was born at the same birth with Remus. These two children were thrown
into the Tiber by order of Amulius, who usurped the crown of his
brother Numitor; but they were preserved, and, according to Florus,
the river stopped its course, and a she-wolf came and fed them with
her milk, till they were found by Faustulus, one of the king’s
shepherds, who educated them as his own children. When they knew
their real origin, the twins, called Romulus and Remus, put Amulius
to death, and restored the crown to their grandfather Numitor. They
afterwards undertook to build a city, and to determine which of the
two brothers should have the management of it, they had recourse
to omens and the flight of birds. Remus went to mount Aventine, and
Romulus to mount Palatine. Remus saw first a flight of six vultures,
and soon after, Romulus 12; and therefore, as his number was greater,
he began to lay the foundations of the city, hoping that it would
become a warlike and powerful nation, as the birds from which he had
received the omen were fond of prey and slaughter. Romulus marked
with a furrow the place where he wished to erect the walls; but their
slenderness was ridiculed by Remus, who leaped over them with the
greatest contempt. This irritated Romulus, and Remus was immediately
put to death, either by the hand of his brother or one of the workmen.
When the walls were built, the city was without inhabitants; but
Romulus, by making an asylum of a sacred grove, soon collected a
number of fugitives, foreigners, and criminals, whom he received as
his lawful subjects. Yet, however numerous these might be, they were
despised by the neighbouring inhabitants, and none were willing to
form matrimonial connections with them. But Romulus obtained by force
what was denied to his petitions. The Romans celebrated games in
honour of the god Consus, and forcibly carried away all the females
who had assembled there to be spectators of these unusual exhibitions.
These violent measures offended the neighbouring nations; they made
war against the ravishers with various success, till at last they
entered Rome, which had been betrayed to them by one of the stolen
virgins. A violent engagement was begun in the middle of the Roman
forum; but the Sabines were conquered, or, according to Ovid, the
two enemies laid down their arms when the women had rushed between
the two armies, and by their tears and entreaties raised compassion
in the bosoms of their parents and husbands. The Sabines left their
original possessions and came to live in Rome, where Tatius their
king shared the sovereign power with Romulus. The introduction of
the Sabines into the city of Rome was attended with the most salutary
consequences, and the Romans, by pursuing this plan, and admitting
the conquered nations among their citizens, rendered themselves
more powerful and more formidable. Afterwards Romulus divided the
lands which he had obtained by conquest; one part was reserved for
religious uses, to maintain the priests, to erect temples, and to
consecrate altars; the other was appropriated for the expenses of the
state; and the third part was equally distributed among his subjects,
who were divided into three classes or tribes. The most aged and
experienced, to the number of 100, were also chosen, whom the monarch
might consult in matters of the highest importance, and from their
age they were called _senators_, and from their authority _patres_.
The whole body of the people were also distinguished by the name of
patricians and plebeians, patron and client, who by mutual interest
were induced to preserve the peace of the state, and to promote the
public good. Some time after Romulus disappeared as he was giving
instructions to the senators, and the eclipse of the sun, which
happened at that time, was favourable to the rumour which asserted
that the king had been taken up to heaven, 714 B.C., after a reign of
39 years. This was further confirmed by Julius Proculus, one of the
senators, who solemnly declared, that as he returned from Alba, he
had seen Romulus in a form above human, and that he had directed him
to tell the Romans to pay him divine honours under the name of
_Quirinus_, and to assure them that their city was doomed one day to
become the capital of the world. This report was immediately credited,
and the more so as the senators dreaded the resentment of the people,
who suspected them of having offered him violence. A temple was
raised to him, and a regular priest, called _Flamen Quirinalis_,
was appointed to offer him sacrifices. Romulus was ranked by the
Romans among the 12 great gods, and it is not to be wondered that
he received such distinguished honours, when the Romans considered
him as the founder of their city and empire, and the son of the god
of war. He is generally represented like his father, so much that
it is difficult to distinguish them. The fable of the two children
of Rhea Sylvia being nourished by a she-wolf, arose from Lupa,
Faustulus’s wife, having brought them up. _See:_ Acca. _Dionysius
of Halicarnassus_, bks. 1 & 2.――_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 4, &c.――_Justin_,
bk. 43, chs. 1 & 2.――_Florus_, bk. 1, ch. 1.――_Plutarch_, _Romulus_.
