Stertinius
- a Stoic philosopher, Hor. S. 2, 3, 33; 2, 3, 296.—Adj.: Stertĭnĭus, a, um, of Stertinius: acumen, Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 20.
1. L. Stertinius, was sent as proconsul into further Spain in B. C. 199, and on his return to Rome three years afterwards (B. C. 196), brought into the public treasury fifty thousand pounds weight of silver, and from the spoils dedicated two fornices or arches in the forum Boarium, and one in the Circus Maximus, and placed upon them gilded statues. In the same year that he returned, he was appointed one of the ten commissioners, who were sent into Greece to settle the affairs of the country, in conjunction with T. Quintius Flamininus. (Liv. 31.50, 33.27, 35 ; Plb. 18.31.)
2. C. Stertinius, was praetor B. C. 188, and obtained Sardinia as his province. (Liv. 38.35.)
3. L. Stertinius, quaestor B. C. 168. (Liv. 45.14.)
4. Stertinius, a Stoic philosopher, whom Horace calls in fun the eighth of the wise men. (Hor. Sat. 2.3. 33, 296. Epist. 1.12. 20.)
5. L. Stertinius, the legatus of Germanicus. defeated the Bructeri in A. D. 15, and found among their booty the eagle of the nineteenth legion, which had been lost in the defeat of Varus. In the course of the same year he was sent by Germanicus to receive the surrender of Segimerus, the brother of Segestes; and in the next year he was despatched against the Angrivarii. a people dwelling on the banks of the river Visurgis, whom he defeated, and compelled to acknowledge the supremacy of Rome. (Tac. Ann. 1.60, 71, 2.8. 22.)
6. Stertinius Maximus, a rhetorician mentioned by the elder Seneca. (Controv. 9.)
7. Stertinius Avitus, a person celebrated by Martial at the beginning of the ninth book of his Epigrams. He is apparently the same person as the L. Stertinius Avitus, who was consul suffectus under Domitian in A. D. 92. (Fasti.)
a physician at Rome in the first century after Christ, who, according to Pliny (Plin. Nat. 29.5), made it a favour that he was content to receive from the emperor five hundred thousand sesterces per annum (or rather more than four thousand four hundred pounds), as he might have made six hundred thousand sesterces (or rather more than five thousand three hundred pounds), by his private practice. He and his brother, who received the same annual income from the emperor Claudius, left between them at their death, notwithstanding large sums that they had spent in beautifying the city of Naples, the sum of thirty millions of sesterces, or rather more than two hundred and sixty-five thousand six hundred pounds. As these sums are considered by Pliny to be very large, they may serve to give us some idea of the fortunes made at Rome by the chief physicians about the beginning of the empire. (Penny Cyclopaedia.) [W.A.G]