110 - Events. Suetonius publishes Of illustrious men (De viris illustribus) 110 - Deaths. John the Evangelist Category: 110 ...

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The historian Suetonius describes the physical manifestations of Claudius' affliction in detail[1]. His knees were weak and gave way under him and his head shook. He stammered and his speech was confused. He slobbered and his nose ran when excited. The Stoic Seneca states in his Apocolocyntosis that Claudius' voice belonged to no land animal, and that his hands were weak as well^{See also:}

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61 - Events. Celtic revolt in Britain led by Boudica, Queen of the Iceni. She is defeated and killed by the Roman governor, Suetonius Paulinus. Galba becomes governor of Hispania Tarraconensis. 61 - Births. 61 - Deaths. Boudica, Queen of the Iceni. Category: 61 ...

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Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century Decades: 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s - 70s - 80s 90s 100s 110s 120s Years: 70 71 72 73 74 - 75 - 76 77 78 79 80 75 - Events. Last known cuneiform inscription Accession of Han Zhangdi. Town of Caerwent founded by the Romans. 75 - Births. Suetonius, Roman historian 75 - Deaths. Han Mingdi, Chinese emperor of ...

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Bérénice is a tragedy by the French 17th-century playwright Jean Racine. It was first performed in 1670. Racine seems to have chosen the subject in competition with Pierre Corneille, who was working on his drama Tite et Bérénice at the same time. The subject was taken from the Roman historian Suetonius, who recounts the story of the Roman emperor Titus and Berenice of Cilicia, the sister of Herod Agrippa. Because Rome opposed their marriage, Titus had to renounce Berenice despite their love for each other. Racine raises t ...

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Caenis, a former slave and secretary of Antonia Minor (mother of the emperor Claudius), was the mistress of the Roman emperor Vespasian. Suetonius says that after the death of Vespasian's wife Flavia Domitilla, Caenis was his wife in all but name until her death in AD 74. She had a remarkable memory and considerable influence on the emperor's administration, carried out official business on his behalf, and apparently made a lot of money from her position. However, she was treated with disrespect by Vespasian's son Domitian.

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Veii (pron. WEE eye) - or Veius - was in ancient times, an important Etrurian city 18 km NNW of Rome, Italy. Veii was the richest city of the Etruscan League, on the southern border of Etruria. As the nearest Etruscan city to Rome, it was continually at war with Rome for nearly 400 years. It eventually fell to the Roman general Camillus's army in 396 BC. Veii continued to be occupied after its capture by the Romans; Livia had an estate there, according to Suetonius. It was famous for its statuary including a statue of Tiberius (now in the Vatican), and th ...

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Aelius Donatus (fl. late 4th century AD) was a Roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric. The only fact known regarding his life is that he was the tutor of St. Jerome. He was the author of a number of professional works, of which several are still extant: A partly incomplete commentary on the playwright Terence compiled from other commentaries, but probably not in its original form; His Life of Virgil is thought to be based on a lost Vita by Suetonius, with a few fragments of his n ...

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Boudica (also written Boudicca, Boadicea, Buduica, Bonduca) (d. 60/61) was a queen of the Iceni who led a major uprising of the tribes of south-east Britain against the occupying Roman forces. After her husband, the Icenian king Prasutagus, died, the Romans had annexed his kingdom and brutally humiliated Boudica and her daughters. She destroyed the cities of Colchester, London and St Albans, causing the emperor Nero to consider withdrawing from the island; but the governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus defeated ...

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Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC-ca. 55 BC) was one of the most influential Roman poets of the 1st century BC. Of Catullus's life, little is known for sure. Most sources, including Suetonius, agree that he was born in or near Verona, though the Palatine Hill of Rome has been mentioned as an alternative nati loci. Although his was a leading equestrian family from Verona, he lived in Rome most of his life. In 57 BC, he accompanied his friend Memmius to Bithynia, where Memmius had received a propraetor's post. Catullus's only political office was one ...

