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Memmius delivered at least four speeches de triumpho Luculli Asiatico, and the antagonism towards Lucullus aroused by the Pompeians proved so effective that the enabling law ( lex curiata ) required to hold a triumph was delayed for three years.
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Memmius and at
Lucretius refers to Memmius by name four times in the first book, three times in the second, five in the fifth, and not at all in the third, fourth, or sixth books.
In relation to this discrepancy in the frequency of Lucretius ' reference to the apparent subject of his poem, Kannengiesse advances the theory that Lucretius wrote the first version of De rerum natura for the reader at large, and subsequently revised in order to write it for Memmius.
Bruns and Brandt have set forth an alternative theory that Lucretius did at first write the poem with Memmius in mind, but that his enthusiasm for his patron cooled.
Both Memmius Symmachus and Boethius were fluent in Greek, an increasingly rare skill at the time in the Western Empire, which has led some scholars to think that Boethius was educated in the East.
They had at least one son, Gaius Memmius, suffect consul in 34 BC.
Memmius and speeches
Sallust refers to Memmius as " a man fiercely hostile to the power of the nobles " and states that he gave speeches whipping up the plebs, urging them not to accept the behaviour of the nobles.
Memmius and de
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de: Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus
Memmius and Lucullus
In his absence Pompey had shamefully usurped control over Sulla's children, contrary to the father's testament, and now in Pompeius ' absence the latter's intimate and hereditary political ally Gaius Memmius co-ordinated the opposition to Lucullus ' just claim to a triumph.
Memmius and by
A rival candidate, Gaius Memmius, is found murdered by agents of Saturninus, who is declared a public enemy by the Senate.
* Gaius Memmius Roman politician killed by a rival.
It was only after this, according to Appian, that Octavius slinked away unnoticed and was replaced as tribune by Quintus Memmius.
The local Roman commander was summoned to Rome to face corruption charges brought by his political rival Gaius Memmius.
The local Roman commander was summoned to Rome to face corruption charges brought by his political rival Gaius Memmius, who also induced the tribal assembly to vote safe conduct to Jugurtha to come to Rome to give evidence against the officials suspected of succumbing to bribery.
However, his father died when Boethius was young, and he was adopted by another patrician, Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus.
Marcus Antonius Orator was elected without opposition ; the other Optimate candidate, Gaius Memmius, who seemed to have the better chance of success, was beaten to death by the hired agents of Saturninus and Glaucia, while the voting was actually going on.
* Gaius Baebius, tribune of the plebs in 111 BC, bribed by Jugurtha to quash the investigation of Gaius Memmius.
While attempting to stand for consul in 99 BC, he was engaged in an exchange between himself and another candidate Gaius Memmius who attempted to prevent his candidature on the grounds that he had not waited the mandatory two years between election as praetor and election to the consulship, as stipulated by the " Lex Villia Annalis ".
* Gaius Memmius ( Tribune ), the tribune in 111 BC, who was assassinated in 99 BC by Glaucia so Lucius Appuleius Saturninus could become tribune
In 100 BC, Memmius was a candidate for the consulship of the following year ( 99 BC ), but was slain in a riot, stirred up by his rival the praetor Gaius Servilius Glaucia ..
Memmius and hold
Memmius Symmachus civil offices included being appointed sole consul for 485, the third known member of his family to hold this office.
Memmius and was
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Memmius without colleague ( or, less frequently, year 1238 Ab urbe condita ).
Very little is known about Lucretius's life ; the only certain fact is that he was either a friend or client of Gaius Memmius, to whom De Rerum Natura was addressed and dedicated.
Memmius was also a tribune in 66, praetor in 58, governor of Bithynia in 57, and was a candidate for the consulship in 54 but was disqualified for bribery, and Stearns suggests that the warm relationship between patron and client may have cooled.
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Memmius and Romulus ( or, less frequently, year 1096 Ab urbe condita ).
Gaius Memmius was married to Cornelia Fausta, the daughter of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
Lucretius wrote this epic poem to " Memmius ", who may be the Gaius Memmius who in 58 BC was a praetor, a judicial official deciding controversies between citizens and the government.
Apparently, Lucretius wrote On the Nature of Things in an attempt to convert Gaius Memmius to atomism, but was unsuccessful.
Paulina's first husband, Publius Memmius Regulus, was suffect consul in CE 31 and a Roman Governor.
Memmius and for
Stearns suggests that this is because Memmius reneged on a promise to pay for a new school to be built on the site of the old Epicurean school.
Memmius Symmachus raised him and instilled in him a love for literature and philosophy.
* Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus, his son, who edited Aurelius ' letters for publication
Prominent during his lifetime for as a patron of secular learning, consul for the year 485, and for his support of Pope Symmachus in the schism over his election, Memmius Symmachus was executed with his son-in-law Boethius after being charged with treason.
Memmius and three
In response, the Emperor sent three envoys to negotiate with Attila: Gennadius Avienus, one of the consuls of 450, Memmius Aemilius Trygetius, the former urban prefect, and Leo.
Memmius Symmachus had three daughters ( Rusticiana, Galla and Proba ) and adopted the young Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius when his father died ; later Boethius married Rusticiana, and the couple had two sons, Symmachus and Boethius, both consuls in 522.
Memmius and .
He spent the provincial command year summer 57 to summer 56 BC in Bithynia on the staff of the commander Gaius Memmius.
However, Memmius ' name is central to several critical verses in the poem, and this theory has therefore been largely discredited.
In 241 CE, a priest named Poplius Memmius Leon organized the Naia festival of Dodona.
Milo became praetor in 54 BC, and in that year married Cornelia Fausta, daughter of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla and ex-wife of Gaius Memmius.
The plebeian aedile Gaius Memmius is credited with staging the first of these ludi scaenici.
Gaius Memmius ( incorrectly called Gemellus, " The Twin "), Roman orator and poet, tribune of the people ( 66 BC ), patron of Lucretius and acquaintance of Catullus.
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