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    The gens Sempronia was one of the most ancient and noble houses of ancient Rome. Although the oldest branch of this gens was patrician, with Aulus Sempronius...
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    The Basilica Sempronia was a structure in the Roman Forum during the Republican period. It was one of four basilicas to make up the original Roman Forum...
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    Sempronia was an Ancient Roman woman of the late Republic who was the wife of Decimus Junius Brutus, the consul of 77 B.C. and step-mother of his son...
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    Sempronia (170 BC – after 101 BC) was a Roman noblewoman living in the Middle and Late Roman Republic, who was most famous as the sister of the ill-fated...
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  • A lex Sempronia is a Roman law proposed by a member of the gens Sempronia. The most famous of these laws are those passed by the Gracchi brothers: especially...
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    was the daughter of the renowned general Scipio Africanus. His sister Sempronia was the wife of Scipio Aemilianus, another important general and politician...
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  • son of the Roman senator Decimus Junius Brutus and his notorious wife Sempronia, one of the participants in the conspiracy of Catilina in 63 BC. His birthday...
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    compromise position that would place the Senate within the bounds of the lex Sempronia de capite civis, and was initially successful in swaying the body; a later...
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    the senate was probably ineffectual. He also proposed a law, the lex Sempronia de provinciis consularibus, for the senate to assign consular provinces...
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    phase. The Basilica Julia was built on the site of the earlier Basilica Sempronia (170 BC) along the south side of the Forum, opposite the Basilica Aemilia...
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    basilicas were increasingly monumental; Julius Caesar replaced the Basilica Sempronia with his own Basilica Julia, dedicated in 46 BC, while the Basilica Aemilia...
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  • was elected to the censorship and began construction of the basilica Sempronia in the forum; he later won a second consulship in 163 BC. Tiberius was...
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    the New British Lady's Magazine the following year under the pseudonym Sempronia. The article argued that sewing should be made a recognised profession...
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  • Sempronius may refer to: Sempronius, the nomen of the Roman gens Sempronia Sempronius, a character in the play The Apple Cart Sempronius, New York Sempronius...
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    In Ankara, Turkey, a funeral inscription has been found that names a Sempronia Romana, daughter of a named Sempronius Aquila (an imperial secretary)...
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  • Eagles of the Empire is a series of historical military fiction novels written by Simon Scarrow. The series began in July 2000 with the publication of...
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    De Mulieribus Claris (category Cultural depictions of Sempronia (wife of Decimus Brutus))
    queen of Laodice 76. Sempronia, daughter of Gracchus 77. Claudia Quinta, a Roman woman 78. Hypsicratea, Queen of Pontus 79. Sempronia, a Roman Woman 80....
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    murdered by Cornelia (the mother of the Gracchi brothers) and her daughter Sempronia (who was married to Scipio), who were worried that the Gracchian law might...
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    descendants of his two daughters. His younger daughter's last surviving child Sempronia, wife and then widow of Scipio Aemilianus – his adoptive grandson – was...
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  • the praetor urbanus. Brutus was still alive in 63 BC, when his wife Sempronia was caught up in the conspiracy of Catiline. It was during one of his...
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    after 125 BC. Fulvia was the only child of Marcus Fulvius Bambalio and Sempronia. As a result, Fulvia may have also represented the last of both the Fulvii...
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    Numicia Papiria Pinaria Pollia Postumia Potitia Quinctia Quinctilia Romilia Sempronia Sergia Servilia Sestia Siccia Sulpicia Tarpeia Tarquinia Tarquitia Tullia...
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  • Gracchus, condemned to exile c. 21 BC for being Julia the Elder's lover. Sempronia gens Gracchi This disambiguation page lists articles about people with...
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    in 123 or 122 BC, the tribune Gaius Sempronius Gracchus passed the lex Sempronia de provinciis consularibus, which required the senate to select the consular...
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  • According to Cicero, Scaevola supported Gracchus' land reforms (Lex Sempronia Agraria), but the extent of his involvement has been debated by some historians...
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    general Scipio Africanus, the hero of the Second Punic War. Their sister Sempronia also was the wife of Scipio Aemilianus, another important general and...
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    the provinces which contained the larger number of troops. Under Lex Sempronia, enacted in 123 BC, the senate determined the allocation of the provinces...
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    called Aemilia; from the gens Cornelia, Cornelia; from the gens Sempronia, Sempronia; and so on. If there were many daughters, a cognomen such as Tertia...
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    this treatment for non-citizens, as stated in the lex Porcia and lex Sempronia, dating from 195 and 123 BC. The poet Horace refers to the horribile flagellum...
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    may reflect close ties between Ptolemy VIII and the gentes Cornelia and Sempronia. By contrast, Ptolemy VI seems to have maintained ties with Cato the Elder...
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