Montanus
- I Curtius Montanus, a favorite of the emperor Tiberius, Tac. A. 16, 28 sq.; id. H. 4, 42; Ov. P. 4, 16, 11; Juv. 4, 107; 131. —
- II Votienus Montanus, an orator of the reign of Tiberius, Tac. A. 4, 42; Sen. Contr. 4, 24, 3.—Hence, adj.: Montānĭānus, a, um, belonging to the orator Montanus, Sen. Contr. 9, 5, 17.
ALPI'NUS. [Alpinus.]
ATTICI'NUS, legatus in Trajan's reign to Lustricus Bruttianus (Mart. 4.22), was accused by him of various misdemeanours, and of destroying the evidence which had been collected to prove them. Montanus brought against his accuser a counter-charge of malversation in his province. But it completely failed, and Trajan, who presided in person at the trial, condemned Montanus to banishment. (Plin. Ep.6.22.) [W.B.D]
CU'RTIUS, was accused by Eprius Marcellus in A. D. 67 of libelling Nero. The charge was disproved, but Montanus was exiled. At his father's petition, however, he was shortly afterwards recalled, on condition of abstaining from all public employments. In A. D. 71 Montanus was present in the senate, and, on Domitian's moving the restoration of Galba's titles and statues, he proposed that the decree against Piso also should be rescinded. At the same time Montanus vehemently attacked the notorious delator, Aquilius Regulus. (Tac. Ann. 16.28, 29, 33, Hist. 4.40, 42, 43 ) If the same person with the Curtius Montanus satirised by Juvenal (4.107, 131, 11.34), Montanus in later life sullied the fair reputation he enjoyed in youth. (Tac. Ann. 16.28.) For Juvenal (ll. cc.) describes him as a corpulent epicure, a parasite of Domitian, and a hacknied declaimer. Plinythe Younger addressed two letters to Curtius Montanus (7.29, 8.6.) [W.B.D]
JU'LIUS, a versifier of some repute in the reign of Tiberius, and one of the emperor's private friends. He is cited by Seneca the rhetorician (Contr. 16), and by Seneca the philosopher (Ep. 122). (Ovid. Ep. ex Pont. 4.16;. 11.) [W.B.D]
JU'LIUS, was of senatorian rank, but had borne no office when unluckily meet ing Nero on one of his drunken nocturnal frolics, he defended himself and beat the emperor. The assault might have been overlooked, but Montanus recognised his assailant, and begged forgiveness. Nero then compelled Montanus to commit suicide, that he might not afterwards boast of the encounter. (Tac. Ann. 13.25; comp. D. C. 61.9; Suet. Nero 26.) [W.B.D]
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was an orator and declaimer in the reign of Tiberius. From his propensity to refine upon thought and diction, he was named the " Ovid" of the rhetorical schools. Seneca the rhetorician describes the eloquence of Montanus (Contr. Proonm. iv., excerpt. 9.5), and cites him (Contr. 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32). Montanus was convicted on a charge of majestas, and died an exile in the Balearic islands A. D. 25. (Tac. Ann. 4.42; Euseb. Chron. a. 778.) [W.B.D]
(1) Curtius. A Roman exiled by Nero, A.D. 67; but soon afterwards recalled at his father's petition. On the accession of Vespasian he vehemently attacked in the Senate the notorious informer, Aquilius Regulus.
(2) Voltiēnus, an orator and declaimer in the reign of Tiberius. From his propensity to refine upon thought and diction, he was named “the Ovid of the rhetorical schools.” He was convicted on a charge of treason, and died an exile in the Balearic Islands, A.D. 25.
(3) A noted heresiarch, who appeared in A.D. 156 at Ardaban in Phrygia, professing to have a mission to reform the Church. See Tertullianus.