MARCUS

See also:

• MARCUS LOLLIUS

LOLLIUS  , Roman general, the first governor of Galatia (25 B.C.), consul in 21 . In 16, when governor of Gaul, he was defeated by the Sigambri (Sygambri), Usipetes and Tencteri, German tribes who had crossed the Rhine . This defeat is coupled by Tacitus with the disaster of Varus, but it was disgraceful rather than dangerous . Lollius was subsequently (2 B.C.) attached in the capacity of tutor and adviser to Gaius Caesar (Augustus's grandson) on his mission to the East . He was accused of extortion and treachery to the state, and denounced by Gaius to the emperor . To avoid punishment he is said to have taken poison . According to Vellelus Paterculus and Pliny, he was a hypocrite and cared for nothing but amassing wealth . It was formerly thought that this was the Lollius whom Horace described as a model of integrity and superior to avarice in Od. iv . 9, but it seems hardly likely that this Ode, as well as the two Lollian epistles of Horace (i . 2 and 18), was addressed to him . All three must have been addressed to the same individual, a young man, probably the son of this Lollius . See Suetonius, Augustus, 23, Tiberius, 12; Vell .

Pat. ii . 97 . 102; Tacitus,

Annals, i. to,. iii . 48; 'Pliny, Nat . Hist. ix . 35 (58); Dio Cassius, liv . 6; see also J . C . Tarver, Tiberius the Tyrant (1902), pp . 200 foil .