Velleius Paterculus reports that Caesar afterwards allowed the young man to share his carriage.

According to Velleius Paterculus the foundation of Rome occurred 437 years after the capture of Troy by the Achaeans ( 1182 BC ).

The first mention of the Lombards occurred between AD 9 and 16, by the Roman court historian Velleius Paterculus, who accompanied a Roman expedition as prefect of the cavalry.

The best summary of his character as a man and a statesman, by Marcus Velleius Paterculus, describes him as " of sleepless vigilance in critical emergencies, far-seeing and knowing how to act, but in his relaxation from business more luxurious and effeminate than a woman.

However, according to the 1st century AD historian Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Arminius sent Varus ' head to Maroboduus.

* Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Roman historian ( possibly executed as an accomplice of Sejanus )

* Velleius Paterculus writes the general history of the countries known in Antiquity.

Velleius Paterculus reported that in the years 1 – 4 CE there was unrest in Germania ( immensum bellum, immense war ).

The Romans made a desperate attempt to storm the wall, but failed, and the highest-ranking officer next to Varus, Legatus Numonius Vala, abandoned the troops by riding off with the cavalry ; however, he too was overtaken by the Germanic cavalry and killed, according to Velleius Paterculus.

According to legend, the foundation of Rome took place 438 years after the capture of Troy ( 1182 BC ), according to Velleius Paterculus ( VIII, 5 ).

* Velleius Paterculus: Roman History

* Marcus Velleius Paterculus ( 19 BC – 31 AD ), military officer, historian

With the exception of Velleius Paterculus, ancient historians have universally condemned Sejanus, although accounts differ to which extent Sejanus was manipulated by Tiberius or the other way around.

Among the writers of the time who fell victim to the regime of Sejanus and its aftermath were the historians Aulus Cremutius Cordus, Velleius Paterculus and the poet Phaedrus.

Velleius Paterculus was a historian and contemporary of Sejanus whose two-volume The Roman History details a history of Rome from the fall of Troy until the death of Livia Augusta in 29.

* Velleius Paterculus ( 1719 )

Velleius Paterculus reported the general praise that he was both " the author and admirer of liberal studies " and " competent in both war and studies ".

The Teutons or Teutones were mentioned as a Germanic tribe by Greek and Roman authors, notably Strabo and Marcus Velleius Paterculus, and normally in close connection with the Cimbri, whose ethnicity is contested between Gauls and Germani.

Strabo and Marcus Velleius Paterculus, moreover, classify them as Germanic peoples, and this is perhaps the more probable view, although apparently the distinction between Celts and Teutons was not clearly realized by some of the earlier historians.

He also treated Avianus, Velleius Paterculus and the Christian poet Orientius, whom he edited for the Vienna Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum.

Marcus Velleius Paterculus ( c. 19 BC – c. 31 AD ) was a Roman historian, also known simply as Velleius.

Although his praenomen is given as Marcus by Priscian, some modern scholars identify him with Gaius Velleius Paterculus, whose name occurs in an inscription on a north African milestone ( C. I. L.

Velleius Paterculus was little known in antiquity.

Caesar sent his agent, the younger Balbus, on a mission to win over Lentulus < ref > Cicero, < i > ad Att .</ i > viii. 9, 11 ; < i > ad Fam .</ i > x. 32 ; Velleius, II. 51. 3 – possibly Crus was < i > patronus </ i > to the Cornelii Balbi, uncle and nephew, if he had been their sponsor when they were granted Roman citizenship under Pompeius in 72, and Caesar hoped that Balbus would have some influence with the consul.

* Velleius Paterculus: < i > Historia Romana </ i > ( Roman History )

Velleius reports that one commander, Praefectus Ceionius, shamefully surrendered and later took his own life, while his colleague Praefectus Eggius heroically died leading his doomed troops.

Velleius, sixty years after the event, also refers to an asp.

Other Romans who visited Posidonius in Rhodes were Velleius, Cotta, and Lucilius.

* A. J. Woodman, Velleius Paterculus: The Caesarian and Augustan Narrative ( 2. 41-93 ); Cambridge Classical texts and commentaries 25 ( Cambridge University Press, 1983, paperback 2004 ; ISBN 0-521-60702-7 )

* Velleius Paterculus: The Tiberian Narrative ; Cambridge Classical texts and commentaries 19 ( Cambridge University Press, 1977, paperback 2004 ; ISBN 0-521-60935-6 )

16 ; Velleius Paterculus ii.

* Compendium of Roman History ( Res gestae divi Augusti ) by Velleius Paterculus, Harvard University Press ; 1924.

Cosa was a Latin colonia founded under Roman influence in southwestern Tuscany in 273 BC, perhaps on land confiscated from the Etruscans ( Velleius Paterculus 1. 14. 7 ; Livy Periochae 14 ; Strabo 5. 2. 8 ).

The Roman historians Velleius Paterculus, Florus, and Cassius Dio also mention him.

* Velleius Paterculus ii.

* Velleius Paterculus ii. 18

** Velleius Paterculus ii.

* Velleius Paterculus ii.

* Marcus Velleius Paterculus ii.

** Velleius Paterculus ii. 32

Paterculus described the Lombards as " more fierce than ordinary German savagery.

How much of Paterculus ' writing is due to genuine admiration, prudence or fear remains an open question, but it has been conjectured that he was put to death as a friend of Sejanus.

Paterculus belonged to a distinguished Campanian family, and entered the army at an early age.

The inflated rhetoric, the straining after effect by means of hyperbole, antithesis and epigram, belong firmly to the Silver Age, of which Paterculus is the earliest example.