Gnaeus Gellius (fl. 2nd half of 2nd century BC) was a Roman historian. Very little is known about his life and work, which has only survived in scattered...
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Look up Gnaeus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gnaeus, also spelled Cnaeus, was a Roman praenomen derived from the Latin naevus, a birthmark. It was...
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Gellius 1.24.1. The Encyclopedia Britannica. 1899. p. 162. Retrieved 10 April 2017. Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 211. Gellius 3.3.15. Quoted by Gellius (1...
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Sulpicius is said to have performed a war sacrifice, noted by the annalists Gnaeus Gellius and Lucius Cassius Hemina, according to the priestly ways. This was...
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obscure her Marsian significance. Angitia's myths vary. According to Gnaeus Gellius (late 2nd century BC), Angitia was one of the three daughters of Aeëtes...
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Lucius Gellius (c. 136 BC – c. 54 BC) was a Roman politician and general who was one of two Consuls of the Republic in 72 BC along with Gnaeus Cornelius...
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up until the time that they were living in. Some annalistic authors: Gnaeus Gellius (c. 140 BC) wrote his history from Aeneas until 146 BC. Lucius Calpurnius...
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(praetor 54 BC) Cestius Gallus Lucius Gellius Lucius Gellius Publicola Germanicus Gundobad Gaius Salvius Liberalis Gnaeus Hosidius Geta – defeated Sabalus...
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prosecuted and brought Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella to trial. Broughton, p. 34 Broughton, p. 63 Broughton, p. 70 Cic. de Leg. Ayr. ii. 14; Gellius, xv. 28; Appian...
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consulship was Lucius Gellius Poplicola, in 72 BC, but the most famous member of this gens is probably the grammarian Aulus Gellius, who flourished during...
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Gavius Bassus - writer Gavius Silo - orator Aulus Gellius - writer Gnaeus Gellius - annalist Lucius Gellius Poplicola - consul Geminus - writer Lucius Genucius...
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Marcus Tullius Decula was a consul of the Roman Republic in 81 BC alongside Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, during the dictatorship of Sulla; but the consuls of...
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Gnaeus Julius Agricola (/əˈɡrɪkələ/; 13 June 40 – 23 August 93) was a Roman general and politician responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Britain...
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Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (died 88 BC) was tribune of the people in 104 BC. He was the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, and brother of Lucius Domitius...
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Cato the censor, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi, Lucius Cassius Hemina, Gnaeus Gellius, Vennonius, Valerius Antias, Licinius Macer, Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius...
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consular forces of the Roman Republic led by the two consuls Lucius Gellius and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus. It took place in Picenum region in 72...
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first of the gens to achieve prominence was Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus, consul in 332 BC. His son, Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus Maximus, was consul in 283...
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a law passed in 72 BC after a proposal of the consuls Lucius Gellius Poplicola and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus, that gave Pompey the power of granting...
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Cornelii Lentuli, possibly as the adoptive son of Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus. A partisan of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, he possibly served under Pompey during...
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governor of Sicilia. But first he had to support the consuls Lucius Gellius Publicola and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus in the Third Servile War against...
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Semnones, Decius is killed in an act of Devotio, and Fabius wins the battle. Gellius Egnatius, the mastermind behind the coalition, is cut down in the fighting...
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consul in AD 117. Gnaeus Afranius, the grandfather of Gnaeus Afranius Priscus Sabinianus. Gnaeus Afranius Sabinus, the father of Gnaeus Afranius Priscus...
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breakup of the First Triumvirate with the death of Caesar's daughter Julia. Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus, Roman consul (d. AD 25) Seneca the Elder, Roman rhetorician...
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Spartacus and his followers defeat the Roman forces under Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus and Gellius, forcing the Roman legions to retreat in disarray....
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Marcus Fabius Vibulanus and Gnaeus Manlius Cincinnatus win a heavy battle against Veians and their Etruscan allies. Gnaeus Manlius Cincinnatus and former...
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the command of Lucius Gellius and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus. Initially, the consular armies were successful. Gellius engaged a group of about...
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Hippocrates, 1911) Trogus und Gellius bei Radulfus de Diceto (edited by Georg Goetz, 1926) – Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus and Aulus Gellius by Ralph de Diceto. Görres...
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Numerius, which passed through his daughter to the Fabii. In later times, Gnaeus and Lucius are found. The only family-names of the Otacilii are Crassus...
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Pacuvius, legate of Gnaeus Sentius Saturninus, the governor of Syria in AD 19. He prevented Domitius Celer, an ally of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, from...
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of the disputants in a case argued by Cato the Elder, versus Gnaeus Gellius. Aulus Gellius related how Cato asserted that if a claim could not be resolved...
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