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Lucius Aemilius Paullus in Wikipedia

Lucius Aemilius Paullus (d. 216 BC) was a Roman consul twice, in 219 and 216 BC. He served his first consulship with Marcus Livius Salinator. During this year, he defeated Demetrius of Pharos, in the Second Illyrian War and forced him to flee to the court of Philip V of Macedon. Upon his return to Rome, he was awarded a triumph. He was subsequent...

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Agrippa in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius. A Roman general, who was born in B.C. 63, of an obscure family; studied with young Octavius (afterwards the emperor Augustus) at Apollonia, in Illyria, and upon the murder of Caesar, in B.C. 44, was one of the friends of Augustus who advised him to proceed immediately to Rome. In the civil wars which followed, and which...

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Aetius in Roman Biography

Aetius, a-ee'she-us, sometimes improperly written Ǽtius, a Roman general, born near the end of the fourth century. For many years he successfully defended Gaul against the encroachments of the barbarians. In 451, when Attila the Hun had besieged and was on the point of taking Orleans, the approach of the combined armies of Aetius and Theodoric obli...

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Agrippina in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina (supra), and mother of the emperor Nero, was born at Oppidum Ubiorum, afterwards called, in honour of her, Colonia Agrippina, now Cologne. She was beautiful and intelligent, but licentious, cruel, and ambitious. She was first married to Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus (A.D. 28), by whom she had a son, afterwards t...

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Agrippa in Wikipedia

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (c. 63 BC–12 BC) was a Roman statesman and general.[1] He was a close friend, son-in-law, lieutenant and defense minister to Octavian, the future emperor Caesar Augustus. He was responsible for most of Octavian’s military victories, most notably winning the naval Battle of Actium against the forces of Mark Antony and Cleo...

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Ancus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

The fourth king of Rome. He reigned twenty-four years (B.C. 640-616), and is said to have been the son of Numa's daughter. He took many Latin towns, transported the inhabitants to Rome, and gave them the Aventine to dwell on. These conquered Latins formed the original Plebs. He was succeeded by Tarquinius Priscus. (Livy, i. 32 foll.)...

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Aetius in Wikipedia

Flavius Aetius, or simply Aetius (c. 396–454), dux et patricius, was a Roman general of the closing period of the Western Roman Empire. He was an able military commander and the most influential man in the Western Roman Empire for two decades (433-454). He managed policy in regard to the attacks of barbarian peoples pressing on the Empire. Notabl...

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Agrippina the Younger in Wikipedia

Julia Agrippina, most commonly referred to as Agrippina Minor or Agrippina the Younger or Agrippinilla (Little Agrippina) and after 50 known as Julia Augusta Agrippina (Minor Latin for the ‘younger’, Classical Latin: IVLIA•AGRIPPINA; IVLIA•AVGVSTA•AGRIPPINA[1], 7 November 15 or 6 November 16[2] – 19/23 March 59) was a Roman Empress and one of th...

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Antoninus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Pius, or Titus Aurelius Fulvius Boionius Antonīnus, a Roman emperor, A.D. 138-161, born near Lanuvium, A.D. 86, adopted by Hadrian in 138, and succeeded the latter in the same year. The Senate conferred upon him the title of Pius, or "the dutifully affectionate," because he persuaded them to grant to his father Hadrian the apotheosis and other...

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Ambrose in Wikipedia

Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose (c. between 337 and 340 – 4 April 397), was a bishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century. He is counted as one of the four original doctors of the Church. Life [edit]Political career Ambrose was born into a Roman Christian family ...

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