Septimius
- the name of a Roman gens.
- 1 C. Septimius, an augur, Cic. Att. 12, 13, 2; 12, 14, 1.—
- 2 P. Septimius Scaevola, Cic. Verr. 1, 13, 38; id. Clu. 41, 115 sq.—
- 3 Porcius Septimius, Tac. H. 3, 5.—
- 4 Titius Septimius, a poet and friend of Horace, Hor. Ep. 1, 9, 1 (to him was addressed C. 2, 6).—
- 5 Septimius Severus, a Roman emperor, Spart. Sev.; Eutr. 8, 10.—Fem.: Septimia, perh. the wife of Sicca, Cic. Att. 16, 11, 1.
1. P. Septimius Scaevola, B. C. 72. [Scaevola, p. 734a.]
2. Septimius, one of Catiline's conspirators, was sent by him in B. C. 63 into the Ager Picenus. (Sall. Cat. 27.)
3. T. Septimius Sabinus, curule aedile, apparently after the consulship of L. Lucullus, the conqueror of Mithridates. (Plin. Nat. 34.8. s. 19.35.)
4. C. Septimius, a scriba of the consul Bibulus, B. C. 59. (Cic. Att. 2.24.)
5. P. Septimius, one of the witnesses against L. Valerius Flaccus in B. C. 59 [Flaccus, Valerius, No. 15]. (Cic. pro Flacc. 4, 35.)
6. C. Septimius, praetor B. C. 57, supported Cicero's recall from banishment. Cicero speaks of him as augur in B. C. 45. (Cic. post Red. in Sen. 9, ad Att. 12.13, 14.)
7. P. Septimius, the quaestor of M. Terentius Varro, who sent to him three books De Lingua Latina (Varr. L. L. 5.1, 7.109, ed. Müller). He is probably the same as the P. Septimius, who wrote two books on architecture, as his name is mentioned by Vitruvius in conjunction with Varro's. (Vitruv. vii. Praef. p. 194, ed. Bip.)
8. L. Septimius, had served as a centurion under Cn. Pompey, in the war against the pirates, and afterwards under Gabinius, when he restored Ptolemy Auletes to the throne. Gabinius left him behind in Egypt with a considerable force, to protect the king, and he was still in the country, with the rank of tribunus militum, when Pompey fled there after the battle of Pharsalia, in B. C. 48. In conjunction with Achillas, he slew his old commander, as he was landing in Egypt. Appian erroneously calls him Sempronius. (D. C. 42.3, 4. 38; Caes. Civ. 3.104; Plut. Pomp. 78 ; Appian, App. BC 2.84.)
9. Septimius, was proscribed by the triumvirs in B. C. 43, and betrayed by his wife to the assassins. (Appian, App. BC 4.23).
10. Septimius, a friend of Horace, who dedicates to him one of his odes (Carm. 2.6, Epist. 1.9). He is also called by Augustus Scptimius noster, in a letter addressed by the emperor to Horace. (Suet. Hor.)
11. Septimius, a centurion, slain by the soldiers in Germany, where they broke out into revolt at the commencement of the reign of Tiberius. (Tac. Ann. 1.32.)
12. Septimius, wrote the life of Alexander Severus, and is referred to by Lampridius as an authority. (Lamprid. Alex. Secer. 17, 48.)
13. Q. Septimius, the translator of the work on the Trojan war, bearing the name of Dictys Cretensis. [Vol. I. p. 1003a.]
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[Severus.]
Horace, in an epistle (1.3. 9-14) to Julius Florus, at that time in the East along with Tiberius Nero, makes inquiries with regard to the welfare and occupations of a certain Titius, whom in a tone of serious eulogy or covert ridicule,--for here and elsewhere in these pieces it is difficult to determine whether words of apparent praise do not hide a lurking sneer,--he represents as having boldly ventured to quaff a draught from the Pindaric spring, and as having, moreover, been ambitious to achieve distinction in the impassioned and grandiloquent outpourings of the tragic muse. Acro and Porphyrio agree in declaring that Horace is here laughing at Titius, a poet of no merit; although the latter commentator admits that the expressions might reasonably admit of an opposite interpretation. They add that this personage had attempted to translate Pindar into Latin, and that he had composed lyrics and tragedies, explanations which after all amount to little more than an echo of the text. The Scholiast published by Cruquius states, in like manner, "lyrics carmina et tragoedias scripsit, Augusti tempore," but calls him Titius Septimius, adding that his works were no longer extant, but that a conspicuous tomb had been reared to his memory below Aricia. In consequence of this note Titius is believed by many modern commentators to be the same individual with the Septimius who is addressed in the sixth ode of the second book, and who is introduced in the ninth epistle of the first book. [Septimius, No. 10.] Much learning and ingenuity have been displayed in attacking and defending this position, as may be seen from the dissertation " De Titio Septimio poeta," in the " Poetarum Latinorum Reliquiae" of Weichert, 8vo. Lips. 1830, pp. 365-390 ; see also the remarks of Obbarius on Hor. Ep. 1.3. 9. [W.R]