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    The Historia Augusta (English: Augustan History) is a late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues...
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    was of Thraco-Roman origin. According to the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta, he was born in Thrace or Moesia to a Gothic father and an Alanic mother;...
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    Fündling, Kommentar zur Vita Hadriani der Historia Augusta (= Antiquitas. Reihe 4: Beiträge zur Historia-Augusta-Forschung, Serie 3: Kommentare, Bände 4...
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  • two versions, one told by Cassius Dio and one contained in the later Historia Augusta. The contemporary historian Dio tells that Aurelius Zoticus was an...
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    Historiae Augustae (Authors of the Historia Augusta). Historia Augusta (Augustan History). Magie, David, trans. Historia Augusta. 3 vols. Loeb ed. London: Heinemann...
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    Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus, 1.4. Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus, 3.4. Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus, 1.5. Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus...
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    assessment. His career before becoming emperor is documented in the Historia Augusta and confirmed in many places by existing inscriptions. He was born...
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    the Historia Augusta, he wished to erect a temple to Jesus but was dissuaded by the pagan priests; however, this claim is unreliable as the Historia Augusta...
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    Historia Augusta - Probus, 13.6. Historia Augusta - Probus, 14.3. Historia Augusta - Probus, 14.2. Historia Augusta - Probus, 14.1. Historia Augusta -...
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    this period survive only as fragments and abbreviations), and the Historia Augusta (untrustworthy because of its character as a work of literature rather...
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  • According to the Historia Augusta, Firmus (died 273) was a usurper of Syrian origin during the reign of Aurelian. The contradictory accounts of his life...
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    ISBN 9781579583163. Birley 2000, p. 34; Historia Augusta, Antoninus Pius 1:7. Magie, David, Historia Augusta (1921), Life of Antoninus Pius, Note 6 CIL...
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    the chapter on the Thirty Tyrants within the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta (and writing under the fictitious name of Trebellius Pollio), whose...
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  • where Apuleius delivered a defense against a charge of magic. The Historia Augusta mentions Claudius Maximus as one of Marcus Aurelius' Stoic teachers...
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    Historia Augusta 1921, Didius Julianus, 5.1–2. Historia Augusta 1921, Didius Julianus, 5.3. Historia Augusta 1921, Septimius Severus, 5.5. Historia Augusta...
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    Syme, Ronald. Ammianus and the Historia Augusta, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1968. Syme, Ronald. Historia Augusta Papers, The Clarendon Press, Oxford...
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    of the Historia Augusta invented many events and letters attributed to Zenobia in the absence of contemporary sources. Some Historia Augusta accounts...
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    return to Leptis, where the climate was healthier. According to the Historia Augusta, a usually unreliable source, he was prosecuted for adultery during...
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    ISBN 9781526767530. Historia Augusta, 12:5. Jerome, s.a. 271. Historia Augusta, 12:6. Historia Augusta, 13:9. Historia Augusta, 13:1. Manders 2012, p...
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    [25] Historia Augusta, The Lives of the Thirty Pretenders, III et XXX. [26] Historia Augusta, The Life of Aurelian, XXXII.; [27] Historia Augusta, The...
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    p. 216 Wood 1999, p. 321 Historia Augusta (1921). "6. Avidius Cassius". Historia Augusta. doi:10.4159/dlcl.historia_augusta_avidius_cassius.1921. Davies...
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    nomen (family name) Pupienus (Classical Latin: [puːpiˈeːnʊs]). The Historia Augusta, whose testimony is not to be trusted unreservedly, paints Pupienus...
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    offer at first out of loyalty, but soon accepted. The often unreliable Historia Augusta is aware of both traditions, although it prefers the former. He does...
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    collection of imperial biographies called the Historia Augusta. However, his story, like the rest of the Historia Augusta, is riddled with fabrications and obsequious...
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    279 Gibbon, p. 280 Aurelius Victor, 36:1 Historia Augusta, Vita Taciti, 13:5 Zosimus, I:63:2 Historia Augusta, Vita Taciti, English translation Eutropius...
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    ISBN 3515083820. Historia Augusta, Vita Probi, 20:1 Zonaras, 12:29 Victor, 37:4 Historia Augusta, Vita Probi, 20:2-3 Historia Augusta, Vita Cari, 6:1 Gibbon...
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    Welsh and Manx. Clarendon Press. Historia Augusta, Vita Alex. Sev. 60.6 Historia Augusta, Vit. Aurel. 44,3 Historia Augusta. Vita Car. Numer. Carin. 14 Piggott...
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    the World"). Many details about Aurelian's early life come from the Historia Augusta and are considered unreliable. Comparative research with other sources...
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    Anatolia, more specifically Galatia or Cappadocia. According to the Historia Augusta, his mother was a Roman woman called Ulpia Gordiana and his father...
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    Elagabalus's depravity is the Historia Augusta, which includes controversial claims. It is most likely that the Historia Augusta was written towards the end...
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