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His advisers were men like the famous jurist Ulpian, the historian Cassius Dio and a select board of sixteen senators ; a municipal council of fourteen assisted the urban prefect in administering the affairs of the fourteen districts of Rome.
Most of these data have been recorded by Plutarch, Florus, Cicero, Dio ( Dion ) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( L. 2 ).
The Roman historians Suetonius and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC, Augustus prepared a rationarium ( account ) which listed public revenues, the amounts of cash in the aerarium ( treasury ), in the provincial fisci ( tax officials ), and in the hands of the publicani ( public contractors ); and that it included the names of the freedmen and slaves from whom a detailed account could be obtained.
Dio Cassius describes this surprise tactic employed by Aulus Plautius against the " barbarians "— the British Celts — at the battle of the River Medway, 43:
In the 3rd century, however, the Greek historian Dio Cassius states that the " Bastarnae are properly classed as Scythians " and " members of the Scythian race ".
Boudica then either killed herself, so she would not be captured, or fell ill and died — the extant sources, Tacitus and Cassius Dio, differ.
Her name was clearly spelled Boudicca in the best manuscripts of Tacitus, but also Βουδουικα, Βουνδουικα, and Βοδουικα in the ( later and probably secondary ) epitome of Cassius Dio.
Cassius Dio says that Roman financiers, including Seneca the Younger, chose this time to call in their loans.
According to Cassius Dio Claudius became very sickly and thin by the end of Caligula's reign, most likely due to stress.
The main ancient historians Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio all wrote after the last of the Flavians had gone.
Cassius Dio said that this act " though delighting the rabble, grieved the sensible, who stopped to reflect, that if the offices should fall once more into the hands of the many ... many disasters would result ".
Cassius Dio had written an entire chapter on the annexation of Mauretania by Caligula, but it is now lost.
According to Cassius Dio, living Emperors could be worshipped as divine in the east and dead Emperors could be worshipped as divine in Rome.
While repeating the earlier stories, the later sources of Suetonius and Cassius Dio provide additional tales of insanity.
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Most of these have been recorded by Plutarch ( Lives of Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Camillus ), Florus ( Book I, I ), Cicero ( The Republic VI, 22: Scipio's Dream ), Dio ( Dion ) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( L. 2 ).
Dion Cassius underscores this as it relates to Nero's naumachia ( LXI, 9, 5 ); Martial does as well speaking of Titus ' naumachia in the Colosseum ( Book of Spectacles, XXIV ).
He then conducted to Rome the captured prince and his son Vermina and some other leading men .< ref > Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 17,
Cassius Dio ( Epitome of Book 72, Chapter 11, 12 ), relates their fate after Marcus Aurelius fought the invaders to a stand-off.
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