TITUS ANNIUS

See also:

• MILO
• TITUS ANNIUS MILO

MILO  , Roman political agitator, was the son of C . Papius Celsus, but was adopted by his mother's father, T . Annius Luscus . He joined the Pompeian party, and organized bands of mercenaries and gladiators to support the cause by public violence in opposition to P . Clodius, who gave similar support to the democratic cause . Milo was tribune of the plebs in 57 B.C . He took a prominent part in bringing about the recall of Cicero from exile, in spite of the opposition of Clodius . In 53, when Milo was candidate for the consulship and Clodius for the praetorship, the two leaders met by accident on the Appian Way at Bovillae and Clodius was murdered (January 52) . Milo was impeached; his guilt was clear, and his enemies took every means of intimidating his supporters and his judges . Cicero was afraid to speak, and the extant Pro Milone is an expanded form of the unspoken defence: Milo went into exile at Massilia, and his property was sold by auction . He joined M . Caelius Rufus in 48 in his rising against Caesar, but was slain near Thurii in Lucania .

His wife was Fausta, daughter of the

dictator Sulla .