MILO, TITUS ANNIUS

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MILO, TITUS ANNIUS , Roman political agitator, was the son of C. Papius

Celsus

CELSUS (c. A.D. 178)

, but was adopted by his

mother

MOTHER

's father, T. Annius Luscus. He joined the Pompeian party, and organized bands of mercenaries and

gladiators

GLADIATORS (from Lat. gladius, sword)

to support the cause by public violence in opposition to P. Clodius, who gave similar support to the democratic cause. Milo was tribune of the

plebs

PLEBS (from the root seen in Lat. plenus, full; cf. Gr. 7rXit9os)

in 57 B.C. He took a prominent

part

PART

in bringing about the recall of Cicero from

exile

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap,
consul
- CONSUL
- CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)
, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

, in spite of the opposition of Clodius. In 53, when Milo was candidate for the consulship and Clodius for the praetorship, the two leaders met by accident on the Appian Way at Bovillae and Clodius was murdered (January 52). Milo was impeached; his guilt was clear, and his enemies took every means of intimidating his supporters and his

judges

JUDGES, THE BOOK OF

. Cicero was afraid to speak, and the extant Pro Milone is an

expanded

EXPANDED

form of the unspoken defence: Milo went into

exile

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap,
consul
- CONSUL
- CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)
, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

at Massilia, and his property was sold by

auction

AUCTION

. He joined M. Caelius Rufus in 48 in his rising against Caesar, but was slain near Thurii in Lucania. His wife was Fausta, daughter of the dictator Sulla.

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