• Lucius Marius Maximus Perpetuus Aurelianus (more commonly known as Marius Maximus) (c. AD 160 – c. AD 230) was a Roman biographer, writing in Latin, who...
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    with Marius Maximus on occasion. It was only when the source failed that he turned to other less reliable sources (such as Herodian and Maximus), as well...
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    Maria gens (redirect from Marius Cordus)
    Gaius Marius, one of the greatest generals of antiquity, and seven times consul. As a nomen, Marius is probably derived from the Oscan praenomen Marius, in...
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    Marius is a male name, a Roman family name, and a modern surname. The name Marius was used by members of the Roman gens Maria. It is thought to be derived...
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  • families. The Historia Augusta, apparently drawing on the testimony of Marius Maximus, insinuates that Commodus had a homosexual infatuation with Saoterus...
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  • and senator who served as consul ordinarius in 232 alongside Lucius Marius Maximus. Probably the son of Virius Lupus, suffect consul before AD 196, and...
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    priesthoods, including the College of Pontiffs, of which he was named pontifex maximus. Elagabalus stayed for a time at Antioch, apparently to quell various mutinies...
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  • bishop and martyr (d. 250) Julia Domna, Roman empress consort (d. 217) Marius Maximus, Roman biographer (d. 230) Quintus Tineius Sacerdos, Roman politician...
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  • Priscillianus Consul of the Roman Empire 231 with Titus Flavius Sallustius Paelignianus Succeeded by Lucius Virius Lupus Iulianus, and Lucius Marius Maximus...
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    Teutones, and the comitia centuriata elected Marius consul for a second time to face this new threat. Marius was consul every year from 104 to 100 BC, and...
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    conferring on him the titles of Augustus, Pater patriae and Pontifex maximus. Throughout his life, Alexander relied heavily on guidance from his grandmother...
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    Uru, Korean prime minister Liang Xi, Chinese official and politician Marius Maximus, Roman consul and biographer Naehae of Silla, Korean ruler Wu Zhi, Chinese...
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    reforms under Marius emerged in 1840s German scholarship, which posited that any changes in the Roman army between the times of Polybius and Marius were attributable...
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    Arausio: one led by Mallius Maximus, and the other by the proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio. As the consul of the year, Maximus out-ranked Caepio and therefore...
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    earlier biographies, derived primarily from now-lost earlier sources (Marius Maximus or Ignotus), are much more accurate. For Aelius, the biographies of...
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    series of imperial biographies by the prominent 3rd-century senator Marius Maximus, who covered the reigns of Nerva through to Elagabalus. The first modern...
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  • and can refer to: People Saint Perpetuus, sixth bishop of Tours L. Marius Maximus Perpetuus Aurelianus II, a Roman consul (see List of late imperial Roman...
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  • vanquished. The main sources of this period are thus Roman (Tacitus, Marius Maximus, and Justin) and Greek historians (Herodian, Cassius Dio and Plutarch)...
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  • Paullus Fabius Maximus - consul Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus - praetor Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus - consul Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus -...
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    Publius Septimius Geta legatus legionis c. 185 Moesia AE 1946, 131 Lucius Marius Maximus Perpetuus Aurelianus legatus legionis c. 193 Moesia CIL VI, 1450 Lucius...
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  • AD 203 and 214. Marius Perpetuus was the son of Lucius Marius Perpetuus, an equestrian procurator, and the brother of Marius Maximus, the Roman imperial...
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    earlier biographies, derived primarily from now-lost earlier sources (Marius Maximus or Ignotus), are considered to be more accurate. For Marcus's life and...
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  • Sun) and thereafter neglected his Imperial role as pontifex maximus. According to Marius Maximus, he ruled from his degenerate domus through prefects who...
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    be related. In their youth, Maximus and Theodosius I served together in Theodosius the Elder's army in Britannia. Maximus would become a distinguished...
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  • Lucius Valerius Claudius Acilius Priscillianus [Maximus] (fl. 3rd century) was a Roman senator. Valerius Maximus, a member of the third century gens Valeria...
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    Christian History, Macmillan 1924, p. 121 with n. 2. See Anthony R. Birley, Marius Maximus: The Consular Biographer, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt...
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    In 363, Gaianus passed his position to Marius but remained in Phoenicia, where he continued to reside. Marius I served as the consularis of Phoenice from...
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  • three mentions are credited to the now-lost biography of Hadrian by Marius Maximus. According to this source, the Caesar Lucius Aelius (died 138) invented...
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  • during the city's capture by Quintus Lucretius Afella. Marius the Younger was the son of the Gaius Marius who was seven times consul and a famous military commander...
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  • bishop and martyr (d. 250) Julia Domna, Roman empress consort (d. 217) Marius Maximus, Roman biographer (d. 230) Quintus Tineius Sacerdos, Roman politician...
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