Later joining the Roman army, he began his career under the Gothic soldier Gainas.

The contemporary ecclesiastics recorded with wonder many instances of the Visigoths ' clemency: Christian churches saved from ravage ; protection granted to vast multitudes both of pagans and Christians who took refuge therein ; vessels of gold and silver which were found in a private dwelling, spared because they " belonged to St. Peter "; at least one case in which a beautiful Roman matron appealed, not in vain, to the better feelings of the Gothic soldier who attempted her dishonor.

* Miles Gloriosus: ( Latin for " boastful soldier ," the archetype of the braggart soldier in Roman comedies ) A captain in the Roman army to whom Marcus Lycus has promised Philia.

Roman soldier 175 a. C. from a northern province, ( re-enactment ).

* Greek Chapel of St. Longinus-The Orthodox Greek chapel is dedicated to St. Longinus, a Roman soldier who according the New Testament pierced Jesus with a spear.

The first duke was also honoured with Imperial titles: Emperor Joseph I created him a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1704, and in 1705, he was created Imperial Prince of Mindelheim ( once the lordship of the noted soldier Georg von Frundsberg ).

The reverse depicts an armed Roman soldier bearing a military standard in one hand and subduing a captive with the other, a reference to the military strength of the Roman Empire, and spells out VIRTVS EXERCITVS ROMANORVM, " the bravery / virtue of the Roman army ".

A Historical reenactor | reenactor dressed as a Roman soldier in lorica segmentata

Saint George ( c. 275 / 281 – 23 April 303 ) was, according to tradition, a Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina and a soldier in the Guard of Diocletian, who is venerated as a Christian martyr.

St. George is most commonly depicted in early icons, mosaics and frescos wearing armour contemporary with the depiction, executed in gilding and silver colour, intended to identify him as a Roman soldier.

He was probably a Roman soldier martyred for the Christian faith during the persecution of Diocletian in 304 in the city of Porto Torres (), according to the legend on the orders of the governor ( preside ) of Sardinia and Corsica, a certain Barbarus.

* 446 BC — birth of Marcus Furius Camillus, Roman soldier and statesman ( traditional date )

* In Judea a Roman soldier seized and burned a Torah-scroll.

* Spartacus was a Thracian auxiliary soldier in the Roman army who deserted but was captured and then enslaved by the Romans.

Meanwhile a guilt-ridden Posthumus arrives with the Roman army and dresses himself as a poor British soldier, hoping to die on the battlefield.

Posthumus, still alive, gives himself up to Cymbeline as a Roman soldier, hoping to win his sought-for death by execution.

Arminius, who had grown up in Rome as a citizen and become a Roman soldier, understood Roman tactics very well and could direct his troops to counter them effectively, using locally superior numbers against the dispersed Roman legions.

Emperor Justin I of the Eastern Roman empire requested that his fellow Christian, Kaleb, help fight the Yemenite king, and around 525, Kaleb invaded and defeated Dhu Nuwas, appointing his Christian follower Sumuafa ' Ashawa ' as his viceroy.

This view was generally accepted until the Roman physician Galen, a follower of Hippocrates and physician to Roman gladiators, observed that his patients lost their mental faculties when they had sustained damage to their brains.

She was a Maenad, a follower of Dionysus ( also known as Bacchus in Roman mythology ).

Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis ( 95 BC, Rome – April 46 BC, Utica ), commonly known as Cato the Younger ( Cato Minor ) to distinguish him from his great-grandfather ( Cato the Elder ), was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoic philosophy.

Deniehy was a follower of the radical leader John Dunmore Lang ( despite Lang's violent dislike of the Irish and of Roman Catholicism ), and a member of Lang's organisation, the Australian League.

She was then arrested and taken to the court in front of the Roman governor, as a follower of the religion which was then under persecution.

Romans also called the religion Mysteries of Mithras or Mysteries of the Persians ; modern historians refer to it as Mithraism, or sometimes Roman Mithraism.

Numerous archeological finds, including meeting places, monuments, and artifacts, have contributed to modern knowledge about Mithraism throughout the Roman Empire.

He says that "... an indubitable residuum of things Persian in the Mysteries and a better knowledge of what constituted actual Mazdaism have allowed modern scholars to postulate for Roman Mithraism a continuing Iranian theology.

He writes: " Archaeology indicates that Roman Mithraism had its epicenter in Rome ... the fully developed religion known as Mithraism seems to have begun in Rome and been carried to Syria by soldiers and merchants.

However, A. D. H. Bivar, L. A. Campbell and G. Widengren have variously argued that Roman Mithraism represents a continuation of some form of Iranian Mithra worship.

According to Antonia Tripolitis, Roman Mithraism originated in Vedic India and picked up many features of the cultures which it encountered in its westward journey.

According to Luther H. Martin, Roman Mithraism came to an end with the anti-pagan decrees of the Christian emperor Theodosius during the last decade of the 4th century.

* Mithraism, which had begun in Persia, is on course to be adopted by many Roman soldiers serving in Asia.

Culturally, the Roman Empire was significantly hellenized, but also saw the rise of syncratic " eastern " traditions, such as Mithraism, Gnosticism, and most notably Christianity.

However, some writers of Christian apologetics have argued that, because the Gospels were written before 100 and little is known of Roman Mithraism until after 100, it is not possible to definitively state that Christianity borrowed any of its doctrines from Mithraism ; some have even suggested it is more likely the flow was the other way.

After receiving royal travelling fellowships, he undertook archaeology in Pontus and Armenia ( published in 1906 ) and in Syria, but he is best known for his studies on the impact of Eastern mystery religions, particularly Mithraism, on the Roman Empire.

During Hellenism and the Roman empire period, " Eastern " ( Oriental ) religions exerted a considerable influence on " Western " religion, giving rise to Persian influenced traditions like Gnosticism and Mithraism, as well as Egyptian and " Chaldean " influence on mystery religions ( Orphism ), astrology and magic.

After the Roman Empire occupied the later southern Netherlands, Roman mythology became important there, as well as religions from the Middle East, including relics from Egyptian mythology, Judaism, Mithraism and later Christianity.

* November 22, 1817 – Frédéric Cailliaud discovers the old Roman emerald mines at Sikait, Egypt.

* November 22 – Frédéric Cailliaud discovers the old Roman emerald mines at Sikait, Egypt.

While Sabian tries to come up with a solution, Roman, with the help of Timmons and Maggie, gets into Niebaum's computer and discovers recordings of wiretaps, including his last conversation with Roenick.

The landing party discovers that the planet is at roughly a late 20th-century level of technology but its society is similar to the Roman Empire.

Molly also discovers his great secret: Osborne has married for love, to a French Roman Catholic ex-nursery maid, Aimee ( Tonia Chauvet ), whom he has established in a secret cottage.

With Roman numerals, one can at least derive quite a few Friedman expressions from any new expression one discovers.

Judah discovers an official Roman report about the release of two leprous women.

*" King Cat " ( directed by Phil Roman and John Sparey ): In Ancient Egypt, the Pharaoh's sacred cat discovers what happens to him if the Pharaoh dies.