Sextilius
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Sextilio Proper-name noun: masculine ablative singular, Proper-name noun: masculine dative singular of Sextilius
- the name of a Roman gens: C. Sextilius Rufus, Cass. ap. Cic. Ep. Fam. 12, 13, 4; 13, 48 tit.: Sextilia, Suet. Vit. 3; Tac. H. 2, 64.
- —Hence, Sextĭlĭānus, a, um, adj., of or named from a Sextilius: pira, Cloat. ap. Macr. S. 2, 15 fin.
1. C. Sextilius, consular tribune bune B. C. 379, in which year an equal number of patricians and plebeians were elected to the office. (Liv. 6.30.)
2. L. Sextilius, one of the triumviri nocturni, was accused by the tribunes of the plebs, and condemned, with his two colleagues, because they had come too late to put out a fire in the Via Sacra. (V. Max. 8.1. damn. 5).
3. M. Sextilius, of Fregellae, assured the consuls in the second Punic war, B. C. 209, that eighteen of the Roman colonies were ready to furnish nish the state with soldiers, when twelve had refused to do so. (Liv. 27.9, 10).
4. Sextilius, governor of the province of Africa in B. C. 88, forbade Marius to land in the country. (Plut. Mar. 40 ; Appian, App. BC 1.62, where he is called Sextius).
5. Sextilius, an Etruscan, betrayed C. Julius Caesar Strabo to the assassins of Marius and Cinna, in B. C. 87, although he had been previously defended by Caesar, when accused of a very grave offence. (V. Max. 5.3.3; Cic. de Orat. 3.3).
6. Sextilius, a legatus of L. Lucullus, in the Mithridatic war, was sent to attack Tigranocerta. (Appian, Mithr. 84.)
7. Sextilius, a praetor carried off by the pirates, shortly before Pompey was appointed to the command of the war against them. (Plut. Pomp. 24 ; comp. Appian, Mithr. 93 ; Cic. pro Leg. Manil. 12.)
8. A. Sextilius, spoken of in Cicero's oration for Flaccus (100.15) as " homo improbus," appears to have been a negotiator or money-lender in Acmonia, a town ill the Greater Phrygia.
9. C. Sextilius, the son of the sister of M. Lurco, a man " et pudens et constans et gravis." (Cic. pro Flacc. 36.) He may perhaps be the same as the praetor Sextilius mentioned by Varro (R. R. 1.1.10).
10. P. Sextilius, quaestor B. C. 61. (Cic. pro Flacc. 13.)
11. Q. Sextilius, a friend of Milo. (Cic. ad Q. Fr. 2.1.3.)
12. Sextilius Andro, of Pergamum. (Cic. pro Flacc. 34.)
of Corduba in Spain, a Roman poet of no great merit, wrote a poem on the death of Cicero, of which the first line is quoted by M. Seneca. (Suas. 6, pp. 45, 46, ed. Bip.)
[Felix.]
(Rufus.]