――_Valerius Maximus_, bk. 3, ch. 2; bk. 5, ch. 3.――_Pliny_, bk. 15,
ch. 18, &c.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 2, lis. 342, 605.――_Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 14, lis. 616 & 845; _Fasti_, bk. 4, &c.
――_Horace_, bk. 3, ode 3.――_Juvenal_, satire 18, li. 272.
=Romŭlus Sylvius=, or =Alladius=, a king of Alba.――――Momyllus
Augustulus, the last of the emperors of the western empire of Rome.
His country was conquered A.D. 476, by the Heruli, under Odoacer, who
assumed the name of king of Italy.
=Romus=, a son of Æneas by Lavinia. Some suppose that he was the
founder of Rome.――――A son of Æmathion sent by Diomedes to Italy, and
also supposed by some to be the founder of Rome.
=Roscia lex=, _de theatris_, by Lucius Roscius Otho the tribune, A.U.C.
685. It required that none should sit in the first 14 seats of the
theatre, if they were not in possession of 400 sestertia, which was
the fortune required to be a Roman knight.
=Roscianum=, the port of Thurii, now _Rossano_.
=Quintus Roscius=, a Roman actor, born at Lanuvium, so celebrated on
the stage that every comedian of excellence and merit has received
his name. His eyes were naturally distorted, and he always appeared
on the stage with a mask, but the Romans obliged him to act his
characters without, and they overlooked the deformities of his
face, that they might the better hear his elegant pronunciation,
and be delighted with the sweetness of his voice. He was accused on
suspicion of dishonourable practices; but Cicero, who had been one of
his pupils, undertook his defence, and cleared him of the malevolent
aspersions of his enemies, in an elegant oration still extant.
Roscius wrote a treatise, in which he compared with great success
and much learning the profession of the orator with that of the
comedian. He died about 60 years before Christ. _Horace_, bk. 2,
ltr. 1.――_Quintilian._――_Cicero_, _For Quintus Roscius the Actor_;
_On Oratory_, bk. 3; _de Divinatione_, bk. 1, &c.; _Tusculanæ
Disputationes_, bk. 3, &c.――_Plutarch_, _Cicero_.――――Sextus, a rich
citizen of Ameria, murdered in the dictatorship of Sylla. His son,
of the same name, was accused of the murder, and eloquently defended
by Cicero, in an oration still extant, A.U.C. 673. _Cicero_, _For
Quintus Roscius the Actor_.――――Lucius, a lieutenant of Cæsar’s army
in Gaul.――――Otho, a tribune, who made a law to discriminate the
knights from the common people at public spectacles.
=Rosiæ campus=, or =Rosia=, a beautiful plain in the country of the
Sabines, near the lake Velinum. _Varro_, _de Re Rustica_, bk. 1,
ch. 7.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 712.――_Cicero_, bk. 4, _Letters
to Atticus_, ltr. 15.
=Rosillanus ager=, a territory in Etruria.
=Rosius=, a harbour of Cilicia.――――A man made consul only for one day
under Vitellius, &c. _Tacitus._
=Rosulum=, a town of Etruria, now _Monte Rosi_.
=Rotomagus=, a town of Gaul, now _Rouen_.
=Roxāna=, a Persian woman, taken prisoner by Alexander. The conqueror
became enamoured of her and married her. She behaved with great
cruelty after Alexander’s death, and she was at last put to death
by Cassander’s order. She was daughter of Darius, or, according to
others, of one of his satraps. _Curtius_, bk. 8, ch. 4; bk. 10, ch. 6.
――_Plutarch_, _Alexander_.――――A wife of Mithridates the Great, who
poisoned herself.
=Roxolāni=, a people of European Sarmatia, who proved very active and
rebellious in the reign of the Roman emperors.
=Rubeæ=, the _north cape_ at the north of Scandinavia.
=Rubellius Blandus=, a man who married Julia the daughter of Drusus, &c.
――――One of the descendants of Augustus, treacherously put to death by
Nero, &c. _Tacitus._――――Plautus, an illustrious Roman who disgraced
himself by his arrogance and ambitious views. _Juvenal_, satire 8,
li. 39.
