Montanus
Montānus, i, m., a Roman surname.
- I Curtius Montanus, a favorite of the emperor Tiberius, Tac. A. 16, 28 sq.; id. H. 4, 42; Ov. P. 4, 16, 11; Juv. 4, 107; 131. —
- II Votienus Montanus, an orator of the reign of Tiberius, Tac. A. 4, 42; Sen. Contr. 4, 24, 3.—Hence, adj.: Montānĭānus, a, um, belonging to the orator Montanus, Sen. Contr. 9, 5, 17.
1. Montānus, ī, m., röm. Beiname, unter dem bes. bekannt Curtius Montanus, wegen seines gefälligen Umganges u. seiner angenehmen Dichtergabe Günstling des Tiberius, Ov. ex Pont. 4, 16, 11, unter Nero vom Angeber Marcellus Eprius beschuldigt, Schmähgedichte verfertigt zu haben, und nur aus Rücksicht auf seinen Vater begnadigt, Tac. ann. 16, 28 sqq.: kräftiger Redner, Tac. hist. 4, 42: berüchtigt als Meister in der Freßkunst, Iuven. 4, 107 u. 131. – u. Votienus Montānus, berühmter Rhetor, älterer Zeitgenosse des Rhetors Seneka, Sen. contr. 9. praef. § 1 u. 9, 24. § 3 u. 9, 5 (28). § 17. – Dav. Montāniānus, a, um, montanianisch, quae Montaniana Scaurus vocabat, dem Rhetor M. eigen, Sen. contr. 9, 5 (28). § 17.
2 Montānus, (12) ī, m. , surnom romain ; nott Curtius Montanus, poète, ami de Tibère : Ov. P. 4, 16, 11 ; Tac. Ann. 16, 28.
Montānus
(1) Curtius. A Roman exiled by Nero, A.D. 67; but soon afterwards recalled at his father's petition. On the accession of Vespasian he vehemently attacked in the Senate the notorious informer, Aquilius Regulus.
(2) Voltiēnus, an orator and declaimer in the reign of Tiberius. From his propensity to refine upon thought and diction, he was named “the Ovid of the rhetorical schools.” He was convicted on a charge of treason, and died an exile in the Balearic Islands, A.D. 25.
(3) A noted heresiarch, who appeared in A.D. 156 at Ardaban in Phrygia, professing to have a mission to reform the Church. See Tertullianus.