Trebellius

Trĕbellĭus, i, m., the name of a Roman gens. Esp.,

• I L. Trebellius, Cic. Phil. 10, 10, 22; 11, 6, 14; 12, 8, 20.—
• II M. Trebellius, Cic. Quint. 5, 21. —
• III Trebellius Maximus, a consul under Nero.—
• IV Trebellius Pollio, a Roman historian under the emperor Constantine; v. Bähr, Röm. Lit Gesch. § 228.—Hence,
• • A Trĕbellĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Trebellius: vinum, named after a Trebellius, Plin. 14, 6, 8, § 69. —
  • B Trĕbellĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the consul Trebellius, Trebellian: T. senatusconsultum de fideicommissariis, Dig. 36, tit. 1: fideicommissarius, ib. 36, 3, 15.

Trebellius, a, um, Name einer röm. Familie, aus der am bekanntesten der Konsul Trebellius Maximus, Zeitgenosse Neros, und Trebellius Pollio, ein Geschichtschreiber zu Anfang des vierten Jahrh. n. Chr., der das Leben einiger Kaiser beschrieben hat, Vopisc. Aurel. 2, 1. Vgl. W. Teuffel Gesch. der röm. Liter.⁶ § 392, 7. – Dav.: A) Trebelliānus, a, um, trebellianisch, SCtum, unter dem Konsul Trebellius gemacht, ICt.: dass. subst. bl. Trebelliānum, Paul. sent. 4, 1, 2. – B) Trebellicus, a, um, trebellisch, vinum, Plin.

Trĕbellĭus, (11) ĭī, m. , nom de famille rom. : Cic. Phil. 10, 22 ; Quinct. 21 || Trebellius Pollion [historien du temps de Constantin, 4^e s. apr. J.-C.].

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1. Q. Trebellius, a centurion in the second Punic war, was rewarded by Scipio in B. C. 210 with the corona muralis. (Liv. 26.48.) For details see DIGITIUS, No. 1.

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2. M. Trebellius, of Fregellae, served in Illyricum under the legate L. Coelius during the war against Perseus in B. C. 169. (Liv. 43.21.)

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3. M. Trebellius, a friend of Sex. Naevius, B. C. 81. (Cic. pro Quint. 5.)

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4. L. Trebellius, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 67, joined his colleague, L. Roscius Otho, in opposing the rogation of Gabinius for conferring upon Pompeius the command of the war against the pirates. Trebellius had promised the senate that he would die before he allowed the proposition to pass into a law; and as neither threats nor entreaties induced him to withdraw his veto, Gabinius proposed to the tribes to deprive him of his office. Seventeen out of thirty-five tribes had already voted for his degradation, when Trebellius was gave way. (Ascon. in Cornel. p. 71, ed. Orelli ; D. C. 36.7, 13; comp. Otho, p. 65. a.)

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5. L. Trebellius, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 47, resisted his colleague, P. Dolabella, who had proposed a measure for the abolition of debts. Great tumults arose in consequence at Rome, in which Dolabella's party was eventually defeated. [See Vol. I. p. 1059.] Trebellius was as much involved in debt as Dolabella, and he had only opposed the latter in order to please Caesar. Accordingly after the death of the dictator, he attempted, by Antony's assistance, to carry the very measure which he had formerly resisted. He was one of Antony's friends, whom he accompanied in his campaign against D. Brutus in B. C. 43. (D. C. 42.29; Plut. Anton. 9 ; Cic. Phil. 6.4, 10.10, 11.6, 12.8, 13.2, 12; Cic. Fam. 11.13.4.)

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6. A. Trebellius, a Roman eques, deserted from the Pompeian party to Caesar in the Spanish war, B. C. 45. (Auctor, B. Hisp. 26.)

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7. M. Trebellius, the legatus of Vitellius, the governor of Syria in A. D. 36. (Tac. Ann. 6.41.)

Trebe'llius Calca

pretended to be Clodius, and actually came before the court of the centumviri, to lay claim to the property of Clodius. (V. Max. 9.15.4.)

Trebellius Ma'ximus

was one of the three commissioners appointed in the reign of Nero, A. D. 61, to take the census of the Gauls. He was consul suffectus in the following year (A. C.). 62) with L. Annaeus Seneca; and accordingly a Senatusconsultum passed in their consulship is quoted under the title of Senatusconsultum Trebellianum. (Gaius, 2.251, 253; Dig. 36. tit. 1.) Trebellius afterwards succeeded Petronius Turpilianus in the government of Britain, where he was hated by the army on account of his inactivity, pusillanimity, and avarice. In the commotions which followed the death of Nero, Roscius Caelius, the legate of Trebellius, induced the soldiers to rise against their general. Trebellius quitted the island, and fled to Vitellius. The latter, however, did not replace Trebellius in the government, but sent Vettius Bolanus to occupy the vacant post. (Tac. Ann. 14.46, Hist. 1.60, 2.65, Agr. 16.)

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one of the six " Scriptores Historiae Augustae" [see Capitolinus]. Works

His name is prefixed to the biographies of, 1. The two Valeriani, father and son 2. The Gallieni 3. The thirty tyrants 4. Claudius the last-named piece being addressed to Constantine.

He flourished as we have seen above under Constantine, and was anterior to Vopiscus.

We learn from Vopiscus that the lives written by Trebellius Pollio commenced with Philippus and extended down to Claudius. Of these, all as far as the Valeriani, regarding whom but a short fragment remains, have been lost, thus accounting for the gap in the series which we noticed under Capitolinus.

opiscus does not give Pollio a very high character as an historian, for he accuses him ( Aurelian. 100.2) of having recorded many things meagrely and many things carelessly, but we have no reason to form very high expectations, for he tells us himself, at the close of his book on the Thirty Tyrants, that he did not write but dictated these memoirs, and with such rapidity that he could not draw his breath. Editions

For editions, translations, &c. see Capitolinus. [W.R]