=Rubi=, now _Ruvo_, a town of Apulia, from which the epithet _Rubeus_
is derived, applied to bramble bushes which grew there. The
inhabitants were called _Rubitini_. _Horace_, bk. 1, satire 5, li. 94.
――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 1, li. 266.
=Rubĭcon=, now _Rugone_, a small river of Italy, which it separates
from Cisalpine Gaul. It rises in the Apennine mountains, and falls
into the Adriatic sea. By crossing it, and thus transgressing the
boundaries of his province, Julius Cæsar declared war against the
senate and Pompey, and began the civil wars. _Lucan_, bk. 1, lis. 185
& 213.――_Strabo_, bk. 5.――_Suetonius_, _Cæsar_, ch. 32.――_Pliny_,
bk. 3, ch. 15.
=Rubiēnus Lappa=, a tragic poet in the age of Juvenal, conspicuous
as much for his great genius as his poverty. _Juvenal_, satire 7,
li. 72.
=Rubīgo=, a goddess. _See:_ Robigo.
=Rubo=, the _Dwina_, a river which falls into the Baltic at Riga.
=Rubra saxa=, a place of Etruria, near Veii, at the distance of above
eight miles from Rome. _Martial_, bk. 4, ltr. 64, li. 15.――_Livy_,
bk. 3, ch. 49.
=Rubria lex=, was enacted after the taking of Carthage, to make an
equal division of the lands in Africa.
=Rubrius=, a Roman knight accused of treason under Tiberius, &c.
_Tacitus._――――A man who fled to Parthia on suspicion that the Roman
affairs were ruined.――――A friend of Vitellius.――――An obscure Gaul
in great favour with Domitian. _Juvenal_, satire 4, li. 145.――――An
officer in Cæsar’s army.
=Rubrum mare= (_the Red sea_), is situate between Arabia, Egypt, and
Æthiopia, and is often called Erythræum mare, and confounded with
the Arabicus sinus, and the Indian sea. _Pliny_, bk. 6, chs. 23 & 24.
――_Livy_, bk. 36, ch. 17; bk. 42, ch. 52; bk. 45, ch. 9.――_Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 686.――_Lucan_, bk. 8, li. 853.
=Rudiæ=, a town of Calabria near Brundusium, built by a Greek colony,
and famous for giving birth to the poet Ennius. _Cicero_, _For
Archias_, ch. 10.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 12, li. 396.――_Mela_, bk. 2,
ch. 4.
=Ruffīnus=, a general in Gaul in the reign of Vitellius, &c. _Tacitus_,
_Histories_, bk. 2, ch. 94.
=Ruffus Crispīnus=, an officer of the pretorian guards under Claudius.
He was banished by Agrippina for his attachment to Britannicus
and Octavius the sons of Messalina, and put himself to death. His
wife Poppæa Sabina, by whom he had a son called Ruffinus Crispinus,
afterwards married Nero. _Tacitus_, _Histories_, bk. 12, ch. 42; bk.
16, ch. 17.――――A soldier presented with a civic crown for preserving
the life of a citizen, &c.
=Rufiāna=, a town of Gaul, now _Rufash_, in Alsace.
=Rufilius=, a Roman ridiculed by Horace, satire 2, li. 27, for his
effeminacy.
=Julius Rufinianus=, a rhetorician, &c.
=Rufinus=, a general of Theodosius, &c.
=Rufræ=, a town of Campania, of which the inhabitants were called
_Rufreni_. _Cicero_, bk. 10, _Letters to his Friends_, ltr. 71.
――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 568.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7,
li. 739.
=Rufrium=, a town of Samnium, now _Ruvo_. _Livy_, bk. 8, ch. 25.
=Rufus=, a Latin historian. _See:_ Quintius.――――A friend of Commodus,
famous for his avarice and ambition.――――One of the ancestors of Sylla,
degraded from the rank of a senator because 10 pounds’ weight of
gold were found in his house.――――A governor of Judæa.――――A man who
conspired against Domitian.――――A poet of Ephesus in the reign of
Trajan. He wrote six books on simples, now lost.――――A Latin poet.
――――Sempronius. _See:_ Prætorius.
=Rugia=, now _Rugen_, an island of the Baltic.