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66 - Events. September 22 – Emperor Nero creates the legion I Italica Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire. The Zealots take Jerusalem and the Sicarii capture the fortress of Masada. Cestius Gallus, legate of Syria, attempts to put down the Jewish rebellion. Roman legion II Augusta is stationed at Gloucester. Suetonius Paullinus becomes a Roman Consul. The First Epistle to Timothy is written (approximate date). Baekje invades Silla in K ...

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Augustus was born in Rome with the name Gaius Octavius Thurinus. His father, also Gaius Octavius, came from a respectable but undistinguished family of the equestrian order and was governor of Macedonia. More importantly, his mother, Atia Balba Caesonia, was the niece of Rome's greatest general and de facto ruler, Julius Caesar. He spent his early years in his grandfather's house near Veletrae (modern Velletri). In 58 BC, when he was four, his father died. He spent most of his childhood in the house of hi ...

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When Caesar was assassinated in March 44 BC, Octavius was with the army at Apollonia, in what is now Albania. When Caesar's will was read it revealed that, having no legitimate children, he had adopted his great-nephew as his son and main heir. By virtue of his adoption, Octavius assumed the name Gaius Julius Caesar. Roman tradition dictated that he also append the surname Octavianus to indicate his biological family, from which historians derive the name Octavian; however, no evidence exists that he ever used the name Octav ...

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The Western half of the Empire had sworn allegiance to Octavian prior to Actium in 30 BC, and after Actium and the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra, the Eastern half of the Empire followed suit, placing Octavian in the position of ruler of the entire Empire. Years of civil war had left Rome in a state of near-lawlessness, but Rome was not prepared to accept the control of Octavian as a despot; however, Octavian could not simply give up his authority without risking further civil wars amoungst the Roman generals, and even if he desired no posit ...

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Having gained power by means of great audacity, Augustus ruled with great prudence. In exchange for near absolute power, he gave Rome 40 years of civic peace and increasing prosperity, celebrated in history as the Pax Romana, or Roman Peace. He created Rome's first permanent army and navy and stationed the legions along the Empire's borders, where they could not meddle in politics. A special unit, the Praetorian Guard, garrisoned Rome and protected the Emperor's person. He also reform ...

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Augustus' control of power throughout the Empire was so absolute that it allowed him to name his successor, a custom that had been abandoned and derided in Rome since the foundation of the Republic. At first, indications pointed toward his sister's son Marcellus, who had been married to Augustus' daughter Julia Caesaris. However, Marcellus died of food poisoning in 23 BC. Reports of later historians that this poisoning, and other later deaths, were caused by Augustus' wife L ...

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Capri - In Roman times. Tacitus records that there were twelve Imperial villas in Capri (or 'Capreae', as it was spelled in Latin). Ruins of one at Tragara could still be seen in the 19th Century. Suetonius reports that when the foundations for the villa were being excavated, giant bones and 'weapons of stone' were discovered, which Augustus ordered to be displayed in the garden of his main residence, the Sea Palace, one ...

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The Caesar cipher is named after Julius Caesar, who, according to Suetonius, used it with a shift of three to protect messages of military significance: If he had anything confidential to say, he wrote it in cipher, that is, by so changing the order of the letters of the alphabet, that not a word could be made out. If anyone wishes to decipher these, and get at their meaning, he must substitute the fourth letter of the alphabet, namely D, for A, and so with the others. ...

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Augustus was deified soon after his death, and both his borrowed surname, Caesar, and his title Augustus became the permanent titles of the rulers of Rome for the next 400 years, and were still in use at Constantinople fourteen centuries after his death. In many languages, caesar became the word for emperor, only in a derived form, like in German: Kaiser and Dutch: keizer. The derived titles (in the english language) Kaiser and Tsar would be used until the early part of the 20th century for the German and Russian emperor ...

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