• 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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  • 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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