Gellius Maximus was the son of Lucius Gellius Maximus, who had served as a doctor to Emperor Caracalla's doctor. For his services, Lucius Gellius Maximus...
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his replacement by Elagabalus. 219: Failed usurpations of Verus and Gellius Maximus in Syria. 221: Failed usurpation of Seleucus, possibly in Moesia 227:...
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The first to adopt the inclytus alternative to maximus may have been the rebel augustus Magnus Maximus (r. 383–388). The word pontifex and its derivative...
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Scythica are disbanded by Elagabalus after their leaders, Verus and Gellius Maximus, rebel. Emperor Elagabalus, age 15, is initiated into the worship of...
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Roman historiographical sources after 219 CE, when their commander, Gellius Maximus, rebelled against Emperor Elagabalus and proclaimed himself Emperor...
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who ironically was the first to proclaim Elagabalus as emperor, and Gellius Maximus, the commander of Legio IV Scythica. These rebellions were quashed...
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Millar places prior to the winter of 218–219. These included one by Gellius Maximus, who commanded the Fourth Legion and was executed, and one by Verus...
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The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, also known as the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus (Latin: Aedes Iovis Optimi Maximi Capitolini; Italian: Tempio di...
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was killed, killed at the battle of Lugdunum. Triccianus (c. 218) Gellius Maximus (219), in Syria, executed, originally an officer of Legio IV Scythica...
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22. Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, xxiv. 23. Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, iv. 3. Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX, ii. 1...
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purple. These included Verus, the commander of Legio III Gallica and Gellius Maximus, the commander of Legio IV Scythica. History professor and author Martijn...
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proconsuls Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus and Publius Decius Mus devastate the lands of Samnium. The Samnite noble Gellius Egnatius leads an army into...
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Elder Servius Sulpicius Galba (praetor 54 BC) Cestius Gallus Lucius Gellius Lucius Gellius Publicola Germanicus Gundobad Gaius Salvius Liberalis Gnaeus Hosidius...
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vestal but chosen and governed by Rome's leading male priest, the Pontifex maximus; in the Imperial era, this meant the emperor. Vesta's acolytes vowed to...
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Duronius then brought an accusation of ambitus against Antonius. Aulus Gellius 2.24.10; Macrobius 3.17.7; T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman...
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generals of the Second and Third Samnite wars bore this name (Statius Gellius and Gellius Egnatius). Some of its members later moved to Rome, perhaps not long...
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Semnones, Decius is killed in an act of Devotio, and Fabius wins the battle. Gellius Egnatius, the mastermind behind the coalition, is cut down in the fighting...
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Maximus ii. 9. § 3; Plutarch Cato Major 17; Cicero De Divinatione i. 16. Livy iv. 24; Cicero de Oratore ii. 64; Valerius Maximus ii. 9. § 5; Gellius,...
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Scythica are disbanded by Elagabalus after their leaders, Verus and Gellius Maximus, rebel. Emperor Elagabalus, age 15, is initiated into the worship of...
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remarks that Gellius does not state sacrificium humanum but only states...immolaturque ritu humano capra. Livy VIII 9, 6. Gellius V 12, 12. Gellius V 12. The...
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Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 96 BC) (redirect from Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (pontifex maximus))
Aulus Gellius, xv. 11 Cicero, de Orat. iii. 24 Cicero, de Orat. iii.94 Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia xviii. 1 Suetonius, Nero, 2 Valerius Maximus, ix...
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active after 90 BC, mentioned by Charisius, Priscian, Macrobius, and Aulus Gellius. Mummia Achaica, great-granddaughter of Lucius Mummius Achaicus, and mother...
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Livy, vii. 26–42, viii. 16, 17, ix. 7, 40, 41, x. 3–9, 11. Gellius, ix. 11. Valerius Maximus, viii. 13, § 1, 15. § 5. Eutropius, ii. 6. Censorinus, 17...
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by Vincent Bourne dating from 1716–17 is based on the account of Aulus Gellius. Titled Mutua Benevolentia primaria lex naturae est, it was translated...
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divisions established by the ancient Romans. Verrius Flaccus, quoted by Aulus Gellius, stated that the etymology of history (from Greek ιστορειν, historein,...
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of Marius Maximus. Lucius Marius Maximus, consul in AD 223 and 232, perhaps the same person as the historian Marius Maximus. Marius Maximus, a historian...
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whose Commentarii and Origine Verborum et Vocabulorum were cited by Aulus Gellius. He is probably the same Gavius who was the author of De Diis, discussed...
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vi. 721, ff. Plutarch, "The Life of Camillus", 2. Valerius Maximus, ii. 7. § 6. Aulus Gellius, xvii. 21. Niebuhr, History of Rome, vol. ii., p. 452 ff....
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time. Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.20.9; Plutarch, Cato the Elder 27.8 Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Roman History 1.15.5; Valerius Maximus 5.10.3; Pliny...
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and musician who lived in the first half of the 4th century BC. Aulus Gellius relates that Xenophilus was the intimate friend and teacher of Aristoxenus...
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