=Rugii=, a nation of Germany. _Tacitus_, _Germania_, ch. 43.
=Rupilius=, an officer surnamed _Rex_, for his authoritative manners.
He was proscribed by Augustus and fled to Brutus. _Horace_,
bk. 1, satire 7, li. 1.――――A writer whose treatises _de figuris
sententiarum_, &c., were edited by Runken, 8vo, Leiden, 1786.
=Ruscino=, a town of Gaul at the foot of the Pyrenees. _Livy_, bk. 21,
ch. 24.――――A seaport town of Africa. _Livy_, bk. 30, ch. 10.
=Ruscius=, a town of Gaul.
=Rusconia=, a town of Mauritania. _Livy_, bk. 21, ch. 24.
=Rusellæ=, an inland town of Etruria destroyed by the Romans. _Livy_,
bk. 28, ch. 45.
=Ruspĭna=, a town of Africa near Adrumetum. _Silius Italicus_, bk. 3,
li. 260.――_Hirtius_, _African War_, li. 640.
=Rustĭcus Lucius Junius Arulenus=, a man put to death by Domitian.
He was the friend and preceptor of Pliny the younger, who praises
his abilities, and he is likewise commended by Tacitus, bk. 16,
_Histories_, ch. 26.――_Pliny_, bk. 1, ltr. 14.――_Suetonius_,
_Domitian_.――――A friend of Marcus Aurelius.
=Rusuccurum=, a town of Mauritania, believed to be modern Algiers.
=Rutēni=, a people of Gaul, now _Ruvergne_, in Guienne. _Cæsar_,
_Gallic War_.
=Rutila=, a deformed old woman, who lived near 100 years, &c. _Pliny_,
bk. 7, ch. 48.――_Juvenal_, satire 10, li. 294.
=Publius Rutilius Rufus=, a Roman consul in the age of Sylla,
celebrated for his virtues and writings. He refused to comply with
the requests of his friends because they were unjust. When Sylla had
banished him from Rome he retired to Smyrna, amidst the acclamations
and praises of the people; and when some of his friends wished him
to be recalled home by means of a civil war, he severely reprimanded
them, and said, that he wished rather to see his country blush at
his exile, than to plunge it into distress by his return. He was the
first who taught the Roman soldiers the principles of fencing, and
by thus mixing dexterity with valour, rendered their attacks more
certain, and more irresistible. During his banishment he employed his
time in study, and wrote a history of Rome in Greek, and an account
of his own life in Latin, besides many other works. _Ovid_, _Fasti_,
bk. 6, li. 563.――_Seneca_, _de Beneficiis_.――_Cicero_, _Brutus_; _On
Oratory_, bk. 1, ch. 53.――_Valerius Maximus_, bk. 2, ch. 3; bk. 6, ch.
4.――_Paterculus_, bk. 2, ch. 9.――――A Roman proconsul, who is supposed
to have encouraged Mithridates to murder all the Romans who were in
his province.――――Lupus, a pretor, who fled away with three cohorts
from Tarracina.――――A rhetorician. _Quintilian_, bk. 3, ch. 1.――――A
man who went against Jugurtha.――――A friend of Nero.――――Claudius
Numantianus, a poet of Gaul, in the reign of Honorius. According
to some he wrote a poem on mount Ætna. He wrote also an itinerary,
published by Burman in the Poetæ Latini Minores, Leiden, 4to, 1731.
=Rutilus=, a rich man reduced to beggary by his extravagance. _Juvenal_,
satire 11, li. 2.
=Rutŭba=, a river of Liguria, falling from the Apennines into the
Mediterranean. _Lucan_, bk. 2, li. 422.――――Of Latium, falling into
the Tiber. _Lucan_, bk. 2, li. 422.
=Rutŭbus=, a gladiator, &c. _Horace_, bk. 2, satire 7, li. 96.
=Rŭtŭli=, a people of Latium, known as well as the Latins, by the
name of _Aborigines_. When Æneas came into Italy, Turnus was their
king, and they supported him in the war which he waged against this
foreign prince. The capital of their dominions was called Ardea.
_Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 4, li. 883; _Metamorphoses_, bk. 14, li. 455,
&c.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, 7, &c.――_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 5.
