Glaucia

• a Roman surname in the gens Servilia and Mallia, Cic. de Or. 2, 61; 65; id. Rosc. Am. 7, 19; 34, 96.

(Γλαυκία), a daughter of the rivergod Scamander. When Heracles went to war against Troy, Deimachus, a Boeotian, one of the companions of Heracles, fell in love with Glaucia. But Deimachus was slain in battle before Glaucia had given birth to the child she had by him. She fled for refuge to Heracles, who took her with him to Greece, and entrusted her to the care of Cleon, the father of Deimachus. She there gave birth to a son, whom she called Scamander, and who afterwards obtained a tract of land in Boeotia, traversed by two streams, one of which he called Scamander and the other Glaucia. He was married to Acidusa, from whom the Boeotian well, Acidusa, derived its name, and had three daughters, who were worshipped under the name of "the three maidens." (Plut. Quaest. Gr. 41. [L.S]

praetor in B. C. 100, co-operated with C. Marius, then consul for the sixth time, and with L. Appuleius Saturninus, tribune of the plebs in the same year. Glaucia held the comitia of the tribes at an irregular time and place, and thus procured the election of Saturninus to the tribuneship. He was candidate for the consulship in the year immediately succeeding his praetorship, although the laws appointed an interval of at least two years. Glaucia was the only praetor who accompanied Saturninus in his flight to the Capitol, and when the fugitives were compelled by want of water to surrender, he perished with him-Cicero says (in Cat. 3.6) that although Glaucia not included by the senate in their decree for the execution of Saturninus and his Partisans, Marius put him to death on his own authority. (Cic. Brut. 62, pro C. Rabir. perd. 7, in Cut. 1.2, Philipp. 8.5, de Harusp. Resp. 24; Schol. Bob. in Milonian. p. 277, Orelli; App. BC 1.28, 32 ; V. Max. 9.7; Plut. Mar. 27, 30; Vell. 2.12; Flor. 3.16.4.) Cicero compares Glaucia to the Athenian demagogue Hyperbolus (Brut. 62), and says that he was the worst of men. He admits, however, that he was eloquent, acute, and witty. (de Or. 2.61, 65.) An anecdote related by Cicero (pro Rab. Post. 6.14) conveys some notion of Glaucia's manner. He used to tell the plebs, when a rogatio was read to them, to mind whether the words " dictator, consul, praetor, or magister equitum" occurred in the preamble. If so, the rogatio was no concern of theirs : but if they heard The words "and whosoever after this enactment," then to look sharp, for some new fetter of law was going to be forged. Glaucia was the author of a law de Repetundis of which the fragments are collected by Orelli (Index Legum, p. 269), and he introduced a change in the form of comperendinatio. (Cic. in Verr. i. 9. 9.) [W.B.D]