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690 SABINUS. SABINUS.
stabbed Sabinus, mangled his body, cut off his Caesar. He ordered his followers to salute him as
head, and dragged his remains to the place where Caesar; and with a large irregular body of Lingons
the corpses of malefactors were thrown (in Genlo- he attacked the Sequani, and was defeated. liHe
icas). His children and his nephew Domitian fled to a villa belonging to him, which he burnt,
made their escape. When the generals of Vespa- that he might be supposed to have perished in the
sian obtained possession of the city, the remains of flames, and hid himself in some subterranean
Sabinus were interred with the honour of a cen- chambers, where he was kept concealed for nine
sor's funeral. Sabinus was a man of distinguished years by his friends and his wife Epponina, or
reputation, and of unspotted character. He had Peponila. He was at length captured, taken t,,
been engaged in military service for thirty-five Rome, and there put to death by order of Vesyears, and was equally illustrious in peace and pasian. (Tac. ITist. iv. 55, 67; Dion Cass.
in war. During the seven years that he had lxvi. 3, 16; Plut. Erot. 25, pp. 770, 771; CLASgoverned Moesia, and the twelve years he had sicus.) [P. S.]
held the praefecture of the city, the only charge SABI'NUS, MASSU'RIUS, a hearer of
ever brought against him was a too great copious- Ateius Capito, was a distinguished jurist in the
ness of speech. It was universally agreed, that time of Tiberius, and he lived under Nero also, for
before Vespasian became emperor, the dignity of the passage in Gaius (ii. 218) must certainly refer
the family centred in Sabinus. Ile left two sons, to this Sabinus, and not to Caelius. This is the
Flavius Sabinus [No. 4], and Flavius Clemens Sabinus from whom the school of the Sabiniani
[CLEMENS.] (Plut. 01h. 5; Tac. ltist. i. 46, ii. took its name. [CAPITO.] Massurius was nearly
b55, iii. 64-74, iv. 47; Dion Cass. lxv. 17; Suet. fifty years of age before he was admitted into the
Vesp. 1, Vitell. 15; Joseph. B. J. iv. 10. ~ 3, iv. Equestris Ordo, and he is said to have been poor
]1. ~ 4; Eutrop. vii. 12; Aurel. Vict. Caes. 8.) enough to require pecuniary assistance from his
3. T. FLAVIUS SABINUS, was consul suffectus hearers. He obtained under Tiberius the Jus
with M. Caelius Sabinus in May and June, a. D. Respondendi, which is a proof of his reputation as
69. He was one of the generals appointed by a jurist; and it is further evidence of this, that
Otho to oppose the forces of Vitellius, but after the Sabiniani took their name not from Capito,
the victory of the latter he made his submission to but from his more distinguished pupil. There is
the conqueror (Tac. Ilist. i. 77, ii. 36, 51). We no direct excerpt from Sabinus in the Digest, but
have followed Tillemont (Histoire des Empereurs, he is often cited by other jurists, who commented
" Note 1 sur Othon ") in making this T. Flavius upon his Libri tres Juris Civilis. Pomponius
Sabinus a different person from the praefect of the wrote at least thirty-six Libri ad Sabinumn, Ulpianus
city mentioned above. Tacitus nowhere speaks of at least fifty-one, and Paulus at least forty-seven
them as the same person, and it is moreover un- books. This fact in itself shows that the work of
likely that the praefect of the city would have Massurius must have been considered to be a
been sent away from Rome. Besides which, we great authority. It is conjectured, but it is pure
find that after the death of Otho, the consul conjecture, that the arrangement was the same as
Flavius Sabinns caused his troops in the north of that of the LibriXVIII. Juris Civilis of Q. Mucius
Italy to submit to the generals of Vitellius (Tac. Scaevola.
Hist. ii. 51), while the praefect of the city at the A passage from Massurius is quoted by Gellius
same tinme made the city cohorts at Rome swear (x. 15), who, il another passage (iii. 16), quotes a
allegiance to Vitellius (Tac. Hist. ii. 55). In passage of Plinius (H. N. vii. 5), in which Plinius
addition to which we learn from inscriptions that quotes Massurius for a case in which a woman
the praenomen of the consul was Titus. The prae- declared that she had gone thirteen months with
nomen of the praefect of the city is not mentioned child. Gellius (iv. 1, 2) quotes the second book
by Tacitus, but it could not have been Titus, as of Massurius on the Jus Civile. In another pasthat was the praenomen of Vespasian. A diffi- sage (v. 13) Gellius quotes the third book of the
culty, however, still remains, namely, why the same work. In the fourteenth book (c. 2) he
younger brother Vespasian bore the surname of his alludes to the same work, under the name of ComLfalther contrary to the general usage. But to this mentarii. It is conjectured that Persius means to
wve reply, that it may have happened in this case, refer to the same work (Sat. v. 90), when he says -
as in others, that there was a brother older than Excepto si quid Masuri rubrica vetavit."
the other two, namned Titus, who died' after the
birth of the future praefect of the city, but before On which see the note of Heinrich. Massurius is
the birth of Vespasian, and that the praenomen of also mentioned by Arrian (Epist. iv. 3, Maoroovpiou
the father was then given to the child born next. vdPLoosO). If Athenaeus (i. p. 1, c.) means this
4. FLAVInJ SABINUS, the son of the praefect of Massurius, his chronology is in great confusion.
the city [No. 2], was besieged with his father in Numerous other works of Massurius are cited
thi Capitol, but escaped when it was burnt down. by name in the Digest: Commentarii de indigenis,
He married Julia, the daughter of his cousin Titus. Libri Jllemoraliume, Fasti in two books at least
He was consul. Do. 82, with his cousin Domitian, (Macrob. Sat. i. 4), at least two books of Responsa
but was afterwards slain by the emperor, on the (Dig. 14. tit. 2. s. 4), apparently-a commentary Ad
frivolous pretext that the herald in proclaiming his Edicturz (Dig. 38. tit. 1. s. 18), and Libri ad Mriconsulship had called him Imperator instead of telliumn. The fragments of the Libri il/emorialiunz
consul. Domitian's love for his wife was perhaps and of the Fasti are collected in Frotscher's Sallust.
the real reason of his death. (Dion Cass. lxv. 17; (Grotius, Vitae Jurisconsult.; Zimmlnern, Geschichts
Philostr. Apollon. Tyan. vii. 3; Suet. Dom. 10.) des Rimn. Pivatrechls, i. ~ 84; Puichta, Instit. i.
SABI'NUS, JU'LIUS, a Lingon, joined in ~ 99, and ~ 116, on the Jus Respondendi.) [G.L.]
the revolt of Classicus, A. D. 70, his ambition SABItNUS, M. MINA'TIUS, a legate of Cn.
being excited not only by his natural vanity, but Pompeius the younger, whose name appears on
by a false idea that he was descended from Julius coins. [See Vol. III. p. 489,]