grandfather Augustus; but he was soon after banished to Campania, for using seditious language against his benefactor. In the seventh year of his exile he would have been recalled had not Livia and Tiberius, jealous of the partiality of Augustus for him, ordered him to be assassinated in his 26th year. He has been called ferocious and savage; and he gave himself the name of Neptune, because he was fond of fishing. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 682.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 6.――――One of the servants of the murdered prince assumed his name and raised commotions. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 2, ch. 39. ――――Sylvius, a son of Tiberius Sylvius king of Latium. He reigned 33 years, and was succeeded by his son Romulus Sylvius. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 1, ch. 8.――――A consul who conquered the Æqui.――――A philosopher. _Diogenes Laërtius._――――Herodes, a son of Aristobulus, grandson of the Great Herod, who became tutor to the grandchild of Tiberius, and was soon after imprisoned by the suspicious tyrant. When Caligula ascended the throne his favourite was released, presented with a chain of gold as heavy as that which had lately confined him, and made king of Judæa. He was a popular character with the Jews: and it is said, that while they were flattering him with the appellation of God, an angel of God struck him with the lousy disease, of which he died, A.D. 43. His son, of the same name, was the last king of the Jews, deprived of his kingdom by Claudius, in exchange for other provinces. He was with Titus at the celebrated siege of Jerusalem, and died A.D. 94. It was before him that St. Paul pleaded, and made mention of his incestuous commerce with his sister Berenice. _Juvenal_, satire 6, li. 156. ――_Tacitus_, bk. 2, _Histories_, ch. 81.――――Menenius, a Roman general, who obtained a triumph over the Sabines, appeased the populace of Rome by the well-known fable of the belly and the limbs, and erected the new office of tribunes of the people, A.U.C. 261. He died poor, but universally regretted: his funeral was at the expense of the public from which also his daughters received dowries. _Livy_, bk. 2, ch. 32.――_Florus_, bk. 1, ch. 23.――――A mathematician in the reign of Domitian; he was a native of Bithynia.