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

REBILUS. RECTUS. 641
L. RA'MMIUS, a leading man at Brundu- consuls he had been consul. (Caes. B. G. vii. 83,
sialm, was accustomed to entertain the Roman ge- 90, viii. 24, &c., B. C. i. 26, ii. 24; Hirt. B. Afr.
nerals and foreign ambassadors. It was said that 86, 93, B. Hisp. 35; Dion Cass. xliii. 46; Cic.
Perseus, king of Macedonia, endeavoured to per- ad Farin. vii. 30; Suet. Caes. 76, Ner. 15; Plin.
suade him to poison such Roman generals as he H. iN. vii. 53. s. 54; Tac. list. iii. 37; Puint.
might indicate, but that Rammius disclosed the Caes. 58; Macrob. Sat. ii. 3.)
treacherous offer first to the legate C. Valerius, and 4. (CANINIUS) REBmLUS, probably a brother of
then to the Roman senate. Perseus, however, in No. 3, was proscribed by the triumvirs in B. C. 43,
an embassy which he sent to the senate, strongly but escaped to Sex. Pomnpey in Sicily. (Appian,
denied the truth of the charge, which he maintained B. C. iv. 48.)
was a pure invention of Rammius. (Liv. xlii. 17, 5. C. CANINIUS REBILUS, probably a son of
41; Appian. Mac. 9. ~ 4, who calls hin Erennius.) No. 3, was consul suffectus in B. c. 12 (Joseph.
RAMNUS, a freedman of M. Antonius, whom Antiq. xiv. 10. ~ 20). In the Fasti Capitolini he
he accompanied in the Parthian war. (Plut. Anton. is said to have died in his year of office, and could
48.) not therefore have been the man of consular rank
RAMSES, the name of many kings of Egypt of mentioned by Seneca (de Benef. ii. 21), accordthe eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth dynasties. ing to the supposition of Drumann.
It was during this era that most of the great monu- 6. (CANINIUS) REBILUS, a man of consular
ments of Egypt were erected, and the name is con- rank, and of great wealth but bad character, sent a
sequently of frequent occurrence on these monu- large sum of money as a present to Julius Graecimlents, where it appears under the form of Ralnressu. nus, who refused to accept it on account of the
In Julius Africanus and Eusebius it is written character of the donor (Sen. de Benef. ii. 21). The
]uamses, Rameses, or Rameesses. The most celebrated name of this Rebilus does not occur in the Fasti,
of the kings of this name is, however, usually called and he must, therefore, have been one of the conSesostris by the Greek writers. [SESOSTRIS.] sules suffecti. As Julius Graecinus was put to
RA'NIUS, a name of rare occurrence. Cicero death in the reign of Caligula, it is very probable
(ad Att. xii. 21) speaks of a Ranius, who may that the Rebilus mentioned above is the same as
have been a slave or a freedman of Brutus. There the C. Aminius Rebius, who put an end to his own
vwas a L. Ranius Acontius Optatus, who was con- life in the reign of Nero. Tacitus describes him
sul in the reign of Constantine, A. D. 334 (F'asti). as a person of great wealth and bad character, and
RAVILLA, an agnomen of L. Cassius Longi- also states that he was then an old man (Ann. xiii.
nus, consul B. C. 127. [LONGINUS, No. 4.] 30). As the name of C. A7zinius Relbius is eviRE'B1LUS, the name of a family of the plebeian dently corrupt, there can be little doubt that we
Caninia gens. should change it, as Lipsius proposed, into Caninius
1. C. CANINIUS REBILUS, praetor B. C. 171, Rebilus. (Respecting the Caninii Rebili in geo
obtained Sicily as his province. (Liv. xlii. 28, 31.) neral, see Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. ii. pp.
2. M. CANINIUS REBILUS, probably a brother of 107-109.)
the preceding, was sent by the senate into Mace- RE'BIUS, C. AMI'NIUS. [REmILUS, No. 6.]
donia, in B. C. 170, along with M. Fulvius Flaccus, RECARANUS, also called Ganasus, a fabulous
in order to investigate the reason of the want of Italian shepherd of gigantic bodily strength and
success of the Roman arms in the war against Per- courage. It is related of him that Cacus, a wicked
seus. In B. C. 167 he was one of the three am- robber, once stole eight oxen of the herd of Recabassadors appointed by the senate to conduct the ranus, which had strayed in the valley of the Circus
Thracian hostages back to Cotys. (Liv. xliii. 11, Maximus, and which the robber carried into his
xlv. 42.) den in Mount Aventine. He dragged the animals
3. C. CANINIUTS REBTLITS, was one of Caesar's along by their tails, and Recaranus would not have
legates in Gaul in B. C. 52 and 51, and accompanied discovered them, had not their hiding-place been
him in his march into Italy in B. C. 49. Caesar betrayed by their lowing. Recaranus accordingly
sent him, together with Scribonius Libo, with entered the cave and slew the robber, notwithovertures of peace to Pompey, when the latter was standing his great strength. Hereupon lie dedion the point of leaving Italy. In the same year cated to Jupiter the ara maxima, at the foot of the
he crossed over to Africa with C. Curio, and was Aventine, and sacrificed to the god the tenth part
one of the few who escaped with their lives when of the booty. The name Recaranus seems to be
Curio was defeated and slain by Juba. In B. C. connected with gerere or creare, and to signify
46 he again fought in Africa, but with more success, "the recoverer." The fact of his being a gigantic
for he was now under the command of Caesar him- shepherd who recovered the oxen stolen from him,
self. After the defeat of Scipio he took the town led the Romans at an early time to consider him as
of Thapsus, on which occasion Hirtius calls him identical with the Greek Heracles, who was said to
proconsul. In the following year, B. C. 45, during have made an expedition to the west of Europe;
the war in Spain, there was a report that lie had but the whole story of Recaranus is a genuine
perished in a shipwreck (Cic. ad Att. xii. 37. ~ 4, Italian legend, without any connection with that
44. ~ 4); but this was false, for he was then in about Heracles, although the belief in the identity
command of the garrison at Hispalis. On the last of the two heroes was so general among the later
day of December in this year, on the sudden death Romans, that Recaranus was entirely thrown into
of the consul Q. Fabius Maximus, Caesar made the back ground. (Serv. ad Aen. viii. 203, 275;
Rebilus consul for the few remaining hours of the Macrob. Sat. iii. 12; Aurel. Vict. Orig. Gent. Rom.
day. Cicero made himself merry at this appoint- 6; comp. Hartung, Die Relig. der Rmn. vol. ii.
ment, remarking that no one had died in this con- p. 21, &c.) [L. S.]
sulship; that the consul was so wonderfully vigi- RECEPTUS, NO'NIUS. [NONIUS, No. 9.]
lant that he had never slept during his term of RECTUS, AEMI'LIUS, governor of Egypt
office; and that it might be asked under what during the reign of Tiberius, sent to the emperor
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