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    has been hypothesized that Postumus himself was born in Deuso. From these relatively obscure provincial origins, Postumus would have risen through the...
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    This left Postumus, who was governor of Germania Superior and Inferior, in charge at the Rhine border. An exceptional administrator, Postumus had also...
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  • Poenius Postumus was praefectus castrorum (camp prefect) of the Roman legion II Augusta, stationed in Britain during the rebellion of Boudica in 61 AD...
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    delay, Postumus had established some control over the Empire. In 265, when Gallienus and his men crossed the Alps, they defeated and besieged Postumus in...
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    discovered in 1992 at Augsburg indicates that Postumus had been proclaimed emperor by September 260. Postumus claimed the consulship for himself and one...
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    some sources, Tetricus II also kept his senatorial rank. According to König (I. König, Die gallischen Usurpatoren von Postumus bis Tetricus, München 1981...
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    Croatian: Ladislav Posmrtni; Czech: Ladislav Pohrobek; German: Ladislaus Postumus; 22 February 1440 – 23 November 1457), was Duke of Austria and King of...
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    Lucius Caesar, Agrippina the Elder (mother of Caligula), and Agrippa Postumus (a posthumous son). From June 20 BC to the spring of 18 BC, Agrippa was...
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    Agrippa Postumus, a grandson of the Emperor Augustus, had a villa on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, which was buried in the eruption of 79 AD. The villa...
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    under Postumus, either the legatus of Germania Superior or the commander of Legio XXII Primigenia. Laelian represented a strong danger to Postumus because...
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  • Aphrodite by a Postumus; Syme identifies its author as Apollonides of Nicaea, and the person responsible for the temple as Vibius Postumus, who had the...
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    Aegean Islands as far as Crete and Rhodes. Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus is killed by his own troops, after not allowing them to sack the city of...
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  • Claudius Postumus Dardanus was a praetorian prefect of Gaul from the early fifth century AD, who was against Jovinus, considered as a usurper of imperial...
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    266/267, and rose swiftly to become co-consul with Postumus in 268. It is also possible that Postumus then elevated him to the post of praetorian prefect...
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  • proclaimed Augustus by his troops. Postumus besieges Cologne, where Silvanus is praetorian prefect and Roman ruler of Gaul. Postumus executes Saloninus and his...
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    regime given what is suspected and known about his patron's relations with Postumus. If Historia Augusta’s assertions as to his military reputation are correct...
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    Gallic Empire Postumus over war spoils. In 260, Saloninus' troops acclaimed him Emperor in an unsuccessful bid for political legitimacy; Postumus killed Saloninus...
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    full brother, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Postumus, were named after their natural father only until Agrippa Postumus was adopted by Augustus as Agrippa Julius...
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  • Lucius Antistius Burrus, ordinary consul in 181. Where the name elements "Postumus Aquilinus" in Adventus' name came from is something of a mystery: Salomies...
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    and all available auxiliaries. The II Augusta, based at Exeter, was available, but its prefect, Poenius Postumus, declined to heed the call. Nonetheless...
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    recovered from the Gallic Empire and Postumus's inscription on the Augsburg Altar was erased. However, Postumus managed to evade complete defeat, which...
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    a military commander, in northern Italia, to prevent Postumus from crossing the Alps. Postumus was killed by his soldiers in 269 in Mogontiacum (modern-day...
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    Emperor Postumus refused to allow them to sack the city. They murdered the emperor and in the confusion that followed, the army elected Marius as Postumus' successor...
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    begging for mercy, but he was compelled to commit suicide. Sextus Julius Postumus, used by Sejanus in one of his schemes, AD 23. Julius Africanus, of the...
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    Regalianus were also proclaimed emperors. In the West, the Roman governor Postumus took advantage of Gallienus' distraction to murder the Imperial heir, Saloninus...
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    patron, a certain Gaius Rabirius Postumus, a knight of the Caesarian age, defended by Cicero in his work Pro Rabirius Postumus. The third figure portrays a...
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    died, the one remaining son, Agrippa Postumus, was adopted at the same time as Tiberius, but later Agrippa Postumus was sent into exile and finally killed...
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    of queen Boudica, when its praefectus castrorum[broken anchor] Poenius Postumus, who was then its acting commander possibly because its legatus and tribunes...
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    Arabs to burn a fleet that Antonius had built in the Red Sea. Aulus Didius Postumus, proconsul of Cyprus during the reign of Augustus. Aulus Didius Gallus...
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  • India to create a Kushan Empire. Comet Halley makes an appearance. Agrippa Postumus, son of Julia the Elder and grandson of Augustus (d. AD 14) Gaius Caninius...
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