• poet Gaius Lucilius. Lucilius was a friend of Roman general Scipio Aemilianus. Strabo's paternal grandfather was Gnaeus Pompeius, while his father was Sextus...
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  • satire poet Gaius Lucilius. Lucilius was a friend of Roman general Scipio Aemilianus Africanus. Her paternal grandfather was Gnaeus Pompeius, while her father...
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    Silvanus C. Serius Augurinus Mar.? A. Avillius Urinatius Quadratus Strabo Aemilianus Nov.? Q. Canusius Praenestinus C. Lusius Sparsus 157 M. Vettulenus...
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  • Consul of the Roman Empire 156 with Gaius Serius Augurinus Succeeded by Aulus Avillius Urinatius Quadratus, and Strabo Aemilianus as consules suffecti...
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    commander when Aemilianus arrived. While serving with the army at Numantia, his military aptitude brought him to the attention of Scipio Aemilianus. According...
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  • whether this Gaius Fannius was the historian who served under Scipio Aemilianus during the Third Punic War, and together with Tiberius Gracchus were the...
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    were explicitly mentioned as being Celts by several classic authors (e.g. Strabo). These tribes spoke the Celtiberian language and wrote it by adapting the...
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    Furnius Julianus, c.211 Rutilius Pudens Crispinus, c.225 – c.227 Aemilius Aemilianus, late 3rd century Datianus, 286 – 293 Iulius Saturninus, c.337 – c. 340...
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  • Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus Scipio Aemilianus Scipio Africanus Scipio Asiaticus Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus Publius...
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    the Amal (Theodoric the Great) and Theodoric Strabo, by playing them against each other. Following Strabo's early death, Zeno was able to achieve a lasting...
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    to Strabo, the Aquitani were a wealthy people. Luerius, the King of the Arverni and the father of Bituitus who warred against Maximus Aemilianus and...
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    Petronius Verus 197/198 Gaius Atticus Norbanus Strabo 198-c. 201 Publius Caecilius Urbicus Aemilianus c. 205 - 208 Publius Alfius Maximus c. 183 - 185...
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    After twenty years of hostilities, in 133 BC the Roman Senate gave Scipio Aemilianus Africanus the task of destroying Numantia. Numantia was an Iron Age hill...
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    The final assault led by the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus came, however, from the harbour quarter (146 BC). Setting fire to the...
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    (w. Herennius Etruscus) Trebonianus Gallus (w. Hostilian & Volusianus) Aemilianus Silbannacus (?) Valerian Gallienus (w. Saloninus) Claudius II Quintillus...
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    Carthaginian power and the complete destruction of the city by Scipio Aemilianus. The Romans pulled the Phoenician warships out into the harbor and burned...
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  • Usurpations of Aemilianus and Valerian: Emperors Trebonianus Gallus and Volusianus murdered by their soldiers and replaced by Aemilianus. Valerian raises...
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    him as weak and self-indulgent, drunk, or a lover of music. According to Strabo, his practice of playing the flute earned him the ridiculing sobriquet Auletes...
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    and have her living to c. 57 BC. This would comport with the account by Strabo, who reports Ptolemy XII to have had only three daughters; these can reliably...
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  • satirical poet Gaius Lucilius. Lucilius was a friend of Roman general Scipio Aemilianus. Sextus’ paternal grandfather was Gnaeus Pompeius, while his father was...
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  • Aeacus, Aebutus, Aedesius, Aelianus, Aemiliana, Aemilianus, Aenianus, Aequa, Aequitas, Aemilianus, Aeserninus, Aeternitas, Aetius, Afer, Afra, Africana...
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    and suggests instead the adoptive brother of Scipio Aemilianus (whose early death triggered Aemilianus' adoption). The relations with the allied families...
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  • Marcus Laelius Fulvius Maximus Aemilianus, consul ordinarius in AD 227. Fulvius Pius, consul in AD 238. Fulvius Aemilianus, consul in AD 244. Fulvius Asprianus...
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    of the Senate, had the right to be heard first on any debate. Scipio Aemilianus and his circle had fostered the (quasi-Platonic) idea that authority should...
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    Dio says that she injected the poison with a needle (βελόνη, belónē), and Strabo argued for an ointment of some kind. No venomous snake was found with her...
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    Akkadian: Tar-qu-ú, Hebrew: תִּרְהָקָה, romanized: Tīrhāqā, Manetho's Tarakos, Strabo's Tearco), was a pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt and qore (king)...
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    Philometor Soteira while associated with her eldest son Ptolemy IX. According to Strabo, she was sometimes known as Kokke when discussed in relation to her son...
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    Scipio Aemilianus from his camp in the siege of Numantia there were likely native diviners. The practitioners of the sacrifices are named only by Strabo, but...
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    many deaths as never before. — Zosimus, New History, I.26. And while Aemilianus, then governor of Lower Mesia, was forced to cleanse the Roman territories...
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    well at the first strike but could not withstand the attack of Scipio Aemilianus, who entirely destroyed the city, enslaved all the citizens and gained...
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