Tubĕro Quintus Ælius, a Roman consul, son-in-law of Paulus the conqueror of Perseus. He is celebrated for his poverty, in which he seemed to glory as well as the rest of his family. Sixteen of the Tuberos, with their wives and children, lived in a small house, and maintained themselves with the produce of a little field, which they cultivated with their own hand. The first piece of silver plate that entered the house of Tubero was a small cup which his father-in-law presented to him after he had conquered the king of Macedonia.——A learned man.——A governor of Africa.——A Roman general who marched against the Germans under the emperors. He was accused of treason, and acquitted.
Tuburbo, two towns of Africa, called Major and Minor.
Tucca Plautius, a friend of Horace and Virgil. He was, with Varus and Plotius, ordered by Augustus, as some report, to revise the Æneid of Virgil, which remained uncorrected on account of the premature death of the poet. Horace, bk. 1, satire 5, li. 40; satire 10, li. 84.——A town of Mauritania.
Tuccia, an immodest woman in Juvenal’s age. Juvenal, satire 6, li. 64.
Tucia, a river near Rome. Silius Italicus, bk. 13, li. 5.
Tuder, or Tudertia, an ancient town of Umbria. The inhabitants were called Tudertes. Silius Italicus, bk. 4, li. 222.
Tudri, a people of Germany. Tacitus, Germania, ch. 42.
Tugia, now Toia, a town of Spain. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 1.
Tugīni, or Tugēni, a people of Germany.
Tuisto, a deity of the Germans, son of Terra, and the founder of the nation. Tacitus, Germania, bk. 2.