Lindia, Paraterusa, Philopaior, T/iras7/Ieo7i, Veli-
tei-na (?) have been preserved, together with a few
fragments which will be found collected in the
Foeiarum Latii Sce?iicorum Fragmenta of Bothe,
vol. ii. p. 76. 8vo. Lips. 1834. Of the above, the
Thrasyleon appears to have been taken from Me-
nander, the Demetrius and the Leucadia from
Alexis. According to Hieronymus, in the Euse-
bian Chronicle, Turpilius died, when very old, at
Siimessa in B.C. 101. He stands seventh in the
scale of Volcatins Sedigitus. [Sedigitus.] [W.K]
TURPI'LIUS SILA'NUS. [Silanus.]
TU'RPIO, L. AMBFVIUS, a very celebrated
actor in the time of Terence, in most of whose
plays he acted. (Didascaliae Terentianae ; Cic. de
Sen. 14 ; Tac. Dial, de Oral. 14 ; Symmach. Ep. i.
25, X. 2.)
TU'RPIO, ANTI'STIUS, fought in single
combat Q. Pompeius Niger in the Spanish war in
B. c 45. (Auctor, B. Hisp. 25.)
TU'RPIO, NAE'VIUS. [Naevius, No. 7.]
TURRA'NIUS or TURA'NIUS. 1. D.Tur-
RANius Niger, a friend of Varro, to whom the
latter dedicated the second book of his work De Re
liudica. He was also a friend of Q. Cicero, whom
he accompanied to Cilicia, when Quintus went
there as the legatus of his brother Marcus. (Varr.
R.R. ii. Praef. ; Cic. ad Ait. i. 6, vi. 9, vii. 1 ; in
one of these passages the name is written Turan-
nius.) He is perhaps the same as the writer Tur-
ranius Gracilis, quoted by the elder Pliny. [Gra-
cilis.]
2. M'. TuRRANius, praetor b. c. 44, refused a
province which was offered him by Antony, and
is therefore called by Cicero " homo summa inte-
gritate atque innocentia." (Cic. Fhil. iii. 10.)
3. TuRRANius, a tragic poet mentioned by
Ovid {ex Font. iv. 16. 29).
4. C. TuRRANius, praefectus annonae at the
death of Augustus, A. D. 14, was one of the first
to swear allegiance to Tiberius upon his accession.
He continued to hold this office till the reign of
Claudius, for he is spoken of as praefectus rei fru-
mentariae in A. D. 48. (Tac. Anii. i. 7, xi. 31.)
5. TuRRANius RUFINUS. [RUFINUS, No. 1.]
TURRIA'NUS, a Volscian of Fregellae, was
an eminent statuary in clay, in the early Etruscan
period, and the maker of a statue of Jupiter, which
was dedicated by Tarquinius Priscus, and which
was painted with vermilion on great festivals.
This is according to the common text of Pliny
(H. N. XXXV. 12. s. 45) ; but the reading is so very
doubtful, and the critical discussion of it so com-
plicated, with so very little hope of a satisfactory
result, that we must be content to refer the reader
to the following works, in which the question is
treated at length. (Sillig's Pliny, l. c, and Jan's
Supplement; Sillig, Catal. Artif. Append, s.v.;
Jan, in the Jeri. Litt. Zeitung^ 1838, p. 258 ;
Kunsthlatt, 1832, No. 49, 1833, No. 51 ; Muller,
Etrusker, vol. ii. p. 246, and Archaol. d. Kunst^
§ 171,ed. Welcker.) [P. S.]
TURRI'NUS, CLO'DIUS, the name of two
rhetoricians, father and son, spoken of with praise
by the elder Seneca, who gives a short account of
them. The elder by his eloquence obtained wealth
and honour, and held an important public office in
Spain. The son was an intimate friend of Seneca.
(Senec. Conlrov. v. Praef. p. 333, ed. Bip., Suas. 2,
Contr. 30—35.)
•TURRI'NUS, MAMFLIUS. 1. C. Mami-
TUTICANUS.
