. utiful country, whichabounded in warm mineral springs. The bathsof Baiae were the most celebrated in Italy, andthe town itself was the favourite watering-placeof the Romans, who flocked thither in crowdsfor health and pleasure. Seneca calls it diver-sorium vitiorum. The whole country wasstudded with the palaces of the Roman nobles and emperors, which covered the coast fromBaiae to Puteoli: many of these places werebuilt out into the sea. (Hor. Od. ii. 18, 20, 15, 2; Tac. Ann. xii. 21, xiv. 9; Senec. Ep. 51 ;Plin. xxxi. 4 ; St
. utiful country, whichabounded in warm mineral springs. The bathsof Baiae were the most celebrated in Italy, andthe town itself was the favourite watering-placeof the Romans, who flocked thither in crowdsfor health and pleasure. Seneca calls it diver-sorium vitiorum. The whole country wasstudded with the palaces of the Roman nobles and emperors, which covered the coast fromBaiae to Puteoli: many of these places werebuilt out into the sea. (Hor. Od. ii. 18, 20, 15, 2; Tac. Ann. xii. 21, xiv. 9; Senec. Ep. 51 ;Plin. xxxi. 4 ; Strab. p. 245.) Nero here maturedhis plot for the murder of Agrippina: Hadriandied here, and Alexander Severus built severalvillas (Tac. Ann. xiv. 4; Vit. Hadr. 25; 26). The site of ancient Baiae is now forthe most part covered by the sea. Baiucasses, a people in Gallia Lugdunensis,whose capital was Augustodurum (Bayeux). Balblnus, D. Caelius, was elected emperorby the senate along with M. Clodius PupienusMaximus, after the murder of the two Gordians. Balbinus, Roman Emperor. bust of Balbinus ; Emperor holding olive-branchas a sceptre, TE. P. in Africa, at the beginning of 238 ; but thenew emperors were slain by the soldiers atRome in June in the same year (Eutrop. ix. 2). Balbus, M\ Acilius, the name of two consuls,one in 150, and the other in 114. Balbus, T. Ampius, tribune of the plebs , was a supporter of Pompey, whom he joinedin the civil war 49. He was pardoned byCaesar through the intercession of Cicero (adEarn. vi. 12 ; Suet. Jul. 77). Balbus, M. Atius, married Julia, the sisterof Julius Caesar, who bore him a daughter,Atia, the mother of Augustus Caesar. [Aha.] Balbus, L. Cornelius. 1. Of Gades, servedunder Q. Metellus and Pompey against Serto-rius in Spain, and received from Pompey theRoman citizenship. He accompanied Pompeyon his return to Rome, 71, and was for along time one of his most intimat
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