List of ancient Romans
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This an alphabetical List of ancient Romans. These include citizens of ancient Rome
remembered in history.
Note that some persons may be listed multiple times, once for each part of the name.
See also: List of Roman Emperors – Consuls and other magistrates of Rome
– List of famous generals – Roman Emperors - List of distinguished Roman women – List of Ancient Medics
Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
remembered in history.
Note that some persons may be listed multiple times, once for each part of the name.
See also: List of Roman Emperors – Consuls and other magistrates of Rome
Political institutions of Rome
A list regarding the political institutions of ancient Rome follows.-Constitutions:* Roman Constitution* Constitution of the Roman Kingdom* Constitution of the Roman Republic* Constitution of the Roman Empire* Constitution of the Late Roman Empire...
– List of famous generals – Roman Emperors - List of distinguished Roman women – List of Ancient Medics
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- Lucius AcciusLucius AcciusLucius Accius , or Lucius Attius, was a Roman tragic poet and literary scholar. The son of a freedman, Accius was born at Pisaurum in Umbria, in 170 BC...
- a - Titus Accius - jurist
- Gaius AciliusGaius AciliusGaius Acilius was a senator and historian of ancient Rome.He knew Greek, and in 155 interpreted for Carneades, Diogenes, and Critolaus, who had come to the Roman Senate on an embassy from Athens....
- senator and historian - Claudia ActeClaudia ActeClaudia Acte was a freedwoman of ancient Rome who became a mistress of the emperor Nero. She came from Asia Minor and might have become a slave of the Emperor Claudius, following his expansion of the Roman Empire into Lycia and Pamphylia; or she might have been purchased later, by Octavia,...
- freedwoman of Nero - Claudius AelianusClaudius AelianusClaudius Aelianus , often seen as just Aelian, born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourished under Septimius Severus and probably outlived Elagabalus, who died in 222...
(Aelian) - rhetor and philosopher - Sextus Aelius Paetus CatusSextus Aelius Paetus CatusSextus Aelius Paetus Catus or Sextus Aelius Q.f. Paetus Catus , was a Roman Republican consul, elected in 198 BC. Today, he is best-known for his interpretation of the laws of the Twelve Tables, which is known to us only through the praise of Cicero...
- jurist - Lucius AeliusLucius AeliusLucius Aelius Caesar became the adopted son and intended successor, of Roman Emperor Hadrian , but never attained the throne....
- would-be successor to HadrianHadrianHadrian , was Roman Emperor from 117 to 138. He is best known for building Hadrian's Wall, which marked the northern limit of Roman Britain. In Rome, he re-built the Pantheon and constructed the Temple of Venus and Roma. In addition to being emperor, Hadrian was a humanist and was philhellene in... - Aemilia ScauraAemilia ScauraAemilia Scaura was the daughter of the patrician Roman Marcus Aemilius Scaurus and his second wife Caecilia Metella Dalmatica....
- wife of PompeyPompeyGnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey or Pompey the Great , was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic... - Marcus Aemilius Aemilianus - emperor for three months
- Flavius AetiusFlavius AëtiusFlavius Aëtius , 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 . He managed policy in regard to the attacks of barbarian peoples pressing on the Empire...
- general - Gnaeus Domitius Afer - orator
- Lucius Afranius - two; poet and consul
- Julius AfricanusJulius AfricanusJulius Africanus was a celebrated orator in the reign of Nero, and seems to have been the son of the Julius Africanus, of the Gallic state of the Santoni, who was condemned by Tiberius in 32 AD. Quintilian, who had heard Julius Africanus, spoke of him and Domitius Afer as the best orators of their...
- two; orator, Christian philosopher - Sextus Caecilius AfricanusSextus Caecilius AfricanusSextus Caecilius Africanus was an ancient Roman jurist and a pupil of Salvius Julianus.Only one quote remains of his Epistulae of at least twenty books. Excerpts of his Quaestiones, a collection of legal cases in no particular order in nine books, are also reproduced in the Digests...
- jurist - Claudius Agathinus - physician
- Gnaeus Julius AgricolaGnaeus Julius AgricolaGnaeus Julius Agricola was a Roman general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Britain. His biography, the De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, was the first published work of his son-in-law, the historian Tacitus, and is the source for most of what is known about him.Born to a noted...
- general in Britain - Sextus Calpurnius AgricolaSextus Calpurnius AgricolaSextus Calpurnius Agricola was a Roman general and politician of the 2nd century.Calpurnius Agricola was governor of Germania Superior around 158....
- governor in Britain - Marcus Julius Agrippa (Agrippa I)Agrippa IAgrippa I also known as Herod Agrippa or simply Herod , King of the Jews, was the grandson of Herod the Great, and son of Aristobulus IV and Berenice. His original name was Marcus Julius Agrippa, so named in honour of Roman statesman Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and he is the king named Herod in the...
- a king in Judea, romanized - Marcus Julius Agrippa (Agrippa II)Agrippa IIAgrippa II , son of Agrippa I, and like him originally named Marcus Julius Agrippa, was the seventh and last king of the family of Herod the Great, thus last of the Herodians. He was the brother of Berenice, Mariamne, and Drusilla...
- a king in Judea, romanized - Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa - general and geographer
- Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Postumus - son of Agrippa
- Vipsania AgrippinaVipsania AgrippinaNot to be confused with Agrippina the Elder, Agrippa's daughter by Julia the Elder.Vipsania Agrippina was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa from his first wife Pomponia Caecilia Attica, granddaughter of Cicero's friend and knight Titus Pomponius Atticus. Her maternal grandmother was a...
- daughter of Agrippa - Agrippina MajorAgrippina the elderVipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder was a distinguished and prominent granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus. Agrippina was the wife of the general, statesman Germanicus and a relative to the first Roman Emperors...
- mother of CaligulaCaligulaCaligula , also known as Gaius, was Roman Emperor from 37 AD to 41 AD. Caligula was a member of the house of rulers conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Caligula's father Germanicus, the nephew and adopted son of Emperor Tiberius, was a very successful general and one of Rome's most... - Agrippina MinorAgrippina the YoungerJulia Agrippina, most commonly referred to as Agrippina Minor or Agrippina the Younger, and after 50 known as Julia Augusta Agrippina was a Roman Empress and one of the more prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty...
- mother of NeroNeroNero , was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death.... - Gaius Servilius AhalaGaius Servilius AhalaGaius Servilius Structus Ahala was a 5th century BC politician of ancient Rome, considered by many later writers to have been a hero. His fame rested on the contention that he saved Rome from Spurius Maelius in 439 BC by killing him with a dagger concealed under an armpit...
- legendary hero - Ahenobarbus, Gaius DomitiusAhenobarbusAhenobarbus was the name of a plebeian family of the Domitia gens in the late Republic and early Principate of ancient Rome. The name means "red-beard" in Latin...
- politician - Aius LocutiusAius LocutiusAius Locutius or Aius Loquens , was a Roman deity or numen associated with the Gallic invasions of Rome during the early 4th century BC....
- divine - Albinovanus PedoAlbinovanus PedoAlbinovanus Pedo, Roman poet, flourished during the Augustan age.He wrote Theseis, referred to in a letter from his friend Ovid, epigrams which are commended by Martial and an epic poem on the exploits of Germanicus...
- poet - Titus AlbuciusTitus AlbuciusTitus Albucius, was a noted orator of the late Roman Republic.He finished his studies at Athens at the latter end of the 2nd century BC, and belonged to the Epicurean sect. He was well acquainted with Greek literature, or rather, says Cicero, was almost a Greek...
- orator - Gaius Albucius Silus - orator and teacher of rhetoric
- Alfenus VarusAlfenus VarusAlfenus Varus was an ancient Roman jurist and writer who lived around the 1st century BC.__FORCETOC__-Life:Alfenus Varus was a pupil of Servius Sulpicius Rufus, and the only pupil of Servius from whom there are any excerpts in the Pandects...
- jurist - Alfius Avitus - poet
- AllectusAllectusAllectus was a Roman usurper-emperor in Britain and northern Gaul from 293 to 296.-History:Allectus was treasurer to Carausius, a Menapian officer in the Roman navy who had seized power in Britain and northern Gaul in 286...
- assassin of CarausiusCarausiusMarcus Aurelius Mausaeus Valerius Carausius was a military commander of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century. He was a Menapian from Belgic Gaul, who usurped power in 286, declaring himself emperor in Britain and northern Gaul. He did this only 13 years after the Gallic Empire of the Batavian... - Gaius Amafinius - philosopher
- Lucius Ambivius TurpioLucius Ambivius TurpioLucius Ambivius Turpio was a celebrated actor, stage manager, patron, promoter and entrepreneur in ancient Rome around the time of the playwright Terence, that is, around the 2nd century BC...
- actor and director - Amelius Gentilianus - philosopher
- Ammianus MarcellinusAmmianus MarcellinusAmmianus Marcellinus was a fourth-century Roman historian. He wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from Antiquity...
- writer - Lucius AmpeliusLiber MemorialisThe Liber Memorialis is an ancient book in Latin featuring an extremely concise summary—a kind of index—of universal history from earliest times to the reign of Trajan. It was written by Lucius Ampelius, who was possibly a tutor or schoolmaster...
- writer - Gaius Antistius Vetus - Caesar's quaestor
- Lucius Antistius Vetus - consul
- Antonia - several
- Antoninus PiusAntoninus PiusAntoninus Pius , also known as Antoninus, was Roman Emperor from 138 to 161. He was a member of the Nerva-Antonine dynasty and the Aurelii. He did not possess the sobriquet "Pius" until after his accession to the throne...
- emperor - Arrius AntoninusArrius AntoninusGnaeus Arrius Antoninus was a member of the Arrius family. The family were of consular rank.Antoninus was a friend and correspondent to Roman Senator and historian Pliny the Younger...
- father of the emperor - Antoninus LiberalisAntoninus LiberalisAntoninus Liberalis was an Ancient Greek grammarian who probably flourished between AD 100 and 300.His only surviving work is the Metamorphoses, , a collection of forty-one very briefly summarised tales about mythical metamorphoses effected by offended deities, unique in that they are...
- mythographer - Gaius AntoniusGaius AntoniusGaius Antonius was the second son of Marcus Antonius Creticus and Julia Antonia, and thus, younger brother of Mark Antony, triumvir and enemy of Caesar Augustus.-Early life:...
- two - Iullus AntoniusIullus AntoniusIullus Antonius , also known as Iulus, Julus or Jullus, was the second son of Mark Antony and his third wife Fulvia. He is best known for being the famous lover of Julia the Elder...
- poet and consul, married Claudia MarcellaClaudia MarcellaClaudia Marcella was the name of the two daughters of Octavia Minor, the sister of Emperor Augustus, by her first husband, the consul Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor. According to Suetonius, they were known as The Marcellae sisters. The sisters were born in Rome... - Lucius AntoniusLucius AntoniusLucius Antonius may refer to:*Lucius Antonius , the brother of Mark Antony*Lucius Antonius , the grandson of Mark Antony...
- consul - Marcus Antonius
- Marcus Antonius OratorMarcus Antonius OratorMarcus Antonius Orator was a Roman politician of the Antonius family and one of the most distinguished Roman orators of his time. He was also the grandfather of the famous general and triumvir, Mark Antony.-Career:...
- consul 99 BC99 BCYear 99 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Antonius and Albinus... - Marcus Antonius CreticusMarcus Antonius CreticusMarcus Antonius Creticus was a Roman politician, member of the Antonius family. Creticus was son of Marcus Antonius Orator and by his marriage to Julia Antonia he had three sons: Triumvir Marcus Antonius, Gaius Antonius and Lucius Antonius.He was elected praetor in 74 BC and received an...
- son of the Orator and father of Mark AntonyMark AntonyMarcus Antonius , known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general. As a military commander and administrator, he was an important supporter and loyal friend of his mother's cousin Julius Caesar... - Mark AntonyMark AntonyMarcus Antonius , known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general. As a military commander and administrator, he was an important supporter and loyal friend of his mother's cousin Julius Caesar...
- triumvir - Marcus Antonius AntyllusMarcus Antonius AntyllusMarcus Antonius Antyllus was known as Marcus Antonius Minor to distinguish him from his famous father, the Roman Triumvir Marc Antony . He was also called Antyllus — a nickname given to him by his father...
- son of Mark AntonyMark AntonyMarcus Antonius , known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general. As a military commander and administrator, he was an important supporter and loyal friend of his mother's cousin Julius Caesar...
- Marcus Antonius Orator
- Antonius Castor - freedman
- Antonius MusaAntonius MusaAntonius Musa was a botanist and the Roman emperor Augustus's physician. In the year 23 BC, when Augustus was seriously ill, Musa cured the illness with cold compresses and became immediately famous....
- physician - Antonius DiogenesAntonius DiogenesAntonius Diogenes was the author of a Greek romance, whom scholars have placed in the 2nd century CE. His age was unknown even to Photius, who has preserved an outline of his romance. It consisted of twenty-four books, was written in the form of a dialogue about travels, and bore the title of The...
- writer - Marcus Aper - advocate
- Aelius Festus AphthoniusAelius Festus AphthoniusAelius Festus Aphthonius was a Latin grammarian of the 3rd or 4th century, possibly of African origin, and considered to be one of the most important classical rhetoricians....
- grammarian - ApiciusApiciusApicius is the title of a collection of Roman cookery recipes, usually thought to have been compiled in the late 4th or early 5th century AD and written in a language that is in many ways closer to Vulgar than to Classical Latin....
- several gourmets - Lucius AproniusLucius AproniusLucius Apronius was a Roman military commander and a father-in-law of praetor Plautius Silvanus. Apronius shared in the achievements of Vibius Postumus and earned the ornaments of a triumph for his distinguished valor in Dalmatian revolt and Germanic Wars, along with Aulus Caecina Severus and Gaius...
- suffect consul - Pontius AquilaPontius AquilaPontius Aquila was a tribune of the plebs, probably in the year 45 BC. During one of Julius Caesar's triumphs, he did not stand as the procession passed by...
- tribune - Romanus Aquila - rhetor
- Manius Aquillius - two consuls
- Gaius Aquillius Gallus - jurist
- Flavius Arcadius - emperor
- Aulus Licinius ArchiasAulus Licinius ArchiasAulus Licinius Archias was a Greek poet born in Antioch in Syria . In 102 BC, his reputation having been already established, especially as an improvisatore, he went to Rome, where he was well received amongst the highest and most influential families. His chief patron was Lucullus, whose gentile...
- poet - Arellius FuscusArellius FuscusArellius Fuscus was an ancient Roman orator. He spoke with ease in both Latin and Greek, in an elegant and ornate style. Charles Thomas Cruttwell says Arelius was an Asiatic, that is, a practitioner of an elevated oratorical style....
- rhetor - Arria Major - wife of Caecina PaetusCaecina PaetusCaecina Paetus was condemned to death on a charge of disloyalty by the emperor Claudius in 42 AD. He chose to commit suicide rather than face the emperor's wrath...
- Arria Minor - daughter of Arria Major
- Flavius Arrianus (Arrian) - historian
- Lucius ArruntiusLucius ArruntiusLucius Arruntius was a Roman admiral. He saw action during the War with Sextus Pompeius, and the war of Mark Antony and Augustus. He is most notable for his participation during the Battle of Actium, where he was in command of victorious Augustus' central division...
- consul - Arruntius - his son, also a consul
- Lucius Arruntius Stella - poet
- Arruntius Celsus - miscellanist
- Lucius Artorius CastusLucius Artorius CastusLucius Artorius Castus was a Roman military commander. A member of the gens Artoria , he has been suggested as a potential historical basis for King Arthur....
- general in Britain, possible basis for King Arthur - Quintus Junius Arulenus Rusticus - Stoic
- Arusianus MessiusArusianus MessiusArusianus Messius, or Messus, Latin grammarian, flourished in the 4th century.He was the author of a small extant work Exempla Elocutionum, dedicated to Olybrius and Probinus, consuls for the year 395...
- grammarian - Quintus Asconius Pedianus - writer
- Sempronius AsellioSempronius AsellioPublius Sempronius Asellio was an early Roman historian and one of the first writers of historiographic work in Latin. He was a military tribune of P. Scipio Aemilianus Africanus at the siege of Numantia in Hispania in 134 B.C. Later he joined the circle of writers centred around Scipio Aemilianus...
- historian - Aemilius AsperAemilius AsperAemilius Asper, Latin grammarian, possibly lived in the 1st century or late 2nd century. He wrote commentaries on Terence, Sallust and Virgil dealing with content and form, and including parallels with other authors. Numerous fragments of the commentary on Virgil show that as both critic and...
- commentator - Nonius Asprenas - two rhetors
- Lucius Ateius Praetextatus Philologus - scholar
- AtiaAtiaAtia Balba Caesonia , sometimes referred to as Atia Balba Secunda to differentiate her from her two sisters, was a Roman noblewoman...
- three Augustan women - Aulus Atilius Caiatinus - consul
- Aulus Atilius Serranus - consul
- Marcus Atilius - dramatist
- Atilius Fortunatianus - metrician
- Titus Quinctius AttaTitus Quinctius AttaTitus Quinctius Atta was a Roman comedy writer, was, like Titinius and Afranius, distinguished as a writer of fabulae togatae, national comedies. He had the reputation of being a vivid delineator of character, especially female. He also seems to have published a collection of epigrams. The scanty...
- poet - Publius Acilius AttianusPublius Acilius AttianusPublius Acilius Attianus was a powerful Roman official who played a significant though obscure role in the transfer of the imperial power from Trajan to Hadrian. He was born in Italica, Hispania Baetica, which was also the birthplace of Publius Aelius Hadrianus Afer, the emperor Hadrian’s father...
- adviser to Hadrian - Caecilia AtticaCaecilia AtticaPomponia Caecilia Attica or Caecilia Pomponia Attica , was the daughter of Cicero's Epicurean friend and eques, knight Titus Pomponius Atticus. Her mother, Caecilia Pilea/Pilia , daughter of Pileus/Pilius, was a maternal granddaughter of Marcus Licinius Crassus, a member of the First Triumvirate...
- wife of Agrippa - Titus Pomponius AtticusTitus Pomponius AtticusTitus Pomponius Atticus, born Titus Pomponius , came from an old but not strictly noble Roman family of the equestrian class and the Gens Pomponia. He was a celebrated editor, banker, and patron of letters with residences in both Rome and Athens...
- businessman and writer - Julius Atticus - writer on vines
- Aufidius BassusAufidius BassusAufidius Bassus was a Roman historian who lived in the reign of Tiberius.His work, which probably began with the civil wars or the death of Caesar, was continued by the elder Pliny. The elder Pliny carried it down at least as far as the end of Nero's reign...
- historian - Gnaeus Aufidius - praetor and historian
- Sentius Augurinus - friend of Pliny
- AugustusAugustusAugustus ;23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14) is considered the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.The dates of his rule are contemporary dates; Augustus lived under two calendars, the Roman Republican until 45 BC, and the Julian...
- emperor - Aurelia - mother of Julius CaesarJulius CaesarGaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
- Lucius Domitius Aurelianus - emperor
- Marcus Aurelius - emperor
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (CaracallaCaracallaCaracalla , was Roman emperor from 198 to 217. The eldest son of Septimius Severus, he ruled jointly with his younger brother Geta until he murdered the latter in 211...
) - emperor - Sextus Aurelius Victor - historian
- AureolusAureolusFor the Frankish ruler of Aragon, see Aureolus of Aragon.Manius Acilius Aureolus was a Roman military commander and would-be usurper. He was one of the so-called Thirty Tyrants who populated the reign of the Emperor Gallienus...
- soldier - Decimus Magnus Ausonius - poet
- Publius Autronius PaetusPublius Autronius PaetusPublius Autronius Paetus was a politician of the late Roman Republic who was involved in the conspiracy of Catiline.He was elected consul in 66 BC , alongside Publius Cornelius Sulla, but before they could take office both were accused of electoral corruption by Lucius Aurelius Cotta and Lucius...
- consul - Titus Avidius QuietusTitus Avidius QuietusTitus Avidius Quietus was a Roman politician who lived in the 1st century even possibly in the 2nd century.Quietus’ paternal and maternal ancestors were Romans of the highest political rank...
- suffect consul - Gaius Avidius NigrinusGaius Avidius NigrinusGaius Avidius Nigrinus was a Roman that lived between the 1st and 2nd centuries.Nigrinus’ paternal and maternal ancestors were Romans of the highest political rank. He was the son of an elder Gaius Avidius Nigrinus by an unnamed mother, his brother was the consul Titus Avidius Quietus and his...
- possible Hadrian successor - Gaius Avidius Cassius - general
- AvienusAvienusAvienus was a Latin writer of the 4th century AD. According to an inscription from Bulla Regia, his full name was Postumius Rufius Festus Avienius.He was a native of Volsinii in Etruria, from the distinguished family of the Rufii Festi...
- writer
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- Gnaeus Baebius Tamphilus - consul
- Marcus Baebius TamphilusMarcus Baebius TamphilusMarcus Baebius Tamphilus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 181 BC along with P. Cornelius Cethegus. Baebius is credited with reform legislation pertaining to campaigns for political offices and electoral bribery...
- consul - Quintus Baebius TamphilusQuintus Baebius TamphilusQuintus Baebius Tamphilus was a praetor of the Roman Republic who participated in negotiations with Hannibal attempting to forestall the Second Punic War....
- praetor - Tiberius Claudius BalbilusTiberius Claudius BalbilusTiberius Claudius Balbillus or Balbilus, also known as ‘Balbillus the Wise‘, was an Egyptian Greek astrologer and a learned scholar. Balbillus was the son of astrologer Tiberius Claudius Thrasyllus, also known as Thrasyllus of Mendes and Princess Aka II of Commagene, who was either a granddaughter...
- astrologer - Decius Caelius Calvinus Balbinus - senator/emperor
- Marcus AtiusMarcus AtiusMarcus Atius Balbus was the son and heir of an elder Marcus Atius Balbus and Pompeia. Pompeia was a sister to consul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, father of triumvir Pompey. The family of the elder Balbus came from a Roman senatorial family plebs status from Aricia . ‘Balbus’ in Latin means stammer...
Balbus - praetor, married Julia - Titus Ampius Balbus - tribune and proconsul
- Lucius Cornelius Balbus (major) - consul
- Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor)Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor)Lucius Cornelius Balbus , received Roman citizenship at the same time as his uncle....
- consul's nephew - Balbus - surveyor
- BalistaBalistaBalista or Ballista , also known in the sources with the probably wrong name of "Callistus", was one of the Thirty Tyrants of the Historia Augusta, and supported the rebellion of the Macriani against Emperor Gallienus....
- praetorian prefect of Valerian - Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus - suffect consul
- Quintus Caecilius Bassus - officer
- Caesius BassusCaesius BassusCaesius Bassus was a Roman lyric poet, who lived in the reign of Nero.He was the intimate friend of Persius, who dedicated his sixth satire to him, and whose works be edited . He is said to have lost his life in the eruption of Vesuvius . He had a great reputation as a poet; Quintilian Caesius...
- poet - Saleius BassusSaleius BassusSaleius Bassus was a Roman epic poet. He lived during the reign of Vespasian, being a contemporary of Gaius Valerius Flaccus.Quintilian credited him with a vigorous and poetical genius and Julius Secundus, one of the speakers in Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus styles him a perfect poet and most...
- epic writer - BaviusBaviusBavius and Maevius were two critics in the age of Augustus Caesar who belittled and attacked the talents of superior writers, according to John Lemprière. In particular, they attacked the work of Virgil and Horace, both of whom mocked Maevius...
- bad poet mentioned by VirgilVirgilPublius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English , was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues , the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid... - BelisariusBelisariusFlavius Belisarius was a general of the Byzantine Empire. He was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century previously....
- general - Lucius Calpurnius Bestia - consul
- Marcus Furius BibaculusMarcus Furius BibaculusMarcus Furius Bibaculus , Roman poet, flourished during the last century of the republic.According to Jerome, he was born at Cremona, and probably lived to a great age. He wrote satirical poems after the manner of Catullus, whose bitterness he rivaled, according to Quintilian , in his iambics...
- poet - Marcus Calpurnius BibulusMarcus Calpurnius BibulusMarcus Calpurnius Bibulus was a politician of the late Roman Republic.Bibulus was the son in law of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis. In 59 BC he was elected consul, supported by the optimates, conservative republicans in the Senate and opponents of Julius Caesar's triumvirate...
- consul - Quintus Junius BlaesusJunius BlaesusQuintus Junius Blaesus was a Roman novus homo who lived during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius...
- suffect consul - Gaius Blossius - philosophy student
- Anicius Manlius Severinus BoethiusAnicius Manlius Severinus BoethiusAnicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, commonly called Boethius was a philosopher of the early 6th century. He was born in Rome to an ancient and important family which included emperors Petronius Maximus and Olybrius and many consuls. His father, Flavius Manlius Boethius, was consul in 487 after...
(Boethius) - consul, writer - Vettius Bolanus - suffect consul
- BonifaciusBonifaciusComes Bonifacius was a Roman general and governor of the Diocese of Africa. Along with his rival, Flavius Aëtius, he is sometimes termed "the last of the Romans."...
- 4th c. governor of North Africa - BonosusBonosus (emperor)Bonosus was a Roman usurper. Born in Hispania, his father was from Britain and his mother from Gaul. He lost his father early in life but his mother gave him a decent education...