1193
Lius Q. F. Q. N. TuRRiNU.s, consul B. c. 259 with
Q. Valerius Falto. (Fasti Capit. ; Gell. xvii. 21,
43, where the reading is C. Manilius.)
2. Q. Mamilius Turrinus, plebeian aedile
B. c. 207 and praetor B. c. 206, obtained by lot the
jurisdietio peregrina, but was sent by the senate
into Gaul. (Liv. xxviii. 10.)
TURRUS or THURRUS, one of the most
powerful of the Celtiberian chiefs conquered by
Gracchus in B. c. 1 79, became a faithful ally of the
Romans. (Liv. xl. 49.)
L. TURSE'LIUS, made M. Antonius his heir,
disinheriting his evvn brother. (Cic. Fhil. ii. 16.)
P. TURU'LIUS or TURU'LLIUS, one of
Caesar's assassins, was quaestor of Cassius Longi-
nus in B. c. 43, and received the command of the
fleet which had been raised by Tillius Cimber in
Bithynia. After the battle of Philippi, in B. c. 42,
Turulius joined Cassius Parmensis, and subse-
quently took refuge with Antony, with whom he
lived on intimate terms. In order to please Octa-
vian, Turulius was surrendered to him by Antony
after the battle of Actium, and was put to death
by order of Octavian in the island of Cos that he
might appear to offer satisfaction to Aesculapius, the
trees of whose sacred grove he had previously cut
down for the use of Antony's navy. (Cic. ad Fam.
xii. 1 3 ; Appian, B. C. v. 2 ; Dion Cass. Ii. 8 ;
Val.Max. i. 1. § 1.9.)
TURU'LLIUS CERIA'LIS, a primipilaris in
A. D. 69. (Tac. Flist. ii. 22.)
TUSCE'NIUS, an obscure person, whom Q.
Cicero compelled in B. c. 60 to disgorge some dis-
honest
(Cic. ad Q.Fr.i. 1. § 6,
2.)
^ TUSCIA'NUS iTov(TKiau6s), of Lydia, a dis-
tinguished ihetorician in the fourth century of the
Christian aera. (Eunap. Jul. p. 95, Froaer. p. 1 1 1 ;
Suidas, s. V.)
TUSCI'LIUS NOMINA'TUS, an orator and
a contemporary of the younger Pliny, who men-
tions him in his correspondence {Ep. v. 4. 14).
TUSCUS, C. AQUI'LLIUS, consul b.c. 487
with T. Sicinius Sabinus, carried on war against
the Hernici, whom he defeated, and obtained in
consequence jin ovation or lesser triumph. (Fasti
Capit. ; Liv. ii. 40 ; Dionys. viii. 64, 65, 67.)
TUSCUS, CAECI'NA. [Caecina, No. 8.]
TUSCUS, CLO'DIUS, to whom Asinius Capito
wrote a letter, which is quoted by Gellius (v.
20).
TUSCUS, CORNE'LIUS, an historian, and
described by Seneca as a man " quam improbi
animi, tam infelicis ingenii," accused Mamercus
Aemilius Scaurus of majestas in a. d. 34. (Senec.
Suas. 2, sub fin. ; Tac. Ann. vi. 29.)
TUSCUS, FABRI'CIUS, a Roman writer, of
whom nothing is known except that he was used
by Pliny in drawing up his Natural History (Index,
lib. iii. foil.).
TUTELI'NA, an agricultural divinity among
the Romans, or, perhaps, rather an attribute of
Ops, by which she is described as the goddess
protecting the fruits which have been brought in
at the harvest time from the fields. Tutelina, Secia
and Messia had three pillars with altars before
them in the Circus. (August. De Civ. Dei, iv. 8 ;
Macrob. Sat. i. 16; Plin. H.N. xviii. 2; Varro, De
Ling. Lat. v. 74.) [L. S.]
TUTICA'NUS, a friend of Ovid, who addressed
to him one of his extant epistles from Pontus (iv.
12). Tuticanus had made a free translation into
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TURRINUS.
loc cit.