Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Terentius

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TERE′NTIUS. 1. C. Terentius Arsa, called Terentillus by Livy, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 462, proposed that five commissioners should be appointed to draw up a body of laws to define the consular imperium. (Liv. iii. 9; Dionys. x. 1.)

2. Q. Terentius, was sent by the senate, along with M. Antistius, to bring back the consul C. Flaminius to the city, but he refused to obey their summons. (Liv. xxi. 63.)

3. L. Terentius Massaliota, plebeian aedile. B. C. 200, and praetor B. C. 187, when he obtained Sicily as his province. (Liv. xxxi. 50, xxxviii. 42.)

4. L. Terentius, one of the ambassadors sent to king Antiochus in B. C. 196. (Liv. xxxiii. 35.)

5. C. Terentius Istra, praetor B. C. 182, obtained Sardinia as his province. In the following year he was one of the triumviri for founding a colony at Graviscae. (Liv. xxxix. 56, xi. 1, 29.)

6. L. Terentius Massaliota, probably a son of No. 3, was tribunus militum in B. C. 180. (Liv xl. 35.)

7. P. Terentius Tuscivanus, one of the ambassadors sent into Illyricum in B. C. 167. (Liv. xlv. 18.)

8. Terentius Vespa, one of whose witticisms is quoted by Cicero in his De Oratore (ii. 61).

9. L. Terentius, was the companion and tentmate of Cn. Pompeius, when the latter was serving under his father Strabo in B. C. 87, and was bribed by Cinna to kill Pompeius. (Plut. Pomp. 3.)

10. Cn. Terentius, a senator, into vviiose custody Caeparius, one of the Catilinarian conspirators, was given. (Sall. Cat. 47.)

11. P. Terentius Hispo, a friend of Cicero, was promagister of the company of publicani, who farmed the taxes in Asia. Cicero recommended him in a letter to P. Silius. (Cic. ad Att. xi. 10, ad Fam. xiii. 65.)

12. Ser. Terentius, was a friend of D. Brutus, whom he pretended to be on the flight from Mutina, B. C. 43, in order to save the life of his friend; but he was recognised by the officer of Antony's cavalry, and preserved from death. (Val. Max. iv. 7. §6.)

13. M. Terentius, a Roman eques, was accused, in A. D. 32, on account of his having been a friend of Sejanus. He defended himself with great courage, and was acquitted. (Tac. Ann. vi. 8, 9.)

14. Terentius Lentinus, a Roman eques, was privy to the forgery of Valerius Fabianus, and was in consequence condemned in A. D. 61. (Tac. Ann. xiv. 40.)

15. Terentius, was said by some persons to have been the murderer of the emperor Galba. (Tac. Hist. i. 41; Plut. Galb. 27.)