- revolted against Probus - Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus (Britannicus) - son of ClaudiusClaudiusClaudius , was Roman Emperor from 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, he was the son of Drusus and Antonia Minor. He was born at Lugdunum in Gaul and was the first Roman Emperor to be born outside Italy...
- Bruttidius Niger - aedile
- Lucius Junius BrutusLucius Junius BrutusLucius Junius Brutus was the founder of the Roman Republic and traditionally one of the first consuls in 509 BC. He was claimed as an ancestor of the Roman gens Junia, including Marcus Junius Brutus, the most famous of Caesar's assassins.- Background :...
- traditional founder of republic - Decimus Junius Brutus - commander
- Decimus Junius Brutus CallaicusDecimus Junius Brutus CallaicusDecimus Junius Brutus Callaicus was a Roman politician and general of the 2nd century BC. He was the son of the consul Marcus Junius Brutus and brother of the praetor Marcus Junius Brutus; he himself was appointed consul in 138 BC...
- consul - Lucius Junius Brutus Damasippus - praetor
- Brutus, Marcus JuniusMarcus Junius BrutusMarcus Junius Brutus , often referred to as Brutus, was a politician of the late Roman Republic. After being adopted by his uncle he used the name Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, but eventually returned to using his original name...
- two, tribune and tyrannicide - Sextus Afranius BurrusSextus Afranius BurrusSextus Afranius Burrus , Praetorian prefect, was advisor to Roman Emperor Nero and, together with Seneca the Younger, very powerful in the early years of Nero's reign....
- procurator
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- Caecilius of Novum Comum - poet
- Gaius Caecilius Classicus - Governor of Baetica
- Caecilus Statius - Gallic poet
- Quintus Caecilius Epirota - man of letters
- Lucius Caecilius Jucundus - banker in Pompeii
- Aulus CaecinaAulus CaecinaAulus Caecina, son of Aulus Caecina who was defended by Cicero in a speech still extant, took the side of Pompey in the civil wars, and published a violent tirade against Caesar, for which he was banished....
- friend of CiceroCiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief... - Aulus Caecina SeverusAulus Caecina SeverusAulus Caecina, son of Aulus Caecina who was defended by Cicero in a speech still extant, took the side of Pompey in the civil wars, and published a violent tirade against Caesar, for which he was banished....
- legate - Aulus Caecina AlienusAulus Caecina AlienusAulus Caecina Alienus, Roman general, was born in Vicetia .He was quaestor of Hispania Baetica in AD 68. On the death of Nero, he attached himself to Galba, who appointed him to the command of Legio IV Macedonica at Mogontiacum in Germania Superior...
- suffect consul - Marcus Caelius RufusMarcus Caelius RufusMarcus Caelius Rufus was an orator and politician in the late Roman Republic. He was born into a wealthy equestrian family from Interamnia Praetuttiorum , on the central east coast of Italy...
- aedile - Quintus Servilius CaepioQuintus Servilius CaepioQuintus Servilius Caepio the Elder was a Roman statesman and general, consul in 106 BC, and proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul in 105 BC. He was the father of Quintus Servilius Caepio the Younger and the grandfather of Servilia Caepionis....
- two; consul and son - Fannius Caepio - conspirator
- Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo - orator
- Gaius Julius CaesarJulius CaesarGaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
- dictator, historian, general, writer - Lucius Julius CaesarLucius Julius CaesarIn Ancient Rome, several men of the Julii Caesares family were named Lucius Julius Caesar. Distinct by their praenomen, "Lucius", none of these members of the Julii Caesares family can be confused with their distant relative and much more famous Gaius Julius Caesar, the Roman who conquered Gaul,...
- several related - Sextus Julius Caesar- several related
- Gaius CaesarGaius CaesarGaius Julius Caesar , most commonly known as Gaius Caesar or Caius Caesar, was the oldest son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder...
- consul - Lucius CaesarLucius CaesarLucius Julius Caesar , most commonly known as Lucius Caesar, was the second son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder. He was born between 14 of June and 15 July 17 BC with the name Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa, but when he was adopted by his maternal grandfather Roman Emperor Caesar...
- second son of Agrippa - Marcus Calidius - praetor
- Gaius Julius CallistusGaius Julius CallistusGaius Julius Callistus was a Greek imperial freedman during the reigns of Roman Emperors Caligula and Claudius. Callistus was originally a freedman of Caligula, and was given great authority during his reign, which he used to amass even greater wealth...
- freedman - Calpurnia - two; daughter of Piso, 3rd wife of Pliny
- Titus Calpurnius SiculusTitus Calpurnius SiculusTitus Calpurnius was a Roman bucolic poet. Eleven eclogues have been handed down to us under his name, of which the last four, from metrical considerations and express manuscript testimony, are now generally attributed to Nemesianus, who lived in the time of the emperor Carus and his sons .Hardly...
- writer - Calpurnius FlaccusCalpurnius FlaccusCalpurnius Flaccus, a rhetorician who was living in the reign of Hadrian, and whose fifty-one declamations frequently accompany those of Quintilian. They were first published by Pierre Pithou in Paris in 1580...
- writer - Gaius Sextius CalvinusGaius Sextius Calvinus (consul 124 BC)Gaius Sextius Calvinus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 124 BC. During his consulship, he joined M. Fulvius Flaccus in waging war against the Ligures, Saluvii, and Vocontii in the Mediterranean region of present-day France. He continued as proconsul in Gaul for 123–122...
- consul - Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus - consul
- Gnaeus Domitius CorbuloGnaeus Domitius CorbuloGnaeus Domitius Corbulo was a Roman general and a brother-in-law of the emperor Caligula.-Descent:Corbulo was born in Italy into a senatorial family...
- general, 1st century - Gaius Calvisius SabinusGaius Calvisius SabinusGaius Calvisius Sabinus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 39 BC under the Second Triumvirate. He and his consular colleague Lucius Marcius Censorinus had been the only two senators who tried to defend Julius Caesar when his assassins struck on 15 March 44 BC, and their consulship under the...
- consul - Gaius Licinius Calvus - orator and poet
- Marcus Furius CamillusMarcus Furius CamillusMarcus Furius Camillus 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....
- heroic consul - Lucius Furius Camillus - two; consul and son
- Publius Canidius CrassusPublius Canidius CrassusPublius Canidius Crassus was a Roman general and Mark Antony's lieutenant. He served under Lepidus in southern Gallia in 43 BC, and was henceforth allied with Antony. He became suffect consul in 40 BC and then served as a commander in Armenia whence he invaded, in 36 BC, Iberia , and forced its...
- general - Gaius Caninius RebilusGaius Caninius RebilusGaius Caninius Rebilus, a member of the plebeian gens Caninia, was a Roman general and politician. As a reward for devoted service, Julius Caesar appointed him consul suffectus in 45 BC....
- briefly suffect consul - Caninius Rufus - neighbor of Pliny
- Canius Rufus - poet
- Gaius CanuleiusGaius CanuleiusGaius Canuleius, according to Livy book 4, was a tribune of the plebs in 445 BC. He introduced a bill proposing that intermarriage between patricians and plebians be allowed...
- plebeian tribune - Flavius CaperFlavius CaperFlavius Caper, Latin grammarian, flourished during the 2nd century.He devoted special attention to the early Latin writers, and is highly spoken of by Priscian. Caper was the author of two works—De Lingua Latina and De Dubiis Generibus...
- grammarian - Gaius Ateius Capito - two; tribune, jurist
- Marcus Aurelius Maus Carausius - emperor
- Gaius Papirius CarboGaius Papirius Carbo (consul 120 BC)Gaius Papirius Carbo was an Ancient Roman statesman and orator. He was associated with Gaius Gracchus in carrying out the provision of the agrarian law of Tiberius Gracchus. When tribune of the people , Carbo carried out a law extending the secret ballot for the enactment and repeal of laws...
- consul - Gnaeus Papirius CarboGnaeus Papirius CarboGnaeus Papirius Carbo was a three-time consul of ancient Rome.A member of the Carbones of the plebeian gens Papiria, and nephew of Gaius Papirius Carbo , he was a strong supporter of the Marian party, and took part in the blockade of Rome...
- consul - Gaius Papirius Carbo Arvina - tribune
- Marcus Aurelius Carinus - emperor
- Gaius Carrinus - commander
- Marcus Aurelius Carus - emperor
- Spurius Carvilius MaximusSpurius Carvilius MaximusSpurius Carvilius C. f. C. n., later surnamed Maximus, was the first member of the plebeian gens Carvilia to obtain the consulship, which he held in 293 BC, and again in 272 BC.-Early career:...
- consul - Spurius Carvilius RugaSpurius Carvilius RugaSpurius Carvilius Ruga was the freedman of Spurius Carvilius Maximus Ruga. He is often credited with inventing the Latin letter G. His invention would have been quickly adopted in the Roman Republic, because the letter C was, at the time, confusingly used both for the /k/ and /g/ sounds...
- freedman and teacher - Servilius CascaServilius CascaPublius Servilius Casca Longus was one of the assassins of Gaius Julius Caesar, who was murdered on 15 March, 44 BC....
- two conspirators - CassiodorusCassiodorusFlavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator , commonly known as Cassiodorus, was a Roman statesman and writer, serving in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Senator was part of his surname, not his rank.- Life :Cassiodorus was born at Scylletium, near Catanzaro in...
- politician and writer - Spurius Cassius Viscellinus - early consul
- Lucius Cassius HeminaLucius Cassius HeminaLucius Cassius Hemina, Roman annalist, composed his annals in the period between the death of Terence and the revolution of the Gracchi.He wrote in Latin around 146 BC, including the earliest chronicle concerning the career of Mucius Scaevola....
- annalist - Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravalla - consul
- Quintus Cassius LonginusQuintus Cassius LonginusQuintus Cassius Longinus, the brother or cousin of Cassius , was a governor in Hispania for Caesar....
- quaestor - Gaius Cassius LonginusGaius Cassius LonginusGaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman senator, a leading instigator of the plot to kill Julius Caesar, and the brother in-law of Marcus Junius Brutus.-Early life:...
- tyrannicide - Lucius Cassius LonginusLucius Cassius LonginusLucius Cassius Longinus was the name of several ancient Romans of the gens Cassia.*Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla was a consul of the Roman Republic in 127 BC.* Lucius Cassius Longinus was consul in 107 BC....
- tribune - Cassius Parmensis - two; jurist and tyrannicide
- Cassius SeverusCassius SeverusTitus Cassius Severus was an ancient Roman rhetor from the gens Cassia. He belonged to the reign of Augustus, Tiberius and Caligula. Cassius Severus, a fearless fighter of freedom of speech,was sharply eloquent against the new governmental order, which finally led him to the path of...
- orator - Cassius ChaereaCassius ChaereaCassius Chaerea was a centurion in the army of Germanicus and served in the Praetorian Guard under the emperor Caligula, whom he eventually assassinated....
- centurion - Lucius Artorius CastusLucius Artorius CastusLucius Artorius Castus was a Roman military commander. A member of the gens Artoria , he has been suggested as a potential historical basis for King Arthur....
- general in Britain, possible basis for King Arthur - Lucius Sergius Catilina (CatilineCatilineLucius Sergius Catilina , known in English as Catiline, was a Roman politician of the 1st century BC who is best known for the Catiline conspiracy, an attempt to overthrow the Roman Republic, and in particular the power of the aristocratic Senate.-Family background:Catiline was born in 108 BC to...
) - conspirator - Titus Catius - writer
- Cato, Marcus PorciusCato the ElderMarcus Porcius Cato was a Roman statesman, commonly referred to as Censorius , Sapiens , Priscus , or Major, Cato the Elder, or Cato the Censor, to distinguish him from his great-grandson, Cato the Younger.He came of an ancient Plebeian family who all were noted for some...
- the Elder, censor - Cato, Marcus PorciusCato the YoungerMarcus Porcius Cato Uticensis , commonly known as Cato the Younger to distinguish him from his great-grandfather , was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoic philosophy...
- the Younger, politician, leader of the conservative faction - Gaius Porcius CatoGaius Porcius CatoGaius Porcius Cato , was son of Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus, consul 114 BC, obtained Macedonia as his province, and fought unsuccessfully against the Scordisci. He was accused of extortion in Macedonia, and was sentenced to pay a fine...
- two; consul, tribune - Lucius Porcius CatoLucius Porcius CatoLucius Porcius Cato, son of Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus, was a consul of the Roman Republic in 89 BC.As consul, Porcius Cato led the Roman army at the Battle of Fucine Lake in 89 BC against a rebel force during the Social War, but was defeated and killed while fighting a Marsic camp in winter.-...
- consul - Dionysius Cato - author
- CatullusCatullusGaius Valerius Catullus 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:...
- writer and poet - Gaius Lutatius CatulusGaius Lutatius CatulusGaius Lutatius Catulus was a Roman statesman and naval commander in the First Punic War.He was elected as a consul in 242 BC, a novus homo. During his consulship he supervised the construction of a new Roman fleet. This fleet was funded by donations from wealthy citizens, since the public treasury...
- consul - Quintus Lutatius CatulusQuintus Lutatius CatulusQuintus Lutatius Catulus was consul of the Roman Republic in 102 BC, and the leading public figure of the gens Lutatia of the time. His colleague in the consulship was Gaius Marius, but the two feuded and Catulus sided with Sulla in the civil war of 88–87 BC...
- two; consul and son - Celsus Albinovanus - friend of HoraceHoraceQuintus Horatius Flaccus , known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.-Life:...
- Aulus Cornelius CelsusAulus Cornelius CelsusAulus Cornelius Celsus was a Roman encyclopedist, known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia. The De Medicina is a primary source on diet, pharmacy, surgery and related fields, and it is one of the best sources...
- encyclopedist - Publius Juventius Celsus - consul
- CensorinusCensorinusCensorinus, Roman grammarian and miscellaneous writer, flourished during the 3rd century AD.He was the author of a lost work De Accentibus and of an extant treatise De Die Natali, written in 238, and dedicated to his patron Quintus Caerellius as a birthday gift...
- grammarian - Quintus Petellius Cerialis Caesius Rufus - consul
- Gaius Cestius Epulo - praetor
- Gaius Cestius Gallus - consul
- Lucius Cestius PiusLucius Cestius PiusLucius Cestius, surnamed Pius, Latin rhetorician, flourished during the reign of Augustus.He was a native of Smyrna, a Greek by birth. According to Jerome, he was teaching Latin at Rome in the year 13 BC...
- rhetor - Publius Cornelius CethegusPublius Cornelius CethegusPublius Cornelius Cethegus, was a member of the gens Cornelia of the branch with the cognomen Cethegus.Cethegus was first a supporter of Gaius Marius but when Lucius Cornelius Sulla returned from the East after having beaten Mithridates Eupator, Cethegus deserted the cause of the populares and...
- politician - Flavius Sosipater Charisius - grammarian
- Lucius Cornelius ChrysogonusLucius Cornelius ChrysogonusLucius Cornelius Chrysogonus was a Greek freedman of Lucius Cornelius Sulla whom Sulla put in charge of the proscriptions of 82 BC. He was accused of corruption by Marcus Tullius Cicero during the trial of Sextus Roscius...
- freedman - Marcus Tullius Cicero - two; politician/writer and son
- Quintus Tullius CiceroQuintus Tullius CiceroQuintus Tullius Cicero was the younger brother of the celebrated orator, philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero. He was born into a family of the equestrian order, as the son of a wealthy landowner in Arpinum, some 100 kilometres south-east of Rome.- Biography :Cicero's well-to-do father...
- two; younger brother of CiceroCiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...
and son - Lucius Fabius CiloLucius Fabius CiloLucius Fabius Cilo, full name Lucius Fabius Cilo Septiminus Catinius Acilianus Lepidus Fulcinianus, was a Roman senator of the 2nd century. He was born in Hispania, around 150 AD....
- governor - Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus - early hero
- Lucius Cincius AlimentusLucius Cincius AlimentusLucius Cincius Alimentus was a celebrated Roman annalist and jurist, who was praetor in Sicily in 209 BC, with the command of two legions. He wrote principally in Greek. He and Fabius Pictor are considered the first two Roman historians, though both wrote in Greek as a more conventionally...
- senator and historian - Lucius Cornelius CinnaLucius Cornelius CinnaLucius Cornelius Cinna was a four-time consul of the Roman Republic, serving four consecutive terms from 87 to 84 BC, and a member of the ancient Roman Cinna family of the Cornelii gens....
- two; politician and son - Gaius Helvius Cinna - poet
- Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna MagnusGnaeus Cornelius Cinna MagnusGnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus was the son of suffect consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna and Pompeia Magna. His sister was Cornelia Pompeia Magna....
- consul - Gaius Julius CivilisGaius Julius CivilisGaius Julius Civilis was the leader of the Batavian rebellion against the Romans in 69. By his nomen, it can be told that he was made a Roman citizen by either Augustus or Caligula....
- noble Batavian - Gaius Julius Alpinus ClassicianusGaius Julius Alpinus ClassicianusGaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus was procurator of Roman Britain from 61 to his death in 65.He was appointed after his predecessor, Catus Decianus, had fled to Gaul in the aftermath of the rebellion of Boudica. He expressed concern to the Emperor Nero that the punitive policies of the governor,...
- procurator - Julius ClassicusJulius ClassicusJulius Classicus was a Gaulish nobleman of the 1st century AD, belonging to the tribe of the Treviri. He served as a commander of the Roman auxiliaries...
- rebel Treveri - Claudius Claudianus (Claudian) - poet
- ClaudiusClaudiusClaudius , was Roman Emperor from 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, he was the son of Drusus and Antonia Minor. He was born at Lugdunum in Gaul and was the first Roman Emperor to be born outside Italy...
- emperor - Claudia Procula - wife of Pontius PilatePontius PilatePontius Pilatus , known in the English-speaking world as Pontius Pilate , was the fifth Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, from AD 26–36. He is best known as the judge at Jesus' trial and the man who authorized the crucifixion of Jesus...
- Claudius II Gothicus - emperor
- Appius ClaudiusAppius ClaudiusThere were a number of Romans named Appius Claudius:* Appius Claudius Sabinus Inregillensis, consul in 495 BC* Appius Claudius Crassus, a decemvir in 451 BC* Appius Claudius Caecus , censor in 312 BC...
- decemvir - Appius Claudius CaecusAppius Claudius CaecusAppius Claudius Caecus was a Roman politician from a wealthy patrician family. He was dictator himself and the son of Gaius Claudius Crassus, dictator in 337 BC.-Life:...
- consul - Appius Claudius CaudexAppius Claudius CaudexAppius Claudius Caudex was a patrician member of the Claudii. He was the grandson of Appius Claudius Caecus through his father Gaius Claudius, and served as consul in 264 BC....
- consul - Publius Claudius PulcherPublius Claudius PulcherPublius Claudius Pulcher was a Roman general. His father was Gaius Claudius. He was the brother of the famous Roman politician Appius Claudius Caudex . He was the first of the Claudii to be given the cognomen "Pulcher" .He was curule aedile in 253 BC and consul in 249...
- consul - Quintus Claudius - plebeian tribune
- Gaius Claudius Pulcher - consul
- Appius Claudius Pulcher - three consuls
- Marcus Claudius Marcellus AeserninusMarcus Claudius Marcellus AeserninusMarcus Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus is the name of several people in ancient Roman history:*Marcus Claudius, M. F. Marcellus Aeserninus is mentioned by Cicero as a young man at the trial of Verres , on which occasion he appeared as a witness, where, however, several editions give his name as C...
- orator and consul - Quintus Claudius QuadrigariusQuintus Claudius QuadrigariusQuintus Claudius Quadrigarius, Roman annalist, living probably in the 1st century BC, wrote a history, in at least twenty-three books, which began with the conquest of Rome by the Gauls and went on to the death of Sulla or perhaps later....
- annalist - Tiberius Claudius - procurator
- Claudius Etruscus - son of above
- Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus - consul
- Claudius MamertinusClaudius MamertinusClaudius Mamertinus was an official in the Roman Empire. In late 361 he took part in the Chalcedon tribunal to condemn the ministers of Constantius II, and in 362, he was made consul as a reward by the new Emperor Julian; on January 1 of that year he delivered a panegyric in Constantinople by way...
- orator - Titus Flavius Clemens (consul)Titus Flavius Clemens (consul)Titus Flavius Clemens was a great-nephew of the Roman Emperor Vespasian. He was the son of Titus Flavius Sabinus , brother to Titus Flavius Sabinus and a second cousin to Roman Emperors to Titus and Domitian.-In classical sources:...
- consul - ClodiaClodiaClodia, Clodia, Clodia, (born Claudia Pulchra Prima or Maior or also Quadrantaria c. 95 BC or c. 94 BC and often referred to in scholarship as Clodia Metelli ("Clodia the wife of Metellus"), was the third daughter of the patrician Appius Claudius Pulcher and Caecilia Metella Balearica.She is not to...
- sister of below - Clodius AesopusClodius AesopusClodius Aesopus was the most celebrated tragic actor of Ancient Rome in time of Cicero, that is, the 1st century BC, but the dates of his birth and death are not known...
- tragic actor - Publius Clodius PulcherPublius Clodius PulcherPublius Clodius Pulcher was a Roman politician known for his popularist tactics...
- politician - Lucius Clodius MacerLucius Clodius MacerLucius Clodius Macer was a legatus of the Roman Empire in Africa in the time of Nero. He revolted in May 68, cutting off the food supply of Rome, possibly at the instigation of Calvia Crispinilla...
- legate - Publius Clodius Quirinalis - rhetor
- Decimus Clodius Albinus - would-be emperor
- CloeliaCloeliaCloelia is a semi-legendary woman from the early history of ancient Rome.As part of the peace treaty which ended the war between Rome and Clusium in 508 BC, Roman hostages were taken by Lars Porsena. One of the hostages, a young woman named Cloelia, fled the Clusian camp, leading away a group of...
- legendary hostage - Aulus Cluentius HabitusAulus Cluentius HabitusAulus Cluentius Habitus, a wealthy citizen of Larinum in Samnium, and subject of a Roman cause célèbre.In 74 BC he accused his stepfather Statius Albius Oppianicus of an attempt to poison him; had it been successful, the property of Cluentius would have fallen to his mother Sassia. Oppianicus was...
- litigant - Lucius Coelius AntipaterLucius Coelius AntipaterLucius Coelius Antipater was a Roman jurist and historian. He is not to be confused with Coelius Sabinus, the Coelius of the Digest. He was a contemporary of C. Gracchus ; L...
- jurist, rhetorician, and historian - Gaius Coelius CaldusGaius Coelius CaldusGaius Coelius Caldus or Gaius Caelius Caldus was a politician of ancient Rome of the late 2nd and early 1st century BC.In 107 BC, he was a tribune and passed a lex tabellaria, which ordained that in the courts of justice the votes should be given by means of tables in cases of high treason.In 94...
- consul - Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella = farmer
- Cominianus - grammarian
- CommodianusCommodianusCommodianus was a Christian Latin poet, who flourished about AD 250.The only ancient writers who mention him are Gennadius, presbyter of Massilia , in his De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis, and Pope Gelasius in De libris recipiendis et non recipiendis, in which his works are classed as Apocryphi,...
- Christian Latin poet - Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus - emperor
- ConstansConstansConstans , was Roman Emperor from 337 to 350. He defeated his brother Constantine II in 340, but anger in the army over his personal life and preference for his barbarian bodyguards saw the general Magnentius rebel, resulting in Constans’ assassination in 350.-Career:Constans was the third and...
- emperor - Flavius Valerius Constantinus (Constantine) - emperor
- Constantine II - emperor
- Flavius Claudius Constantinus - emperor
- Flavius Valerius Constantius (Chlorus) - emperor
- Constantius IIConstantius IIConstantius II , was Roman Emperor from 337 to 361. The second son of Constantine I and Fausta, he ascended to the throne with his brothers Constantine II and Constans upon their father's death....
- emperor - Constantius IIIConstantius IIIFlavius Constantius , commonly known as Constantius III, was Western Roman Emperor for seven months in 421. A prominent general and politician, he was the power behind the throne for much of the 410s, and in 421 briefly became co-emperor of the Western Empire with Honorius.- Early life and rise to...
- emperor - Gnaeus Domitius CorbuloGnaeus Domitius CorbuloGnaeus Domitius Corbulo was a Roman general and a brother-in-law of the emperor Caligula.-Descent:Corbulo was born in Italy into a senatorial family...
- consul - Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus - early hero
- Cornelia AfricanaCornelia AfricanaCornelia Scipionis Africana was the second daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the hero of the Second Punic War, and Aemilia Paulla. She is remembered as the perfect example of a virtuous Roman woman....
- mother of TiberiusTiberius GracchusTiberius Sempronius Gracchus was a Roman Populares politician of the 2nd century BC and brother of Gaius Gracchus. As a plebeian tribune, his reforms of agrarian legislation caused political turmoil in the Republic. These reforms threatened the holdings of rich landowners in Italy...
and Gaius GracchusGaius GracchusGaius Sempronius Gracchus was a Roman Populari politician in the 2nd century BC and brother of the ill-fated reformer Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus... - Cornelia Cinna MinorCornelia Cinna minorCornelia Cinnilla , daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna , and a sister to suffect consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna, was married to Gaius Julius Caesar, who would become one of Rome's greatest conquerors and its dictator...
