Glossary of ancient Roman religion (section augur)
pertains to the augur. It seems to mean variously: the "sacral investiture" of the augur; the ritual acts and actions of the augurs; augural law (ius augurale);...
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Appius Junius Silanus Claudia, Ap. f., wife of Publius Sulpicius Quirinius Claudia Pulchra, wife of Publius Quinctilius Varus, was convicted of immorality...
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Nero Publius Petronius - suffect consul Petronius Arbiter - writer Lucius Petronius Taurus Volusianus praetorian prefect, consul, city prefect Publius Petronius...
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Pergamum, in 129 BC. Publius Serrius, one of the senators who in 44 BC witnessed a decree of the consuls Marcus Antonius and Publius Cornelius Dolabella...
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It is said that Romulus himself instituted the augurs and was believed to have been the best augur of all. Likewise, King Numa Pompilius instituted...
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Julius Caesar (category 1st-century BC Roman augurs)
Artemidorus of Knidos gave Caesar a scroll informing on the conspiracy, the augur Spurinna allegedly prophesied misfortune for Caesar on the Ides. Tempest...
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Tiberius (section Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
forest, where three Roman legions and their auxiliary cohorts, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus, had been annihilated by Germanic tribes several years...
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Pyrrhus withdrew to Tarentum. In 279 BC, Pyrrhus met the consuls Publius Decius Mus and Publius Sulpicius Saverrio at the Battle of Asculum, which remained...
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Gnaeus Arrius Augur Succeeded by Marcus Herennius Faustus Quintus Pomponius Marcellus as Suffect consuls Preceded by Quintus Vetina Verus Publius Lucius Cosconianus...
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most skeptical among Rome's intellectual elite such as Cicero, who was an augur, saw religion as a source of social order. As the Roman Empire expanded...
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103. Futrell is citing Petronius's Satyricon, 45.133. Futrell 2006, p. 133. See also Tiberius's inducement to re-enlist. Petronius. Satyricon, 117: "He...
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Maurus Servius Honoratus in Eclogues Publius Ovidius Naso in Amores Publius Ovidius Naso in Fasti Gaius Petronius Arbiter in Satyricon Titus Maccius Plautus...
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LERI. PATRI. MATRI. MARCELLAE. TESTAMENTO FIERI IVSSO Plinius Secundus augur ordered this to be made as a testament to his father [Ce]ler and his mother...
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alignment in 168 BC. Thus, "the year of the consulship of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus and Publius Licinius Crassus" (usually given as "205 BC") actually...
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Domitian (category Augurs of the Roman Empire)
Caesar or Princeps Iuventutis, and several priesthoods, including those of augur, pontifex, frater arvalis, magister frater arvalium, and sacerdos collegiorum...
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Cicero (category 1st-century BC Roman augurs)
Italian allies. When in Rome during the turbulent plebeian tribunate of Publius Sulpicius Rufus in 88 BC which saw a short bout of fighting between the...
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Augustus (category 1st-century BC Roman augurs)
not mentioned in his will. "aug" here refers to the religious office of augur, not the title "augustus" created in 27 BC. Marcus Barbatius was a moneyer...
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Lucius Scribonius Libo 203 Publius Aelius Paetus 203 Publius Cornelius Lentulus (Caudinus) 203 Publius Quinctilius Varus 203 Publius Villius Tappulus 202 Gaius...
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BC) Lucius Licinius Lucullus (73–69 BC) Publius Cornelius Dolabella (? 69/68 BC) Titus Aufidius (66/65 BC) Publius Varinius (65/64 BC) ? P. Orbius (64/63...
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nominal adoption allowed Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, son of the consul of 57 BC, to take a place in the College of Augurs by getting around the...
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happened in 300 BC with the passage of the Lex Ogulnia when the College of Augurs raised their number from four to nine. After that, plebeians were accepted...
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this practice, see filiation. Publius Plautius, the grandfather of Gaius Plautius Proculus, consul in 357 BC. Publius P. f. Plautius, the father of Gaius...
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Frontinus Horace Julius Caesar Juvenal Livy Lucretius Nigidius Figulus Ovid Petronius Plautus Pliny the Elder Pliny the Younger Pomponius Mela Propertius Sallust...
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Postumius Albinus, deceased. However, he was forced to resign when the augurs detected flaws in his election; even so, the people passed laws to invest...
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taboos. Among them was the prohibition to leave Italy. Plutarch described Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio (141–132 BC) as the first to leave Italy...
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the presiding magistrate. There were also religious officials (known as Augurs) either in attendance or on-call, who would be available to help interpret...
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II.17.2 (1981), pp. 791–795. Sulla himself may or may not have been an augur at this time. Williams, p. 92. Martin Henig, Religion in Roman Britain (London:...
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the presiding magistrate. There were also religious officials (known as Augurs) either in attendance or on-call, who would be available to help interpret...
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freedman of Sextus and Gnaeus Petronius, buried at Rome. Lucius Peducaeus Apollinaris, buried at Sulci in Sardinia. Publius Peducaeus Boletanus, buried...
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Varro—under law was property loss to the owner. And yet in the Satyricon, Petronius has Trimalchio assert that "slaves too are men. The milk they have drunk...
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