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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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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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Caracalla in in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Gaulish outer garment resembling the Roman lacerna (q. v.), and first introduced at Rome by the emperor Aurelius Antoninus Bassianus, who compelled all plebeians who came to court to wear it, and hence received the name Caracalla, by which he is best known in history (Aurel. Vict. Epit. 21). In its longer form it came in later times to be worn...

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Celsus in Wikipedia

Celsus (Greek: Κέλσος) was a 2nd century Greek philosopher and opponent of Christianity. He is known to us entirely because his literary work, The True Word (Account, Doctrine or Discourse) (Λόγος Ἀληθής), was largely reproduced in excerpts by Origen in his counter-polemic Contra Celsum. The work is the earliest extant anti-Christian polemic. Th...

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Constantinus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A usurper who had himself proclaimed emperor in Britain during the reign of Honorius and Arcadius, in A.D. 407, reigning for four years and securing possession of Gaul and Spain, until defeated in 411 by Constantius, the able general of Honorius. By him Constantine was taken prisoner, carried to Ravenna, and there put to death....

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Constantine III in Wikipedia

Flavius Claudius Constantinus, known in English as Constantine III (died 411 by 18 September) was a Roman general who declared himself Western Roman Emperor in 407, abdicated in 411, and was captured and executed shortly afterwards. Background - On 31 December in 406 several tribes of Barbarian invaders, including the Vandals, the Burgundians, t...

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Caligula in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Caligŭla, Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanĭcus , son of Germanicus and Agrippina, was born A.D. 12, in the camp, probably in Germany, and was brought up among the legions (Calig. 8). Here he received from the soldiers the surname of Caligula, from his being arrayed, when quite young, like a common soldier, and wearing a pair of caligae, a kind of sh...

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Carinus in Wikipedia

Marcus Aurelius Carinus (died 285) was Roman Emperor (283 – July, 285) and elder son of the Emperor Carus, on whose accession he was appointed Caesar and co-emperor of the western portion of the empire. Official accounts of his character and career have been filtered through the propaganda of his successful opponent, Diocletian. Reign He fought...

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Celsus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Platonic, or perhaps Epicurean, philosopher who lived about A.D. 180. His name is famous as that of one of the bitterest enemies of Christianity. From a motive of curiosity, or, perhaps, in order to be better able to combat the new religion, Celsus caused himself to be initiated into the mysteries of Christianity, and to be received into tha...

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Carinus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Carīnus, M. Aurelius - The eldest son of the emperor Carus, who gave him the title of Caesar and the rank of Augustus, together with the government of Italy, Illyricum, Africa, and the West, when he himself was setting out, with his second son Numerianus, to make war against the Persians. Carus, knowing the evil qualities of Carinus, gave him th...

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