- Julius CaesarJulius CaesarGaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
first wife - Cornelia MetellaCornelia MetellaCornelia Metella was the daughter of Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica . She appears in numerous literary sources, including an official dedicatory inscription at Pergamon....
- wife of PompeyPompeyGnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey or Pompey the Great , was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic... - Gaius Cornelius - tribune
- Cornelius SeverusCornelius SeverusCornelius Severus was an Augustan Age Roman epic poet who is mentioned in Quintilian and Ovid. Quintilian attests to an epic about the Sicilian Wars, Bellum Siculum, and Ovid refers to a long poem on Rome's ancient kings, which may be Res Romanae. This work, such as it is known, exists only in...
- poet - Lucius CornificiusLucius CornificiusLucius Cornificius, a member of the plebeian gens Cornificia, was a Roman politician and consul in 35 BC.Cornificius served as the accuser of Marcus Junius Brutus in the court which tried the murderers of Julius Caesar. In 38 BC Octavian gave him the command of a fleet in the war against Sextus...
- consul - Quintus Cornificius - orator and poet
- Lucius Annaeus CornutusLucius Annaeus CornutusLucius Annaeus Cornutus, , a Stoic philosopher, flourished in the reign of Nero , when his house in Rome was a school of philosophy.-Life:He was a native of Leptis Magna in Libya, but resided for the most part in Rome...
- freedman teacher - Gaius Julius Cornutus TertullusGaius Julius Cornutus TertullusThere were two Romans of Senatorial rank with the name Gaius Julius Cornutus Tertullus who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries in the Roman Empire...
- proconsul - Gaius Coruncanius - ambassador
- Lucius Coruncanius - ambassador
- Tiberius CoruncaniusTiberius CoruncaniusTiberius Coruncanius was Roman consul, and military commander in 280 BC – 279 BC, who was known for his military contests with Pyrrhus...
- consul - Quintus Conconius - scholar
- Aulus Cornelius Cossus - consul
- Gaius Aurelius CottaGaius Aurelius CottaGaius Aurelius Cotta was a Roman statesman and orator; not to be confused with Gaius Aurelius L.f. Cotta who was Consul in 252 with Publius Servilius Q.f. Geminus....
- consul - Lucius Aurelius CottaLucius Aurelius CottaLucius Aurelius Cotta was a Roman politician from an old noble family who held the offices of praetor , consul and censor . Both his father and grandfather of the same name had been consuls, and his two brothers, Gaius Aurelius Cotta and Marcus Aurelius Cotta, preceded him as consul in 75 and 74...
- consul - Marcus Aurelius Cotta - consul
- Marcus Julius Cottius - son of a native king
- Gaius Calpurnius Crassus Frugi Licinianus - suffect consul
- Publius Licinius Crassus Dives MucianusPublius Licinius Crassus Dives MucianusPublius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus was the son by blood of Publius Mucius Scaevola, the consul of 175 BC, and brother of Publius Mucius Scaevola...
- consul - Lucius Licinius CrassusLucius Licinius CrassusLucius Licinius Crassus was a Roman consul. He was considered the greatest Roman orator of his day, by his pupil Cicero.He became consul in 95 BC. During his consulship a law was passed requiring all but citizens to leave Rome, an edict which provoked the Social War...
- consul - Marcus Licinius CrassusMarcus Licinius CrassusMarcus Licinius Crassus was a Roman general and politician who commanded the right wing of Sulla's army at the Battle of the Colline Gate, suppressed the slave revolt led by Spartacus, provided political and financial support to Julius Caesar and entered into the political alliance known as the...
- two; politician and grandson - Publius Licinius CrassusPublius Licinius CrassusPublius Licinius Crassus is the name of several Romans of the Middle and Late Republic, some with the additional cognomen Dives.-3rd century BC:...
- two; consul and commander - Aulus Cremutius CordusAulus Cremutius CordusAulus Cremutius Cordus was a Roman historian. There are very few remaining fragments of his work, that covered the civil war and the reign of Augustus Caesar. In 25 AD he was forced by Sejanus who was praetorian prefect under Tiberius to take his life after being accused of maiestas...
- historian - Quintus Terentius Culleo - praetor
- Curiatius MaternusCuriatius MaternusCuriatius Maternus appears in the Dialogues of Tacitus. He was clearly an author of tragedies in Latin, having composed a Domitius, a Medea, and a Cato by AD 74 or 75...
- senator and poet - CurtiusCurtiusCurtius is a Roman nomen which may refer to:* Quintus Curtius Rufus, 1st century CE historian* Lacus Curtius, a mysterious hole in the ground in the Roman Forum* Curtius Curtius may also refer to:...
- legendary hero - Curtius Montanus - poet
- Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus (Cyprian) - bishop
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- Damophilus - sculptor
- Lucius Decidius Saxa - tribune
- Gaius Messius Quintus Decius - emperor
- Publius Decius Mus - three consuls
- Publius Decius Subulo - praetor
- Quintus DelliusQuintus DelliusQuintus Dellius was a Roman commander and politician in the second half of the 1st century BC.He was a political opportunist and was called desultor bellorum civilium by Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus...
- soldier, writer - Sempronius DensusSempronius DensusSempronius Densus was a centurion in the Praetorian Guard in the 1st century. He was bodyguard to the deputy emperor, and is remembered by history for his courage and loyalty in singlehandedly defending his charge from scores of armed assassins, while all his comrades deserted or switched sides.On...
- soldier - Lucius Siccius DentatusLucius Siccius DentatusLucius Siccius Dentatus was a Roman soldier, primuspilus and tribune, living in the 5th century BC. The cognomen Dentatus means "born with teeth"....
- early hero - Manius Curius Dentatus - consul
- Publius Herennius Dexippus - sophist
- Titus DidiusTitus DidiusTitus Didius was a general and politician of the Roman Republic. He is credited with the restoration of the Villa Publica, and is notorious for his proconsulship in Hispania Citerior ....
- consul - Marcus Didius Julianus - short-lived emperor
- Dio CassiusDio CassiusLucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus , known in English as Cassius Dio, Dio Cassius, or Dio was a Roman consul and a noted historian writing in Greek...
- official and historian - Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus (Diocletian) - emperor
- Dioscorides Pedanius - physician
- Gnaeus Cornelius DolabellaGnaeus Cornelius DolabellaGnaeus Cornelius Dolabella was a consul of the Roman Republic in 81 BC, with Marcus Tullius Decula, during the dictatorship of Sulla.-Biography:...
- two; consul and proconsul - Publius Cornelius DolabellaPublius Cornelius DolabellaPublius Cornelius Dolabella was a Roman general, by far the most important of the Dolabellae. He arranged for himself to be adopted by a plebeian so that he could become a Tribune.. He married Cicero's daughter Tullia Ciceronis...
- two consuls - Titus Flavius Domitianus (Domitian) - two; emperor and adopted son
- Flavia Domitilla - mother / sister / niece of Domitian
- Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus - four different
- Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus - two
- Domitius MarsusDomitius MarsusDomitius Marsus was a Latin poet, friend of Virgil and Tibullus, and contemporary of Horace.He survived Tibullus , but was no longer alive when Ovid wrote the epistle from Pontus containing a list of poets...
- poet - Aelius DonatusAelius DonatusAelius Donatus was a Roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric. The only fact known regarding his life is that he was the tutor of St...
- grammarian - Tiberius Claudius DonatusTiberius Claudius DonatusTiberius Claudius Donatus was a Roman Latin grammarian of whom a single work is known, the Interpretationes Vergilianae, a commentary to Virgil. He is thought to have florished in the 430s. His work, rediscovered in 1438, proved popular in the early modern age obtaining 55 editions between 1488...
- commentator - DorotheusDorotheus (jurist)Dorotheus was a professor of jurisprudence in the law school of Berytus in Syria, and one of the three commissioners appointed by the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I to draw up a book of Institutes, after the model of the Institutes of Gaius, which should serve as an introduction to the Digest ...
- framed Justinian Code - Blossius Aemilius DracontiusBlossius Aemilius DracontiusBlossius Aemilius Dracontius c. 455 – c. 505) of Carthage, Christian poet, flourished in the latter part of the 5th century. He belonged to a family of land proprietors, and practiced as an advocate in his native place...
- poet and rhetor - Julia DrusillaJulia DrusillaJulia Drusilla was the only child and daughter of Roman Emperor Gaius and of his fourth and last wife Milonia Caesonia....
- daughter of CaligulaCaligulaCaligula , also known as Gaius, was Roman Emperor from 37 AD to 41 AD. Caligula was a member of the house of rulers conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Caligula's father Germanicus, the nephew and adopted son of Emperor Tiberius, was a very successful general and one of Rome's most... - Julius Caesar DrususJulius Caesar DrususNero Claudius Drusus, later Drusus Julius Caesar was the only child of Roman Emperor Tiberius and his first wife, Vipsania Agrippina...
- two; son of Tiberius and son of Germanicus - Nero Claudius DrususNero Claudius DrususNero Claudius Drusus Germanicus , born Decimus Claudius Drusus also called Drusus, Drusus I, Nero Drusus, or Drusus the Elder was a Roman politician and military commander. He was a fully patrician Claudian on his father's side but his maternal grandmother was from a plebeian family...
- general - Marcus Livius Drusus - two; consulMarcus Livius Drusus (censor)The elder Marcus Livius Drusus was set up as tribune by the Senate in 121 BC to undermine Gaius Gracchus' land reform bills. To do this, he proposed creating twelve colonies with 3,000 settlers each from the poorer classes, and relieving rent on property distributed since 133 BC...
and sonMarcus Livius Drusus (tribune)The younger Marcus Livius Drusus, son of Marcus Livius Drusus, was tribune of the plebeians in 91 BC. In the manner of Gaius Gracchus, he set out with comprehensive plans, but his aim was to strengthen senatorial rule... - Marcus Livius Drusus ClaudianusMarcus Livius Drusus ClaudianusMarcus Livius Drusus Claudianus was a senator of the Roman Republic. He was born with the name Appius Claudius Pulcher, into the patrician family of the Claudii. According to Suetonius, Drusus was a direct descendant of the consul and censor Appius Claudius Caecus...
- a praetor - Gaius DuiliusGaius DuiliusGaius Duilius was a Roman politician and admiral involved in the First Punic War.Not much is known about his family background or early career, since he was a novus homo, meaning not belonging to a traditional family of Roman aristocrats. He managed, nevertheless, to be elected consul for the year...
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- Marcus Egnatius Rufus - praetor
- ElagabalusElagabalusElagabalus , also known as Heliogabalus, was Roman Emperor from 218 to 222. A member of the Severan Dynasty, he was Syrian on his mother's side, the son of Julia Soaemias and Sextus Varius Marcellus. Early in his youth he served as a priest of the god El-Gabal at his hometown, Emesa...
- emperor - Sextilius Ena - poet
- Severus Sanctus EndelechiusSeverus Sanctus EndelechiusSeverus Sanctus Endelechius was the writer of De Mortibus Boum , i.e. On the Deaths of Cattle.It is a poem belonging to the classical bucolic tradition, but also concerned with Christian apologetics. It mentions a cattle plague, which has been identified as rinderpest...
- professor - Quintus Ennius - writer
- Magnus Felix EnnodiusMagnus Felix EnnodiusMagnus Felix Ennodius was Bishop of Pavia in 514, and a Latin rhetorician and poet.He was one of four fifth to sixth-century Gallo-Roman aristocrats whose letters survive in quantity: the others are Sidonius Apollinaris, prefect of Rome in 468 and bishop of Clermont , Ruricius bishop of Limoges ...
- bishop, writer - Titus Clodius Eprius MarcellusTitus Clodius Eprius MarcellusTitus Clodius Eprius Marcellus was a prominent Roman senator, twice Consul, best known for his prosecution of the Stoic senator Thrasea Paetus and his bitter quarrel with Helvidius Priscus...
- consul - Erotian - grammarian, doctor
- Sextus Erucius Clarus - official and friend of Pliny
- Flavius Eugenius - usurper
- EumeniusEumeniusEumenius , was one of the Roman panegyrists and author of a speech transmitted in the collection of the Panegyrici Latini .-Life:...
- teacher of rhetoric - Eusebius of CaesareaEusebius of CaesareaEusebius of Caesarea also called Eusebius Pamphili, was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian polemicist. He became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314. Together with Pamphilus, he was a scholar of the Biblical canon...
- theologian - Eutropius - historian
- Iulius Exsuperantius - historian
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- Fabianus Papirius - philosopher
- Marcus Fabius AmbustusMarcus Fabius Ambustus (consul 360 BC)Marcus Fabius N.f. Ambustus was a statesman and general of the Roman Republic. He was the son of Numerius Fabius Ambustus.He served as consul three times: in 360, 356, and 354 BC. His consulships occurred during a time in which Rome was reasserting itself following its defeat at the hands of the...
- consul - Quintus Fabius AmbustusQuintus Fabius Ambustus (tribune)Quintus Fabius Ambustus was a politician in the Roman Republic, the son of Marcus Fabius Ambustus . In 390 BC, when his father was pontifex maximus, he and two of his brothers, Numerius and Caeso, were sent as emissaries to a Gaulish army besieging Clusium...
- official - Marcus Fabius ButeoMarcus Fabius ButeoMarcus Fabius Buteo was a Roman politician during the 3rd century BC. He served as consul and as censor, and in 216 BC, being the oldest living ex-censor, he was appointed dictator, legendo senatui, for the purpose of filling vacancies in the senate after the Battle of Cannae. He was appointed by...
- consul - Lucius Fabius Iustus - consul
- Paullus Fabius MaximusPaullus Fabius MaximusPaullus Fabius Maximus was the elder son of Quintus Fabius Maximus and an unknown wife. He had one younger brother, Africanus Fabius Maximus and a sister, Fabia Paullina...
- consul - Quintus Fabius Maximus AllobrogicusQuintus Fabius Maximus AllobrogicusQuintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus, was a Roman statesman and general.Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus, a member of the patrician gens Fabia, was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, consul of 145 BC...
- praetor - Quintus Fabius Maximus AemilianusQuintus Fabius Maximus AemilianusQuintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus was a Roman statesman and consul .Fabius was by adoption a member of the patrician gens Fabia, but by birth he was the eldest son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus and Papiria Masonis and the elder brother of Scipio Aemilianus...
- consul - Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus - consul
- Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Cunctator - consul
- Quintus Fabius PictorQuintus Fabius PictorQuintus Fabius Pictor was one of the earliest Roman historians and considered the first of the annalists. A member of the Fabii gens, he was the grandson of Gaius Fabius Pictor, a painter . He was a senator who fought against the Gauls in 225 BC, and against Carthage in the Second Punic War...
- senator, historian - Fabius RusticusFabius RusticusFabius Rusticus was a Roman historian who was quoted on several occasions by Tacitus. Tacitus couples his name with that of Livy and describes him as "the most graphic among ancient and modern historians." Tacitus also said that he embellished matters with his eloquence...
- historian - Gaius Fabricius LuscinusGaius Fabricius LuscinusGaius Fabricius Luscinus Monocularis , son of Gaius, was said to have been the first of the Fabricii to move to ancient Rome, his family originating from Aletrium....
- consul - Marcus Fadius Gallus - friend of CiceroCiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...
- Gaius Fannius - consul
- Annia Galeria Faustina - two; wife and daughter of Antoninus PiusAntoninus PiusAntoninus Pius , also known as Antoninus, was Roman Emperor from 138 to 161. He was a member of the Nerva-Antonine dynasty and the Aurelii. He did not possess the sobriquet "Pius" until after his accession to the throne...
- Marcus Cetius Faventinus - scholar
- Eulogius Favonius - rhetor
- Marcus FavoniusMarcus FavoniusMarcus Favonius was a Roman politician during the period of the fall of the Roman Republic. He is noted for his imitation of Cato the Younger, his espousal of the Cynic philosophy, and for his appearance as the Poet in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar.-Life:Favonius was born in around 90...
- politician - FavorinusFavorinusFavorinus of Arelata was a Roman sophist and philosopher who flourished during the reign of Hadrian.He was of Gaulish ancestry, born in Arelate . He is described as a hermaphrodite by birth...
- rhetor - Marcus Antonius Felix - freedman procurator
- FenestellaFenestellaFenestella, , Roman historian and encyclopaedic writer, flourished in the reign of Tiberius. If the notice in Jerome is correct, he lived from 52 BC to AD 19 ....
- annalist - Porcius FestusPorcius FestusPorcius Festus was procurator of Judea from about AD 59 to 62, succeeding Antonius Felix. His exact time in office is not known. The earliest proposed date for the start of his term is c. A.D. 55-6, while the latest is A.D. 61. These extremes have not gained much support and most scholars opt...
- procurator - Rufius Festus - writer
- Sextus Pompeius FestusSextus Pompeius FestusSextus Pompeius Festus was a Roman grammarian, who probably flourished in the later 2nd century AD, perhaps at Narbo in Gaul.He made an epitome in 20 volumes of the encyclopedic treatise in many volumes De verborum significatu, of Verrius Flaccus, a celebrated grammarian who flourished in the...
- scholar - Gaius Flavius FimbriaGaius Flavius FimbriaGaius Flavius Fimbria was a Roman politician and a violent partisan of Gaius Marius. He fought in the First Mithridatic War.-Partisan of Marius:...
- consul - Julius Firmicus MaternusJulius Firmicus MaternusJulius Firmicus Maternus was a Christian Latin writer and notable astrologer, who lived in the reign of Constantine I and his successors.-Life and works:...
- astrologer - Aulus Avilius FlaccusAulus Avilius FlaccusAulus Avilius Flaccus was the Egyptian prefect appointed by Tiberius in 32 C.E. His rule coincided with the Jewish massacre in Alexandria in 38 C.E. According to some accounts, he may have encouraged the outbreak of violence. According to the Jewish philosopher Philo, Flaccus was later arrested...
- official - Quintus Fulvius FlaccusQuintus Fulvius FlaccusQuintus Fulvius Flaccus, son of Marcus Fulvius Flaccus , Quintus was consul in 237 BC, fighting the Gauls in northern Italy. He was censor in 231 BC, again consul in 224 BC, when he subdued the Boii...
two; consul and son - Lucius Valerius Flaccus four
- Marcus Fulvius FlaccusMarcus Fulvius FlaccusMarcus Fulvius Flaccus was the name of several Romans, including:* Marcus Fulvius Flaccus * Marcus Fulvius Flaccus -See also:* Fulvius, for other members of the gens* Flaccus, on the cognomen...
- consul - Verrius FlaccusVerrius FlaccusMarcus Verrius Flaccus was a Roman grammarian and teacher who flourished under Augustus and Tiberius.-Life:He was a freedman, and his manumitter has been identified with Verrius Flaccus, an authority on pontifical law; but for chronological reasons the name of Veranius Flaccus, a writer on augury,...
- freedman scholar - Lucius Quinctius FlamininusLucius Quinctius FlamininusLucius Quinctius Flamininus, the brother of Titus Quinctius Flamininus, was a Roman Consul in 192 BC. In 184 BC he was deposed from the Senate by the Censor, Cato the Elder, for his bad conduct in his consulship. Flamininus' removal from the Senate was a part of a bigger struggle between the...
- consul - Titus Quinctius FlamininusTitus Quinctius FlamininusTitus Quinctius Flamininus was a Roman politician and general instrumental in the Roman conquest of Greece.Member of the gens Quinctia, and brother to Lucius Quinctius Flamininus, he served as a military tribune in the Second Punic war and in 205 BC he was appointed propraetor in Tarentum...
- consul - Gaius FlaminiusGaius FlaminiusGaius Flaminius Nepos was a politician and consul of the Roman Republic in the 3rd century BC. He was the greatest popular leader to challenge the authority of the Senate before the Gracchi a century later....
- consul - Gnaeus Flavius - writer
- Flavius FelixFlavius FelixFlavius Felix was a politician of the Western Roman Empire, who reached the prominent rank of patrician before being killed by order of Flavius Aetius. For his consulate, in 428, he issued some consular diptychs, one of which has been preserved until modern times.Felix served during the reign of...
- poet - Titus Flavius PetroTitus Flavius PetroTitus Flavius Petro was the paternal grandfather of the Roman Emperor Vespasian.He was a son of a contracted laborer, who each summer crossed the Po to assist the Sabines with their harvests....
- grandfather of VespasianVespasianVespasian , was Roman Emperor from 69 AD to 79 AD. Vespasian was the founder of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Empire for a quarter century. Vespasian was descended from a family of equestrians, who rose into the senatorial rank under the Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty... - Marcus Annius Florianus - short-lived emperor
- FlorusFlorusFlorus, Roman historian, lived in the time of Trajan and Hadrian.He compiled, chiefly from Livy, a brief sketch of the history of Rome from the foundation of the city to the closing of the temple of Janus by Augustus . The work, which is called Epitome de T...
- poet - Marcus Fonteius - official
- Sextus Julius FrontinusSextus Julius FrontinusSextus Julius Frontinus was one of the most distinguished Roman aristocrats of the late 1st century AD, but is best known to the post-Classical world as an author of technical treatises, especially one dealing with the aqueducts of Rome....
- writer - Marcus Cornelius FrontoMarcus Cornelius FrontoMarcus Cornelius Fronto , Roman grammarian, rhetorician and advocate, was born at Cirta in Numidia. He also was suffect consul of 142.- Life :Fronto, who was born a Roman citizen c...
- orator - Quintus Fufius CalenusQuintus Fufius CalenusQuintus Fufius Calenus was a Roman general, and consul in 47 BC.As tribune of the people in 61 BC, he was chiefly instrumental in securing the acquittal of the notorious Publius Clodius when charged with having profaned the mysteries of Bona Dea...
- consul - Fabius Planciades FulgentiusFabius Planciades FulgentiusFabius Planciades Fulgentius was a late-antique period writer. Four extant works are commonly attributed to him, as well as a possible fifth which some scholars include in compilations with much reservation...
- writer - FulviaFulviaFulvia Flacca Bambula , commonly referred to as simply Fulvia, was an aristocratic Roman woman who lived during the Late Roman Republic. Through her marriage to three of the most promising Roman men of her generation, Publius Clodius Pulcher, Gaius Scribonius Curio and Mark Antony, she gained...
- wife of Mark AntonyMark AntonyMarcus Antonius , known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general. As a military commander and administrator, he was an important supporter and loyal friend of his mother's cousin Julius Caesar... - Gaius Fundanius - comedian
- Minicius Fundanus - proconsul
- Aulus Furius AntiasAulus Furius AntiasFurius Antias was an ancient Roman poet, born in Antium.Following William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, , art. Bibaculus, his full name was Aulus Furius Antias and he was the poet A. Furius whose friendship with Quintus Lutatius Catulus, consul in 102 BC, is attested...
- poet - Lucius Furius PhilusLucius Furius PhilusLucius Furius Philus was a consul of ancient Rome in 136 BC. He was a member of the Scipionic circle, and particularly close to Scipio Aemilianus. As consul he was involved with the foedus Mancinum, and offered Mancinus to the Numantines...
- consul - Cornelius FuscusCornelius FuscusCornelius Fuscus was a Roman general who fought campaigns under the Emperors of the Flavian dynasty. During the reign of Domitian, he served as prefect of the imperial bodyguard, known as the Praetorian Guard, from 81 until his death in 86...
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- Aulus GabiniusAulus GabiniusAulus Gabinius, Roman statesman and general, and supporter of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, was a prominent figure in the later days of the Roman Republic....
- two; tribune and consul - Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus (CaligulaCaligulaCaligula , also known as Gaius, was Roman Emperor from 37 AD to 41 AD. Caligula was a member of the house of rulers conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Caligula's father Germanicus, the nephew and adopted son of Emperor Tiberius, was a very successful general and one of Rome's most...
) - emperor - GaiusGaius (jurist)Gaius was a celebrated Roman jurist. Scholars know very little of his personal life. It is impossible to discover even his full name, Gaius or Caius being merely his personal name...
- jurist - Gaius Sulpicius Galba - two; official, grandfather of emperor
- Servius Sulpicius Galba - three; consul, praetor, emperor
- Publius Sulpicius Galba MaximusPublius Sulpicius Galba MaximusPublius Sulpicius Galba Maximus was a consul of Rome in 211 BC, when he defended the city against the surprise attack by Hannibal.He was proconsul in Greece from 210 to 206, continuing the First Macedonian War against Philip V of Macedon...
- consul - Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximinianus (Galerius) - emperor
- Galerius Trachalus - orator
- Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (Gallienus) - emperor
- Lucius Annaeus Novatus Gallio - consul
- Aelius GallusAelius GallusGaius Aelius Gallus was a Roman prefect of Egypt from 26 - 24 BC. He is primarily known for a disastrous expedition he undertook to Arabia Felix under orders of Augustus.-Life:...
- official - Appius Annius Trebonius GallusAppius Annius Trebonius Gallus (consul 108)Appius Annius Trebonius Gallus was a distinguished Roman general and politician that lived in the second half of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century in the Roman Empire....
- consul of 108 - Appius Annius Trebonius GallusAppius Annius Trebonius Gallus (consul 139)Appius Annius Trebonius Gallus, sometimes known as Appius Annius Gallus was a Roman senator.Annius Gallus was the son of the Roman politician and general Appius Annius Trebonius Gallus and an unnamed Roman noble woman. His paternal grandfather could have been Appius Annius Gallus, one of the...
