Geminius

1. Praetor of Macedonia, B. C. 92. He sustained a severe defeat from the Maedians, a Thracian tribe, who afterwards ravaged the province. (Liv. Epit. 70; Jul. Obseq. de Prodig. 113.)

2. A decurio of Terracina, and a personal enemy of C. Marius the elder. The troop of horse which discovered Marius in the marshes of Minturnae, B. C. 88, had been despatched by Geminius to apprehend him. (Plut. Mar. 36, 38.)

3. A zealous partizan of M. Antony, was deputed by the triumvir's friends in Rome to remonstrate with him on his ruinous connection with Cleopatra. Geminius went to Athens in the winter of B. C. 32-31, but could not obtain a private audience from Antony. At length, being menaced by Cleopatra with the torture, he withdrew from Athens, leaving his mission unaccomplished (Plut. Ant. 59.)

4. A Roman eques, put to death at the end of A. D. 33, on a charge of conspiracy against Tiberius, but really because of his intimacy with Sejanus (Tac. Ann. 6.14.) [W.B.D]

[Mettius.]