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    The Historia Augusta (English: Augustan History) is a late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues...
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    assessment. His career before becoming emperor is documented in the Historia Augusta as well as Cassius Dio's History of Rome, and confirmed in many places...
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    Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus, 1.4. Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus, 3.4. Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus, 1.5. Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus...
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    was of Thraco-Roman origin. According to the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta, he was born in Thrace or Moesia to a Gothic father and an Alanic mother;...
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    Fündling, Kommentar zur Vita Hadriani der Historia Augusta (= Antiquitas. Reihe 4: Beiträge zur Historia-Augusta-Forschung, Serie 3: Kommentare, Bände 4...
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    the Historia Augusta, he wished to erect a temple to Jesus but was dissuaded by the pagan priests; however, this claim is unreliable as the Historia Augusta...
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    the chapter on the Thirty Tyrants within the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta (and writing under the fictitious name of Trebellius Pollio), whose...
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  • two versions, one told by Cassius Dio and one contained in the later Historia Augusta. The contemporary historian Dio tells that Aurelius Zoticus was an...
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    Historiae Augustae (Authors of the Historia Augusta). Historia Augusta (Augustan History). Magie, David, trans. Historia Augusta. 3 vols. Loeb ed. London: Heinemann...
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    this period survive only as fragments and abbreviations), and the Historia Augusta (untrustworthy because of its character as a work of literature rather...
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    Historia Augusta - Probus, 13.6. Historia Augusta - Probus, 14.3. Historia Augusta - Probus, 14.2. Historia Augusta - Probus, 14.1. Historia Augusta -...
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    Routledge. pp. 284, 286. ISBN 9781135971250. The notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta suggests Geta was born in May [27th] of 189. However, other more reliable...
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    collection of imperial biographies called the Historia Augusta. However, his story, like the rest of the Historia Augusta, is riddled with fabrications and obsequious...
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    senator Cassius Dio who was strongly hostile to him, and the much later Historia Augusta. The reliability of these accounts, particularly their most salacious...
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    ISBN 9781526767530. Historia Augusta, 12:5. Jerome, s.a. 271. Historia Augusta, 12:6. Historia Augusta, 13:9. Historia Augusta, 13:1. Manders 2012, p...
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  • where Apuleius delivered a defense against a charge of magic. The Historia Augusta mentions Claudius Maximus as one of Marcus Aurelius' Stoic teachers...
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  • According to the Historia Augusta, Firmus (died 273) was a usurper of Syrian origin during the reign of Aurelian. The contradictory accounts of his life...
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    is a fictitious letter written in Diadumenianus' biography in the Historia Augusta. Cooley, p. 496. Naylor, Phillip (2015). North Africa, Revised Edition:...
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    ISBN 9781579583163. Birley 2000, p. 34; Historia Augusta, Antoninus Pius 1:7. Magie, David, Historia Augusta (1921), Life of Antoninus Pius, Note 6 CIL...
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    return to Leptis, where the climate was healthier. According to the Historia Augusta, a usually unreliable source, he was prosecuted for adultery during...
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    The next two years (166–168) were spent in Rome. According to the Historia Augusta, Verus continued with his glamorous lifestyle and kept the troupe of...
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    Syme, Ronald. Ammianus and the Historia Augusta, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1968. Syme, Ronald. Historia Augusta Papers, The Clarendon Press, Oxford...
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    nomen (family name) Pupienus (Classical Latin: [puːpiˈeːnʊs]). The Historia Augusta, whose testimony is not to be trusted unreservedly, paints Pupienus...
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     790–792. Life of Caracalla (Historia Augusta at LacusCurtius: Latin text and English translation) Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, Books 79–80 Aurelius...
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    Severus, and killed while attempting to flee from Antioch. According to Historia Augusta, Niger's parents were Annius Fuscus and Lampridia. It also states that...
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    p. 216 Wood 1999, p. 321 Historia Augusta (1921). "6. Avidius Cassius". Historia Augusta. doi:10.4159/dlcl.historia_augusta_avidius_cassius.1921. Davies...
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    ISBN 3515083820. Historia Augusta, Vita Probi, 20:1 Zonaras, 12:29 Victor, 37:4 Historia Augusta, Vita Probi, 20:2-3 Historia Augusta, Vita Cari, 6:1 Gibbon...
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    of the Historia Augusta invented many events and letters attributed to Zenobia in the absence of contemporary sources. Some Historia Augusta accounts...
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    279 Gibbon, p. 280 Aurelius Victor, 36:1 Historia Augusta, Vita Taciti, 13:5 Zosimus, I:63:2 Historia Augusta, Vita Taciti, English translation Eutropius...
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    offer at first out of loyalty, but soon accepted. The often unreliable Historia Augusta is aware of both traditions, although it prefers the former. He does...
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