- consul of 139 - Gaius Asinius GallusGaius Asinius GallusGaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus was an ambitious Roman Senator with family connections to the Julio-Claudian house. Asinius Gallus was consul in 8 BC, and proconsul of Asia in 6 BC/5 BC. He was a friend of Emperor Augustus and opposed Emperor Tiberius. He introduced measures to the senate to...
- consul - Gaius Cornelius Gallus - poet and general
- Aulus Didius GallusAulus Didius GallusAulus Didius Gallus was a Roman general and politician of the 1st century AD. He was governor of Britain between 52 and 57 AD.-Career:The career of Aulus Didius Gallus up to 51 can be partly reconstructed from an inscription from Olympia. He was quaestor under Tiberius, probably in 19...
- consul - Gaius Lucretius Gallus - praetor
- Gaius Sulpicius GallusGaius Sulpicius GallusGaius Sulpicius Gallus or Galus was a general, statesman and orator of the Roman Republic.Under Lucius Aemilius Paulus, his intimate friend, he commanded the 2nd legion in the campaign against Perseus, king of Macedonia, and gained great reputation for having predicted an eclipse of the moon on the...
- astronomer and consul - Gallus Caesar - ruled in Antioch
- Quintus Gargilius MartialisQuintus Gargilius MartialisQuintus Gargilius Martialis was a Roman writer on horticulture. He has been identified by some with the military commander of the same name, mentioned in a Latin inscription of 260 as having lost his life in the colony of Auzia in Mauretania Caesariensis...
- writer - Gavius Bassus - writer
- Gavius Silo - orator
- Aulus GelliusAulus GelliusAulus Gellius , was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome. He was educated in Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office...
- writer - Gnaeus GelliusGnaeus GelliusGnaeus Gellius was the author of a history of Rome from the earliest epoch, extending, as we gather from Censorinus, down to the year 145 BC at least...
- annalist - Lucius Gellius PublicolaLucius Gellius PublicolaLucius Gellius Publicola was a Roman politician and general who was one of two Consuls of the Republic in 72 BC along with Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus...
- consul - GeminusGeminusGeminus of Rhodes , was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, who flourished in the 1st century BC. An astronomy work of his, the Introduction to the Phenomena, still survives; it was intended as an introductory astronomy book for students. He also wrote a work on mathematics, of which only...
- writer - Lucius Genucius - tribune
- GermanicusGermanicusGermanicus Julius Caesar , commonly known as Germanicus, was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and a prominent general of the early Roman Empire. He was born in Rome, Italia, and was named either Nero Claudius Drusus after his father or Tiberius Claudius Nero after his uncle...
- general, father of CaligulaCaligulaCaligula , also known as Gaius, was Roman Emperor from 37 AD to 41 AD. Caligula was a member of the house of rulers conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Caligula's father Germanicus, the nephew and adopted son of Emperor Tiberius, was a very successful general and one of Rome's most... - Gessius FlorusGessius FlorusGessius Florus was the Roman procurator of Judea from 64 until 66. Born in Clazomenae, Florus was appointed to replace Lucceius Albinus as procurator by the Emperor Nero due to his wife's friendship with Nero's wife Poppaea...
- procurator in Judea - Hosidius GetaHosidius GetaHosidius Geta was a Roman playwright. Tertullian refers to him as his contemporary in the De Prescriptione Haereticorum....
- writer - Gnaeus Hosidius GetaGnaeus Hosidius GetaGaius or Gnaeus Hosidius Geta was a Roman Senator and General who lived in the 1st century. Geta was a praetor some time before 42...
- suffect consul - Publius Septimius GetaPublius Septimius GetaGeta , was a Roman Emperor co-ruling with his father Septimius Severus and his older brother Caracalla from 209 to his death.-Early life:Geta was the younger son of Septimius Severus by his second wife Julia Domna...
(Geta) - emperor - Manius Acilius GlabrioManius Acilius Glabrio (disambiguation)Manius Acilius Glabrio may refer to any of several prominent Romans:* Manius Acilius Glabrio , Roman consul in 191 BC.* Manius Acilius Glabrio , Roman consul suffectus in 154 BC.* Manius Acilius M'. f...
- four - Gaius Servilius GlauciaGaius Servilius GlauciaGaius Servilius Glaucia was a Roman politician who served as tribune of the Plebs in 101 BC and praetor in 100 BC. He arranged for the murder of an elected tribune of plebs to make spot for Lucius Appuleius Saturninus who was the next one to become tribune by the votes...
- praetor - Glitius Atilius Agricola - general of TrajanTrajanTrajan , was Roman Emperor from 98 to 117 AD. Born into a non-patrician family in the province of Hispania Baetica, in Spain Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian. Serving as a legatus legionis in Hispania Tarraconensis, in Spain, in 89 Trajan supported the emperor against...
- Marcus Antonius GniphoMarcus Antonius GniphoMarcus Antonius Gnipho was a grammarian and teacher of rhetoric of Gaulish origin who taught in ancient Rome.Born in Gaul, he was exposed as a child, but was found, and grew up a slave...
- scholar - Marcus Antonius Gordianus - three emperors
- Gaius Sempronius Gracchus - 2nd century BC politician
- Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus - three politicians
- Julius Graecinus - praetor
- Granius LicinianusGranius LicinianusGranius Licinianus was a Roman author of historical and encyclopedic works that survive only in fragments. He most likely lived at the time of Hadrian.-History:...
- writer - Flavius Gratian - emperor
- GrattiusGrattiusGrattius was a Roman poet of the age of Augustus. He was the author of a Cynegetica, a poem on hunting, of which 541 hexameter lines remain. He describes various kinds of game, methods of hunting, and the best breeds of horses and dogs....
- poet - Grillius - grammarian
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- Publius Aelius Hadrianus (Hadrian) - emperor
- Quintus HateriusQuintus HateriusThough we do not know his place of birth, Quintus Haterius was born into a senatorial family around 65 BC. This date is uncertain because we only know the approximate year of his death, and his approximate age at the time...
- orator - Helvidius PriscusHelvidius PriscusHelvidius Priscus, Stoic philosopher and statesman, lived during the reigns of Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian.Like his father-in-law, Thrasea Paetus, he was distinguished for his ardent and courageous republicanism. Although he repeatedly offended his rulers, he held several high offices...
- praetor - Herennius EtruscusHerennius EtruscusHerennius Etruscus , was Roman emperor in 251, in a joint rule with his father Decius. Emperor Hostilian was his younger brother.Herennius was born in near Sirmium in Pannonia , during one of his father's military postings. His mother was Herennia Cupressenia Etruscilla, a Roman lady of an...
- short-lived emperor - Herennius ModestinusHerennius ModestinusHerennius Modestinus, or simply Modestinus, was a celebrated Roman jurist, a student of Ulpian who flourished about 250.He appears to have been a native of one of the Greek-speaking provinces, probably Dalmatia...
- jurist - Herennius SenecioHerennius SenecioHerennius Senecio was among the Stoic opposition to the emperor Domitian, under whose rule he was executed. He was from Baetica in Roman Spain. He was the author of a laudatory biography of the Stoic martyr Helvidius Priscus....
- governor - Herodes AtticusHerodes AtticusLucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes, otherwise known as Herodes Atticus was a very distinguished, rich Greek aristocrat who served as a Roman Senator and a Sophist. He is notable as a proponent in the Second Sophistic by Philostratus.-Ancestry and Family:Herodes Atticus...
- consul and writer - Aulus HirtiusAulus HirtiusAulus Hirtius was one of the consuls of the Roman Republic and a writer on military subjects.He was known to have been a legate of Julius Caesar's starting around 54 BC and served as an envoy to Pompey in 50. During the Roman Civil Wars he served in Spain, he might have been a tribune in 48, and...
- consul - Honorius (emperor)Honorius (emperor)Honorius , was Western Roman Emperor from 395 to 423. He was the younger son of emperor Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the eastern emperor Arcadius....
- emperor - Horatius CoclesHoratius CoclesPublius Horatius Cocles was an officer in the army of the ancient Roman Republic who famously defended the Pons Sublicius from the invading army of Lars Porsena, king of Clusium in the late 6th century BC, during the war between Rome and Clusium.-Background:...
- early hero - Quintus Horatius Flaccus (HoraceHoraceQuintus Horatius Flaccus , known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.-Life:...
) - writer - Quintus HortensiusQuintus HortensiusQuintus Hortensius Hortalus was a Roman orator and advocate.At the age of nineteen he made his first speech at the bar, and shortly afterwards successfully defended Nicomedes IV of Bithynia, one of Rome's dependants in the East, who had been deprived of his throne by his brother. From that time...
- consul - HostilianHostilianHostilian was Roman emperor in 251. Hostilian was born in Sirmium in Illyricum sometime after 230, as the son of the future emperor Decius by his wife Herennia Cupressenia Etruscilla...
- short-lived emperor - HostiusHostiusHostius, was a Roman epic poet, who probably flourished in the 2nd century BC.He was the author of a Bellum Histricum in at least seven books, of which only a few fragments remain. The poem is probably intended to celebrate the victory gained in 129 by Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus over the Illyrian...
- poet - HyginusHyginusHyginus can refer to:People:*Gaius Julius Hyginus , Roman poet, author of Fabulae, reputed author of Poeticon astronomicon*Hyginus Gromaticus, Roman surveyor*Pope Hyginus, also a saint, Bishop of Rome about 140...
- three writers - Gaius Julius HyginusGaius Julius HyginusGaius Julius Hyginus was a Latin author, a pupil of the famous Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus. He was by Augustus elected superintendent of the Palatine library according to Suetonius' De Grammaticis, 20...
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- Lucius IciliusLucius IciliusLucius Icilius was a Tribune of the Plebs in 456 BC. On his proposal the public land on the Aventine Hill was parcelled out to provide dwellings for the plebs. A few years later, around 451 BC, he was betrothed to one Verginia, daughter of Lucius Verginius. The decemvir Appius Claudius Crassus...
- early hero - IrenaeusIrenaeusSaint Irenaeus , was Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire . He was an early church father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology...
- theologian - Isidorus HispalensisIsidore of SevilleSaint Isidore of Seville served as 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"...
- bishop and scholar - Isigonus - writer
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- Januarius Nepotianus - writer
- Javolenus Priscus - jurist
- JordanesJordanesJordanes, also written Jordanis or Jornandes, was a 6th century Roman bureaucrat, who turned his hand to history later in life....
- historian - Flavius Jovian - emperor
- Juba I of NumidiaJuba I of NumidiaJuba I of Numidia was a King of Numidia. He was the son and successor to King of Numidia Hiempsal II.- Family :...
- Juba II of Numidia
- Juba of MauretaniaJuba of MauretaniaJuba of Mauritania was a metrist who lived in Mauretania in the 2nd century. He wrote a now-lost treatise on metric, based on Heliodorus and used by later grammarians....
- JugurthaJugurthaJugurtha or Jugurthen was a King of Numidia, , born in Cirta .-Background:Until the reign of Jugurtha's grandfather Masinissa, the people of Numidia were semi-nomadic and indistinguishable from the other Libyans in North Africa...
- NumidiaNumidiaNumidia was an ancient Berber kingdom in part of present-day Eastern Algeria and Western Tunisia in North Africa. It is known today as the Chawi-land, the land of the Chawi people , the direct descendants of the historical Numidians or the Massyles The kingdom began as a sovereign state and later...
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- Julia (daughter of Julius Caesar)Julia (daughter of Julius Caesar)Julia Caesaris , 83 or 82 BC-54 BC, was the daughter of Gaius Julius Caesar the Roman dictator, by his first wife, Cornelia Cinna, and his only child in marriage. Julia became the fourth wife of Pompey the Great and was renowned for her beauty and virtue.-Life:Julia was born around 83 BC–82 BC...
- Julia CaesarisJulia CaesarisJulia Caesaris is the name of all women in the Julii Caesares patrician family , since feminine names were their father's gens and cognomen declined in the female form...
- women in the Julii CaesaresJulii CaesaresJulii Caesares is a subdivision of the patrician Julii family in the Roman Republic, and the beginnings of the Julian side of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty...
family - Juliae Caesares (sisters of Julius Caesar)
- Julia FlaviaJulia FlaviaFlavia Julia Titi was the daughter and only child to Emperor Titus from his second marriage to the well-connected Marcia Furnilla. Her parents divorced when Julia was an infant, due to her mother's family being connected to the opponents of Roman Emperor Nero...
- daughter of TitusTitusTitus , was Roman Emperor from 79 to 81. A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his father Vespasian upon his death, thus becoming the first Roman Emperor to come to the throne after his own father.... - Vipsania Julia - granddaughter of Augustus
- Julia Antonia (wife of Antonius Creticus, mother of triumvir)
- Julia the ElderJulia the ElderJulia the Elder , known to her contemporaries as Julia Caesaris filia or Julia Augusti filia was the daughter and only biological child of Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. Augustus subsequently adopted several male members of his close family as sons...
, daughter of Augustus - Julia DomnaJulia DomnaJulia Domna was a member of the Severan dynasty of the Roman Empire. Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus and mother of Emperors Geta and Caracalla, Julia was among the most important women ever to exercise power behind the throne in the Roman Empire.- Family background...
- wife of Septimius SeverusSeptimius SeverusSeptimius Severus , also known as Severus, was Roman Emperor from 193 to 211. Severus was born in Leptis Magna in the province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through the customary succession of offices under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. Severus seized power after the death of... - Julia MaesaJulia MaesaJulia Maesa was a Roman citizen and daughter of Julius Bassianus, priest of the sun god Heliogabalus, the patron god of Emesa in the Roman province of Syria...
- sister of Julia Domna - Julia Soaemias Bassiana - daughter of Julia Maesa
- Julia Avita MamaeaJulia Avita MamaeaJulia Avita Mamaea was the second daughter of Julia Maesa, a powerful Roman woman of Syrian origin and Syrian noble Julius Avitus. She was a niece of empress Julia Domna and emperor Septimius Severus and sister of Julia Soaemias...
- younger daughter of Julia Maesa - Flavius Claudius Julianus (Julian) - emperor
- Julianus Salvius - jurist
- Gaius Julius BassusGaius Julius BassusGaius Julius Bassus was a Consul Suffect in 99 and a Proconsul of Bithynia and Pontus in 98 or between 100 and 101, before Pliny the Younger who either prosecuted or defended him afterwards. He was the younger son of Gaius Julius Severus Gaius Julius Bassus (ca 45 - aft. 101) was a Consul Suffect...
- Governor of Bithynia-PontusBithyniaBithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine .-Description:... - Julius CaesarJulius CaesarGaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
- general and dictatorDictatorA dictator is a ruler who assumes sole and absolute power but without hereditary ascension such as an absolute monarch. When other states call the head of state of a particular state a dictator, that state is called a dictatorship... - Lucius Julius LiboLucius Julius LiboLucius Julius Libo was a member of the influential Julii clan. This patrician family was always of the most distinguished blood, however they had long since fallen out of the inner Roman elite. The Julii were active in politics since the Punic Wars....
- consul and ancestor to Julius Caesar - Julius Canus - philosopher
- Julius Cerealis - poet
- Sextus Julius Gabinianus - rhetor
- Julius Modestus - freedman of Hyginus
- Julius Romanus - grammarian
- Julius Tiro - rhetor
- Julius Valerius Alexander PolemiusJulius Valerius Alexander PolemiusJulius Valerius Alexander Polemius of the Valerius gens was a translator of the Greek Pseudo-Callisthenes, the romantic history of Alexander the Great, to the Latin Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis, in three books: birth; acts; death. The work is important in connection with the transmission of the...
- writer - Gaius Julius VictorGaius Julius VictorGaius Julius Victor was a Roman writer of rhetoric, possibly of Gaulish origin. His extant manual is of some importance as facilitating the textual criticism of Quintilian, whom he closely follows in many places....
- writer - Junius Congus - writer
- Marcus Junius Nipsus - grammarian
- Junius Otho - praetor
- Justin MartyrJustin MartyrJustin Martyr, also known as just Saint Justin , was an early Christian apologist. Most of his works are lost, but two apologies and a dialogue survive. He is considered a saint by the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church....
- writer and martyr - Justinian IJustinian IJustinian I ; , ; 483– 13 or 14 November 565), commonly known as Justinian the Great, was Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565. During his reign, Justinian sought to revive the Empire's greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the classical Roman Empire.One of the most important figures of...
- emperor - Marcus Justinianus Justinus (Justin) - writer
- Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) - poet
- Gaius Vettius Aquilinus Juvencus - Christian poet
- Marcus Juventius Laterensis - praetor
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- Attius LabeoAttius LabeoAttius Labeo was a Roman writer during the reign of Nero. He is remembered for the derision that greeted his Latin translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, which came to epitomise bad verse. He translated the original Greek into Latin hexameters. The satirist Persius poured scorn on Labeo...
- translator - Cornelius Antistius Labeo - historian
- Marcus Antistius LabeoMarcus Antistius LabeoMarcus Antistius Labeo was a prominent jurist of ancient Rome.He was the son of Quintus Antistius Labeo, a jurist who caused himself to be slain after the defeat of his party at Philippi...
- jurist - Quintus LabienusQuintus LabienusQuintus Labienus , the son of Titus Labienus, was a Roman republican general, later in the service of Parthia.After Julius Caesar was murdered in 44 BC, Labienus took the side of Brutus and Cassius, the latter whom he served in the capacity of an ambassador to the Parthians...
- general - Titus LabienusTitus LabienusTitus Atius Labienus was a professional Roman soldier in the late Roman Republic. He served as Tribune of the Plebs in 63 BC, and is remembered as one of Julius Caesar's lieutenants, mentioned frequently in the accounts of his military campaigns...
- two; legate for Caesar, orator - LactantiusLactantiusLucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius was an early Christian author who became an advisor to the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine I, guiding his religious policy as it developed, and tutor to his son.-Biography:...
- writer - Gaius LaeliusGaius LaeliusGaius Laelius — also Caius Lelius — general and statesman, was a friend of Scipio Africanus, whom he accompanied on his Iberian campaign...
- consul - Gaius Laelius Major - consul
- Laelius Archelaus - friend of LuciliusLuciliusLucilius is the nomen of the gens Lucilia of ancient Rome.*Gaius Lucilius, satirist 2nd century BC. Lucilius was credited by Horace and others with originating the genre of satire.*Lucilius Junior, friend and correspondent of the younger Seneca....
- Marcus Valerius Laevinus - consul
- LaeviusLaeviusLaevius was a Latin poet, of whom practically nothing is known.The earliest reference to him is perhaps in Suetonius , though it is not certain that the "Laevius Milissus" there referred to is the same person. Definite references do not occur before the 2nd century Laevius (? c. 80 BC) was a Latin...
- writer - Gaius Octavius Lampadio - scholar
- Larcius Licinus - writer
- LatinusLatinusLatinus was a figure in both Greek and Roman mythology.-Greek mythology:In Hesiod's Theogony, Latinus was the son of Odysseus and Circe who ruled the Tyrsenoi, presumably the Etruscans, with his brothers Ardeas and Telegonus...
- early hero - Marcus Tullius Laurea - freedman of CiceroCiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...
- Pompeius Lenaeus - freedman teacher
- Gnaeus Cornelius LentulusGnaeus Cornelius LentulusGnaeus Cornelius Lentulus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 146 BC. His colleague was Lucius Mummius Achaicus, whose military achievements outshone him.He was from the Lentuli branch of the gens Cornelia...
- consul - Lucius Cornelius LentulusLucius Cornelius LentulusLucius Cornelius Lentulus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 199 BC.He was brother of Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus, the consul of 201 BC.Cornelius Lentulus achieved the praetorship in 211 BC and served in Sardinia. He then succeeded Scipio Africanus as proconsul in Spain, though he was denied a...
- consul - Lucius Cornelius Lentulus CrusLucius Cornelius Lentulus CrusLucius Cornelius Lentulus, surnamed Crus or Cruscello , was a member of the anti-Caesarian party.In 61 BC he was the chief accuser of Publius Clodius in the affair of the festival of Bona Dea...
- consul - Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus GaetulicusGnaeus Cornelius Lentulus GaetulicusGnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus was a Roman general and politician. He was involved in a plot against the emperor Caligula and was executed after its discovery.-Biography:...
- consul - Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus MarcellinusGnaeus Cornelius Lentulus MarcellinusGnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus was a Roman statesman and consul of 56 BC. He was married at least twice. His first wife is unknown but his second wife was probably Scribonia, at least twenty years his junior, who later became the second wife of Augustus.He was the father of Lentulus...
- consul - Publius Cornelius Lentulus SpintherPublius Cornelius Lentulus SpintherPublius Cornelius Lentulus, nicknamed Spinther because of his likeness to a popular actor of that name, came from an ancient Roman patrician family of the Cornelia gens. Although treated with great favour by Julius Caesar, Spinther eventually came to support the aristocratic senatorial cause of...
- consul - Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura - consul
- Manius Aemilius Lepidus - two consuls
- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus - five
- LibaniusLibaniusLibanius was a Greek-speaking teacher of rhetoric of the Sophist school. During the rise of Christian hegemony in the later Roman Empire, he remained unconverted and regarded himself as a Hellene in religious matters.-Life:...
- historian - Licentius - friend of Augustine
- Valerius Licinianus Licinius - emperor
- Licinius Imbrex - poet
- Quintus LigariusQuintus LigariusQuintus Ligarius was a Roman soldier, circa 50 BC. He was accused of treason for having opposed Julius Caesar in a war in Africa, but was defended so eloquently by Cicero that he was pardoned and allowed to return to Rome. He later conspired with Brutus in the assassination of Julius Caesar.-In...
- general - Livia Drusilla - wife of Augustus Caesar
- LivillaLivillaLivia Julia was the only daughter of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor and sister of the Roman Emperor Claudius and Germanicus...
- daughter of Drusus - Marcus Livius DrususMarcus Livius Drusus (censor)The elder Marcus Livius Drusus was set up as tribune by the Senate in 121 BC to undermine Gaius Gracchus' land reform bills. To do this, he proposed creating twelve colonies with 3,000 settlers each from the poorer classes, and relieving rent on property distributed since 133 BC...
- reformer - Lucius Livius AndronicusLivius AndronicusLucius Livius Andronicus , not to be confused with the later historian Livy, was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period. He began as an educator in the service of a noble family at Rome by translating Greek works into Latin, including Homer’s Odyssey. They were meant at...
- dramatist - Titus Livius (Livy) - writer
- Lollia PaulinaLollia PaulinaLollia Paulina was a noble Roman woman who lived in the 1st century, and for six months in AD 38 was a Roman Empress as the third wife of the Emperor Caligula.-Life:...
- wife of Caligula - Marcus LolliusMarcus LolliusMarcus Lollius Paulinus, Roman was a general, the first governor of Galatia and served as consul in 21 BC. In 16 BC, when governor of Gaul , he was defeated by the Sicambri and Tencteri and Usipetes, German tribes who had crossed the Rhine...
- rich legate - Lollius BassusLollius BassusLollius Bassus is the author of ten epigrams in the Greek Anthology. He is called, in the title of the second epigram, a native of Smyrna. His time is fixed by the tenth epigram, on the death of Germanicus, who died 19 AD. Perhaps the same Lollius to whom Horace wrote an Ode....
- epigramatist - Marcus Lollius Palicanus - praetor
- Quintus Lollius UrbicusQuintus Lollius UrbicusQuintus Lollius Urbicus was governor of Roman Britain between the years 139 and 142, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius. He is named in the text known as the Augustan History, and his name appears on five Roman inscriptions from Britain; his career is set out in detail on a pair...
- governor - Marcus Annaeus LucanusMarcus Annaeus LucanusMarcus Annaeus Lucanus , better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba , in the Hispania Baetica. Despite his short life, he is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period...
(Lucan) - writer - Lucius LucceiusLucius LucceiusLucius Lucceius, Roman orator and historian, friend and correspondent of Cicero. A man of considerable wealth and literary tastes, he may be compared with Atticus. Disgusted at his failure to become consul in 60 BC, he retired from public life, and devoted himself to writing a history of the Social...
- praetor - Gaius LuciliusGaius LuciliusGaius Lucilius , the earliest Roman satirist, of whose writings only fragments remain, was a Roman citizen of the equestrian class, born at Suessa Aurunca in Campania.-The Problem of his birthdate:...
- writer - Gaius Lucilius Iunior - writer
- Annia Lucilla - daughter of Marcus Aurelius
- LucretiaLucretiaLucretia is a legendary figure in the history of the Roman Republic. According to the story, told mainly by the Roman historian Livy and the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus , her rape by the king's son and consequent suicide were the immediate cause of the revolution that overthrew the...
- early heroine - LucretiusLucretiusTitus Lucretius Carus was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is an epic philosophical poem laying out the beliefs of Epicureanism, De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things or "On the Nature of the Universe".Virtually no details have come down concerning...
- philosopher - Spurius Lucretius TricipitinusSpurius Lucretius TricipitinusSpurius Lucretius Tricipitinus is a semi-legendary figure in early Roman history. He was the first Suffect Consul of Rome and was also the father of Lucretia, whose rape by Sextus Tarquinius, followed by her suicide, resulted in the dethronement of King Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, therefore...
- early hero - Lucius Licinius LucullusLucius Licinius LucullusThis article is on the Consul of 151 BC. For the descendent see Lucullus, and for others of this name see Licinia .Lucius Licinius Lucullus was a novus homo who became Consul in 151 BC. He was imprisoned by the Tribunes for attempting to enforce a troop levy too harshly...
