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Dio and Cassius
* Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 70,
The Alemanni were first mentioned by Cassius Dio describing the campaign of Caracalla in 213.
Cassius Dio ( 78. 13. 4 ) portrays the Alemanni as victims of this treacherous emperor.
The tale of Cassius Dio is also somewhat different.
Others are Suetonius and Cassius Dio.
Another mutiny forced the retirement of Cassius Dio from his command.
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.
* Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 80
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:
( Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 60: 20 )
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 ".
* Dio Cassius Roman History ( ca.
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.
* Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 50
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 ".
According to Cassius Dio, a financial crisis emerged in AD 39.
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.

Dio and Appian
Eusebius of Caesarea, including the Praeparatio evangelica and the Demonstratio evangelica as well as the Historia ecclesiastica ( 1544-1546 ), Manuel Moschopulus ( 1545 ), Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( February 1547 ), Alexander of Tralles ( January 1548 ), Dio Cassius ( January 1548 ), Justin Martyr ( 1551 ), Xiphilinus ( 1551 ), Appian ( 1551 ), the last being completed, after Robert's departure from Paris, by his brother Charles, and appearing under his name.
Appian, Dio Cassius, and Plutarch each report that city was once again destroyed in the Roman Civil Wars, circa 42 BC, by Brutus, but Appian notes that it was rebuilt under Mark Antony.
Other Imperial authors such as Horace, the Tiberian authors Velleius Paterculus and Valerius Maximus along with Lucan and Seneca in the 1st century AD and later authors such as Appian and Dio celebrated the historical importance of Cato the Younger in their own writings.
Appian and Cassius Dio describe Fulvia as being involved in the violent proscriptions, which were used to destroy enemies and gain badly needed funds to secure control of Rome.
According to historians, as a result of the linguistic unity of the Getae and Dacians that result from the record of ancient writers Strabo, Cassius Dio, Trogus Pompeius, Appian and Pliny the Elder, contemporary historiography often uses the term Geto-Dacians to refer to the people living in the area between the Carpathians, the Haemus ( Balkan ) Mountains and the Black Sea.
Most contemporary historians ( Cassius Dio, Valerius Maximus, and Appian ) claim that she killed herself after hearing that Brutus had died following the second battle of Philippi.
The historian Appian states that he died in battle ; Cassius Dio says he was captured and then killed.
According to Suetonius, Valerius Maximus, Appian and Dio Cassius, at Julius Caesar's funeral in 44 BC, a certain Helvius Cinna was killed because he was mistaken for Cornelius Cinna, the conspirator.
Pinnes is not even mentioned by Polybius, though Appian and Cassius Dio refer to him as the legitimate heir.

Dio and Plutarch
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 ).
Plutarch, in his Life of the Roman general Aemilius Paulus, records that the victor over Macedon, when he beheld the statue, “ was moved to his soul, as if he had seen the god in person ,” while the 1st century AD Greek orator Dio Chrysostom declared that a single glimpse of the statue would make a man forget all his earthly troubles.
Plutarch, Cassius Dio and Suetonius state that Octavian killed Antony ’ s son Marcus Antonius Antyllus and Cleopatra's son with Julius Caesar, Caesarion.
Snippets of biographical information are provided by ancient authors as diverse as Tatian, Proclus, Clement of Alexandria, Cicero, Aelian, Plutarch, Galen, Dio Chrysostom, Aelius Aristides and several anonymous authors in the Palatine Anthology.
The Naxian's fate interested later authors such as Plutarch and Dio Chrysostom, since it had been a fair fight yet he was punished for it by the gods: he had gone to the temple of Apollo at Delphi to consult the oracle and was rebuked with the memorable words: " You killed the servant of the Muses ; depart from the temple.
Other historians who lived through the period ( including Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch and Epictetus ) make no mention of it.
Xylander was the author of a number of important works, including Latin translations of Dio Cassius ( 1558 ), Plutarch ( 1560 – 1570 ) and Strabo ( 1571 ).
According to Dio Chrysostom and Plutarch, Tenedos was famous for its pottery ca 100 A. D.
The presence of " nines " in Antony's fleet at Actium is recorded by Florus and Cassius Dio, although Plutarch makes explicit mention only of " eights " and " tens ".
* for online translations of Plutarch, Polybius, Cassius Dio and other antique authors
This usage was followed by Roman writers such as Ovid, Tibullus, Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, Dio Chrysostom, Statius, Plutarch as well as Roman Judean writers Philo of Alexandria and Josephus.
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* Plutarch, Dio Cassius
The temple served as a depository for Aristotle, Caesar, Dio Chrysostomus, Plautus, Plutarch, Strabo and Xenophon.

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