=Rŭtŭpæ=, a seaport town on the southern coasts of Britain, abounding
in excellent oysters, whence the epithet of Rutupinus. Some suppose
that it is the modern town of _Dover_, but others _Richborough_ or
_Sandwich_. _Lucan_, bk. 6, li. 67.――_Juvenal_, satire 4, li. 141.
=Ryphæi montes.= _See:_ ♦Rhiphæi.
♦ ‘Rhipæi’ replaced with ‘Rhiphæi’
S
=Saba=, a town of Arabia, famous for frankincense, myrrh, and aromatic
plants. The inhabitants were called _Sabæi_. _Strabo_, bk. 16.
――_Diodorus_, bk. 3.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 1, li. 57; _Æneid_,
bk. 1, li. 420.
=Sabăchus=, or =Sabacon=, a king of Æthiopia, who invaded Egypt and
reigned there, after the expulsion of king Amasis. After a reign
of 50 years he was terrified by a dream, and retired into his own
kingdom. _Herodotus_, bk. 2, ch. 137, &c.
=Sabæi=, a people of Arabia. _See:_ Saba.
=Sabāta=, a town of Liguria with a safe and beautiful harbour,
supposed to be the modern _Savona_. _Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 461.
――_Strabo_, bk. 4.――――A town of Assyria.
=Sabatha=, a town of Arabia, now _Sanaa_.
=Sabatra=, a town of Syria. _Silius Italicus_, bk. 3, li. 256.
=Sabatini=, a people of Samnium, living on the banks of the Sabatus, a
river which falls into the Vulturnus. _Livy_, bk. 26, ch. 33.
=Sabazius=, a surname of Bacchus, as also of Jupiter. _Cicero_, _de
Natura Deorum_, bk. 3, ch. 23.――_Arnobius_, bk. 4.
=Sabbas=, a king of India.
=Sabella=, the nurse of the poet Horace, bk. 1, satire 9, li. 29.
=Sabelli=, a people of Italy, descended from the Sabines, or, according
to some, from the Samnites. They inhabited that part of the country
which lies between the Sabines and the Marsi. Hence the epithet of
_Sabellicus_. _Horace_, bk. 3, ode 6.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 3,
li. 255.
=Sabellus=, a Latin poet in the reign of Domitian and Nerva.
=Julia Sabīna=, a Roman matron, who married Adrian by means of Plotina
the wife of Trajan. She is celebrated for her private as well as
public virtues. Adrian treated her with the greatest asperity, though
he had received from her the imperial purple; and the empress was so
sensible of his unkindness, that she boasted in his presence that she
had disdained to make him a father, lest his children should become
more odious or more tyrannical than he himself was. The behaviour
of Sabina at last so exasperated Adrian that he poisoned her, or,
according to some, obliged her to destroy herself. The emperor at
that time laboured under a mortal disease, and therefore he was the
more encouraged to sacrifice Sabina to his resentment, that she might
not survive him. Divine honours were paid to her memory. She died
after she had been married 38 years to Adrian, A.D. 138.
=Sabīni=, an ancient people of Italy, reckoned among the Aborigines,
or those inhabitants whose origin was not known. Some suppose that
they were originally a Lacedæmonian colony, who settled in that
part of the country. The possessions of the Sabines were situated in
the neighbourhood of Rome, between the river Nar and the Anio, and
bounded on the north by the Apennines and Umbria, south by Latium,
east by the Æqui, and Etruria on the west. The greatest part of the
contiguous nations were descended from them, such as the Umbrians,
the Campanians, the Sabelli, the Osci, Samnites, Hernici, Æqui, Marsi,
Brutii, &c. The Sabines are celebrated in ancient history as being
the first who took up arms against the Romans, to avenge the rape of
their females at a spectacle where they had been invited. After some
engagements, the greatest part of the Sabines left their ancient
possessions, and migrated to Rome, where they settled with their new
allies. They were at last totally subdued, about the year of Rome
373, and ranked as Roman citizens. Their chief cities were Cures,
Fidenæ, Reate, Crustumerium, Corniculum, Nomentum, Collatia, &c. The
character of the nation for chastity, for purity of morals, and for
the knowledge of herbs and incantations, was very great. _Horace_,
epode 17, li. 28.――_Cicero_, _Against Vatinius_, ch. 15.――_Pliny_, bk.