- two; consul and grandsonLucullusLucius Licinius Lucullus , was an optimate politician of the late Roman Republic, closely connected with Sulla Felix... - Marcus Terentius Varro LucullusMarcus Terentius Varro LucullusMarcus Terentius Varro Lucullus , younger brother of the more famous Lucius Licinius Lucullus, was a supporter of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and consul of ancient Rome in 73 BC. As proconsul of Macedonia in 72 BC, he defeated the Bessi in Thrace and advanced to the Danube and the west coast of the...
- consul - Luscius Lanuvinus - poet
- Marcus LuriusMarcus LuriusMarcus Lurius was a 1st century BC Roman admiral. Lurius is best known for holding an important command in the Battle of Actium.Around 40 BC Marcus Lurius, as governor of Sardinia, fought off an invasion of the island led by Menas, an admiral serving under Sextus Pompey who ruled Sicily at the time...
- admiral - Quintus Lusius QuietusLusius Quietusthumb|300px|Stylised Moorish Cavalry under Lusius Quietus, fighting against the Dacians. From the Column of Trajan.Lusius Quietus was a Roman general and governor of Iudaea in 117.- Life :...
- suffect consul - Lygdamus - poet
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- Gaius Licinius Macer - annalist and praetor
- Gaius Licinius Macer Calvus - orator and poet
- Aemilius MacerAemilius MacerAemilius Macer of Verona was a Roman didactic poet. He authored two poems, one on birds and the other on the antidotes against the poison of serpents , which he imitated from the Greek poet Nicander of Colophon. According to Jerome, he died in 16 BC. It is possible that he wrote also a botanical...
- poet - Titus Fulvius Junius Macrianus - emperor
- Marcus Opellius Macrinus - emperor
- Quintus Naevius Cordus Sutorius Macro - praetorian prefect
- Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius - writer
- Gaius MaecenasGaius MaecenasGaius Cilnius Maecenas was a confidant and political advisor to Octavian as well as an important patron for the new generation of Augustan poets...
- friend of Augustus - Lucius Volusius MaecianusLucius Volusius MaecianusLucius Volusius Maecianus was a Roman Jurist, the Tutor in Law of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.He was praef. ann. and Praefectus of Egypt in 161. When Governor of Alexandria he was slain by the soldiers, as having participated in the rebellion of Avidius Cassius in 175...
- jurist - Spurius MaeliusSpurius MaeliusSpurius Maelius , a wealthy Roman plebeian, who during a severe famine bought up a large amount of wheat and sold it at a low price to the people.-Biography:...
- early hero - Gaius MaeniusGaius MaeniusGaius Maenius was a Roman statesman and general.When consul in 338 BC, Gaius Maenius completed the subjugation of Latium, which with Campania had revolted against Rome. He was honored by a triumph, and an extremely phallic column was erected to him in the Forum...
- consul - Maevius - poet
- Flavius Magnus Magnentius - emperor
- Magnus MaximusMagnus MaximusMagnus Maximus , also known as Maximianus and Macsen Wledig in Welsh, was Western Roman Emperor from 383 to 388. As commander of Britain, he usurped the throne against Emperor Gratian in 383...
- emperor - Julius Majorian - emperor
- Mallius Theodorus - writer
- Octavius Mamilius Tusculanus - early hero
- Lucius Mamilius - dictator in Tusculum, aided Romans
- Gaius Mamilius Limetanus - tribune
- MamurraMamurraMamurra was a Roman military officer who served under Julius Caesar.Mamurra was an equestrian who originally came from the Italian city of Formiae...
- associate of Caesar - Gaius Hostilius MancinusGaius Hostilius MancinusGaius Hostilius Mancinus was a Roman consul in 137 BC. Due to his campaign against Numantia in northern Spain, Plutarch called him "not bad as a man, but most unfortunate of the Romans as a general." During this campaign in the Numantine War, Mancinus was defeated, showing some cowardice,...
- consul - Gaius ManiliusGaius ManiliusGaius Manilius was a Roman tribune of the people in 66 BCE.At the beginning of his year of office he succeeded in getting a law passed , which gave freedmen the privilege of voting together with those who had manumitted them, that is, in the same tribe as their patroni; this law, however, was...
- tribune - Manius ManiliusManius ManiliusManius Manilius was a Roman Republican orator and distinguished jurist who also had a long militarycareer. It is unclear if he was related to the Manius Manilius who was degraded by Cato the Censor for embracing his wife in broad daylight in Cato's censorship from 184 BC to 182 BC.Manilius was...
- consul, jurist - Marcus ManiliusMarcus ManiliusMarcus Manilius was a Roman poet, astrologer, and author of a poem in five books called Astronomica.-Criticism:The author of Astronomica is neither quoted nor mentioned by any ancient writer. Even his name is uncertain, but it was probably Marcus Manilius; in the earlier books the author is...
- writer - Marcus ManliusMarcus ManliusMarcus Manlius Capitolinus was consul of the Roman Republic in 392 BC. He was the brother of Aulus Manlius Capitolinus. The Manlii were a patrician gens....
- early consul - Gaius Claudius MarcellusGaius Claudius MarcellusGaius Claudius Marcellus was the name of several men in ancient Rome. Two of the most prominent bearers of this name were first cousins and held the consulship in successive years ....
- two consuls - Marcus Claudius MarcellusMarcus Claudius MarcellusMarcus Claudius Marcellus , five times elected as consul of the Roman Republic, was an important Roman military leader during the Gallic War of 225 BC and the Second Punic War...
- five - Marcus Pomponius Marcellus - grammarian
- Ulpius MarcellusUlpius MarcellusUlpius Marcellus was a Roman consular governor of Britannia who returned there as general of the later 2nd century.Ulpius Marcellus is recorded as governor of Roman Britain in an inscription of 176-80, and apparently returned to Rome after a tenure without serious incident...
- jurist - Marcia - freedwoman
- Ulpia MarcianaUlpia MarcianaUlpia Marciana was the beloved elder sister of Roman Emperor Trajan. She was the eldest child born to Roman woman Marcia and the Spanish Roman senator Marcus Ulpius Traianus. Her second name Marciana she inherited from her mother’s paternal ancestors. Her birthplace is unknown.Marciana married...
- sister of TrajanTrajanTrajan , was Roman Emperor from 98 to 117 AD. Born into a non-patrician family in the province of Hispania Baetica, in Spain Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian. Serving as a legatus legionis in Hispania Tarraconensis, in Spain, in 89 Trajan supported the emperor against... - Aelius MarcianusAelius MarcianusAelius Marcianus was a Roman jurist who wrote after the death of Septimius Severus, whom he calls Divus in his excerpts from the Pandects. Other passages in the same source show that he was then writing under Antoninus Caracalla, the son and successor of Severus. It also appears from his...
- jurist - Marcius - writer
- Ancus MarciusAncus MarciusAncus Marcius was the legendary fourth of the Kings of Rome.He was the son of Marcius and Pompilia...
- early king - Gaius Marcius RutilusGaius Marcius RutilusGaius Marcius Rutilus was the first plebeian dictator and censor of ancient Rome, and consul four times.He was first elected consul in 357 BC, then appointed as dictator the following year in order to deal with an invasion by the Etruscans...
- consul - Marcus Aemilius ScaurusMarcus ScaurusMarcus Scaurus may refer to:Marcus Aemilius Scaurus* Marcus Aemilius Scaurus , Roman consul in 115 BC and considered one of the most talented and influential politicians of the Republic...
- princeps senatusPrinceps senatusThe princeps senatus was the first member by precedence of the Roman Senate. Although officially out of the cursus honorum and owning no imperium, this office brought enormous prestige to the senator holding it.-Overview:...
, leader of the conservative faction - Gaius MariusGaius MariusGaius Marius was a Roman general and statesman. He was elected consul an unprecedented seven times during his career. He was also noted for his dramatic reforms of Roman armies, authorizing recruitment of landless citizens, eliminating the manipular military formations, and reorganizing the...
- general, consulConsulConsul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Empire. The title was also used in other city states and also revived in modern states, notably in the First French Republic...
seven times - Marcus Marius GratidianusMarcus Marius GratidianusMarcus Marius Gratidianus was a praetor and a partisan of the popularist faction led by his uncle Gaius Marius during the Roman Republican civil wars of the 80s...
- praetor - Sextus Marius - mine owner
- Marius Priscus - Governor of the province of AfricaAfricaAfrica is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
- Marius MaximusMarius MaximusMarius Maximus was a Roman biographer, writing in Latin, who in the early decades of the 3rd century AD wrote a series of biographies of twelve Emperors, imitating and continuing Suetonius. Marius’s work is lost, but it was still being read in the late 4th century and was used as a source by...
- writer - Julius Firmicus MaternusJulius Firmicus MaternusJulius Firmicus Maternus was a Christian Latin writer and notable astrologer, who lived in the reign of Constantine I and his successors.-Life and works:...
- astrologer - Marcus Valerius Martialis (MartialMartialMarcus Valerius Martialis , was a Latin poet from Hispania best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan...
) - writer - Marullus - rhetor
- Salonina MatidiaSalonina MatidiaSalonina Matidia was the daughter and only child of Ulpia Marciana and wealthy praetor Gaius Salonius Matidius Patruinus. Her maternal uncle was the Roman emperor Trajan. Trajan had no children and treated her like his daughter...
- niece of TrajanTrajanTrajan , was Roman Emperor from 98 to 117 AD. Born into a non-patrician family in the province of Hispania Baetica, in Spain Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian. Serving as a legatus legionis in Hispania Tarraconensis, in Spain, in 89 Trajan supported the emperor against... - Gaius MatiusGaius MatiusGaius Matius was a citizen of ancient Rome notable as a friend of Cicero and Julius Caesar.A member of the gens Matia, he belonged to the party of Caesar, and helped Cicero in his relationship with Caesar in 49 and 48 BC...
- friend of CiceroCiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief... - Gnaeus Matius - writer
- Mavortius - writer
- Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius - emperor
- Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus (MaximianMaximianMaximian was Roman Emperor from 286 to 305. He was Caesar from 285 to 286, then Augustus from 286 to 305. He shared the latter title with his co-emperor and superior, Diocletian, whose political brain complemented Maximian's military brawn. Maximian established his residence at Trier but spent...
) - emperor - Gaius Julius Verus MaximinusMaximinus ThraxMaximinus Thrax , also known as Maximinus I, was Roman Emperor from 235 to 238.Maximinus is described by several ancient sources, though none are contemporary except Herodian's Roman History. Maximinus was the first emperor never to set foot in Rome...
- emperor - Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximinus - emperor
- Sextus Quinctilius Valerius Maximus - friend of Pliny
- Pomponius MelaPomponius MelaPomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer. He was born in Tingentera and died c. AD 45.His short work occupies less than one hundred pages of ordinary print. It is laconic in style and deficient in method, but of pure Latinity, and occasionally relieved by pleasing...
- geographer - Lucius Annaeus Mela - son of SenecaSeneca the YoungerLucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero...
- Aelius Melissus - writer
- Gaius Melissus - freedman of Maecenas
- Gaius Memmius - two praetors
- Agrippa Menenius Lanatus - early consul
- Flavius MerobaudesFlavius MerobaudesFlavius Merobaudes was a 5th-century Latin rhetorician and poet, probably a native of Baetica in Spain.He was the official laureate of Valentinian III and Aetius...
- soldier, poet - Lucius Cornelius MerulaLucius Cornelius MerulaLucius Cornelius Merula may refer to*Lucius Cornelius Merula , politician and general of the 2nd century BC*Lucius Cornelius Merula , politician of the 1st century BC...
- consul - Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus MessallaManius Valerius Maximus Corvinus MessallaManius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla was Roman consul in 263 BC. He was the son of the distinguished Roman tribune Marcus Valerius Corvus. In 263BC, with his colleague Manius Otacilius Crassus, he gained a brilliant victory over the Carthaginians and Syracusans: more than sixty of the...
- consul - Marcus Valerius Messalla two cousins, one a consul
- Marcus Valerius Messalla CorvinusMarcus Valerius Messalla CorvinusMarcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus was a Roman general, author and patron of literature and art.-Family:He was the son of politician Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger Although, some dispute his parentage and claim another descendant of Marcus Valerius Corvus to be his father.Messalla Corvinus is...
- consul - Marcus Valerius Messalla MessallinusMarcus Valerius Messalla MessallinusMarcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus was the son of the Roman famous orator Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, whom he resembled in character, and wife Calpurnia.He was a senator and consul in 3 BC and AD 3...
- consul - Vipstanus Messala - tribune
- Statilia MessalinaStatilia MessalinaStatilia Messalina was a Roman patrician woman, a Roman Empress and third wife to Roman Emperor Nero.The ancient sources say little of her family; however, Suetonius states that she was a great-great-granddaughter of Titus Statilius Taurus, a Roman General who won a triumph and was twice consul...
- third wife of NeroNeroNero , was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death.... - Valeria Messalina - ClaudiusClaudiusClaudius , was Roman Emperor from 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, he was the son of Drusus and Antonia Minor. He was born at Lugdunum in Gaul and was the first Roman Emperor to be born outside Italy...
' wife - Caecilia MetellaCaecilia MetellaCaecilia Metella was the name of all women in the Caecilius Metellus family, since feminine names were taken from the father's gens and cognomen declined in the female form.The name may refer to the following people:* Caecilia Metella Dalmatica...
- two; one married Marcus Aemilius ScaurusMarcus ScaurusMarcus Scaurus may refer to:Marcus Aemilius Scaurus* Marcus Aemilius Scaurus , Roman consul in 115 BC and considered one of the most talented and influential politicians of the Republic...
and SullaLucius Cornelius SullaLucius Cornelius Sulla Felix , known commonly as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He had the rare distinction of holding the office of consul twice, as well as that of dictator... - Lucius Caecilius MetellusLucius Caecilius Metellus (died 221 BC)Lucius Caecilius Metellus was the son of Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter. He was Consul in 251 BC and 247 BC, Pontifex Maximus in 243 BC and Dictator in 224 BC....
- consul - Quintus Caecilius MetellusQuintus Caecilius Metellus (died 175 BC)Quintus Caecilius Metellus was a son of Lucius Caecilius Metellus. He was Pontiff in 216 BC, Aedile of the Plebeians in 209 BC and 208 BC, Consul in 205 BC, Dictator in 203 BC and Ambassador at the Court of Philip V of Macedon in 185 BC.He served as a Legate in the army of Gaius Claudius Nero and...
- consul - Quintus Caecilius Metellus BalearicusQuintus Caecilius Metellus BalearicusQuintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus was a son of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus. He was a Consul in 123 BC and a Censor in 120 BC, dominated Sardinia and conquered the Balearic Islands - for what he earned his cognomen and the honours of Triumph - establishing at Palma and Pollentia two...
- consul - Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer - consul
- Quintus Caecilius Metellus CreticusQuintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus (died 55 BC)Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus was a politically active member of theRoman upper class. He was praetor in 74 BC and pontifex from 73 BC until his death...
- consul - Quintus Caecilius Metellus Delmaticus - consul
- Quintus Caecilius Metellus MacedonicusQuintus Caecilius Metellus MacedonicusQuintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus was a Praetor in 148 BC, Consul in 143 BC, Proconsul of Hispania Citerior in 142 BC and Censor in 131 BC. He was the oldest son of Quintus Caecilius Metellus and grandson of Lucius Caecilius Metellus.A brilliant general, he fought in the Third Macedonian War...
- consul - Quintus Caecilius Metellus NumidicusQuintus Caecilius Metellus NumidicusQuintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus was the leader of the conservative faction of the Roman Senate and a bitter enemy of Gaius Marius....
- consul - Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius - two consuls
- Mettius Pompusianus - consul
- Titus Annius MiloTitus Annius MiloTitus Annius Milo Papianus was a Roman political agitator, the son of Gaius Papius Celsus, but adopted by his maternal grandfather, Titus Annius Luscus...
- praetor - Lucius Minucius Esquilinus AugurinusLucius Minucius Esquilinus AugurinusLucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus, son of Publius, was consul of the Roman Republic with Gaius Nautius Rutilus in 458 BC.Minucius was ordered to bring his army against the Aequi camped near Tusculum. However, he camped his army next to the enemy, and did not take the initiative...
- early consul - Marcus Minucius Felix - writer
- Marcus Minucius Rufus - two consuls
- Gaius Minucius Augurinus - tribune
- Mucia TertiaMucia TertiaMucia Tertia was a Roman matrona who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of Quintus Mucius Scaevola, the pontifex maximus, consul in 95 BC. Her mother was a Licinia that divorced her father to marry Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos, in a scandal mentioned by several sources...
- wife of PompeyPompeyGnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey or Pompey the Great , was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic...
and Gaius Marius the youngerGaius Marius the YoungerGaius Marius Minor, also known in English as Marius the Younger or informally "the younger Marius" , was the adopted son of Gaius Marius, who was seven times consul, and a famous military commander. Appian first describes him as the son of the great Marius, but in a subsequent passage, he is... - Gaius Licinius Mucianus - consul
- Lucius Mummius AchaicusLucius Mummius AchaicusLucius Mummius , was a Roman statesman and general, also known as Leucius Mommius. He later received the agnomen Achaicus after conquering Greece.-Praetor:...
- consul - Lucius Staius Murcus - proconsul
- Lucius Licinius MurenaLucius Licinius MurenaLucius Licinius Murena was Roman consul in 62 BC. His father had the same name.At the end of the First Mithridatic War, he was left in Asia by Sulla in command of the two legions formerly controlled by Gaius Flavius Fimbria...
- consul - Musaeus Grammaticus - poet
- Gaius Musonius Rufus - philosopher
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- Gnaeus NaeviusGnaeus NaeviusGnaeus Naevius was a Roman epic poet and dramatist of the Old Latin period. He had a notable literary career at Rome until his satiric comments delivered in comedy angered the Metelli family, one of whom was consul. After a sojourn in prison he recanted and was set free by the tribunes...
- poet - Rutilius Claudius NamatianusRutilius Claudius NamatianusRutilius Claudius Namatianus was a Roman Imperial poet, notable as the author of a Latin poem, De Reditu Suo, in elegiac metre, describing a coastal voyage from Rome to Gaul in 416...
- poet - NarcissusTiberius Claudius NarcissusTiberius Claudius Narcissus was one of the freedmen who formed the core of the imperial court under the Roman emperor Claudius. He is described as praepositus ab epistulis ....
- freedman of ClaudiusClaudiusClaudius , was Roman Emperor from 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, he was the son of Drusus and Antonia Minor. He was born at Lugdunum in Gaul and was the first Roman Emperor to be born outside Italy... - Marcus Aurelius Olympius NemesianusMarcus Aurelius Olympius NemesianusMarcus Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus, Roman poet, a native of Carthage, flourished about AD 283.He was a popular poet at the court of the Roman emperor Carus . He wrote poems on the arts of fishing , aquatics and hunting , but only a fragment of the last, 325 hexameter lines, has been preserved...
- poet - Cornelius NeposCornelius NeposCornelius Nepos was a Roman biographer. He was born at Hostilia, a village in Cisalpine Gaul not far from Verona. His Gallic origin is attested by Ausonius, and Pliny the Elder calls him Padi accola...
- writer - Lucius Neratius Priscus - jurist
- Nero Claudius Caesar (NeroNeroNero , was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death....
) - emperor - Gaius Claudius NeroGaius Claudius NeroGaius Claudius Nero was a Roman consul who fought in the Battle of the Metaurus . He was member of the gens Claudia. He is not to be confused with the Roman Emperor Nero.In 207 BC, the thirteenth year of the war, he was elected consul with Marcus Livius Salinator, and with his colleague he led the...
- consul - Tiberius Claudius NeroTiberius NeroNot to be confused with his son Tiberius or his grandson Germanicus, who both had the name 'Tiberius Claudius Nero' at one time or another. Tiberius Claudius Nero was a member of the Claudian Family of ancient Rome. He was a descendant of the original Tiberius Claudius Nero a consul, son of...
- praetor - Julius Caesar Nero - son of GermanicusGermanicusGermanicus Julius Caesar , commonly known as Germanicus, was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and a prominent general of the early Roman Empire. He was born in Rome, Italia, and was named either Nero Claudius Drusus after his father or Tiberius Claudius Nero after his uncle...
- Lucius Cocceius Nerva - diplomat
- Marcus Cocceius NervaNervaNerva , was Roman Emperor from 96 to 98. Nerva became Emperor at the age of sixty-five, after a lifetime of imperial service under Nero and the rulers of the Flavian dynasty. Under Nero, he was a member of the imperial entourage and played a vital part in exposing the Pisonian conspiracy of 65...
- three; emperor and two consuls - Attus NaviusAttus NaviusIn the legendary history of ancient Rome, Attus Navius was a famous augur during the reign of Tarquinius Priscus.When the latter desired to increase the number of the equestrian centuries, and to name them in his own honour, Navius opposed him, declaring that it must not be done unless the omens...
- famous augurAugurThe augur was a priest and official in the classical world, especially ancient Rome and Etruria. His main role was to interpret the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds: whether they are flying in groups/alone, what noises they make as they fly, direction of flight and what kind of...
during the reign of Tarquinius PriscusTarquinius PriscusLucius Tarquinius Priscus, also called Tarquin the Elder or Tarquin I, was the legendary fifth King of Rome from 616 BC to 579 BC. His wife was Tanaquil.-Early life:According to Livy, Tarquinius Priscus came from the Etruria... - Lucius Septimius Nestor - writer
- Virius Nicomachus FlavianusVirius Nicomachus FlavianusVirius Nicomachus Flavianus was a grammarian, a historian and a politician of the Roman Empire.A pagan and close friend of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, he was Praetorian prefect of Italy in 390–392 and, under usurper Eugenius , again praetorian prefect and consul...
- late politician - Publius Nigidius Figulus - praetor, scholar
- Ninnius Crassus - translator
- Marcus Fulvius NobiliorMarcus Fulvius NobiliorMarcus Fulvius Nobilior , Roman general, a member of one of the most important families of the patrician Fulvius gens....
- consul - Nonius MarcellusNonius MarcellusNonius Marcellus was a Roman grammarian of the 4th or 5th century AD. His only surviving work is the De compendiosa doctrina, a dictionary or encyclopedia in 20 books that shows his interests in antiquarianism and Latin literature from Plautus to Apuleius. Nonius may have come from...
- lexicographer, grammarian - Gaius NorbanusGaius NorbanusGaius Norbanus surnamed Bulbus was a Roman politician.In 103 BC, when tribune of the people, he accused Quintus Servilius Caepio the Elder of having brought about the defeat of his army by the Cimbri through rashness, and also of having plundered the temple of Tolosa...
- consul - Aulus Lappius Maximus Norbanus - suffect consul
- Quintus NoviusQuintus NoviusQuintus Novius , Roman dramatist, composer of Atellanae Fabulae . His efforts seem to have been directed towards giving literary dignity to this form of drama without diminishing their popular character and traditional cast of characters...
- dramatist - Numa PompiliusNuma PompiliusNuma Pompilius was the legendary second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus. What tales are descended to us about him come from Valerius Antias, an author from the early part of the 1st century BC known through limited mentions of later authors , Dionysius of Halicarnassus circa 60BC-...
- king - Marcus Aurelius Numerianus - emperor
- Gaius Nymphidius Sabinus - son of a freedwoman, military commander
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- Iulius ObsequensIulius ObsequensJulius Obsequens was a Roman writer who is believed to have lived in the middle of the fourth century AD. The only work associated with his name is the Liber de prodigiis , completely extracted from an epitome, or abridgment, written by Livy; De prodigiis was constructed as an account of the...
- writer - Octavia - MajorOctavia MajorOctavia the Elder , also known as Octavia Major or Octavia Maior was the daughter of the Roman governor and senator Gaius Octavius by his first wife, Ancharia. She was also an elder half-sister to Octavia the Younger and Roman Emperor Augustus. Little is known of her life...
and MinorOctavia MinorOctavia the Younger , also known as Octavia Minor or simply Octavia, was the sister of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus , half-sister of Octavia the Elder, and fourth wife of Mark Antony...
, two sisters of AugustusAugustusAugustus ;23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14) is considered the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.The dates of his rule are contemporary dates; Augustus lived under two calendars, the Roman Republican until 45 BC, and the Julian... - Claudia OctaviaClaudia OctaviaClaudia Octavia was an Empress of Rome. She was a great-niece of the Emperor Tiberius, paternal first cousin of the Emperor Caligula, daughter of the Emperor Claudius, and stepsister and first wife of the Emperor Nero...
- daughter of ClaudiusClaudiusClaudius , was Roman Emperor from 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, he was the son of Drusus and Antonia Minor. He was born at Lugdunum in Gaul and was the first Roman Emperor to be born outside Italy... - Gaius OctaviusGaius OctaviusGaius Octavius was an ancestor to the Roman Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He was the father of the Emperor Augustus, step-grandfather of the Emperor Tiberius, great-great grandfather of the Emperor Caligula, great-grandfather of the Emperor Claudius, and great-great-great grandfather of...
