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    and capture of Caratacus. Publius Ostorius Scapula was the son of a Publius and likely the nephew of Quintus Ostorius Scapula, the first joint commander...
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  • resistance to Roman rule was fought in 50 AD. The Romans under Publius Ostorius Scapula defeated the Britons and in the aftermath captured Caratacus himself...
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  • filiation. Quintus Ostorius Scapula, appointed by Augustus one of the first two prefects of the Praetorian Guard, in AD 2. Publius Ostorius Scapula, governor of...
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  • Titus Sextius Africanus. He was the son of Publius Ostorius Scapula, governor of Roman Britain (47-52). Scapula first appears in history as a soldier in...
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    existence later in Plautius' tenure. In 47, Plautius was replaced by Publius Ostorius Scapula. On his return to Rome and civil life, Plautius was granted an...
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    precision during this period. Late in 47 the new governor of Britain, Publius Ostorius Scapula, began a campaign against the tribes of modern-day Wales, and the...
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    two decades the outbreak of their revolt. In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula begins his campaign against the recalcitrant Silures of south Wales...
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    the governor, Publius Ostorius Scapula, ordered them and other British client kingdoms to disarm. The Iceni were defeated by Ostorius in a fierce battle...
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    of Wales against Plautius's successor as governor, Publius Ostorius Scapula. Finally, in 50, Scapula managed to defeat Caratacus in a set-piece battle...
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    Canovium. Assaults on the British tribes were made under the legate Publius Ostorius Scapula who attacked the Deceangli in 48 AD. No Roman town is known to...
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  • in Armenia as an adversary of the Romans. In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula dies while campaigning against the Silures of south Wales. Following...
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    the Rhine fleet against them. The Frisian revolt is suppressed. Publius Ostorius Scapula replaces Aulus Plautius as governor of Britain. The south-east...
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    had revolted against the Romans in 47 when the Roman governor Publius Ostorius Scapula planned to disarm all the peoples of Britain under Roman control...
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  • senatorial approval to marry his niece, Agrippina the Younger. Publius Ostorius Scapula, governor of Britain, announces his intention to disarm all Britons...
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    two decades the outbreak of their revolt. In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula begins his campaign against the recalcitrant Silures of south Wales...
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    Ordovices in what is now Wales against the Roman governor Publius Ostorius Scapula. Ostorius defeated him in a set-piece battle somewhere in Ordovician...
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    public enemy in the 50s AD. In Caratacus' last battle, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula defeated Caratacus and sent him to Rome as a prisoner. In the 70s...
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    After the British resistance leader Caratacus was defeated by Publius Ostorius Scapula in Wales, he fled north to the Brigantes, only to be handed over...
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  • first attack on the Welsh tribes was by the legate Publius Ostorius Scapula about AD 48. Ostorius first attacked the Deceangli in the north-east of what...
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  • before the Senate, and sentenced to death. In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula founds a colonia for Roman veterans at Camulodunum (Colchester)...
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    power after a revolt of a faction of the Brigantes was defeated by Publius Ostorius Scapula in 48. Being of "illustrious birth", according to Tacitus, Cartimandua...
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  • charges Seneca with the education of Nero. In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula defeats Caratacus and the Silures in the territory of the Ordovices...
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  • the Rhine fleet against them. The Frisian revolt is suppressed. Publius Ostorius Scapula replaces Aulus Plautius as governor of Britain. The south-east...
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    During the Roman invasion, in 47 AD, the governor of Britain, Publius Ostorius Scapula, was forced to abandon his campaign against the Deceangli of North...
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    an effective guerrilla campaign against Governor Publius Ostorius Scapula. Finally, in 51, Ostorius lured Caratacus into a set-piece battle and defeated...
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  • daughter named Sallustia Calvina with him, this woman married Publius Ostorius Scapula. Calvina was married to Lucius Vitellius, the brother of Aulus...
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  • rebellion at Thurii • Gnaeus Octavius Odaenathus Lucius Opimius Publius Ostorius Scapula – responsible for the defeat and capture of Caratacus Gnaeus Papirius...
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    killed during the western expansion of early 47 AD commanded by Publius Ostorius Scapula. Prior to the Roman invasion of Cornovian territory in 47 AD the...
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  • detained in Rome by Nero after having been denounced, along with Publius Ostorius Scapula, by Antistius Sosianus. Because an accusation -- delatio -- would...
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  • daughter named Sallustia Calvina with her, this woman married Publius Ostorius Scapula. Passienus' wife, Domitia, was the sister of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus...
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