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Fulvia
An ambitious woman, wife of the tribune Clodius, afterward of Curio, and lastly of Antony. Antony divorced her for Cleopatra. She…
Lucania
A district in Lower Italy. Lucanus, M. Annaeus. A native of Corduba in Spain. At an early age he went to Rome, where his rising…
Draco
A celebrated lawgiver of Athens, who made a code of laws, B. C. 623, which, on account of their severity, were said to be written…
Sophonisba
A daughter of Hasdrubal, the Carthaginian, celebrated for her beauty. She See page 248, Pudicitia. married Syphax, prince of…
Xenophon
A celebrated Athenian, son of Gryllus, famous as a general, philosopher, and historian. He joined Cyrus the Younger in an…
Cyrus (Younger The son of Darius)
The Younger. The son of Darius Nothus and the brother of Artaxerxes, the latter succeeding to the throne at the death of Nothus…