- praetor, father of AugustusAugustusAugustus ;23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14) is considered the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.The dates of his rule are contemporary dates; Augustus lived under two calendars, the Roman Republican until 45 BC, and the Julian... - Gnaeus OctaviusGnaeus OctaviusGnaeus Octavius was a senator and later consul of the Roman Republic. His father, also called Gnaeus Octavius, was Consul in 128 BC.His uncle, Marcus Octavius, was a key figure in opposition to the reforms of Tiberius Gracchus in 133 BC...
- two consuls - Marcus OctaviusMarcus OctaviusMarcus Octavius was a Roman tribune and a major rival of Tiberius Gracchus. A serious and discreet person, he earned himself a reputation as an influential orator. Though originally close friends, Octavius became alarmed by Gracchus's populist agenda and, at the behest of the Roman senate,...
- tribune - Septimius Odenathus - king in east
- Quintus Lucretius OfellaQuintus Lucretius OfellaQuintus Lucretius Ofella was a Roman general who served under the command of Lucius Cornelius Sulla during Sulla's second march on Rome. A loyal legate who expected to be awarded a consulship for his part in Sulla's campaign, he was executed when he tried to defy his master's dictate.-Career:Ofella...
(Afella) - commander - Quintus Ogulnius Gallus - tribune
- Olympiodorus of ThebesOlympiodorus of ThebesOlympiodorus was an historical writer of classical education, a "poet by profession" as he says of himself, who was born at Thebes in Egypt, and was sent on a mission to the Huns on the Black Sea by Emperor Honorius about 412, and later lived at the court of Theodosius II, to whom his History was...
- writer, emissary - Olympiodorus the YoungerOlympiodorus the YoungerOlympiodorus the Younger was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astrologer and teacher who lived in the early years of the Byzantine Empire, after Justinian's Decree of 529 A.D. which closed Plato's Academy in Athens and other pagan schools...
- philosopher, astrologer - Aurelius Opilius - freedman writer
- Lucius OpimiusLucius OpimiusLucius Opimius was Roman consul in 121 BC, known for ordering the execution of 3,000 supporters of popular leader Gaius Gracchus without trial, using as pretext the state of emergency declared after Gracchus's recent and turbulent death....
- consul - Gaius OppiusGaius OppiusGaius Oppius was an intimate friend of Julius Caesar. He managed the dictator's private affairs during his absence from Rome, and, together with Lucius Cornelius Balbus, exercised considerable influence in the city...
- two - Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius - poet
- Lucius Orbilius Pupillus - teacher, grammarian
- Paulus Orosius - late writer
- Publius Ostorius ScapulaPublius Ostorius ScapulaPublius Ostorius Scapula was a Roman statesman and general who governed Britain from 47 until his death, and was responsible for the defeat and capture of Caratacus.-Career:...
- Governor of Britain - Titus Otacilius Crassus - praetor
- Marcus Salvius Otho - emperor
- Publius Ovidius Naso (OvidOvidPublius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria...
) - poet - Ovinius - tribune
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- Marcus Pacuvius - dramatist
- Lucius Caesennius PaetusLucius Caesennius PaetusLucius Junius Caesennius Paetus was a Roman aristocrat, member of the Caesennian gens and the Junian gens, who lived in the second half of the 1st century during the Roman Empire. He was Consul Ordinarius for the year 61, and enjoyed several high provincial commands in the East.He was the son of...
- consul - Quintus Remmius Palaemon - ex-slave writer
- Palfurius Sura - orator
- Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus PalladiusRutilius Taurus Aemilianus PalladiusRutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, also known as Palladius Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus or just Palladius, was a Roman writer of the 4th century AD. He is principally known for his book on agriculture, Opus agriculturae, sometimes known as De re rustica.-Opus agriculturae:The Opus agriculturae is...
- farmer - Aulus Cornelius Palma FrontonianusAulus Cornelius Palma FrontonianusAulus Cornelius Palma Frontonianus was a soldier and Roman statesman who came from Volsinii in Etruria.His first known post is that of praetorian legate in Asia sometime during Domitian's reign. He went on to command a Legion in the years 94-97 and became First Consul shortly after, in the year 99...
- consul - Gaius Vibius Pansa CaetronianusGaius Vibius Pansa CaetronianusGaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus was consul of the Roman Republic in 43 BC. Although supporting Gaius Julius Caesar during the Civil War, he pushed for the restoration of the Republic upon Caesar’s death...
- consul - Aemilius PapinianusAemilius PapinianusAemilius Papinianus , also known as Papinian, was a celebrated Roman jurist, magister libellorum and, after the death of Gaius Fulvius Plautianus in 205, praetorian prefect.-Life:...
- jurist - Papirianus - grammarian
- Lucius Papirius CursorLucius Papirius CursorLucius Papirius Cursor was a Roman general who was five times consul and twice dictator.In 325 BC he was appointed dictator to carry on the second Samnite War. His quarrel with Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, his magister equitum, is well known...
- two; heroic consul and son - Gaius Papius MutilusGaius Papius MutilusGaius Papius Mutilus was a Samnite noble who is best known for being the leader of the southern rebels who fought against the army of Rome in the Social War of 91-87 BC .- The Southern Forces Under Gaius Papius :...
- Samnite leader - Passienus - orator
- Aemilius Lepidus PaullusAemilius Lepidus PaullusLucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus or Paullus Aemilius Lepidus was a member of the Roman Senate. Paullus was a member of the gens Aemilia....
- consul - Lucius Aemilius PaullusLucius Aemilius PaullusLucius Aemilius Paullus was the name of several ancient Romans of the patrician gens Aemilia.Notable men with this name include:* Lucius Aemilius Paullus * Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus, his son...
- three consuls - Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus - consul
- Julius Paulus - jurist
- Paulus AlexandrinusPaulus AlexandrinusPaulus Alexandrinus was an astrological author from the late Roman Empire. His extant work, Eisagogika, or Introductory Matters , which was written in 378 CE, is a treatment of major topics in astrology as practiced in the fourth century Roman Empire.Little is known about Paulus' life...
- astrologer - Quintus PediusQuintus PediusQuintus Pedius was a Roman who lived during the late Roman Republic. Pedius was the son of a Marcus or Quintus Pedius and nephew or great nephew of the Roman dictator Julius Caesar....
- consul - Sextus PediusSextus PediusQuintus Pedius Paulus or Paullus was a jurist of the Roman Empire. Paulus was of the gens Pedius, who were Romans of consular rank. His cognomen Paulus suggests he could related to the gens Aemilius....
- jurist - Marcus PerpernaMarcus PerpernaMarcus Perperna, Roman consul in 130 BC, is said to have been a consul before he was a citizen; for Valerius Maximus relates, that the father of this Perperna was condemned under the lex Papia after the death of his son, because he had falsely usurped the rights of a Roman citizen.M...
- two consuls - Marcus Perperna Veiento - praetor
- Aulus Persius FlaccusAulus Persius FlaccusPersius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus , was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. In his works, poems and satires, he shows a stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for the abuses of his contemporaries...
- satirist - Publius Helvetius Pertinax - emperor
- Gaius Pescennius Niger Justus - emperor
- Quintus Petillius - two cousins
- Marcus PetreiusMarcus PetreiusMarcus Petreius was a Roman politician and general. He cornered and killed the notorious rebel Catiline at Pistoria.-Career:...
- governor - PetroniusPetroniusGaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero. He is generally believed to be the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian age.-Life:...
- courtier of NeroNeroNero , was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death.... - Publius Petronius - suffect consul
- Petronius Arbiter - writer
- Publius Petronius TurpilianusPublius Petronius TurpilianusPublius Petronius Turpilianus was a Roman politician and general.He was consul in AD 61, but in the second half of that year he laid down that office and was appointed governor of Britain, replacing Gaius Suetonius Paulinus who had been removed from office in the wake of the rebellion of Boudica...
- consul - Julius Verus Philippus (Philip the ArabPhilip the ArabPhilip the Arab , also known as Philip or Philippus Arabs, was Roman Emperor from 244 to 249. He came from Syria, and rose to become a major figure in the Roman Empire. He achieved power after the death of Gordian III, quickly negotiating peace with the Sassanid Empire...
) - emperor - Lucius Marcius PhilippusLucius Marcius PhilippusLucius Marcius Philippus was a member of a Roman senatorial family. He was a descendant of Roman King Ancus Marcius and the son of the consul and censor Lucius Marcius Philippus. He was a praetor in 60 BC, and became propraetor of Syria in 59 BC, although Appian records that he was...
- consul, husband of AtiaAtiaAtia Balba Caesonia , sometimes referred to as Atia Balba Secunda to differentiate her from her two sisters, was a Roman noblewoman... - Quintus Marcius PhilippusQuintus Marcius PhilippusQuintus Marcius Philippus was a Roman consul in 186 BC and 169 BC.He held praetura in Sicily in 189 BC. In 164 BC he was elected censor with Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus....
- consul - Calpurnius Piso - writer
- Gaius Calpurnius PisoGaius Calpurnius PisoGnaeus Calpurnius Piso was a Roman senator in the 1st century. He was the focal figure in the Pisonian Conspiracy of 65 AD, the most famous and wide-ranging plot against the throne of Emperor Nero.-Character and early life:...
- two consuls - Gnaeus Calpurnius PisoGnaeus Calpurnius PisoGnaeus Calpurnius Piso , Roman statesman, was consul in 7 BC; subsequently, he was governor of Hispania and proconsul of Africa.In AD 17 Tiberius appointed him governor of Syria...
- three; two consuls and a governor - Lucius Calpurnius PisoLucius Calpurnius PisoFour notables of ancient Rome were named Lucius Calpurnius Piso:*Lucius Calpurnius Piso , pontifex*Lucius Calpurnius Piso , augur*Lucius Calpurnius Piso *Lucius Calpurnius Piso See also:...
- three consuls - Lucius Calpurnius Piso CaesoninusLucius Calpurnius Piso CaesoninusLucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus was a statesman of ancient Rome and the father-in-law of Julius Caesar through his daughter Calpurnia Pisonis...
- consul - Lucius Calpurnius Piso LicinianusLucius Calpurnius Piso LicinianusLucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi Licinianus was a Roman nobleman who lived in the 1st century. Licinianus was one among the sons of consul of 27 Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi and Scribonia....
- briefly emperor - Lucius Calpurnius Piso FrugiLucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi (consul 133 BC)Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi was a Roman consul in 133 BC, historian and representative of older Roman annalists. He was of plebeian origin....
- consul - Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi - consul
- Galla PlacidiaGalla PlacidiaAelia Galla Placidia , daughter of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I, was the Regent for Emperor Valentinian III from 423 until his majority in 437, and a major force in Roman politics for most of her life...
- daughter of Theodosius ITheodosius ITheodosius I , also known as Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from 379 to 395. Theodosius was the last emperor to rule over both the eastern and the western halves of the Roman Empire. During his reign, the Goths secured control of Illyricum after the Gothic War, establishing their homeland... - PlacidusPlacidusPlacidus is Latin for "placid, gentle, quiet, still, calm, mild, peaceful" and can refer to:*Flavius Arcadius Placidus Magnus Felix , Consul of Rome*Placidus de Titis , 1603–1668, astrolger...
- grammarian - Lactantius Placidus - different grammarian
- Munatia PlancinaMunatia PlancinaMunatia Plancina was a Roman noblewoman who lived in the early times of the Empire founded by Augustus. She was the wife of the governor of Syria, Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso. The couple was accused to have poisoned Germanicus, the nephew and adopted son of the Emperor Tiberius...
- friend of LiviaLiviaLivia Drusilla, , after her formal adoption into the Julian family in AD 14 also known as Julia Augusta, was a Roman empress as the third wife of the Emperor Augustus and his adviser... - Gnaeus Plancius - aedile
- Lucius Munatius PlancusLucius Munatius PlancusLucius Munatius Plancus was a Roman senator, consul in 42 BC, and censor in 22 BC with Aemilius Lepidus Paullus...
- consul - Titus Munatius Plancus Bursa - tribune
- Pompeius Planta - prefect
- Aulus Platorius NeposAulus Platorius NeposAulus Platorius Nepos was a Roman politician of the early 2nd century.Platorius Nepos was governor of Germania Inferior. He was a close friend and possible kinsman of the Emperor Hadrian and may have accompanied Hadrian on his visit to Britain in 122. In this year he was made governor of Roman...
- consul - Plautia UrgulanillaPlautia UrgulanillaPlautia Urgulanilla was the first wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius. They married sometime around the year 9 CE, when Claudius was 18 years old. According to Suetonius, Claudius divorced her in 24 on grounds of adultery by Plautia and his suspicions of her involvement in the murder of her...
- ClaudiusClaudiusClaudius , was Roman Emperor from 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, he was the son of Drusus and Antonia Minor. He was born at Lugdunum in Gaul and was the first Roman Emperor to be born outside Italy...
' first wife - Gaius Fulvius PlautianusGaius Fulvius PlautianusGaius or Lucius Fulvius Plautianus was a member of the Roman gens Fulvius, a family of the patrician status which had been active in politics since the Roman Republic....
- consul - Plautius - jurist
- Aulus PlautiusAulus PlautiusAulus Plautius was a Roman politician and general of the mid-1st century. He began the Roman conquest of Britain in 43, and became the first governor of the new province, serving from 43 to 47.-Career:...
- consul - Publius Plautius HypsaeusPublius Plautius HypsaeusPublius Plautius Hupsaeus was a politician of the Roman Republic.Praetor and ally of Pompey, Hypsaeus was later tried under Pompey's retroactive laws on violence and corruption for bribery....
- praetor, quaestor, and aedile - Plautius Lateranus - senator
- Marcus Plautius SilvanusMarcus Plautius SilvanusMarcus Plautius Silvanus was a Roman politician and general who was consul in 2 BC.-Biography:Silvanus was the son of Urgulania, a close friend of the empress Livia, and it was Livia's intercession that allowed Silvanus to climb the cursus honorum, leading to the consulate in 2 BC alongside Augustus...
- two; tribune and consul - Tiberius Plautius Silvanus AelianusTiberius Plautius Silvanus AelianusTiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus was a patrician who twice served as consul, in 45 and 74 AD. He was the adopted nephew of Plautia Urgulanilla, first wife of the emperor Claudius. It is known he offered up the prayer as pontifex when the first stone of the new Capitol was laid in 70 AD...
- consul - Titus Maccius Plautus - dramatist
- Quintus PleminiusQuintus PleminiusQuintus Pleminius was a propraetor in 205 BC. He was given command over Locri in Bruttium by Scipio Africanus after its recapture, considered the "outstanding event" in Sicilian operations that year...
- legate - Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the ElderPliny the ElderGaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian...
) - scholar - Gaius Plinius Caecilus Secundus (Pliny the YoungerPliny the YoungerGaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo , better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him...
) - scholar - Pompeia PlotinaPompeia PlotinaPompeia Plotina Claudia Phoebe Piso or Pompeia Plotina was a Roman Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Trajan. She was renowned for her interest in philosophy, and her virtue, dignity and simplicity. She was particularly devoted to the Epicurean philosophical school in Athens, Greece...
- wife of TrajanTrajanTrajan , was Roman Emperor from 98 to 117 AD. Born into a non-patrician family in the province of Hispania Baetica, in Spain Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian. Serving as a legatus legionis in Hispania Tarraconensis, in Spain, in 89 Trajan supported the emperor against... - PlotinusPlotinusPlotinus was a major philosopher of the ancient world. In his system of theory there are the three principles: the One, the Intellect, and the Soul. His teacher was Ammonius Saccas and he is of the Platonic tradition...
- philosopher - Plotius TuccaPlotius TuccaPlotius Tucca was a Roman poet and a friend of Virgil's. He was in the circle of friends with Virgil and Maecenas, as indicated by Horace...
- friend of VirgilVirgilPublius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English , was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues , the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid... - Mestrius Plutarchus (PlutarchPlutarchPlutarch then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus , c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia...
) - philosopher, biographer - Gaius Poetelius Libo Visolus - consul
- Gaius Asinius PollioGaius Asinius Pollio (consul 40 BC)Gaius Asinius Pollio was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic and historian, whose lost contemporary history, provided much of the material for the historians Appian and Plutarch...
- consul, scholar - Julius PolluxJulius PolluxJulius Pollux was a Greek or Egyptian grammarian and sophist from Alexandria who taught at Athens, where he was appointed professor of rhetoric at the Academy by the emperor Commodus — on account of his melodious voice, according to Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists. Nothing of his...
- scholar - PolybiusPolybiusPolybius , Greek ) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his work, The Histories, which covered the period of 220–146 BC in detail. The work describes in part the rise of the Roman Republic and its gradual domination over Greece...
- two; historian and freedman - Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus - consul of Marcus Aurelius
- PompeiusPompeiusPompeius , sometimes anglicized as Pompey, is the nomen of the gens Pompeia, an important family of ancient Rome from the Italian region of Picenum, which lies between the Apennines and the Adriatic...
- grammarian - Gnaeus PompeiusGnaeus PompeiusGnaeus Pompeius should not be confused with his father, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, known as "Pompey the Great."Gnaeus Pompeius , also known as Pompey the Younger , was a Roman politician and general from the late Republic .Gnaeus Pompeius was the elder son of Pompey the Great Gnaeus Pompeius should...
- son of PompeyPompeyGnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey or Pompey the Great , was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic... - Quintus PompeiusQuintus PompeiusQuintus Pompeius was the name of various Romans from the gens Pompeius, who were of plebeian status. They lived during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.-Consul of 141 BC:...
- consul - Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (PompeyPompeyGnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey or Pompey the Great , was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic...
) - triumvir - Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius - son of PompeyPompeyGnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey or Pompey the Great , was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic...
- Quintus Pompeius Rufus - consul
- Pompeius Saturninus - orator, historian, poet
- Pompeius Silo - rhetor
- Pompeius StraboPompeius StraboGnaeus Pompeius Strabo , whose cognomen means "cross eyed", is often referred to in English as Pompey Strabo to distinguish him from Strabo, the geographer. Strabo lived in the Roman Republic. Strabo was born and raised into a noble family in Picenum a rural district in Northern Italy, off the...
- consul - Pompilius - epigrammatist
- Lucius PomponiusLucius PomponiusLucius Pomponius was a Roman dramatist. Called Bononiensis Lucius Pomponius (fl. ca. 90 BC or earlier) was a Roman dramatist. Called Bononiensis Lucius Pomponius (fl. ca. 90 BC or earlier) was a Roman dramatist. Called Bononiensis (“native of Bononia” (i.e. Bologna), Pomponius was a writer of...
- poet - Sextus PomponiusSextus PomponiusSextus Pomponius was a jurist who lived during the reigns of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. He wrote a book on the law up to the time of Hadrian, the Enchiridion of Sextus Pomponius.-References:...
- jurist - Marcus Pomponius Bassulus - writer
- Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius PollioTitus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius PollioTitus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio was a Roman Politician that lived in the 2nd century.Pollio was born into a family of Patrician rank. The name of his mother is unknown, however his father Titus Vitrasius Pollio, served as a Legatus in Lugdunum and became consul in 137 in the reign of...
- consul - Pomponius Rufus - writer
- Pomponius SecundusPomponius SecundusPublius Pomponius Secundus was a distinguished statesman and poet in the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius. He was on intimate terms with the elder Plinius, who wrote a biography of him, now lost.-Family:...
- consul - Gavius Pontius - Samnite general
- Pontius Telesinus - praetor
- Pontius Pilatus - prefect of Judaea
- Gaius Popillius LaenasGaius Popillius LaenasGaius Popillius Laenas twice served as one of the two consuls of the Roman Republic, in 172 and 158 BC. His name indicates he was of the gens of the Popilii, a name of Etruscan origin...
- consul - Publius Popillius Laenas - consul
- Poppaea SabinaPoppaea SabinaPoppaea Sabina and sometimes referred to as Poppaea Sabina the Younger to differentiate her from her mother of the same name, was a Roman Empress as the second wife of the Emperor Nero. Prior to this she was the wife of the future Emperor Otho...
- wife of NeroNeroNero , was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death.... - Quintus Poppaedius Silo - friend of DrususDrususDrusus was a cognomen in Ancient Rome originating with the Livii. Under the Republic, it was the intellectual property and diagnostic of the Livii Drusi. Under the empire and owing to the influence of an empress, Livia Drusilla, the name was used for a branch of the Claudii into which she had...
- PorciaPorcia CatonisPorcia Catonis, also known simply as Porcia was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis and his first wife Atilia...
- daughter of CatoCato the YoungerMarcus Porcius Cato Uticensis , commonly known as Cato the Younger to distinguish him from his great-grandfather , was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoic philosophy... - Porcius Licinus - writer
- Marcus Porcius LatroMarcus Porcius LatroMarcus Porcius Latro was during the reign of Augustus a celebrated Roman rhetorician considered one of the founders of scholastic rhetoric. He was a Spaniard by birth, and a friend and contemporary of Seneca the Elder, with whom he studied under Marillius, and by whom he is frequently...
- rhetor - Pomponius PorphyrionPomponius PorphyrionPomponius Porphyrion was a Latin grammarian and commentator on Horace, possibly a native of Africa, who flourished during the 2nd or 3rd century....
- scholar - Porsenna - semi-legendary king
- Aulus Postumius AlbinusAulus Postumius AlbinusAulus Postumius Albinus, was a politician of the Roman Republic, and second consul in 99 BC with M. Antonius. Aulus Gellius quotes the words of a senatus consultum passed in their consulship in consequence of the spears of Mars having moved...
- consul, historian - Spurius Postumius AlbinusSpurius Postumius AlbinusSpurius Postumius Albinus was a politician of Ancient Rome, of patrician rank, of the 4th century BC. He was consul in 334 BC, and invaded, with his colleague Titus Veturius Calvinus, the country of the Sidicini...
- consul - Lucius Postumius MegellusLucius Postumius MegellusLucius Postumius Megellus is the name of two Ancient Romans of the gens Postumia:*Lucius Postumius Megellus, son of Lucius, consul in 305 BC, 294 BC, and 291 BC;...
- consul - Aulus Postumius Rubertus - dictator
- Marcus Cassianus Postumus - emperor
- Potillius Cerealis - general
- Marcus Antonius PrimusMarcus Antonius PrimusMarcus Antonius Primus was a Roman Empire general.Primus was born at Tolosa in Gaul. During the reign of Nero, he was resident in Rome and a member of the Senate, from which he was expelled for conspiring to forge a will with Valerius Fabianus, and was banished from the city...
- general - Priscianus - grammarian
- PriscusPriscusPriscus of Panium was a late Roman diplomat, sophist and historian from Rumelifeneri living in the Roman Empire during the 5th century. He accompanied Maximinus, the ambassador of Theodosius II, to the court of Attila in 448...
- politician, historian - Marcus Aurelius Probus - emperor
- Valerius Probus - scholar
- Saint Procula - wife of Pontius PilatePontius PilatePontius Pilatus , known in the English-speaking world as Pontius Pilate , was the fifth Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, from AD 26–36. He is best known as the judge at Jesus' trial and the man who authorized the crucifixion of Jesus...
- ProculusProculusProculus was a Roman usurper, one of the "minor pretenders" according to Historia Augusta; he took the purple against Emperor Probus in 280....
- jurist - Sextus PropertiusSextus PropertiusSextus Aurelius Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium and died shortly after 15 BC.Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of Elegies...
- writer - Aurelius Clemens Prudentius - Christian poet
- Quintus Publilius Philo - consul
- Publilius SyrusPublilius SyrusPublilius Syrus, a Latin writer of maxims, flourished in the 1st century BC. He was a Syrian who was brought as a slave to Italy, but by his wit and talent he won the favor of his master, who freed and educated him....
- writer - Publilius Volero - early tribune
- Publius Pupius - tragedian
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- Gaius Iulius Quadratus Bassus - consul
- Asinius QuadratusAsinius QuadratusGaius Asinius Quadratus was a Greek historian of Rome and Parthia in the third century. Felix Jacoby in the Fragmente der griechischen Historiker provides the thirty remaining fragments of his work. Most derive from the dictionary of Stephanus of Byzantium...
- senator - Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus - early consul
- Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (QuintilianQuintilianMarcus Fabius Quintilianus was a Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing...
) - rhetor - QuintusQuintusQuintus may refer to:* Quintus, a Latin praenomen in ancient Rome* Quintus, a given name and a surname in various languages-People:* Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos* Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar* Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar...
- physician - Quintus SmyrnaeusQuintus SmyrnaeusQuintus Smyrnaeus, also known as Kointos Smyrnaios , was a Greek epic poet whose Posthomerica, following "after Homer" continues the narration of the Trojan War....
- poet - Publius Sulpicius Quirinius - consul
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- Gaius RabiriusGaius RabiriusRabirius was a family name in ancient Rome.During the Roman Republic, individuals with this gens name include:*Gaius Rabirius, a senator ca. 100 BC who participated in the death of Saturninus....
- two; senator and poet - Gaius Rabirius PostumusGaius Rabirius PostumusGaius Rabirius Postumus, defended by Cicero in the extant speech Pro Rabirio Postumo, when charged with extortion in Egypt and complicity with Aulus Gabinius. Rabirius was a member of the equites order who lent a very large sum of money to Ptolemy Auletes , king of Egypt. Afterwards, Ptolemy XII...
- senator - Lucius Aemilius RegillusLucius Aemilius RegillusLucius Aemilius Regillus was a Roman admiral and praetor during the war with Antiochus III of Syria.Born to Marcus Aemilius Regillus, much of Lucius Regillus's early life and military career is unknown before being appointed commander of Roman naval forces in the Aegean Sea in 190 BC...
