rubrius, a name matters little how many there were. This forentirely unknown. Admitting that the common midable host was composed of Germanic tribes, as
reading is correct, it is impossible, in the absence Suevians, Burgundians, and Vandals, and also of
of all further information, to determine whether Celtic tribes. Jornandes calls Radagaisus a Scythe Rabirius referred to is the same Rabirius who thian; whence we may infer that he belonged to
is noticed by Velleius, Ovid, Seneca, anrd Quin- one of those Germanic tribes which, at the begintilian, or a different person, and there seems to be ning of the fifth century, arrived in Germany from
scarcely standing-room for controversy. A good their original dwellings north of the Euxine,
deal, notwithstanding, has been written upon the especially as he is sometimes called a king of the
question, as may be seen by consulting Casaubon, Goths. In A. D. 406 Radagaisus invaded Italy,
de Satyric. Poes. ii. 3; Ruperti, Proleg. ad Ju- destroyed many cities, and laid siege to Florence,
venal.; Wernsdorf, Poet. Lat. Mllin. vol. iii. p. 19; then a young but flourishing city. The safety of
Weichert, de Lucio Vario Poeta, Excurs. iv., de Italy had been entrusted to Stilicho, who had
Pedone et Rabirio Poetis; Haupt, Rhein. JMus. been observing his movements with a small army,
Neue Folge, vol. iii. 2, p. 308. [W. R.] consisting of picked soldiers, and reinforced by a
RABI/RIUS, a Roman architect of the time of contingent of HIuns and Goths, commanded by their
Domitian, who is highly praised by Martial for chiefs Huldin and Sarus. Stilicho now approached
his skill as an artist and his virtues as a man (vii. to save Florence if possible, and to do his utmost
56, x. 71). The erection of Domitian's palace on for the preservation of Rome. The barbarians
the Palatine is ascribed to him by modern writers, were entrenched on the hills of Faesulae in a
but on what authority we have been unable to strong position, but Stilicho succeeded in surrounddiscover. (Hirt, Geschichte der Baukunst, vol. ii. ing those barren rocks by an extensive line of cirp. 350; Miiller, Archliologie der Kunst, ~ 190, cumvallation, till Radagaisus was compelled, by the
n. 3.) [P. S.] failure of food, to issue forth and offer battle. He
L. RABO'NIUS, was one of the sufferers from was driven back within his own lines, and at last
the unrighteous decisions of Verres, in his praetor- capitulated, on condition that his own and his
ship, B. c. 74. (Cic. lJerr. i. 50, 51.) people's lives should be saved. But Stilicho vioRABULEIUS. 1. C. RABULErUS, tribune of lated the agreement; Radagfaisus was put to death,
the plebs, B. C. 486, attempted to mediate between and his warriors were sold as slaves. This miserthe consuls in the disputes occasioned between them able end of the barbarians and the fortunate deby the agrarian law proposed by the consul Sp. livery of Florence was attributed to a miracle.
Cassius in that year. (Dionys. viii. 72.) (Zosim. v. p. 331, ed. Oxon. 1679; Jornand.
2. M'. RABULEIUS, a member of the second De Regn. Success. p. 56, ed. Lindenbrog; Oros.
decemvirate, a. c. 450 (Liv. iii. 35; Dionys. x. vii. 37; Augustin. de Civ. D)ei, v. 23; Marcellin.
58, xi. 23). Dionysius (x. 58) calls him a patri- and Prosper, Chrsonic.) [W. P.]
cian, whereas he speaks of the other Rabuleius M. RAE'CIUS. 1. Was sent as ambassador
[No. 1] as a plebeian. As no other persons of into Gaul, with Sex. Antistius, in B. c. 208, to
this name are mentioned by ancient writers, we make inquiries respecting the apprehended march
have no means for determining whether the gens of Hasdrubal into Italy. (Liv. xxvii. 36.)
was patrician or plebeian. 2. Praetor B. C. 170. (Liv. xliii. 11.)
RACI'LIA, the wife of L. Quintius Cincinnatus. RAGO'NIUS. 1. RAGONIUS CELSUS, governed
(Liv. iii. 26.) the Gauls under the emperor Severus, who adL. RACI'LIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. c. 56, dressed a letter to him, which is preserved by Sparwas a warm friend of Cicero and of Lentulus tianus. (Spartian. Pese. NiVer, 3.)
Spinther. Cicero had returned from exile in the 2. RAGONIUS CLARUS, praefectus of Illyricum
preceding year, and Racilius had then distinguished and the Gauls under the emperor Valerian, who
himself by his exertions to obtain the recall of the addressed a letter to him, which is likewise preorator. In his tribuneship he attacked Clodius in served. (Trebell. Poll. Trig. Tyr. 18.)
the senate, with the utmost severity; and he al- 3. L. RAGONIUS QUINTIANUS, consul with M.
lowed Cicero to publish, under his name, an edict Macrins Bassus, in the reign of Diocletian, A. D.
against his great enemy. This document, which is 289 (Fasti).
cited by an ancient scholiast under the name of RALLA, the name of a plebeian family of the
Edictumn L. Racilii Tribuni Plebi, is now lost (Cic. Marcia gens.
pro Plane. 32, ad Q. Fr. ii. 1. ~ 2, ii. 6. ~ 5, ad 1. M. MARCIUS RALLA, praetor urbanus B. C.
Farn. i. 7. ~ 2; Schol. Bob. pro Pliace. p. 268, ed. 204. Ile accompanied Scipio to Africa, and was
Orelli). In the civil war Racilius espoused Caesar's one of the legates whom Scipio sent to Rome in B.C.
party, and was with his army in Spain in B. C. 48. 202, with the Carthaginian ambassadors, when the
There he entered into the conspiracy formed against latter sued for peace. (Liv. xxix. 11, 13, xxx. 38.)
the life of Q. Cassius Longinus, the governor of 2. Q. MARCIUS RALLA, was created dunumvir
that province, and was put to death with the other in B. C. 194, for dedicating a temple, and again in
conspirators, by Longinus. [LoNGINUS, No. 15.] B. C. 192, for the same purpose. (Liv. xxxiv. 53,'l-irt. B. Alex. 52, 55.) xxxv. 41.)