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Gracchi in Harpers Dictionary

Tiberius, elder son of the preceding, was born B.C. 163. Tiberius served his first campaign in Africa under his uncle Scipio, and having obtained the office of consul's quaestor, we find him next under Mancinus, the unfortunate commander in the Numantine War. His name, which the Numantines respected from remembering his father's virtues, is said...

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Horatius in Harpers Dictionary

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, a celebrated Roman poet, born at Venusia, December 8th, B.C. 65, during the consulship of L. Aurelius Cotta and L. Manlius Torquatus ( Carm. iii. 21, 1; Epod. 13, 6). His father, who was a freedman of the Horatian family, had gained considerable property as a coactor, a name applied to the servant of the moneybrokers, wh...

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Camillus in Wikipedia

Marcus Furius Camillus (ca. 446 – 365 BC) was a Roman soldier and statesman of patrician descent. According to Livy and Plutarch, Camillus triumphed four times, was five times dictator, and was honoured with the title of Second Founder of Rome. Camillus belonged to the lineage of the Furii, whose origin had been in the Latin city of Tusculum. Alt...

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Constantine I in Wikipedia

Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus[3] (c. 27 February 272[2] – 22 May 337), commonly known as Constantine I, Constantine the Great, or Saint Constantine,[4][5] was Roman Emperor from 306 to 337. Best known for being the first Christian Roman emperor,[notes 1] Constantine reversed the persecutions of his predecessor, Diocletian, and issued ...

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Drusus Minor in Harpers Dictionary

The son of the emperor Tiberius by Vipsania, daughter of Agrippa. He served with distinction in Pannonia and Illyricum, and was consul with his father, A.D. 21. In a quarrel with the imperial favourite Seianus, he gave the latter a blow in the face. Seianus, in revenge, seduced his wife Livia or Livilla, daughter of Drusus the elder and of Ant...

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Constantīnus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Flavius Valerius Aurelius Claudius, known as The Great, son of the emperor Constantius Chlorus and Helena (q.v.), was born A.D. 272, at Naïsus, a city of Dacia Mediterranea. When Constantine's father was associated in the government by Diocletian, the son was retained at court as a kind of hostage, but was treated with great kindness at first, an...

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Catullus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Catullus, Valerius A celebrated Roman poet, born in the territory of Verona, about B.C. 84. His praenomen, Gaius , is not given in any good MSS., which only mention his cognomen; but Gaius is accepted on the authority of Apuleius ( Apol. 10). In consequence of an invitation from Manlius Torquatus, one of the noblest patricians of the State, he p...

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Caracalla in Wikipedia

Lucius Septimius Bassianus[1] (April 4, 188 – April 8, 217), commonly known as Caracalla, was Roman emperor from 211 to 217.[2] The eldest son of Septimius Severus, he ruled jointly with his younger brother Geta until the latter's death in 211. Caracalla is remembered as one of the most notorious emperors.[3] British historian Edward Gibbon refer...

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Catullus in Wikipedia

Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC) was a Latin poet of the Republican period. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art. Biography - Catullus came from a leading equestrian family of Verona in Cisalpine Gaul, and according to St. Jerome, he was born in the town. The family wa...

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Drusus Julius Caesar in Wikipedia

Nero Claudius Drusus, later Drusus Julius Caesar (adoptive name; 13 BC - 14 September 23 AD) was the only child of Roman Emperor Tiberius and his first wife, Vipsania Agrippina. Biography - He was born in 7 October 13 BC with the name Nero Claudius Drusus, and is also known to historians as Drusus II and Drusus Minor. Drusus was named after his...

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