- praetor - Marcus Aqilius Regulus - informer
- Marcus Atilius RegulusMarcus Atilius RegulusMarcus Atilius Regulus , a general and consul in the ninth year of the First Punic War...
- consul - Publius Memmius RegulusPublius Memmius RegulusPublius Memmius Regulus was consul suffectus in AD 31, during the reign of the emperor Tiberius. He entered office on the Kalends of October, and his magistracy saw the downfall of Sejanus, whom Regulus personally conducted to prison....
- consul - RemusRemusRemus is the twin brother of the mythical founder of Rome.Remus may also refer to:* Remus , a fictional planet in Star Trek* Remus , a moon of the asteroid 87 Sylvia...
- mythical founder - Reposianus - poet
- Quintus Marcius RexQuintus Marcius RexQuintus Marcius Rex was a member of the Marcii Reges, the family founded by the Roman King Ancus Marcius. His father, praetor in 144 BC, built the Aqua Marcia aqueduct, the longest aqueduct of ancient Rome...
- two; praetor and consul - Flavius Ricimer - late patrician
- RomulusRomulus and RemusRomulus and Remus are Rome's twin founders in its traditional foundation myth, although the former is sometimes said to be the sole founder...
- mythical founder - Romulus Augustulus - last western emperor
- Sextus RosciusSextus RosciusSextus Roscius , tried in Rome for patricide in 80 BC, was defended successfully by the young Cicero in his first major litigation...
- client of CiceroCiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief... - Lucius Roscius OthoLucius Roscius OthoLucius Roscius Otho was Roman tribune during the year 67. He is most famous for the Roscian law.- Roscian law :The Roscian law reserved 14 rows in Roman theatres, behind the 4 rows reserved for members of the Roman Senate, for members of the Equestrian order, the second rank of the Roman...
- tribune - Quintus Roscius GallusQuintus Roscius Gallus-Life:Endowed with a handsome face and manly figure, he studied the delivery and gestures of the most distinguished advocates in the Forum, especially Q Hortensius, and won universal praise for his grace and elegance on the stage. He especially excelled in comedy. Cicero took lessons from him...
- actor - Rubellius BlandusRubellius BlandusRubellius Blandus was a Roman, native of Tibur . He was the first Equestrian of Ancient Rome to teach rhetoric and thus made it more respectable . He was the teacher of Papirius Fabianus, who was in turn the teacher of Seneca the Younger. His grandson Gaius Rubellius Blandus was a suffect consul...
- rhetor - Gaius Rubellius BlandusGaius Rubellius BlandusGaius Rubellius Blandus was a suffect consul of ancient Rome, a grandson of Rubellius Blandus of Tibur . Blandus' family were from the Equestrian class.-Career:...
- consul - Gaius Rubellius Plautus - relative of NeroNeroNero , was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death....
- Rubellia Bussa - sister to above, a relative to NeroNeroNero , was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death....
- RufinusTyrannius RufinusTyrannius Rufinus or Rufinus of Aquileia was a monk, historian, and theologian. He is most known as a translator of Greek patristic material into Latin—especially the work of Origen.-Life:...
- Christian writer and grammarian - Flavius Rufinus - adviser to ArcadiusArcadiusArcadius was the Byzantine Emperor from 395 to his death. He was the eldest son of Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the Western Emperor Honorius...
- Curtius RufusCurtius RufusCurtius Rufus was a Roman politician mentioned by Tacitus for actions during the reigns of the emperors Tiberius and Claudius. In all probability he is to be equated with the first century Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus.-Early life:...
- proconsul - Quintus Curtius RufusQuintus Curtius RufusQuintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, writing probably during the reign of the Emperor Claudius or Vespasian. His only surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, is a biography of Alexander the Great in Latin in ten books, of which the first two are lost, and the remaining eight are...
- rhetor, historian - Cluvius RufusCluvius RufusMarcus Cluvius Rufus was a Roman consul, senator, governor, and historian who was mentioned on several occasions by Tacitus, Suetonius, Cassius Dio, Josephus and Plutarch.-Career:...
- historian - Publius Servilius Rullus - tribune
- Publius RupiliusPublius RupiliusPublius Rupilius, Roman statesman, consul in 132 BC. During the inquiry that followed the death of Tiberius Gracchus, conducted by himself and his colleague Popillius Laenas, he proceeded with the utmost severity against the supporters of Gracchus. In the same year he was despatched to Sicily,...
- consul - Gaius Rutilius Gallicus - consul
- Publius Rutilius LupusPublius Rutilius LupusPublius Rutilius Lupus was a Roman rhetorician who flourished during the reign of Tiberius. He was the author of a treatise on the figures of speech , abridged from a similar work by the rhetorician Gorgias of Athens, not the well-known sophist of Leontini, the tutor of Cicero's son...
- grammarian - Publius Rutilius RufusPublius Rutilius RufusPublius Rutilius Rufus was a Roman statesman, orator and historian of the Rutilius family, as well as great-uncle of Gaius Julius Caesar....
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- Vibia SabinaVibia SabinaVibia Sabina was a Roman Empress, wife and second cousin, once removed, to Roman Emperor Hadrian. She was the daughter to Salonina Matidia , and suffect consul Lucius Vibius Sabinus...
- wife of HadrianHadrianHadrian , was Roman Emperor from 117 to 138. He is best known for building Hadrian's Wall, which marked the northern limit of Roman Britain. In Rome, he re-built the Pantheon and constructed the Temple of Venus and Roma. In addition to being emperor, Hadrian was a humanist and was philhellene in... - SabinusSabinus (Ovid)Sabinus was a Latin poet and friend of Ovid. He is known only from two passages of Ovid's works.At Amores 2.18.27—34, Ovid says that Sabinus has written responses to six of Ovid's Heroïdes, the collection of elegiac epistles each written in the person of a legendary woman to her absent male lover...
- friend of OvidOvidPublius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria... - Titus Flavius Sabinus II - elder brother of VespasianVespasianVespasian , was Roman Emperor from 69 AD to 79 AD. Vespasian was the founder of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Empire for a quarter century. Vespasian was descended from a family of equestrians, who rose into the senatorial rank under the Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty...
- Titus Flavius Sabinus III and IV - consuls
- Masurius SabinusMasurius SabinusMasurius Sabinus, also Massurius, was a Roman jurist who lived in the time of Tiberius . Unlike most jurists of the time, he was not of senatorial rank and was admitted to the equestrian order only rather late in life, by virtue of his exceptional ability and imperial patronage...
- jurist - Marius Plotius Sacerdos - grammarian
- Julius Sacrovir - AeduiAeduiAedui, Haedui or Hedui , were a Gallic people of Gallia Lugdunensis, who inhabited the country between the Arar and Liger , in today's France. Their territory thus included the greater part of the modern departments of Saône-et-Loire, Côte-d'Or and Nièvre.-Geography:The country of the Aedui is...
noble - Saevius NicanorSaevius NicanorSaevius Nicanor is mentioned by Suetonius as the first grammarian who acquired fame and honour as a teacher among the Romans. He probably lived in the 3rd or 2nd century BCE....
- grammarian - Marcus Livius SalinatorGaius Livius SalinatorGaius Livius Salinator, son of Marcus, was a Roman consul of the gens Livia, said to have founded the city of Forum Livii , in Italy, during his consulship in the year 188 BC. He also served as admiral when he was praetor in 191 BC in the war against Antiochus III the Great and defeated his...
- consul & founder of ForlìForlìForlì is a comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. The city is situated along the Via Emilia, to the right of the Montone river, and is an important agricultural centre... - SallustiusSallustiusSallustius or Sallust was a 4th-century Latin writer, a friend of the Roman Emperor Julian. He wrote the treatise On the Gods and the Cosmos, a kind of catechism of 4th-century Hellenic paganism. Sallustius' work owes much to that of Iamblichus of Chalcis, who synthesized Platonism with...
- writer - Gaius Sallustius Crispus - two; historian (SallustSallustGaius Sallustius Crispus, generally known simply as Sallust , a Roman historian, belonged to a well-known plebeian family, and was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines...
) and his adopted son - Gaius Sallustius Passienus Crispus - consul, grandson of SallustSallustGaius Sallustius Crispus, generally known simply as Sallust , a Roman historian, belonged to a well-known plebeian family, and was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines...
- Salvianus - writer
- Quintus Salvidiensis Rufus - general of OctavianAugustusAugustus ;23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14) is considered the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.The dates of his rule are contemporary dates; Augustus lived under two calendars, the Roman Republican until 45 BC, and the Julian...
- Lucius Antonius SaturninusLucius Antonius SaturninusLucius Antonius Saturninus was the Roman governor of the province Germania Superior during the reign of the Emperor Domitian. In the spring of 89, motivated by a personal grudge against the Emperor, he led a rebellion known as the Revolt of Saturninus, involving the legions Legio XIV Gemina and...
- usurper - Lucius Appuleius SaturninusLucius Appuleius SaturninusLucius Appuleius Saturninus was a Roman popularist and tribune; he was a political ally of Gaius Marius, and his downfall caused a great deal of political embarrassment for Marius, who absented himself from public life until he returned to take up a command in the Social War of 91 to 88...
- tribune - Gaius Sentius Saturninus - consul
- Gaius Mucius Scaevola - legendary hero
- Publius Mucius ScaevolaPublius Mucius ScaevolaPublius Mucius Scaevola was a prominent Roman politician and jurist. He was tribune in 141 BC, praetor in 136 BC, and consul in 133 BC....
- two consuls - Quintus Mucius Scaevola - two consuls
- Cassius ScaevusCassius ScaevusCassius Scaevus was a centurion of Caesar's 8th legion. Scaevus fought in his battle of Dyrrachium in his fort, his cohorts senior centurions were injured, he took command...
-CenturionCenturionA centurion was a professional officer of the Roman army .Centurion may also refer to:-Military:* Centurion tank, British battle tank* HMS Centurion, name of several ships and a shore base of the British Royal Navy...
of Julius CaesarJulius CaesarGaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
's 8th legion. - Marcus Aemilius Scaurus - three; two consuls and a praetor
- Lucius Cornelius Scipio - two; consul and son of Scipio Africanus Major
- Publius Cornelius ScipioPublius Cornelius ScipioPublius Cornelius Scipio was a general and statesman of the Roman Republic.A member of the Corneliagens, Scipio served as consul in 218 BC, the first year of the Second Punic War, and sailed with an army from Pisa to Massilia , with the intention of arresting Hannibal's advance on Italy...
- two; son of Scipio Africanus Major and father of Scipio Africanus Minor - Scipio AfricanusScipio AfricanusPublius Cornelius Scipio Africanus , also known as Scipio Africanus and Scipio the Elder, was a general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic...
- general, victor at the Second Punic WarSecond Punic WarThe Second Punic War, also referred to as The Hannibalic War and The War Against Hannibal, lasted from 218 to 201 BC and involved combatants in the western and eastern Mediterranean. This was the second major war between Carthage and the Roman Republic, with the participation of the Berbers on... - Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Minor - general, victor at the Third Punic WarThird Punic WarThe Third Punic War was the third and last of the Punic Wars fought between the former Phoenician colony of Carthage, and the Roman Republic...
- Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus - consul
- Lucius Cornelius Scipio BarbatusLucius Cornelius Scipio BarbatusLucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus was one of the two elected Roman consuls in 298 BC. He led the Roman army to victory against the Etruscans near Volterra...
- consul - Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio CalvusGnaeus Cornelius Scipio CalvusGnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus was a Roman general and statesman.His father was Lucius Cornelius Scipio, son of the patrician censor of 280, Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus. His younger brother was Publius Cornelius Scipio, father of the most famous Scipio – Scipio Africanus...
- consul - Publius Cornelius Scipio NasicaPublius Cornelius Scipio NasicaPublius Cornelius Scipio Nasica was a consul of ancient Rome in 191 BC. He was a son of Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus...
- consul - Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica CorculumPublius Cornelius Scipio Nasica CorculumPublius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum was a Roman statesman and member of the gens Cornelia.Corculum was the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica , and was thus a first cousin once removed of the Roman general Scipio Africanus...
- consul - Publius Cornelius Scipio SalvitoPublius Cornelius Scipio SalvitoPublius Cornelius Scipio ‘Salvito’ was a consul who lived in the late Roman Republic. He was a member of the Cornelia gens and a relative of Scipio Africanus, the Roman general who defeated Hannibal....
- consul - Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica SerapioPublius Cornelius Scipio Nasica SerapioPublius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio , the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum and his wife Cornelia Africana Major, was a member of the gens Cornelia and a politician of the ancient Roman Republic. He was consul in 138 BC.He was also a member of the gens Cornelia, a family of...
- consul - ScriboniaScriboniaScribonia was the second wife of the Roman Emperor Augustus and the mother of his only natural child, Julia the Elder. She was the mother-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, great-grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, grandmother-in-law of the Emperor Claudius, and...
- wife of OctavianAugustusAugustus ;23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14) is considered the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.The dates of his rule are contemporary dates; Augustus lived under two calendars, the Roman Republican until 45 BC, and the Julian... - Lucius Arruntius Scribonianus - two; consul and son
- Lucius Scribonius LiboLucius Scribonius LiboSeveral men of plebeian status were named Lucius Scribonius Libo during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire; they were members of the gens Scribonia.-L. Scribonius Libo :...
- consul - Marcus Scribonius Libo Drusus - great-grandson of PompeyPompeyGnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey or Pompey the Great , was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic...
- Scribonius LargusScribonius LargusScribonius Largus was the court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius.About 47 AD, at the request of Gaius Julius Callistus, the emperor's freedman, he drew up a list of 271 prescriptions , most of them his own, although he acknowledged his indebtedness to his tutors, to friends and to the...
- physician - Gnaeus Tremellius Scrofa - writer
- Julius Secundus - orator
- SeduliusCoelius SeduliusCoelius Sedulius, was a Christian poet of the first half of the 5th century. He is termed a presbyter by Isidore of Seville and in the Gelasian decree....
- Christian Latin poet - Sejanus, AeliusSejanusLucius Aelius Seianus , commonly known as Sejanus, was an ambitious soldier, friend and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius...
- prefect of the Praetorian GuardPraetorian GuardThe Praetorian Guard was a force of bodyguards used by Roman Emperors. The title was already used during the Roman Republic for the guards of Roman generals, at least since the rise to prominence of the Scipio family around 275 BC... - Lucius Seius StraboLucius Seius StraboLucius Seius Strabo or Lucius Aelius Strabo was a prefect of the Roman imperial bodyguard, known as the Praetorian Guard, during the rule of the emperors Augustus and Tiberius. The length of Strabo's tenure as Praetorian prefect is unknown, but he held the position together with various colleagues...
- A prefect, father of SejanusSejanusLucius Aelius Seianus , commonly known as Sejanus, was an ambitious soldier, friend and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius... - Lucius Annaeus Seneca - two writers, Seneca the ElderSeneca the ElderLucius or Marcus Annaeus Seneca, known as Seneca the Elder and Seneca the Rhetorician , was a Roman rhetorician and writer, born of a wealthy equestrian family of Cordoba, Hispania...
and Seneca the YoungerSeneca the YoungerLucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero... - Publius Septimius - writer
- Septimius Serenus - poet
- Serenus SammonicusSerenus SammonicusQuintus Sammonicus Serenus was a Roman savant, tutor to Geta and Caracalla who became fatally involved in politics, and an author of a didactic medical poem, Liber Medicinalis , probably incomplete in the form in which we have it, as well as many lost works...
- writer - Quintus Serenus - medical writer
- SergiusSergiusSergius was a name of a Roman Patrician Gens originally from Alba Longa and can refer to:- Roman Catholic Popes :*Pope Sergius I , Sicilian-born pope*Pope Sergius II , Italian-born pope...
- writer - Marcus SergiusMarcus SergiusMarcus Sergius was a Roman general during the Second Punic War . He is famed in prosthetics circles as the first documented user of a prosthetic hand. The metal hand was constructed to allow him to hold his shield in battle....
- tribune with iron hand - SerranusSerranusSerranus is a genus of fish in the Serranidae family.It contains the following species:* meo viejo * Comber * Painted comber * Belted sandfish...
- poet - Quintus SertoriusQuintus SertoriusQuintus Sertorius was a Roman statesman and general, born in Nursia, in Sabine territory. His brilliance as a military commander was shown most clearly in his battles against Rome for control of Hispania...
- praetor - Sulpicius Lupercus Servasius - writer
- Lucius Julius Servianus - consul
- Servilia CaepionisServilia CaepionisServilia Caepionis was the mistress of Julius Caesar, mother of one of Caesar's assassins, Brutus, mother-in-law of another Caesar assassin, Cassius, and half-sister of Cato the Younger.-Life:...
- mother of Marcus Junius BrutusMarcus Junius BrutusMarcus Junius Brutus , often referred to as Brutus, was a politician of the late Roman Republic. After being adopted by his uncle he used the name Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, but eventually returned to using his original name... - Publius Servilius Vatia - consul
- Publius Servilius Isauricus - consul
- Marcus Servilius Nonianus - consul
- Servius - grammarian, commentator
- Servius TulliusServius TulliusServius Tullius was the legendary sixth king of ancient Rome, and the second of its Etruscan dynasty. He reigned 578-535 BC. Roman and Greek sources describe his servile origins and later marriage to a daughter of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Rome's first Etruscan king, who was assassinated in 579 BC...
- early king - Publius Sestius - praetor
- Lucius Septimius Severus - emperor
- Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander - emperor
- Sextus Julius SeverusSextus Julius SeverusSextus Julius Severus was an accomplished Roman General of the 2nd century.Julius Severus served as Governor of Moesia; he was appointed Governor of Britain around 131.In 133 he was transferred to Judea, to help suppress the Bar Kochba rebellion there...
- consul - Flavius Valerius SeverusFlavius Valerius SeverusSeverus , sometimes known as Severus II, was a Western Roman Emperor from 306 to 307.- Officer in the Roman army :Severus was of humble birth, born in the Illyrian provinces around the middle of the third century AD...
- emperor - Sulpicius SeverusSulpicius SeverusSulpicius Severus was a Christian writer and native of Aquitania. He is known for his chronicle of sacred history, as well as his biography of Saint Martin of Tours.-Life:...
- historian - Quintus SextiusQuintus SextiusQuintus Sextius the Elder was a Roman philosopher, whose philosophy combined Pythagoreanism with Stoicism. His praises were frequently celebrated by Seneca.-Life:...
- philosopher - Titus Sextius - governor
- SextusSentences of SextusThe Sentences of Sextus is a Hellenistic Pythagorean text which was also popular among Christians. The earliest mention of the Sentences is in the mid 3rd century by Origen...
- two; teacher and writer - Sextus EmpiricusSextus EmpiricusSextus Empiricus , was a physician and philosopher, and has been variously reported to have lived in Alexandria, Rome, or Athens. His philosophical work is the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman skepticism....
- doctor and philosopher - Gnaeus Sicinius - tribune
- Siculus FlaccusSiculus FlaccusSiculus Flaccus was an ancient Roman gromaticus , and writer in Latin on land surveying. His work was included in a collection of gromatic treatises in the 6th century AD....
- grammarian - Gaius Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius - official, writer
- Decimus Junius Silanus - two; consul and adulterer
- Gaius Junius Silanus - consul
- Gaius Appius Junius SilanusGaius Appius Junius SilanusAppius Junius Silanus, whom Cassius Dio erroneously calls Gaius Appius Silanus, was consul in AD 28, with Publius Silius Nerva. He was accused of majestas in AD 32, but was saved by Celsus, one of the informers....
- consul - Marcus Junius SilanusMarcus Junius SilanusMarcus Junius D. f. D. n. Silanus was a member of the Junii Silani, a noble Roman family, who held the consulship in 109 BC.- Biography :Because there are only few and short sources about the history of the Roman Republic in the second half of the second century BC, we have to rely on suppositions,...
- three consuls - Decimus Junius Silanus TorquatusDecimus Junius Silanus TorquatusDecimus Junius Silanus Torquatus was a Roman noble who lived in the Roman Empire during the 1st century. He served as a consul in 53...
- consul - Lucius Junius Silanus TorquatusLucius Junius Silanus TorquatusIn the 1st century, lived two noblemen uncle and nephew, that shared the name Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus who were two descendants of Roman Emperor Augustus....
- two; consul and victim - Marcus Junius Silanus TorquatusMarcus Junius Silanus TorquatusMarcus Junius M. f. M. n. Silanus Torquatus , was the eldest son of Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus and Aemilia Lepida. His mother was the great-granddaughter of the emperor Augustus. As a member of the imperial family, Silanus could therefore be considered a possible candidate for the succession...
- consul - Gaius SiliusGaius SiliusGaius Silius was the name of two consuls of the Roman Empire, during the 1st century. The elder was a consul and commander in the Roman Army during the reign of Emperors Augustus and Tiberius and the younger a consul in the reign of Emperor Claudius....
- lover of MessalinaMessalinaValeria Messalina, sometimes spelled Messallina, was a Roman empress as the third wife of the Emperor Claudius. She was also a paternal cousin of the Emperor Nero, second cousin of the Emperor Caligula, and great-grandniece of the Emperor Augustus... - Publius Silius NervaPublius Silius NervaPublius Silius Nerva was a Roman politician and general who was consul in 20 BC.-Biography:Nerva was the son of a senator who had achieved the rank of propraetor...
- consul - Silius ItalicusSilius ItalicusSilius Italicus, in full Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus , was a Roman consul, orator, and Latin epic poet of the 1st century CE,...
- consul, poet - Lucius Cornelius SisennaLucius Cornelius SisennaLucius Cornelius Sisenna was a Roman soldier, historian, and annalist. He was killed in action during Pompey's campaign against pirates after the Third Mithridatic War. Sisenna had been commander of the forces on the coast of Greece....
- praetor, historian - Publius Sittius - wealthy businessman
- Gaius Iulius Solinus - geographer
- Gaius SosiusGaius SosiusGaius Sosius was a Roman general and politician.Gaius Sosius was elected quaestor in 66 BC and praetor in 49 BC. Upon the start of the civil war, he joined the party of the Senate sometimes called optimates by modern scholars...
- consul - Quintus Sosius SenecioQuintus Sosius SenecioQuintus Sosius Senecio was a politician of the Roman Empire.Senecio was consul in 99 and 107. He is probably the same person who was a friend of the Pliny the Younger , and whom Plutarch addresses in several of his lives. .-References:* Prosopographia Imperii Romani S² 777...
- consul - Titus Vestricius SpurinnaTitus Vestricius SpurinnaTitus Vestricius Spurinna was an Etruscan haruspex most famous for warning Julius Caesar to be wary of the Ides of March a month before his assassination....
- consul - Staberius Eros - ex-slave scholar
- Titus Statilius TaurusTitus Statilius TaurusTitus Statilius Taurus was the name of a line of Roman senators. The first known and most important of these was a Roman general and two-time consul prominent during the Triumviral and Augustan periods...
- consul - Publius Papinius Statius - poet
- StertiniusStertiniusStertinius is a spider genus of the Salticidae family .-Species:* Stertinius balius * Stertinius capucinus Simon, 1902 * Stertinius cyprius Merian, 1911...
- writer - Flavius Stilicho - general
- Lucius Aelius Stilo PraeconinusLucius Aelius Stilo PraeconinusLucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus , of Lanuvium, is the earliest philologist of the Roman Republic. He came from a distinguished family and belonged to the equestrian order....
- scholar - Gaius Licinius StoloGaius Licinius StoloGaius Licinius Stolo, along with Lucius Sextius, was one of the two tribunes of ancient Rome who opened the consulship to the plebeians.Records indicate he was tribune from 376 BC to 367 BC, during which he passed the Lex Licinia Sextia restoring the consulship, requiring a plebeian consul seat,...
- early tribune - Sueis - writer
- Gaius Suetonius PaulinusGaius Suetonius PaulinusGaius Suetonius Paulinus, also spelled Paullinus, was a Roman general best known as the commander who defeated the rebellion of Boudica.-Career:...
- consul - Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus - writer
- Publius Suillius Rufus - consul
- Lucius Cornelius SullaLucius Cornelius SullaLucius Cornelius Sulla Felix , known commonly as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He had the rare distinction of holding the office of consul twice, as well as that of dictator...
(Sulla) - dictator - Publius Cornelius SullaPublius Cornelius SullaPublius Cornelius Sulla was a politician of the late Roman Republic. He was a relative of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix. He was elected consul in 66 BC together with Publius Autronius, but both were discovered to have committed bribery and were disqualified from the office...
- consul - Faustus Cornelius Sulla - son of SullaLucius Cornelius SullaLucius Cornelius Sulla Felix , known commonly as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He had the rare distinction of holding the office of consul twice, as well as that of dictator...
- SulpiciaSulpicia-Sulpicia I:The earlier Sulpicia is the only known woman from Ancient Rome whose poetry survives to this day. She is said to have lived in the reign of Augustus and have been probably the daughter of Servius Sulpicius Rufus and a niece of Messalla Corvinus, an important patron of literature...
- two writers - Servius Sulpicius - poet
- Sulpicius ApollinarisSulpicius ApollinarisSulpicius Apollinaris, a learned grammarian of Carthage, who flourished in the 2nd century AD. He taught Pertinax, himself a teacher of grammar before he was emperor, and Aulus Gellius, who speaks of him in the highest terms. He is the reputed author of the metrical arguments to the Aeneid and to...
