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

784 SEPTIMIUS. SEPTIMUS.
Some coins of the gens bear the cognomen Satur- Severus, and is referred to by Lampridits as an
ninus, and others occur without any surname. Of authority. (Lamprid. Alex. Sever. 17, 48.)
the latter we give a specimen: on the obverse is 13. Q. SEPTIMIUS, the translator of the work
the head of Pallas with ARG. PVB, and on the on the Trojan war, bearing the name of Dictya
reverse Jupiter in a quadriga with (L.) SENTI C. F. Cretensis. [Vol. I. p. 1003, a.]
(Eckhel, vol. v. p. 305.) SEPTI'MIUS GETA. [GETA.]
SE'PPIUS LE'SIUS, held the office of meddix SEPTI/MIUS SERE'NUS. [SEREsNUS.]
tuticus at Capua, in B. c. 211, being the last of the SEPTI'MIUS SEVE'RUS. [SEVERUS.]
Campanians who obtained this dignity. (Liv. xxvi. SEPTI'MIUS, TI'TIUS. Horace, in an epistle
6, 13.) (i. 3. 9-14) to Julius Florus, at that time in the
SE PTI'CIUS CLARUS. [CLARUS.] East along with Tiberius Nero, makes inquiries
SEPTI'MIA, apparently the wife of Sicca. with regard to the welfare and occupations of a
(Cic. ad Att. xvi. 11.) certain Titits, whom in a tone of serious eulogy or
SEPTI'MIA GENS, plebeian. The Septimii are covert ridicule, —for here and elsewhere in these
not mentioned till towards the close of the republic, pieces it is difficult to determine whether words of
and none of them obtained any celebrity till the apparent praise do not hide a lurking sneer,-he reimperial period, when they were raised to impor- presents as having boldly ventured to quaff a
tance by Septimus Severus being elevated to the draught from the Pindaric spring, and as having,
empire. moreover, been ambitious to achieve distinction in
SEPTIMIA'NUS, FAIBIUS CILO. [CILO.1 the impassioned and grandiloquent outpourings of
SEPTI'MIUS. 1. P. SEPTIMIUS SCAEVOLA, the tragic muse. Acro and Porphyrio agree in
B. C. 72. [SCAEVOLA, P. 734, a.] declaring that Horace is here laughing at Titius, a
2. SEPTIMIUS, one of Catiline's conspirators, poet of no merit; although the latter commentator
was sent by him in B. C. 63 into the Ager Picenus. admits that the expressions might reasonably admit
(Sall. Cat. 27.) of an opposite interpretation. They add that this
3. T. SEFTIMIIS SABINUS, curule aedile, ap- personage had attempted to translate Pindar into
parently after the consulship of L. Lucullus, the Latin, and that he had composed lyrics and trageconqueror of Mithridates. (Plin. H. Anr xxxiv. 8. s. dies, explanations which after all amount to little
19. ~ 35.) more than an echo of the text. The Scholiast pub4. C. SEPTLMIUS, a scriba of the consul Bibu- lished by Cruquius states, in like manner, " lyrica
lus, B.C. 59. (Cic. ad Att. ii. 24.) carmina et tragoedias scripsit, Augusti tempore,"
5. P. SEPTIMIUS, one of the witnesses against but calls him Titius Septimius, adding that his
L. Valerius Flaccus in B. C. 59 [FLACCUS, VA- works were no longer extant, but that a conspicuous
LERIUS, No. 15]. (Cic. pro Flacc. 4, 35.) tomb had been reared to his memory below Aricia.
6. C. SEsPTlMIUS, praetor B. C. 57, supported In consequence of this note Titius is believed by
Cicero's recall from banishment. Cicero speaks of many modern commentators to be the same indihim as augur in B. C. 45. (Cic. post Red. in Sen. vidual with the Sepltinius who is addressed in the
9, ad Att. xii. 13, 14.) sixth ode of the second book, and who is introduced
7. P. SEPTIMIUS, the quaestor of M. Terentius in the ninth epistle of the first book. [SEPTIMIUvs,
Varro, who sent to him three books De Lingua No. 10.] Much learning and ingenuity have
Latina (Varr. L. L. v. l, vii. 109, ed. Miiller). He been displayed in attacking and defending this
is probably the same as the P. Septimius, who position, as may be seen from the dissertation " De
wrote two books on architecture, as his name is Titio Septimio poeta," in the " PoUtarum Latinorum
mentioned by Vitruvius in conjunction with ReIiquiae" of WTeichert, 8vo. Lips. 1830, pp. 365Varro's. (Vitruv. vii. Praef. p. 194, ed. Bip.) 390; see also the remarks of Obbarius on Hor.
8. L. SEPTIMIus, had served as a centurion Ep. i. 3. 9. [W. R.]
under Cn. Pompey, in the war against the-pirates, L. SEPTIMULEIUS, of Anagnia, although a
and afterwards under Gabinius, when he restored friend of C. Gracchus, carried the head of the latter
Ptolemy Auletes to the throne. Gabinius left to the consul Opimils, and obtained for it its
him behind in Egypt with a considerable force, to weight in gold, in accordance with a proclamation
protect the king, and he was still in the country, which had been made at the beginning of the
with the rank of tribunus militum, when Pompey contest. It is related that Septimuleius took out
fled there after the battle of Pharsalia, in B. C. 48. the brain, and put melted lead in its stead, or, acIn conjunction with Achillas, he slew his old cording to another version of the story, filled the
commander, as he was landing in Egypt. Appian mouth with lead. (Plut. C. Gracch. 17; Val. Max.
erroneously calls him Sempronius. (Dion Cass. ix. 4. ~ 3; Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 14; Cic. de Orat.
xlii. 3, 4, 38; Caes. B. C. iii. 104; Plut. Pomp. ii. 67.)
78; Appian, B. C. ii. 84.) SE'PTIMUS, L. MA'RCIUS (Liv. xxxii. 2),
9. SEPTIMIUS, was proscribed by the triumvirs usually called by Livy simply L. Marcius, was a
in B. c. 43, and betrayed by his wife to the assas- Roman eques, and served for many years under Cn.
sins. (Appian, B. C. iv. 23). Scipio in Spain. On the defeat and death of the two
10. SEPTIMIus, a friend of Horace, who dedi- Scipios in Spain, in B.C. 211, L. Marcius, who
cates to him one of his odes (Carmnt. ii. 6, Epist. i. had already gained great distinction by his military
9). He is also called by Augustus Scptimius noster, abilities, was called by the soldiers to take the comin a letter addressed by the emperor to Horace. mand of the surviving troops, and by his prudence
(Suet. Hor.) and energy preserved them from total destruction.
I 11. SEPTIMrUS, a centurion, slain by the soldiers He appears indeed to have gained some advantage
in Germany, where they broke out into revolt at over the Carthaginian army commanded by Hasthe commencement of the reign of Tiberius. (Tac. drubal, son of Gisco, which the Roman annalists
Ann7. i. 32.) magnified into a brilliant victory. The details of
12. SEPT1sruUS, wrote the life of Alexander t the history of the Roman war in Spain are not