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exalted sentiments with regard to a contemplative depends, of course, on that of Polycles: Stadiens
life which were entertained by the ecclesiastics of probably flourished about 01. 95, B. c. 400. [Pothat epoch; but the style of the Latinity, and the LYCLES.]
number of Grecisms involved, forbid us to adopt 2. A painter, the disciple of Nicosthenes, menthis theory. A third party imagine that they may tioned by Pliny among the artists who were non
have been fabricated at an early period, and may ignobiles quidem, sed in transcursu tamen dicendi.
have embodied scraps or fragments which were (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 11. s. 40. ~ 42.) L[P. S.]
actually in circulation as the words of Spurinna, C. STAIE'NUS, called in many editions of
and this is the view to which Barthiusl himself Cicero C. STALE'NUS, one of the judices at the
inclines. trial of Oppianicus in B.C. 74. It was believed
It is almost impossible in a matter of this sort that he had at first received money from the
to form a very decided opinion. Every one who accused to acquit him, but afterwards voted for
reads will discern that, in their present state, these his condemnation, because he had received a still
lines in no way merit the eulogium pronounced by larger sum from the accuser Cluentius. (Cic. Ferr.
Pliny upon the poetical talents of his friend. Per- ii. 32, with the note of Zumpt.) Cicero, in his
haps the most suspicious circumstance is that, not- oration for Cluentius, in B.c. 66, in which he is
withstanding the shortness, obscurity, and mu- anxious to remove from the minds of the judges
tilated condition of the fragments, we are, in the bad impressions that existed against his client,
studying them, constantly reminded of the observe- dwells at length upon the fact that Oppianicus
tions of Pliny, just as if they had been composed had bribed Staienus, and also represents the latter
for the purpose of tallying with them. The very as the agent employed by Oppianicus to bribe the
fact of the imperfect state in which they appear in other judges. According to Cicero, Staienus was
the MS. is a proof that at the time when they a low-born contemptible rascal, who called himself
were copied they must have been ascribed to some Aelius Paetus, as if he had been adopted by some
author of importance, for had not a fictitious value member of the Aelia gens, and who had assumed
been attached to them from some such consider- the cognomen Paetus, in preference to that of
ation, they would never have been thought worthy Ligur, another cognomen of the Aelii, because the
of being preserved. latter would have reminded the people that he had
These odes will be found in Wernsdorf, Po't. sprung from Liguria. His oratory was characterized
Lat. Alfin. vol. iii. pp. 351, &c., and a dissertation by vehemence and fury, but was sufficiently poon the author, pp. 326, &c. See also Bayerus. "De pular to have raised him to the honours of the
Vestritio Spurinna lvrico et ejus Fragmenta," in state, had he not been condemned of majestas, in
the transactions of the Petersburgh Academy for consequence of exciting a mutiny among the troops.
1750. [W. R.] during his quaestorship. (Cic. pro Cluent. 24, 26,
SPURI'NUS, Q. PETI'LLIUS, was praetor 36, Brut. 68, Top. 20.)
urbanus in a. c. 181, and was commissioned to STAIUS MINA'CIUS, a general of the
levy troops on account of the war with the Ligu- Samnites, B. C. 296, was taken prisoner and carried
rians. In his praetorship the books of king Numa to Rome. (Liv. x. 20.)
Pompilius are said to have been discovered upon STALLIUS, C. and M., brothers, were Roman
the estate of one L. Petillius, though some writers architects, who were employed, in conjunction with
give a different name for the latter person. Spu- another architect named Menalippus, to rebuild the
rinus obtained possession of the books, and upon Odeion of Pericles at Athens, after it was burnt
his representation to the senate that they ought down by Aristion, in the Mithridatic War, 01.
not to be read and preserved, the senate ordered 173. 3, B. c. 86. (Appian, 3Mitkzridat. 38.) The
them to be burnt (Liv. xl. 18, 26, 29; Val. new edifice was erected at the cost of Ariobarzanes
Max. i. 1. ~ 12; Plin. lI. N. xiii. 14. s. 27; Plut. II. Philopator, king of Cappadocia, between B. c.
Nume. 22; August. doe Civ. Dei, vii. 34; Lactant. 65 and B. C. 52. (Vitruv. v. 9. ~ 1.) The names
i. 22; comp. NUM.A, Vol. II. p. 1213). Spurinos of the artists are preserved by an Attic inscription
was consul in B. C. 176 with Cn. Cornelius Scipio on the base of a statue which they erected in
Hispallus, and fell in battle against the Ligurians. honour of their patron, Ariobarzanes. (B6ckh,
(Liv. xli. 14-18; Val. Max. i. 5. ~ 9, ii. 7. ~ 15; C. I. No. 357, vol. i. p. 429; R. Rochette, Lettre
Obsequ. 64; Fasti Capitol.) a MA. Schorn, p. 407, 2d ed.) [P. S.]
SPU'RIUS, is properly a Roman praenomen, STAIPHYLUS (T2ardpvAos), a son of Dionysus
but occurs as the gentile name of one or two and Ariadne (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhlod. iii. 997), or
persons of no importance. Thus, for instance, we of Theseus and Ariadne (Plut. Thles. 20), was one
read of a M. Spurius, who was one of the con- of the Argonauts (Apollod. i. 9. ~ 16). By Chryspirators against Julius Caesar. (Appian, B. C. ii. sothemis he became the father of three daughters,
113.) Molpadia, Rhoeo, and Parthenos. Rhoeo was
SQUILLA GALLICANUS. [GALLICANUS.] beloved by Apollo, and Staphylus, believing that
SQUILLUS, L. LICI'NIUS, one of the con- she was with child by some one else, locked her
spirators against Q. Cassius Longinus in Spain, up in a chest and threw her into the sea. The
B. c. 48. [LoNGtINus, No. 15.] chest was washed on the coast of Delos, where she
L. STABE'RIUS, the governor of Apollonia gave birth to Anius. She placed the child on the
for the Pompeians in B.c. 48, was obliged to desert altar of Apollo, praying that the god, if he were
the town on the approach of Caesar, in conse- the father, should save the child. Apollo accordquence of the inhabitants declaring in favour of ingly concealed the boy, and taught him the art of
the latter (Caes. B. C. iii. 12; Appian, B. C. prophecy. The sisters of Rhoeo were to guard the
ii. 54). wine of Staphylus, but while they had fallen
STADIEUS ('Trartes), artists. 1. An Athe- asleep the swine spilled and spoiled the wine. The
nian statuary, the instructor of Polycles. (Pans. sisters, on discovering the mischief, took to flight
vi. 4. ~ 3. s. 5.) The determination of his time and threw themselves down front a rock. But