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    Lucius Cassius Dio (c. 165 – c. 235), also known as Dio Cassius (Greek: Δίων Κάσσιος Dion Kassios), was a Roman historian and senator of maternal Greek...
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    Wiedemann 1996, pp. 222–223. Wiedemann 1996, p. 223. Cassius Dio, LIX.3. Barrett 2015, pp. 108, 334. Cassius Dio, LIX.10. Barrett 2015, pp. 47–48, 93. Wiedemann...
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    are consistent in their condemnation of Nero. Cassius Dio Cassius Dio (c. 155–229) was the son of Cassius Apronianus, a Roman senator. He passed the greater...
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  • (1st century BC) Dio Chrysostom, Roman philosopher (AD 40–120) Cassius Dio, Roman historian (AD 160–230) Cassius Dio (consul 291) Dio Lequaglie (born 1963)...
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    Tacitus, Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped. The historian Cassius Dio wrote that previous imperial donations to influential Britons were confiscated...
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    Panegyricus 47.4 Cassius Dio, Roman History LXVIII.2 Wend, David (1997). "Nerva (96–98 A.D.)". Retrieved 23 September 2007. Cassius Dio, Roman History LXVIII...
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    innocent of these deaths and Cassius Dio also mentions such rumours. There are also rumors mentioned by Tacitus and Cassius Dio that Livia brought about Augustus'...
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  • Cassius Dio (/ˈkæʃəs ˈdiːoʊ/; fl. 291–297) was a Roman senator who was appointed consul in AD 291. Cassius Dio was either the grandson or great-grandson...
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    US. Cassius Dio, Roman History LXV.15 Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, "Life of Vespasian" §24 Cassius Dio, Roman History LXVI.17 Cassius Dio, Roman...
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    arbitrary and capricious behaviour of the emperor himself. In the view of Cassius Dio, his accession marked the descent "from a kingdom of gold to one of iron...
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    acted as Cassius had advised. According to Dio, the Roman soldiers, as well as Crassus himself, were willing to give the overall command to Cassius after...
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    for the consul's sight-seeing. Neither Cassius Dio nor Zonaras (whose version was based on those of Cassius Dio), mentioned treaties between the Romans...
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    father's side. Severus was described as 'Libyan by race', by the historian Cassius Dio. Due to his family background on his father's side he is considered the...
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    the same name Caracalla bore as emperor, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Cassius Dio states that some officers tried to keep the soldiers loyal to Macrinus...
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    of Nero 34. Cassius Dio, Historia Romana LXIII.11. Cassius Dio, Historia Romana LXIII.12. Cassius Dio, Historia Romana LXIII.13. Cassius Dio, Historia Romana...
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    Plutarch, and Cassius Dio. Asculum was in Lucanian territory, in southern Italy. The Battle of Asculum was the original “Pyrrhic victory”. Cassius Dio wrote that...
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    in the writings of Roman historians Suetonius (c. AD 69 – c. AD 122), Cassius Dio (c. AD 150 – c. 235) and fifth-century Christian author Paulus Orosius...
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  • been made. Plutarch places the tomb near a Temple of Isis. Plutarch and Cassius Dio describe Cleopatra VII moving between her palace and the tomb in her...
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    Cassius Dio, lxxiv, 11.1; Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus, 2.4, 2.6. Cassius Dio, lxxiv, 11.3; Herodian, ii.6.8. Cassius Dio, lxxiv, 11.5. Cassius Dio...
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    40. Cassius Dio, 50.2, 5, 12, 31. Suetonius, Claudius 34, 38. Tacitus, XII 20. Cassius Dio, 50.2,8. Suetonius, Claudius, 35–37, 39–40. Cassius Dio, 50...
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    IV.2. Cassius Dio, LVII.21. Tacitus, IV.39–41. Tacitus, IV.41. Tacitus, V.3. Suetonius, Tiberius 53–54. Suetonius, Tiberius 65. Cassius Dio, LVII.22...
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  • Cicero (b. 98 BC) Cassius Dio, The Roman Histories, Book 55, ch 26. Cassius Dio, The Roman Histories, Book 55, ch 26-27. Cassius Dio, The Roman Histories...
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    member of the Roman Senate, serving at the same time as the historian Cassius Dio. Following the death of Commodus, Pertinax was proclaimed emperor. He...
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    Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. p. 332. Cassius Dio xlix. 40.2; xlix. 44.1-4; li. 16.2; Plutarch, Antony 53.12 Cassius Dio li. 21.8 Plutarch, Antony 87.1; Suetonius...
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    Cassius Dio, Roman History, 55.29 Velleius Paterculus, Compendium of Roman History, 2.110, 112.1-2 Cassius Dio, Roman History, 55.29-30 Cassius Dio,...
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    little is known about these events comes chiefly from brief accounts by Cassius Dio and a few references by other authors, though there is no information...
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    2003, pp. 119–120. Gruen 2005, p. 49. Suetonius 100.1. Cassius Dio 56.30. Tacitus, 1.5. Cassius Dio, 55.22.2, 56.30. Everitt 2006, pp. 312–320. Eck & Takács...
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  • father of the boxer Cassius Marcellus Clay (politician) (1810–1903), American abolitionist, nicknamed the "Lion of White Hall" Cassius Dio (c. AD 155 or 163/164...
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    Boudica on the narratives written by the Roman historians Tacitus and Dio Cassius, which are the only surviving accounts of the battle known to exist....
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    Josephus 72; Pliny the Elder, Natural Histories, preface. Cassius Dio, Roman History LXVI.12 Cassius Dio, Roman History LXVI.13 Alföldy, Géza (1995). "Eine Bauinschrift...
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