Bellienus

• I C. Annius Bellienus, a lieutenant of Fonteius, Cic. Font. 8, 18 (4, 8).—
• II L. Bellienus, a friend of Pompey, Cic. Fam. 8, 15, 2: 16, 22, 2.—
• III C. Bellienus, an advocate, Cic. Brut. 47, 175.

the name of a family of the Annia gens. The word is sometimes written Bilienus.

1. L. Annius Bellienus, praetor in B. C. 107, served under Marius in the war against Jugurtha and Bocchus. (Sal. Jug. 104.)

2. C. Annius Bellienus, one of the legates of M. Fonteius in Gallia Narbonensis, B. C. 72. (Cic. Font. 4.)

3. L. Annius Bellienus, the uncle of Catiline, killed, by command of Sulla, Lucretius Ofella, who attempted to obtain the consulship contrary to Sulla's wish. Bellienus was condemned in B. C. 64. (Ascon. in Tog. Cand. p. 92, ed. Orelli; comp. Appian, App. BC 1.101.)

4. L. Annius Bellienus, perhaps a son of the preceding, whose house was burnt down after the murder of Caesar in B. C. 44. (Cic. Phil. 2.36.)

5. Bellienus, originally a slave, born in the family of one Demetrius, was stationed at Intemelium with a garrison in B. C. 49, where he put to death, in consequence of a sum of money which he had received from the opposite party, Domitius, a man of noble rank in the town, and a friend of Caesar's. Thereupon the Intemelians took up arms, and Caelius had to march to the town with some cohorts, to put down the insurrection. (Cic. Fam. 8.15; comp. 16.22.)

C. BELLIE'NUS, a distinguished Roman orator and jurist, who was prevented by the disorders which occurred in the time of Marius from attaining the consulship. (Cic. Brut. 47.) He is supposed by Trietanus (Comm. P. i. p. 90) to be the same person with C. Annius Bellienus mentioned above [No. 2], but Ernesti (Clav. Cic.) repudiates this conjecture, as not easily reconcileable with dates. [J.T.G]