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

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PAETUS, SEX. ARTICULEIUS, consul A.D. Vologeses cut to pieces, and then proceeded to lay
1(01 with the emperor Trajan (Fasti). siege to the town of Rhandeia or Arsamosata on
PAETUS, AUTRO'NIUS. 1. P. AUTRONIus the river Arsanias, in which Paetus had taken
PAETUS, was elected consul for B. C. 65 with refuge. The place was well supplied with pro-.
P. Cornelius Sulla; but before he and Sulla visions, and Corbulo was at no great distance;
entered upon their (ffice, they were accused of but such was the pusillanimity of Paetus that he
bribery by L. Aurelius Cotta and L. Manlius was afraid to wait for the assistance of Corbulo,
Torquatus, and condemned. Their election was and purchased peace from the Parthians on the
accordingly declared void: and their accusers most disgraceful terms. In consequence of this
were chosen consuls in their stead. Enraged at conduct Paetus was deprived of his command and
i;is disappointiment Paetus conspired with Cati- expected severe punishment on his return to
line to Imurder the consuls Cotta and Torquatus; Rome, but Nero dismissed him uninjured with a
and this design is said to have been frustrated few insulting words (Tac. Anna. xv. 6, 8-15,
solely by the impatience of Catiline, who gave 17, 25; Dion Cass. lxii. 21, 22; Suet. Net. 39.)
the signal prematurely before the whole of the After the accession of Vespasian, Caesennius
conspirators had assembled. (Sall. Cat. 18; Dion Paetus was appointed governor of Syria, aIld
Cuss. xxxvi. 27; Ascon. ie CorJnel. p. 74, ed. deprived Antiochus IV., king of Commagene, of
Orelli; Suet. Caes. 9; Liv. Epil. 101.) [CATI- his kingdom. (Joseph. B. J. vii. 7.) [See Vol I.
LINA, p. 629, b] Paetus afterwards took an p. 194, b.]
active part in the Catilinarian conspiracy, which The name of Caesennius Paetus, proconsul,
broke out in Cicero's consulship. After the sup- occurs on the coins of Ephesus and Smyrna,
pression of the conspiracy Paetus was brought to struck in' the reign of Domitian. This Caesennius
trial for the share hi had had in it; he entreated Paetus may have been a son of the preceding
Cicero with many tears to undertake his defence, Paetus; for Tacitus makes mention of one of his
pleading their early friendship, and their having sons who vwas with his father in Armenia (Ann.
been colleagues in the quaestorship, but this the xv. 10), and also of a son, apparently a different
orator refused (Cic. p;ro Sail. 6), and all his one, who was serving as tribune of the soldiers
former friends in like manner withdrew from him under Corbulo (Anen. xv. 28).
their support. He was accordingly condemned, PAETUS, L. CASTRI'NIIJS, mentioned by
and went into exile at Epeirus, where he was Caelius in a letter to Cicero (ad Faem. viii. 2) in
living when Cicero himself went into banishment B. c. 51, may perhaps be the same person as the
in B. c. 53. Cicero was then much alarmed lest L. Castronius Paetus, the leading man in the
t'aetus should make an attempt upon his life (Sall. municipium of Luca, whom Cicero recommended to
Cat. 17, 47; Dion Cass. xxxvii. 25; Cic. iro Brutus in B. C. 46 (ad Faom. xiii. 13).
Szill. passiin; Cic. ad Att. iii. 2, 7.) Autronius PAETUS, C. CONSI'DIUS, known only
Paetus has a place in the list of orators in the from coins, a specimen of which is annexed. The
rslutus of Cicero, who however dismisses him with obverse represents the head of Venus, and the
the character, "voce peracuta, atque magna, nec reverse a sella curulis.
alia re ulla probabilis" (c. 68).
2. P. AUTRONIUS PAETUS, consul suffectus
a. c. 33 in place of Augustus, who resigned his
office immediately after entering upon it on the'Kalends of January. (Fasti; Appian, Illyr. 28;
comp. Dion Cass. xlix. 43; Suet. Aug. 26.)
3. L. AUTRONiUS L. F. L. N. PAETUS is
stated in the Capitoline Fasti to have obtained
a triumph as proconsul from Africa in the month
of August, B. C. 29. COIN OF C. CONSIDIUS PAETUS.
PAETUS, CAECINA. [CAECINA, No. 5.]
PAETUS, C. CAESE'NNIUS, sometimes PAETUS, L. PAPI'RIUS, a friend of Cicero,
called CAESO'NIUS, was consul A.D. 61 with to whom the latter has addressed several letters
C. Petronius Turpilianus. He was sent by Nero (ad FCam. ix. 15-26). From these letters it
in a. D. 63 to the assistance of Domitius Corbulo appears that Papirius Paetus belonged to the
[CoRBULO], in order to defend Armenia against Epicurean school, and that he was a man of
the attacks of Vologeses, king of Parthia. Arro- learning and intelligence. Ile is mentioned once
ganrt by nature, and confident of success, he or twice in Cicero's letters to Atticus, (ad Att. i. 20.
thought himself superior to the veteran Corbulo, ~ 7, ii. l. ~ 12).
and crossed the Taurus, boldly asserting that he PAETUS THRA'SEA. [THRASEA.]
would recover Tigranocerta, which Corbulo had PAETUS,-VALERIA'NUS, put to death by
been obliged to leave to its fate. This, however, Elagabalus. (Dion Cass. lxxix. 4.)
he was unable to accomplish; but he took a few PAGASAEUS (Ilayaaeos), i. e. the Pagasaean,
fortified places, acquired some booty, and then, as from Pegasus, or Pegasae, a town in Thessaly, is a
the year was far advanced, led back his army into surnamne of Apollo, who there had a sanctuary said
winter-quarters, and sent to Nero a magnificent to have been built by Trophonius (Hes. Scut. Here.
account of his exploits. But as Vologeses shortly 70, with the Schol.), and of Iason, because the
after appeared with a large force, Paetus marched ship Argo was said to have been built at Pagasus.
forth against him (according to Dion Cassius, (Ov. lleet. vii. ], Her. xvi. 345.) [L. S.]
with the view of relieving Tigranocerta), but after PAGONDAS (Hllacydias). I. A native of
losing a few troops he hastily withdrew across Thebes who gained the victory in the chariotmount Taurus, leaving 3000 soldiers to defend the race with entire horses, in the twenty-fifth
passes of thie mountain. These troops, however, Olympiad, on which occasion that species of conG3