3, ch. 12.――_Livy_, bk. 1, chs. 9 & 18.――_Dionysius of Halicarnassus_,
bk. 2, ch. 51.――_Strabo_, bk. 5.――_Florus_, bk. 1, ch. 1; bk. 3,
ch. 18.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 424.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 14, lis. 775 & 797; _Ars Amatoria_, bk. 1, li. 101; ♦_Amores_,
bk. 3, poem 8, li. 61.――_Juvenal_, satire 10, li. 197.
♦ Book name omitted from text.
=Sabiniānus=, a general who revolted in Africa, in the reign of Gordian,
and was defeated soon after, A.D. 240.――――A general of the eastern
empire, &c.
=Sabīnus Aulus=, a Latin poet intimate with Ovid. He wrote some
epistles and elegies, in the number of which were mentioned, an
epistle from Æneas to Dido, from Hippolytus to Phædra, and from Jason
to ♦Hypsipyle, from Demophoon to Phyllis, from Paris to Œnome, from
Ulysses to Penelope; the three last of which, though said to be his
composition, are spurious. _Ovid_, _Amores_, bk. 2, poem 13, li. 27.
――――A man from whom the Sabines received their name. He received
divine honours after death, and was one of those deities whom Æneas
invoked when he entered Italy. He was supposed to be of Lacedæmonian
origin. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 171.――――An officer of Cæsar’s
army defeated by the Gauls.――――Julius, an officer who proclaimed
himself emperor in the beginning of Vespasian’s reign. He was soon
after defeated in a battle; and, to escape from the conqueror, he hid
himself in a subterraneous cave, with two faithful domestics, where
he continued unseen for nine successive years. His wife found out
his retreat, and spent her time with him, till her frequent visits
to the cave discovered the place of his concealment. He was dragged
before Vespasian, and by his orders put to death, though his friends
interested themselves in his cause, and his wife endeavoured to
raise the emperor’s pity, by showing him the twins whom she had
brought forth in their subterraneous retreat.――――Cornelius, a man
who conspired against Caligula, and afterwards destroyed himself.
――――Titius, a Roman senator, shamefully accused and condemned
by Sejanus. His body, after execution, was dragged through the
streets of Rome, and treated with the greatest indignities. His dog
constantly followed the body, and when it was thrown into the Tiber,
the faithful animal plunged in after it, and was drowned. _Pliny_,
bk. 8, ch. 40.――――Poppæus, a Roman consul, who presided above 24
years over Mœsia, and obtained a triumph for his victories over the
barbarians. He was a great favourite of Augustus and of Tiberius.
_Tacitus_, _Annals_.――――Flavius, a brother of Vespasian, killed by
the populace. He was well known for his fidelity to Vitellius. He
commanded in the Roman armies 35 years, and was governor of Rome for
12.――――A friend of Domitian.――――A Roman who attempted to plunder the
temple of the Jews.――――A friend of the emperor Alexander.――――A lawyer.
♦ ‘Hipsipyle’ replaced with ‘Hypsipyle’ for consistency.
=Sabis=, now _Sambre_, a river of Belgic Gaul, falling into the Maese
at Namur. _Cæsar_, bk. 2, chs. 16 & 18.
=Sabota=, the same as Sabatha.
=Sabracæ=, a powerful nation of India. _Curtius_, bk. 9, ch. 8.
=Sabrăta=, a maritime town of Africa, near the Syrtes. It was a Roman
colony, about 70 miles from the modern Tripoli. _Silius Italicus_,
bk. 3, li. 256.――_Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 4.
=Sabrina=, the _Severn_ in England.
=Sabŭra=, a general of Juba king of Numidia, defeated and killed in a
battle. _Lucan_, bk. 4, li. 722.
=Saburānus=, an officer of the pretorian guards. When he was appointed
to this office by the emperor Trajan, the prince presented him with a
sword, saying, “Use this weapon in my service as long as my commands
are just; but turn it against my own breast, whenever I become cruel
or malevolent.”
=Sabus=, one of the ancient kings of the Sabines; the same as Sabinus.
_See:_ Sabinus.――――A king of Arabia.