- scholar - Sulpicius Blitho - historian
- Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus - poet
- Publius Sulpicius RufusPublius Sulpicius RufusPublius Sulpicius Rufus was an orator and statesman of the Roman Republic, legate in 89 to Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo in the Social War, and in 88 tribune of the plebs....
- praetor - Servius Sulpicius RufusServius Sulpicius RufusServius Sulpicius Rufus , surnamed Lemonia from the tribe to which he belonged, was a Roman orator and jurist.He studied rhetoric with Cicero, and accompanied him to Rhodes in 78 BC. Finding that he would never be able to rival his teacher he gave up rhetoric for law...
- consul - Lucius Licinius SuraLucius Licinius SuraLucius Licinius Sura was an influential Roman Senator from Tarraco, a close friend of the Emperor Trajan and three times consul - in a period when three consulates were very rare for non-members of the Imperial family - in AD 93 , 102 and 107....
- consul - Quintus Aurelius SymmachusQuintus Aurelius SymmachusQuintus Aurelius Symmachus was a Roman statesman, orator, and man of letters. He held the offices of governor of Africa in 373, urban prefect of Rome in 384 and 385, and consul in 391...
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- Cornelius Tacitus - historian
- Marcus Claudius TacitusMarcus Claudius TacitusTacitus , was Roman Emperor from 275 to 276. During his short reign he campaigned against the Goths and the Heruli, for which he received the title Gothicus Maximus.-Biography:Tacitus was born in Interamna , in Italia...
- emperor - TanaquilTanaquilTanaquil was the wife of Tarquinius Priscus, fifth king of Rome.-History:She had four children, two daughters and two sons. One of the daughters became the wife to Servius Tullius, when he became the successor....
- semi-legendary woman - Tanusius Geminus - historian but virgin
- Lucius Tarius Rufus - consul
- TarpeiaTarpeiaIn Roman mythology, Tarpeia was a Roman maiden who betrayed the city of Rome to the Sabines in exchange for what she thought would be a reward of jewellery...
- semi-legendary woman - Lucius Tarquinius CollatinusLucius Tarquinius CollatinusLucius Tarquinius Collatinus was one of the four leaders of the revolution which overthrew the Roman monarchy, and became one of the first two consuls of Rome in 509 BC, together with Lucius Junius Brutus...
- semi-legendary founder - Tarquinius PriscusTarquinius PriscusLucius Tarquinius Priscus, also called Tarquin the Elder or Tarquin I, was the legendary fifth King of Rome from 616 BC to 579 BC. His wife was Tanaquil.-Early life:According to Livy, Tarquinius Priscus came from the Etruria...
- king - Tarquinius Superbus - last king of Rome
- Tarquitius Priscus - writer
- Titus TatiusTitus TatiusThe traditions of ancient Rome held that Titus Tatius was the Sabine king of Cures, who, after the rape of the Sabine women, attacked Rome and captured the Capitol with the treachery of Tarpeia. The Sabine women, however, convinced Tatius and the Roman king, Romulus, to reconcile and subsequently...
- king - Publius Terentius Afer (TerenceTerencePublius Terentius Afer , better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on,...
) - dramatist - Terentia - first wife of CiceroCiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...
- Terentianus Maurus - grammarian
- Quintus Terentius ScaurusQuintus Terentius ScaurusQuintus Terentius Scaurus, Latin grammarian, flourished during the reign of Hadrian .He was the author of an ars grammatica and commentaries on Horace, Virgil's Aeneid and perhaps Plautus...
- grammarian - Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus (TertullianTertullianQuintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian , was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He is the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. He also was a notable early Christian apologist and...
) - Christian writer - Gaius Pius Esuvius TetricusTetricus IGaius Pius Esuvius Tetricus was Emperor of the Gallic Empire from 271 to 274, following the murder of Victorinus. Tetricus, who ruled with his son, Tetricus II, was the last of the Gallic emperors following his surrender to the Roman emperor Aurelian.-Reign:Tetricus was a senator born to a noble...
- emperor - Theodosius ITheodosius ITheodosius I , also known as Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from 379 to 395. Theodosius was the last emperor to rule over both the eastern and the western halves of the Roman Empire. During his reign, the Goths secured control of Illyricum after the Gothic War, establishing their homeland...
- emperor - Theodosius IITheodosius IITheodosius II , commonly surnamed Theodosius the Younger, or Theodosius the Calligrapher, was Byzantine Emperor from 408 to 450. He is mostly known for promulgating the Theodosian law code, and for the construction of the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople...
- emperor - Publius Clodius Thrasea PaetusPublius Clodius Thrasea PaetusPublius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, Roman senator, lived in the first century CE. Notable for his principled opposition to the emperor Nero and his interest in stoicism, he was the husband of Arria the daughter of A...
- consul - Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (TiberiusTiberiusTiberius , was Roman Emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD. Tiberius was by birth a Claudian, son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla. His mother divorced Nero and married Augustus in 39 BC, making him a step-son of Octavian...
) - emperor - Tiberius Julius Caesar Gemellus - victim
- Tiberius Julius AlexanderTiberius Julius AlexanderTiberius Julius Alexander was an equestrian governor and general in the Roman Empire. Born into a wealthy Jewish family of Alexandria but abandoning or neglecting the Jewish religion, he rose to become procurator of Judea under Claudius...
- Jewish official - Albius Tibullus - poet
- Gaius Oponius Tigellinus - official
- Gaius Furius Sabinus Aquila Timesitheus - praetorian prefect
- Marcus Tullius TiroMarcus Tullius TiroMarcus Tullius Tiro was first a slave, then a freedman of Cicero.The date of Tiro's birth is uncertain. From Jerome it can be dated to 103 BC, which would make him only a little younger than Cicero...
- freedman of CiceroCiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief... - Julius Titianus - writer
- TitiniusTitiniusTitinius was a nomen of ancient Rome.* Marcus Titinius, tribune 450 BC* Lucius Titinius Pansa Saccus, consular tribune 400 BC, 396 BC* Marcus Titinius, magister equitum 302 BC* Gaius Titinius Gadaeus, bandit in slave revolt used by Gaius Marius...
- poet - Gnaeus Octavius Titinius Capito - general
- Gaius Titius - orator
- Marcus TitiusMarcus TitiusMarcus Titius was a Roman politician and commander at the end of the Roman Republic.- Descent and Proscription :Marcus Titius was the son of a Lucius Titius and nephew of Lucius Munatius Plancus. The offices which Lucius Titius held are not known but he was proscribed at the end of 43 BC and...
- consul - Titius Aristo - jurist
- Titus Flavius VespasianusTitusTitus , was Roman Emperor from 79 to 81. A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his father Vespasian upon his death, thus becoming the first Roman Emperor to come to the throne after his own father....
(Titus) - emperor - Titus LarciusTitus LarciusTitus Lartius, surnamed either Flavus or Rufus, was one of the leading men of the early Roman Republic, twice consul and the first Roman dictator.-Background:...
- early dictator - Titus Manlius Torquatus - two; hero and consul
- Quintus Trabea - writer
- Marcus Ulpius Traianus (TrajanTrajanTrajan , was Roman Emperor from 98 to 117 AD. Born into a non-patrician family in the province of Hispania Baetica, in Spain Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian. Serving as a legatus legionis in Hispania Tarraconensis, in Spain, in 89 Trajan supported the emperor against...
) - emperor - Gaius Trebatius Testa - jurist
- Trebius Niger - writer
- Gaius Vibius Trebonianus Gallus - emperor
- Gaius Trebonius - proconsul
- Gaius Valerius Triarius - general
- Tribonianus - jurist collaborator with Justinian IJustinian IJustinian I ; , ; 483– 13 or 14 November 565), commonly known as Justinian the Great, was Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565. During his reign, Justinian sought to revive the Empire's greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the classical Roman Empire.One of the most important figures of...
- Pompeius Trogus - historian
- Lucius Aelius Tubero - friend of CiceroCiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...
- Quintus Aelius TuberoQuintus Aelius TuberoQuintus Aelius Tubero was a Roman consul in 11 BC. He was most likely the father of Sextus Aelius Catus, who was himself consul in 4 AD. His granddaughter was Aelia Paetina, who married future Emperor Claudius in 28. Her adopted brother was Lucius Aelius Sejanus, the Praetorian Prefect who was...
- jurist, annalist - Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus - consul
- Publius Sempronius TuditanusPublius Sempronius TuditanusPublius Sempronius C.f. Tuditanus was a Roman Republican consul and censor, best known for leading about 600 men to safety at Cannae in August, 216 BC.-Tuditanus at Cannae:...
- consul - Tullia CiceronisTullia CiceronisTullia Ciceronis, also Tulliola was the only daughter and first child to Roman orator and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero from his first marriage to Terentia...
- two; semi-legendary heroine and daughter of CiceroCiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief... - Tullus HostiliusTullus HostiliusTullus Hostilius was the legendary third of the Kings of Rome. He succeeded Numa Pompilius, and was succeeded by Ancus Marcius...
- king - Quintus Marcius Turbo - official
- TuriaTuriaTuria can refer to:*Turia , a river in southeastern Spain*Turía , a small river in northern Spain*Turía , a small Web development company in india*Turia Valley, a valley in northern Spain...
- wife of Quintus Lucretius VespilloQuintus Lucretius VespilloQuintus Lucretius Vespillo was theson of another Quintus Lucretius Vespillo who was an orator and jurist. The elder Lucretius was proscribed by Sulla and murdered....
, consul - TurnusTurnusIn Virgil's Aeneid, Turnus was the King of the Rutuli, and the chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas.-Biography:Prior to Aeneas' arrival in Italy, Turnus was the primary potential suitor of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, King of the Latin people. Upon Aeneas' arrival, however, Lavinia is promised to...
- two; legendary hero and satirist - Sextus Turpilius - writer
- Turrianus Gracilis - writer
- Clodius Turrinus - two rhetoricians
- Tuticanus - friend of OvidOvidPublius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria...
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- Ulpianus of Ascalon - rhetor
- Domitius Ulpianus - jurist
- Marcus Ulpius Traianus - consul, father of TrajanTrajanTrajan , was Roman Emperor from 98 to 117 AD. Born into a non-patrician family in the province of Hispania Baetica, in Spain Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian. Serving as a legatus legionis in Hispania Tarraconensis, in Spain, in 89 Trajan supported the emperor against...
- UrbanusUrbanusUrbain Servranckx , also known as Urbain and Urbanus van Anus, is a Belgian stand-up comedian, actor, singer and comic book writer.-Career:...
- scholar
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- Septimius Vaballathus - king under AurelianAurelianAurelian , was Roman Emperor from 270 to 275. During his reign, he defeated the Alamanni after a devastating war. He also defeated the Goths, Vandals, Juthungi, Sarmatians, and Carpi. Aurelian restored the Empire's eastern provinces after his conquest of the Palmyrene Empire in 273. The following...
- Vagellius - poet
- ValensValensValens was the Eastern Roman Emperor from 364 to 378. He was given the eastern half of the empire by his brother Valentinian I after the latter's accession to the throne...
- emperor - Fabius ValensFabius ValensFabius Valens of Anagnia was a Roman commander favoured by Nero. In 69 he was commander of Legio I Germanica based in Germania Inferior...
- consul - Vettius ValensVettius ValensVettius Valens was a 2nd-century Hellenistic astrologer, a somewhat younger contemporary of Claudius Ptolemy.Valens' major work is the Anthology, ten volumes in Greek written roughly within the period 150 to 175. The Anthology is the longest and most detailed treatise on astrology which has...
- astrologer - Valentinian IValentinian IValentinian I , also known as Valentinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 364 to 375. Upon becoming emperor he made his brother Valens his co-emperor, giving him rule of the eastern provinces while Valentinian retained the west....
- emperor - Valentinian IIValentinian IIFlavius Valentinianus , commonly known as Valentinian II, was Roman Emperor from 375 to 392.-Early Life and Accession :...
- emperor - Valentinian IIIValentinian III-Family:Valentinian was born in the western capital of Ravenna, the only son of Galla Placidia and Flavius Constantius. The former was the younger half-sister of the western emperor Honorius, and the latter was at the time Patrician and the power behind the throne....
- emperor - Publius Licinius Valerianus (Valerian) - emperor
- Valerius AedituusValerius AedituusValerius Aedituus was a Roman poet of the 1st century BCE. He is known for his epigrams; otherwise there is very little information, what there is being in the form of literary references....
- epigrammatist - Valerius AntiasValerius AntiasValerius Antias was an ancient Roman annalist whom Livy mentions as a source. No complete works of his survive but from the sixty-five fragments said to be his in the works of other authors it has been deduced that he wrote a chronicle of ancient Rome in at least seventy-five books...
- annalist - Decimus Valerius AsiaticusDecimus Valerius AsiaticusDecimus Valerius Asiaticus was the husband of Lollia Saturnina, the sister of Caligula' third wife, Lollia Paulina, was twice a Roman consul , resigning early from his second suffect consulship, according to Dio Cassius , in order to avoid becoming involved in the conspiracies of the court—a...
- consul - Publius Valerius CatoPublius Valerius CatoPublius Valerius Cato was a Roman poet and grammarian. He is of importance as the leader of the new school of poetry. Its followers rejected the national epic and drama in favor of the artificial mythological epics and elegies of the Alexandrian school, and preferred Euphorion of Chalcis to Ennius...
- scholar, poet - Marcus Valerius CorvusMarcus Valerius CorvusMarcus Valerius Corvus was a Roman general of the 4th century BC, characterized as a farmer who lived to be one hundred.-Biography:...
- hero - Gaius Calpetanus Valerius Festus - consul
- Gaius Valerius FlaccusGaius Valerius FlaccusGaius Valerius Flaccus was a Roman poet who flourished in the "Silver Age" under the emperors Vespasian and Titus and wrote a Latin Argonautica that owes a great deal to Apollonius of Rhodes' more famous epic....
- poet - Lucius Valerius Licinianus - orator
- Valerius MaximusValerius MaximusValerius Maximus was a Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes. He worked during the reign of Tiberius .-Biography:...
- historian - Publius Valerius PoplicolaPublius Valerius PublicolaPublius Valerius Publicola was one of four Roman aristocrats who led the overthrow of the monarchy, and became a Roman consul, the colleague of Lucius Junius Brutus in 509 BC, traditionally considered the first year of the Roman Republic...
- early consul - Lucius Valerius Potitius - early consul
- Quintus Valerius SoranusQuintus Valerius SoranusQuintus Valerius Soranus was a Latin poet, grammarian, and tribune of the people in the Late Roman Republic. He was executed in 82 BC while Sulla was dictator, ostensibly for violating a religious prohibition against speaking the arcane name of Rome, but more likely for political reasons...
- scholar - Quintus Valerius OrcaQuintus Valerius OrcaQuintus Valerius Orca was a Roman praetor, a governor of the Roman province of Africa, and a commanding officer under Julius Caesar in the civil war against Pompeius Magnus and the senatorial elite...
- praetor - Valgius RufusValgius RufusGaius Valgius Rufus, Latin poet, friend of Horace and Maecenas, and consul in 12 BC.He was known as a writer of elegies and epigrams, and his contemporaries believed him capable of great things in epic. The author of the panegyric on Messalla declares Rufus to be the only poet fitted to be the...
- consul - Vallius Syriacus - rhetor
- Varenus Rufus - Governor of Bithynia-PontusBithyniaBithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine .-Description:...
- Quintus Vargunteius - lecturer
- Quintus Varius - tribune
- Varius Rufus - poet
- Gaius Terentius VarroGaius Terentius VarroGaius Terentius Varro was a Roman consul and commander. Along with his colleague, Lucius Aemilius Paullus, he commanded at the Battle of Cannae during the Second Punic War, in 216 BC, against the Carthaginian general Hannibal. The battle resulted in a decisive Roman defeat.Varro had been a praetor...
- consul - Marcus Terentius VarroMarcus Terentius VarroMarcus Terentius Varro was an ancient Roman scholar and writer. He is sometimes called Varro Reatinus to distinguish him from his younger contemporary Varro Atacinus.-Biography:...
- encyclopedist - Publius Terentius Varro Atacinus - writer
- Aulus Terentius Varro MurenaAulus Terentius Varro MurenaAulus Terentius Varro Murena was a Roman general and politician of the 1st Century BC.- Biography :Murena was the natural born son of Aulus Terentius Varro, and adopted brother to Lucius Lucinius Varro Murena...
- writer - Publius Attius VarusPublius Attius VarusPublius Attius Varus was the Roman governor of Africa during the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompeius Magnus . He declared war against Caesar, and initially fought and defeated Gaius Scribonius Curio, who was sent against him in 49 BC.-Political career:Varus held the office of praetor no...
- governor - Publius Quinctilius VarusPublius Quinctilius VarusPublius Quinctilius Varus was a Roman politician and general under Emperor Augustus, mainly remembered for having lost three Roman legions and his own life when attacked by Germanic leader Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.-Life:His paternal grandfather was senator Sextus Quinctilius...
- general - Quinctilius VarusQuinctilius VarusPublius Quinctilius Varus Minor was the only child to Roman general and politician Publius Quinctilius Varus from his second marriage to Claudia Pulchra....
- son of general - Arrius Varus - praetorian prefect
- Publius VatiniusPublius VatiniusPublius Vatinius was a Roman statesman during the last decades of the Republic.-Early political life:Vatinius was quaestor in 63 BC, the same year Marcus Tullius Cicero was consul. Cicero believed that Vatinius was elected on account of the influence of one of the consuls...
- consul - Publius Vedius Pollio - freedman's son
- Flavius Vegetius Renatus - writer
- Aulus Didius Gallus Fabricius VeientoAulus Didius Gallus Fabricius VeientoAulus Didius Gallus Fabricius Veiento was a Roman politician and an adept in the art of political survival. In AD 62, early in Nero's reign, he was impeached, while Praetor, as the author of Codicilli, mock wills which libelled priests and senators...
- consul - Velius LongusVelius LongusVelius Longus , Latin grammarian during the reign of Trajan , author of an extant treatise on orthography . He is mentioned by Macrobius and Servius as a commentator on Virgil....
- scholar - Velleius Paterculus - historian
- Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus - poet
- Vennonius - historian
- Publius Ventidius - consul
- Ventidius CumanusVentidius CumanusVentidius Cumanus was the Roman procurator of Iudaea Province from AD 48 to c. AD 52. A disagreement between the surviving sources, the Jewish historian Josephus and the Roman Tacitus, makes it unclear whether his authority was over some or all of the province...
- procuratorProcurator (Roman)A procurator was the title of various officials of the Roman Empire, posts mostly filled by equites . A procurator Augusti was the governor of the smaller imperial provinces...
of JudeaIudaea ProvinceJudaea or Iudaea are terms used by historians to refer to the Roman province that extended over parts of the former regions of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Israel... - VerginiaVerginiaVerginia, or Virginia, was the subject of a story of Ancient Rome, related in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita.The people of Rome were already angry with the decemviri for not calling the proper elections, taking bribes, and other abuses. It seemed that they were returning to the rule of the Kings of Rome...
- legendary victim - Verginius Flavus - teacher
- Lucius Verginius RufusLucius Verginius RufusLucius Verginius Rufus , was a Roman commander of upper Germany during the late 1st century. He was three times consul , born near Comum, the birthplace of the two Plinys....
- consul and leader of rebellion against Nero - Gaius Verres - proconsul
- Lucius VerusLucius VerusLucius Verus , was Roman co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius, from 161 until his death.-Early life and career:Lucius Verus was the first born son to Avidia Plautia and Lucius Aelius Verus Caesar, the first adopted son and heir of Roman Emperor Hadrian . He was born and raised in Rome...
- emperor - Titus Flavius VespasianusVespasianVespasian , was Roman Emperor from 69 AD to 79 AD. Vespasian was the founder of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Empire for a quarter century. Vespasian was descended from a family of equestrians, who rose into the senatorial rank under the Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty...
(VespasianVespasianVespasian , was Roman Emperor from 69 AD to 79 AD. Vespasian was the founder of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Empire for a quarter century. Vespasian was descended from a family of equestrians, who rose into the senatorial rank under the Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty...
) - emperor - Lucius Vettius - accuser
- Vettius Philocomus - friend of LuciliusLuciliusLucilius is the nomen of the gens Lucilia of ancient Rome.*Gaius Lucilius, satirist 2nd century BC. Lucilius was credited by Horace and others with originating the genre of satire.*Lucilius Junior, friend and correspondent of the younger Seneca....
- Lucius Vettius Scato - praetor
- Vettius ValensVettius ValensVettius Valens was a 2nd-century Hellenistic astrologer, a somewhat younger contemporary of Claudius Ptolemy.Valens' major work is the Anthology, ten volumes in Greek written roughly within the period 150 to 175. The Anthology is the longest and most detailed treatise on astrology which has...
- astronomer/astrologer - Caelius VibennaCaelius VibennaCaelius Vibenna, Caelius Vibenna, Caelius Vibenna, (Etruscan Caile Vipina, was a noble Etruscan who lived c.900BC and brother of Aulus Vibenna (Etruscan Avile Vipina).Upon arriving at Rome, Vibenna aided Romulus in his wars against Titus Tatius. He and his brother Aulus are also recorded as having...
- semi-legendary figure who gave his name to the Caelian hill, but real EtruscanEtruscan civilizationEtruscan civilization is the modern English name given to a civilization of ancient Italy in the area corresponding roughly to Tuscany. The ancient Romans called its creators the Tusci or Etrusci...
from Vulci, Caile Vipinas - Quintus Vibius Crispus - consul
- Gaius Vibius MarsusGaius Vibius MarsusGaius Vibius Marsus, whom Tacitus calls "vetustis honoribus studiisque illustris," is first mentioned in 19 AD as one of the most likely persons to obtain the government of Syria, but the post wound up going to Gnaeus Sentius instead. In the same year he was sent to summon Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso...
- consul - Gaius Vibius Maximus - consul
- Gaius Vibius Rufus - consul
- Gaius Marius VictorinusGaius Marius VictorinusGaius Marius Victorinus was a Roman grammarian, rhetorician and Neoplatonic philosopher. Victorinus was African by birth and experienced the height of his career during the reign of Constantius II...
- writer - Maximus Victorinus - grammarian
- Lucius Villius - tribune
- Gaius Julius Vindex - rebel
- Annius Vinicianus - plotter
- Lucius Vinicius - orator
- Marcus ViniciusMarcus ViniciusMarcus Vinicius was a Roman consul and, as husband of Julia Livilla, grandson-in-law of the emperor Tiberius. He was the son and grandson of two consuls, Publius Vinicius and Marcus Vinicius ....
- consul - Publius Vinicius - consul
- Titus ViniusTitus ViniusTitus Vinius was a Roman general who was one of the most powerful men in Rome during the reign of the Emperor Galba.-Stories:Plutarch has a number of stories of Vinius' early life, all to his discredit...
- consul - Vipsania Julia - granddaughter of Augustus
- Publius Vergilius MaroVirgilPublius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English , was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues , the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid...
(Virgil) - writer - ViriathusViriathusViriathus was the most important leader of the Lusitanian people that resisted Roman expansion into the regions of Western Hispania , where the Roman province of Lusitania would be established...
- semi-legendary writer - Aulus VitelliusVitelliusVitellius , was Roman Emperor for eight months, from 16 April to 22 December 69. Vitellius was acclaimed Emperor following the quick succession of the previous emperors Galba and Otho, in a year of civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors...
- emperor - Lucius VitelliusLucius VitelliusLucius Vitellius the Elder was the youngest of four sons of quaestor Publius Vitellius and the only one that did not die through politics. Under Emperor Tiberius, he was Consul in 34 and Governor of Syria in 35. He deposed Pontius Pilate in 36 after complaints from the people in Samaria...
- consul - VitruviusVitruviusMarcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman writer, architect and engineer, active in the 1st century BC. He is best known as the author of the multi-volume work De Architectura ....
- architect - Gaius Dillius VoculaGaius Dillius VoculaGaius Dillius Vocula was a Roman commander of the twenty-second legion Primigenia during the Batavian revolt. Defending Xanten, he was murdered by rebellious Roman troops.- External links :*...
- legate - Volcatius SedigitusVolcatius SedigitusVolcātius Sedīgitus was the titulus of a Roman literary critic who flourished around 100 , noted for his ranking of those he considered the best Latin comics....
- writer - Volcacius Moschus - writer
- Lucius Voltacilius Pitholaus
- Publius VolumniusPublius VolumniusPublius Volumnius was a 1st-century BC Roman philosopher, and a friend and companion of Marcus Junius Brutus who led the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar...
- philosopher, companion of Brutus - Gnaeus Manlius VulsoGnaeus Manlius VulsoGnaeus Manlius Vulso was a Roman consul for the year 189 BC, together with Marcus Fulvius Nobilior. He led a victorius campaign against the Galatian Gauls of Asia Minor in 189 BC during the Galatian War. He may have been awarded a triumph in 187BCE...
- Lucius Manlius Vulso LongusLucius Manlius Vulso LongusLucius Manlius Vulso Longus was a patrician who became one of the Roman consuls in both 256 and 250 BC. The term for being consul was one year. Two consuls ruled at a time and one could serve up to two terms. It was the consuls’ job to govern provinces, lead armies in major wars, and run the Senate...