See also:MARCUS See also:AEMILIUS See also:SCAURUS
, his son, served during the third Mithradatic See also:War (74-61 B.C.) as See also:quaestor to See also:Pompey, by whom he was sent to See also:Judaea to See also:settle the See also:quarrel between See also:Hyrcanus and See also:Aristobulus
.
See also:Scaurus decided in favour of the latter, who was able to offer more See also:money
.
On his arrival in See also:Syria, Pompey reversed the decision, but, ignoring the See also:charge of See also:bribery brought against Scaurus, See also:left him in command of the See also:district
.
An incidental See also:campaign against See also:Aretas, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the See also:Nabataeans, was ended by the See also:payment of 300 talents by Aretas to secure his possessions
.
This agreement is represented on coins of Scaurus—Aretas kneeling by the See also:side of a See also:camel, and holding out an See also:olive See also:branch in an attitude of supplication
.
As See also:curule See also:aedile in 58, Scaurus celebrated the public See also:games on a See also:scale of magnificence never seen before
.
Animals, hitherto unknown to the See also:Romans, were exhibited in the See also:circus, and an artificial See also:lake (euripus) was made for the reception of crocodiles and hippopotamuses
.
One of the greatest curiosities was a huge See also:skeleton brought from See also:Joppa, said to be that of the See also:monster to which See also:Andromeda had been exposed
.
A wooden See also:theatre was erected for the occasion, capable of holding 8o,000 spectators
.
In 56 Scaurus was See also:praetor, and in the following See also:year See also:governor of See also:Sardinia
.
On his return to See also:Rome (54) he was accused of See also:extortion in his See also:province
.
See also:Cicero and five others (amongst them the famous Q
.
See also:Hortensius) undertook his See also:defence, and, although there was no doubt of his See also:guilt, he was acquitted
.
During the same year, however (according to some, two years later, under Pompey's new See also:law), Scaurus was condemned on a charge of illegal practices when a See also:candidate for the consulship
.
He went into See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile, and nothing further is heard of him
.
See See also:Josephus, Antiq. xiv
.
3-5, See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
Bell
.
See also:Jud. i
.
7; See also:Appian, Syr
.
51, Bell. civ. ii
.
24; See also:Pliny, Nat
.
Hist. See also:xxxvi
.
24; Cicero, See also:Pro Sestio, 54, fragments of Pro Scauro, numerous references in the Letters; Asconius, Argumentum in Scaurum
.
See also, for both the above, AEMIL1us (Nos
.
14o, 141) in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, i. pt
.
1
.
(1894), and See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith's See also:Dictionary of See also:Greek and See also:Roman See also:Biography, s.v
.
SCAURUS
.
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