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

642 REG I LLUS. REGULUS.
upon one occasion a larger sum of money than was following year. (Liv. xxxvi. 45, xxxvii. 2, 4, 14
ordered, whereupon Tiberius wrote back to him -32, 58; Appian, Syr. 26, 27.)
that he wished him to shear, not shave his sheep. 3. M. AEMILIUS (REGILLUS), a brother of No.
(Dion Cass. lvii. 10; comp. Suet. Tib. 10; Oros. 2, whom he accompanied in the war against Anvii. 4.) tiochus: he died at Samos in the course of the
REDICULUS, a Roman divinity, who had a year, B. c. 190. (Liv. xxxvii. 22.)
temple near the Porta Capena, and who was be- It would appear that this family became extinct
lieved to have received his name from having in- soon afterwards. We learn from a letter of Cicero
duced Hannibal, when he was near, the gates of (ad Att. xii. 24. ~ 2) that Lepidus, probably M.
the city, to return (redire) southward (Fest. p. 282, Aemilius Lepidus, consul B. C. 78, had a son named
ed. Miiller). A place on the Appian road, near Begil>'s, who was dead at the time that Cicero
the second mile-stone from the city, was called wrote. It is probable that Lepidus wished to reCampus Rediculi (Plin. H. N. xliii. 60. ~ 122; vive the cognomen of Regillus in the Aemilia gens,
Propert. iii. 3, 11). This divinity was probably just as he did that of Paulus, which he gave as a
one of the Lares of the city of Rome, for, in a surname to his eldest son. [See Vol. II. p. 765, b.]
fragment of Varro (ap. Non. p. 47), he calls him- L. REGI'NUS, tribune of the plebs, B. c. 95,
self Tutanus, i.e., the god who keeps safe. [L. S.] is cited by Valerius Maximus (iv. 7. ~ 3) as a
REDUX, i. e., "the divinity who leads the striking instance of a true friend. He was not
traveller back to his home in safety," occurs as a only content with liberating from prison his friend
surname of Fortuna. (Martial, viii. 85; Claudian, Q. Servilius Caepio, who had been condemned in
de Consol. Hlon. vi. 1.) [L. S.] that year on account of the destruction of his
REGALIA'NUS, P. C., as the name appears army by the Cimbri, but he also accompanied him
on medals; REGALLIANUS, as he is called by in his exile.
Victor (de Caes.); or REGIL LIANUS, according to REGI'NUS, C. ANTI'STIUS, one of Caesar's
Victor, in his Epitome, and Trebellius Pollio, who legates in Gaul (Caes. B. G. vi. 1, vii. 83, 90).
ranks him among the thirty tyrants [see AUREO- This Regilus appears to be the same person as the
LUS], was a Dacian by descent, allied, it is said, one whom Cicero mentions as his friend in B. C. 49
to Decebalus, distinguished himself by his military (ad Att. x. 12), and who had then the command
achievements on the Illyrian frontier, was com- of the coast of the Lower Sea. He is also in all
mended in the warmest terms by Claudius, at that probability the same as the C. Antistius Reginus,
time in a private station, and promoted to a high whose name appears as a triumvir of the mint on
command by Valerian.- The Moesians, terrified by the coins of Augustus. On the coin annexed the
the cruelties inflicted by Galliemus on those who obverse represents the head of Augustus, and the
had taken part in the rebellion of Ingenuts, sud- reverse various instruments used by the pontiffs.
denly proclaimed Regalianus emperor, and quickly, (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 137.)
with the consent of the soldiers, in a new fit of
alarm, put him to death. These events took place
A. D. 263. (Aurel. Vict. (de Caes. xxxiii. Epit. xxxii.; to
Trebell. Poll. Trig. Tyrann. ix.) [W. R.]
REGILLA, the wife of Herodes Atticus. (Philostr. Vit. Soph. ii. 1. ~~ 5, 8.) [ATTICUS, HERODES.]
REGILLENSIS, an agnomen of the Claudii
[CLAUDIUS], and of the Albini, a family of the
Postumia gens [ALBINUs]. COIN OF C. ANTISTIUS REGINUS.
REGILLUS, the name of a family of the patrician Aemilia gens. REGI/NUS, T. POMPEIUS, lived in Further
1. M. AEMILIUS REGILLus, had been declared Gaul, and was passed over by his brother in his
consul, with T. Otacilius, for B. C. 214, by the cen- testament. (Val. Max. vii. 8. ~ 4; Varr. R. R. iii.
turia praerogativa, and would undoubtedly have 12.)
been elected, had not Q. Fabius Maximus, who RE'GULUS, M. AQUI'LIUS, was one of
presided at the comitia, pointed out that there was the delatores or informers in the time of Nero,
need of generals of more experience to cope with and thus rose from poverty to great wealth. He
Hannibal, and urged in addition, that Regillus, in was accused in the senate at the commencement
consequence of his being Flamen Quirinalis, ought of the reign of Vespasian, on which occasion he
not to leave the city. Regillus and Otacilius were was defended by L. Vipstanus Messalla, who is
therefore disappointed in their expectations, and described as his fi'ater, whether his brother or
Fabius Maximus himself was elected, with M. cousin is uncertain (Tac. Hist. iv. 42). Under
Claudius Marcellus, in their stead. Regillus died Domitian he resumed his old trade, and became
in B. C. 205, at which time he is spoken of as one of the instruments of that tyrant's cruelty.
Flamen Martialis. (Liv. xxiv. 7, 8, 9, xxix. 11.) He survived Domitian, and is frequently spoken of
2. L. AEMILIus REGILLUS, probably son of by Pliny with the greatest detestation and conthe preceding, was praetor B. C. 190, in the war tempt (Ep. i. 5, ii. 10, iv. 2, vi. 2). Martial, on
against Antiochus. He received as his province the contrary, who flattered all the creatures of Dothe command of the fleet, and carried on the naval mitian, can scarcely find language strong enough
operations with vigour and success. Supported to celebrate the virtues, the wisdom, and the e]oby the Rhodians, he defeated the fleet of Antiochus, quence of Regulus. (Ep. i. 13, 83, 112, iv. 16.)
commanded by Polyxenidas, near Myonnesus, a REIGULUS, ATI'LIUS. 1. M. ATILIUS REsmall island off the' Ionian coast, and afterwards oULUS, consul B. C. 335, with M. Valerius Corvus,
took the town of Phocaea [POLYXENIDAS]. He marched with his colleague against the Sidicini
obtained a triumph on his return to Rome in the (Liv. viii. 16.)