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 Chap. 30.] EOMAN AUTHORS QUOTED. ' 269 Curio' tlie Elder, Caelius", Arruntius^, Sebosus"*, Liciniua Mucianus'^ Fabricius Tuscus^, L. Ateiiis^, Capito*, Ver- riiis riaccus^, L. Piso^", Gellianus'', and Valerianus'". FoEEiGN Authors quoted. — Artemidorus '^, Alexander the first Roman author who wrote a treatise on Geography. It is still extant, and bears marks of great care, while it is written m pm'e and nii- afiected language. ^ C. Scribonius Curio, the third known of that name. He was the first Roman general who advanced as far as the Danube. Like his son of the same name, he was a violent opponent of Julius Caesar. He was eloquent as an orator, but ignorant and uncultivated. His orations were pubhshed, as also an invective against Caesar, in form of a dialogue, in which his son was introduced as one of the interlocutors. He died B.C. 53. 2 L. Caehus Antipater. See end of B. ii. 3 L. Arruntius, Consul, A.D. 6. Augustus declared in his last iUness that he was worthy of the empire. This, with his riches and talents, rendered liim an object of suspicion to Tiberius. Being charged as an accomphce in the crimes of Albucilla, he put himself to death by opening his veins. It appears not to be certain whether it was this person or his father who wrote a history of the first Punic war, in which he imitated the style of Sallust. ■* Statius Sebosus. See end of B. ii. ^ Licinius Crassus Mucianus. See end of B. ii. ® Of this writer no particulars whatever are known. 7 In most editions this name appears as L. Ateius Capito, but SiUig separates them, and with propriety it would appear, as the name of Capito the great legist was not Lucius, Ateius here mentioned was probably the person sumamed Praetextatus, and Philologus, a freedman of the jurist Ateius Capito. For Sallust the historian he composed an Abstract of Roman Histoiy, and for Asinius PoUio he compiled precepts on the Art of Writing. His Commentaries were numerous, but a few only were surviving in the time of Suetonius. ^ C. Ateius Capito, one of the most famous of the Roman legists, and a zealous partisan of Augustus, who had him elevated to the Consulsliip A.D. 5. He was the rival of Labeo, the republican jurist. His legal works were very vohuninous, aud extracts from them are to be fomid in the Digest. He also wrote a work on the Pontifical Rights and the Law of Sacrifices. ^ A distinguished grammarian of the latter part of the first century B.C. He was entrusted by Augustus vkith the education of his grandsons Cains and Lucius Caesar. He died at an advanced age in the reign of Tiberius. He wi'ote upon antiquities, history, and philosophy : among his numerous works a History of the Etruscans is mentioned, also a treatise on Orthography. Phny quotes liim very frequentlv. 1" See end of B. ii. ^^ He is mentioned in c. 17, but nothing more is knowTi of him ^2 Nothing is known of him. The younger ]*liny addrcs'-rd three Epistles to a person of this name, B. ii. Ep. 15, B. v. Ep. 4» 14, ^ See end of B. ii.