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* Corbulo marched to Artaxata crossing the Aras River, along the valley he is shadowed by tens of thousands of mounted Parthian archers led by king Tiridates I.
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Corbulo and marched
* Winter – Domitius Corbulo marched his legions ( Legio VI Ferrata and Legio X ) into the mountains of Cappadocia and made camp.
Corbulo and along
In 47 a revolt by the Chauci, who took to piratical activities along the Gallic coast, was subdued by Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo.
It was positioned along the Fossa Corbulonis, a canal connecting Rhine and Meuse that had been dug in 47 by the Roman general Corbulo.
Corbulo and is
The last link is supplied by Strabo, who says that an emporium on the island of Corbulo in the mouth of the Loire was associated with the Britain of Pytheas by Polybius.
* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo is made commander of the Roman army in Germania Inferior.
* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo is restored to command after the Roman debacle at the Battle of Rhandeia ; he invaded Armenia and defeated Tiridates I, who accepted Roman sovereignty ; Parthia withdrew from the war.
The early career of Corbulo is unknown but he was consul in 39 during the reign of Caligula, his brother-in-law through Caligula's marriage to Corbulo's half-sister Milonia Caesonia.
Corbulo wrote an account of his Asiatic experiences, which is now lost.
Corbulo and by
* Corbulo inspects in Syria a base of Legio X Fretensis at Cyrrhus, the Roman legionnaires are demoralized by a " long peace ".
* Cauci pirates led by the Roman deserter Gannascus ravage the Gallic coast ; Corbulo uses the Rhine fleet against them.
* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman general, suicide ordered by Nero
Gibbon proposed a period of moderation under Augustus and his successors and argued that generals bent on expansion ( e. g. Germanicus, Agricola and Corbulo ) were checked and recalled by the Emperors during their victories favouring consolidation ahead of further expansion.
Lucius Caesannius Paetus, a weak and incapable commander, who " despised the fame acquired by Corbulo ( 2 ), suffered a severe defeat at Rhandeia ( 62 ), where he was surrounded and forced to capitulate to the Parthians and evacuated to Armenia.
After two failed plots by noblemen and senators, including Corbulo's son-in-law Roman Senator Lucius Annius Vinicianus, to overthrow Nero in 62, he became suspicious of Corbulo and his support among the Roman masses.
On his arrival at Cenchreae, the port of Corinth, messengers from Nero met Corbulo, and ordered him to commit suicide, which he loyally obeyed by falling on his own sword, saying, " Axios!
Through Junia Lepida, a great-great granddaughter of Augustus, both of Cassia's daughters by Corbulo were direct descendants of the first Roman emperor and thus, surviving members of the Imperial Julio-Claudian family.
In 63, strengthened further by the legions III Gallica, V Macedonica, X Fretensis and XXII, General Corbulo entered into the territories of Vologases I of Parthia, who then returned the Armenian kingdom to Tiridates.
It was again taken by the Romans when Corbulo, a Roman legate ( head of a legion ), defeated Tiridates during the Armenian rebellion of 64 AD.
In 62, after rumors that Plautus was in negotiations with the eastern general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo over rebellion, Plautus was executed by Nero.
* Cassia Longina ( b. ca 35 ), married to Roman General Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo by whom she had two daughters Domitia and Domitia Longina
Pomponius ' mother was Vistilia, who by other marriages was the mother of Publius Suillius Rufus and the general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo.
It was occupied by Capadocian legions under the Roman general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, who razed it to the ground in 59 AD as part of the first, short-lived, Roman conquest of Armenia.
He was sent by Claudius to Armenia with Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo.
This led to a long war with the Roman Empire ( 54 – 63 ), which was ably conducted by the Roman general Corbulo.
Corbulo and Parthian
During his reign, the redoubtable general Corbulo conducted a successful war and negotiated peace with the Parthian Empire.
In 55 he received orders from Roman Emperor Nero to levy troops to make war against the Parthians, and in the year 59 he served under General Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo against King Tiridates I of Armenia, brother of the Parthian King Vologases I of Parthia.
Domitius Corbulo, elements of III saw action in the Parthian ( Iran, parts of Iraq, Turkey, Armenia ) frontier.
Corbulo and king
Corbulo, with the legions XV Apollinaris, III Gallica, V Macedonica, X Fretensis and XXII, forced Vologases I of Parthia to a compromise peace ( 63 ), whereby his brother Tiridates would become king of Armenia as a Roman client.
Corbulo and Tiridates
Roman influence was first established with Pompey's campaign of 66 / 65 BC, and again in 59 AD in the campaign of Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo which resulted in the deposition of Tiridates I.
Corbulo and .
* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, was the name of two politicians in the 1st century AD.
Domitia Longina was the younger daughter of Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, a respected general and honoured politician.
Assuming that Ictis, Mictis and Corbulo are the same, Diodorus appears to have read Timaeus, who must have read Pytheas, whom Polybius also read.
* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo arrives in the East and take up an assignment as governor of Asia, with a secret brief from Nero and his chief ministers Seneca and Burrus to return Armenia to the Roman Empire.
* Corbulo recruits Syrian auxiliary units in the region and stationed them in border forts, with orders from Nero not to provoke the Parthians.
* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman General ( d. 67 )
* Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( Caligula ) and Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo become Roman consuls.
* Roman-Parthian War: Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, commander in the East, launched his Armenian offensive against Parthia.
After a siege of eight hours Corbulo takes the city, the legionnaires massacred the defenders and plunder Volandum to their hearts ' content.
The city opened its gates to Corbulo, just as it had to Germanicus four decades before.
When he takes the 250-year-old Armenian capital, Corbulo gives the residents a few hours to collect their valuables and burns the city to the ground.
* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman commander in the east, captures Tigranocerta in Mesopotamia.
* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo strengthens the fortifications on the Euphrates frontier.
* Nero, jealous of the success of Corbulo in Armenia, orders that he be put to death.
Corbulo was made the local Roman military commander.
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