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Isidore of Seville in Wikipedia

Saint Isidore of Seville (Spanish: San Isidro or San Isidoro de Sevilla, Latin: Isidorus Hispalensis) (c. 560 – 4 April 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the historian Montalembert put it in an oft- quoted phrase, "le dernier savant du monde ancien" ("the last scholar of the ancient world").[2] Ind...

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Elagabălus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

M. Aurelius Antonīnus, a Roman emperor. He was the grandson of Maesa, sister to the empress Iulia, the wife of Septimius Severus. Maesa had two daughters, Soaemias or Semiamira, the mother of the subject of this Elagabalus. (Bust in the Capitol, Rome.) article, and Mammaea, mother of Alexander Severus. The true name of Elagabalus was Varius Av...

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Geta, Septimius in Harpers Dictionary

The brother of Caracalla, by whom he was assassinated, A.D. 212. See Caracalla....

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Hadriānus, Publius Aelius in Harpers Dictionary

A Roman emperor, born at Rome A.D. 76. He lost his father when ten years of age, and had for his guardians Trajan, who was his relation, and Cornelius Tatianus, a Roman knight. His father's name was Aelius Hadrianus Afer. It is conjectured that the surname of Afer was given the latter because he had been governor of Africa, and that he is the sam...

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Flaminius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Gaius, consul for the first time in B.C. 223, when he gained a victory over the Insubrian Gauls; and censor in 220, when he executed two great works which bore his name-viz., the Circus Flaminius and the Via Flaminia. In his second consulship (217 B.C.) he was defeated and slain by Hannibal, at the battle of the Lake Trasimenus (Livy, xxi. 57; 6...

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Epictetus in Wikipedia

Epictetus (Greek: Ἐπίκτητος; AD 55–AD 135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until banishment when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece where he lived the rest of his life. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Dis...

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Galerius in Wikipedia

Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus (c. 260 - April or May 311), commonly known as Galerius, was Roman Emperor from 305 to 311. During his reign he campaigned, aided by Diocletian, against the Sassanid Empire, sacking their capital Ctesiphon in 299. Early life Galerius was born on a small farm estate, on the site where he later built his pala...

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Honorius in Wikipedia

Flavius Honorius (9 September 384 – 15 August 423), commonly known as Honorius, was Western Roman Emperor from 395 to 423. He was the youngest son of Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the eastern emperor Arcadius. Even by the standards of the rapidly declining Western Empire, Honorius' reign was precarious and chao...

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Gordianus in Wikipedia

Gordian I - Marcus Antonius Gordianus Sempronianus Romanus Africanus (c. 159 – 12 April 238), commonly known as Gordian I, was Roman Emperor for one month with his son Gordian II in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors. Early life - Little is known on the early life and family background of Gordian. There is no reliable evidence on his family origi...

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Epictētus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἐπίκτητος). An eminent Stoic philosopher, born in a servile condition at Hierapolis in Phrygia, about A.D. 50. The names of his parents are unknown; neither do we know how he came to be brought to Rome. But in that city he was for some time a slave to Epaphroditus, a freedman of Nero, who had been one of his body-guard. An anecdote related by...

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