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816 SICINIUS. SICINNUS.
of which a specimen is given on the preceding He is called by Livy a descendant of the Sicinius
page. On the obverse is a female head, with who was first created tribune on the Sacred Mount
", FORT. P. R." i. e. Fortuna Populi Romani, and [No. 1]. (Liv. iii. 54.)
on the reverse a caduceus and a palm branch, with 5. T. SICINIUS, tribune of the plebs B. C. 395,
" Q. SICINIVS IIIvIn." This Q. Sicinius is not men- brought forward a bill for removing part of the
tioned by any ancient writer. (Eckhel. vol. v. p. 31 3.) Roman people to Veii, and thus making, as it were,
SICI'NIUS. 1. L. SICINIvs BELLUTUS, the two capitals of the republic. (Liv. v. 24.)
leader of the plebeians in their secession to the 6. L. SICINIUS, tribune of the plebs B. c. 387,
Sacred Mount in B. c. 494, which led to the insti- brought before the people an agrarian law respecttution of the office of tribune of the plebs. Sici- ing the ager Pomptinus. (Liv. vi. 6.)
nius was chosen one of the first tribunes, the 7. CN. SICINIUS, was aedile in B. C. 185, and
original number of whom is variously stated in the was an unsuccessful candidate for the praetorship
ancient authorities (Liv. ii. 32, 33, iii. 54; Dionys. in the following year, to supply the place of C. Decvi. 45, 70, &c., 89; Ascon. in Cornel. p. 76, ed. imius, who had died while in office. He was,
Orelli; Niebuhr, list. of Rome, vol. i. p. 617.) however, successful in B.C. 183, in which year he
Dionysius further relates (vii. 14) that Sicinius was elected praetor, and obtained Sardinia as his
was plebeian aedile in B.C. 492, when he joined province. (Liv. xxxix. 39, 45.)
the tribune Sp. Icilius in attacking the senate on 8. CN. SICINTUJS, one of the triumvirs for foundaccount of the dearness of provisions, and that ing a colony at Luna in B. c. 177, is probably the
he was elected tribune a second time in B.C. 491, same person either as No. 7 or No. 9. (Liv. xli.
on account of his vehement hostility to the patri- 13.)
cians. The proceedings of his second tribunate are 9. CN. SICINITTS, praetor B. C. 172, was sent into
related at length by Dionysius (vii. 33-39). Apulia, when praetor designatus, to destroy the
2. C. SICINIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 470, locusts which had alighted in Apulia in enormous
when the tribunes are said to have been for the first crowds. On the division of the provinces among
time elected in the comitia tributa. He and his the praetors he obtained the jurisdictio inter perecolleague M. Duilius accused Ap. Claudius before grinos. On the breaking out of the war with
the people, on account of his opposing the agrarian Perseus, at the beginning of the next year, his
law. In many editions of Livy he is called Sicclius, imperium was continued, and Macedonia was asand Alschefski, the last editor of Livy, reads Cn. signed to him as his province, where he was to
Siccius. (Liv. ii. 58, 61.) remain till his successor arrived. (Liv. xlii. 9, 10,
3. L. SICINIUS DENTATUS, also named Siccius 27.)
in the manuscripts and editions of several ancient 10. C. SICINIUS, sent as ambassador, with two
authors, is called by A. Gellius and others the colleagues, to the Gauls, in B. C. 170. (Liv. xliii. 5.)
Roman Achilles. He is said to have fought in a 11. C. SICINIUS, the grandson of Q. Pompeius,
hundred and twenty battles, to have slain eight of censor B. C. 1 31, by his dauohter, died before he
the enemy in single combat, to have received forty- had held any higher office in the state than the
five wounds on the front of his body, the scars of quaestorship, but obtained a place in Cicero's Brutus
which remained, to have earned honorary rewards (c. 76), as one of the Roman orators.
innumerable, and to have accompanied the triumphs 12. CN. or L. SICINIUS, tribune of the plebs
of nine generals, whose victories were principally B. C. 76, was the first magistrate who ventured to
owing to his valour. He was tribune of the plebs attack the law of Sulla, which deprived the tribunes
in B. C. 454, in which year he brought to trial of their former power. He abused the leaders
before the people T. Romilius, the consul of the of the aristocracy very freely, and especially C.
preceding year, and procured his condemnation. Curio. His only qualification as an orator, says
After the defeat of the Romans in the campaign Cicero, was being able to make people laugh. It
against the Sabines, in the second decemvirate, has been erroneously inferred, from a passage in
B. C. 450, since the troops were discontented with Sallust, that he was murdered by the ruling party.
the government, and therefore did not fight with (Cic. Brut. 60; Pseudo-Ascon. in Divin. p. 103,
their usual valour, Sicinius endeavoured to persuade ed. Orelli; Quintil. xi. 3. ~ 129; Plot. Crass. 7;
them to secede to the Sacred Mount, as their fore- Sall. HTist. iii. 22; Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol.
fathers had done. His death was accordingly re- iv. p. 385.)
solved upon by the decemvirs, and Q. Fabius, who 13. SIcINIvs, mentioned by Cicero in B. C. 51.
commanded the army, sent him along with a band (Cic. ad Att. v. 4. ~ 3.)
of assassins to view the country. In a lonely SICINNUS or SICINUS (:bclvvoS, ZLKLvos),
spot they fell upon him and slew him, but not until a Persian, according to Plutarch, was a slave of
he had destroyed most of the traitors. His com- Themistocles and 7raL8aywyo' to his children. In
rades, who were told that he had fallen in an am- B. C. 480, he was employed by his master to conbush of the enemy, discovered the foul treachery vey to Xerxes the intelligence of the intended
that had been practised upon him, by seeing him flight of the Greeks from Salamis. Soon after,
surrounded by Roman soldiers, who had evidently the Greeks, victorious at Salamis, pursued the
fallen by his hand. The decemvirs endeavoured Persian fleet as far as Andros, but then came to
to pacify the soldiers by burying Sicinius with the resolution to continue the chase no further,
great pomp, and they succeeded to some extent; lest they should inspire the enemy with the coubut men did not forget or forgive the treacherous rage of despair. Hereupon Themistocles, accorddeed. (Dionys. x. 48-52, xi. 25-27; Liv. iii. ing to Herodotus, again sent Sicinnus, with others
43; Gell. ii. 11; Plin. H. N. vii. 27; Val. Max. on whom he could depend, to Xerxes, to claim
ii. 3. ~ 24; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. p. 346.) merit with him for having dissuaded the Greeks
4. C. SICINIus, was elected tribune of the plebs from intercepting his flight. As a reward for his
after the secession of the plebeians to the Aventine, services, Themistocles afterwards enriched Sicinnus,
and the abolition of the decemvirate, in B. C. 449. and obtained for him the citizenship of Thespiae.