According to Cassius Dio Claudius became very sickly and thin by the end of Caligula's reign, most likely due to stress.

According to Cassius Dio, a financial crisis emerged in AD 39.

According to Cassius Dio, living Emperors could be worshipped as divine in the east and dead Emperors could be worshipped as divine in Rome.

According to Cassius Dio, the conspirators approached Nerva as a potential successor prior to the assassination, suggesting that he was at least aware of the plot.

According to Dio Cassius 72. 14. 3 – 4, in about 189 AD, under Commodus ’ reign, a pestilence occurred, the largest of which he had knowledge, in which 2, 000 people died in Rome each day.

According to Cassius Dio a gigantic equestrian statue was erected to Hadrian after his death.

According to Cassius Dio, his most stable relationship seems to have been with his chariot driver, a blond slave from Caria named Hierocles, whom he referred to as his husband.

According to Dio Cassius, Maecenas was also the inventor of a system of shorthand.

According to Cassius Dio, 580, 000 Jews were killed, 50 fortified towns and 985 villages razed.

According to Cassius Dio, however, after 197 Severus fell heavily under the influence of his Praetorian Prefect, Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, who came to have almost total control of most branches of the imperial administration.

According to Dio Cassius, Perennis, though ruthless and ambitious, was not personally corrupt and generally administered the state well.

According to historian Cassius Dio, over 20, 000 people were killed.

According to the historian Cassius Dio, Vindex " was powerful in body and of shrewd intelligence, was skilled in warfare and full of daring for any great enterprise ; and he had a passionate love of freedom and a vast ambition " ( Cassius Dio, 63. 22. 1-2 ).

According to the historian Cassius Dio, he has a stable relationship with his chariot driver, the slave Hierocles.

According to the descriptions of Strabo, Dio Cassius and other Graeco-Roman geographers, the lands of Asturias were inhabited in the beginning of the Christian era by several peoples, amongst whom the more important were: From the Cantabrians, the Vadinienses, who inhabited the Picos de Europa region and whose settlement gradually expanded southward during the first centuries of the modern era ; the Orgenomesci, who dwelled along the Asturian eastern coast ; and from the Astures, the Saelini, whose settlement extended through the Sella valley ; the Luggones, who had their capital in Lucus Asturum and whose territories stretched between the rivers Sella and Nalón ; the Astures ( in the strictest sense ), who dwelled in inner Asturias, between the current councils of Piloña and Cangas del Narcea ; and the Paesici, who had settled along the coast of Western Asturias, between the mouth of the Navia river and the modern city of Gijón.

According to Cassius Dio, after her father died, Augustus allowed her and her younger sister Antonia Minor to benefit from their father's estate in Rome.

According to Cassius Dio, Boudica's forces impaled Roman captives during her rebellion against the Roman occupation, to the accompaniment of revelry and sacrifices in the sacred groves of Andate.

According to historian Cassius Dio ( XXXVII, 5 ), Afranius retook the district without a conflict with Phraates ' forces.

According to Cassius Dio, who lived in Rome during the period, Julianus's last words were " But what evil have I done?

According to Dio Cassius ( xxxvi.

According to Cassius Dio, Fulvia controlled the politics 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.

According to Cassius Dio, Poppaea enjoyed having milk baths.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

According to Suda, both his " constitution " () and his " precepts " () were composed in elegiac couplets, but Pausanias also mentions " anapests ", a few lines of which, quoted by Dio Chrysostom and attributed to Tyrtaeus by a scholiast, could have belonged to the so-called " war songs " (), of which nothing else survives.

According to Dio, Thrasea belonged to a distinguished and wealthy family.

* According to the Roman scholar and writer Marcus Terentius Varro, the foundation of a library at Pergamum around this time by Eumenes II of Pergamum, combined with an embargo on papyrus by Ptolemy V, leads to the invention of parchment.

According to Livy, his first act as king was to order the Pontifex Maximus to copy the text concerning the performance of public ceremonies of religion from the commentaries of Numa Pompilius to be displayed to the public, so that the rites of religion should no longer be neglected or improperly performed.

According to the coherent chronology of Cicero, Cato was born in 234 BC, in the year before the first Consulship of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, and died at the age of 85, in the consulship of Lucius Marcius Censorinus and Manius Manilius.

According to Valerius Maximus he survived his 86th year ; according to Livy and Plutarch he was 90 years old when he died.

According to Livy in his " History of Rome ", an ancient instruction written in archaic letters commands: " Let him who is the Praetor Maximus fasten a nail on the Ides of September.

Cosmic Liturgy: The Universe According to Maximus the Confessor.

According to Valerius Maximus and Florus ( who both lived much later ), the Teuton King, Teutobod, was taken in irons after their defeat.

According to the historian John of Antioch, Maximus poisoned the mind of the Emperor against Aëtius, resulting in the murder of his rival at the hands of Valentinian III.

According to John of Antioch, Maximus was acutely aware that while Aëtius was alive he could not exact vengeance on Valentinian, and so Aëtius had to be removed.

According to John of Antioch, Maximus was so irritated by Valentinian ’ s refusal to appoint him as his magister militum that he decided to have Valentinian assassinated as well.

According to the historian Valerius Maximus, divorces were taking place by 604 BC or earlier, and the law code as embodied in the mid-5th century BC by the Twelve Tables provides for divorce.

According to Valerius Maximus, she fled upon a horse, then swam across the Tiber.

According to the political journalist and classicist Garry Wills, although Shakespeare has Porcia die by the method Plutarch repeats, but rejects, " the historical Porcia died of illness ( possibly of plague ) a year before the battle of Philippi "...“ but Valerius Maximus wrote that she killed herself at news of Brutus ’ s death in that battle.

According to Valerius Maximus, Suetonius and Cicero, Claudius threw them into the sea, ut biberent, quando esse nollent (" so that they might drink, since they refused to eat ").

According to the current view, this refers to the usurper Joannes ( r. 423 – 425 ), while according to the supporters of the traditional view, it indicates the gate's construction as a free-standing triumphal arch in 388 – 391 to commemorate the defeat of the usurper Magnus Maximus ( r. 385 – 388 ), and which was only later incorporated into the Theodosian Walls.

According to Suetonius ( Domitian, IV, 6-7 ), Domitian organised a naumachia inside the Colosseum, undoubtedly circa 85 CE, and another one in the year 89 CE in a new basin dug beyond the Tiber ; with the stone removed serving to repair the Circus Maximus, which had burnt on two sides.

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.

According to Mommsen, Caepio was presumably motivated into action by the thought that Maximus might be successful in negotiations and claim all the credit for a successful outcome ; he launched a unilateral attack on the Cimbri camp on October 6.

According to Valerius Maximus: " When the senate decreed that the temples of Isis and Serapis be demolished and none of the workmen dared touch them, Consul L. Aemilius Paullus took off his official gown, seized an axe, and dashed it against the doors of that temple.

According to Socrates of Constantinople, Bacurius had also fought in Theodosius's earlier campaign against Magnus Maximus.

* Cosmic Liturgy: The Universe According to Maximus the Confessor

According to the chronicler Malchus, " Around this time, the empress Eudoxia, the widow of the emperor Valentinian and the daughter of the emperor Theodosius and Eudocia, remained unhappily at Rome and, enraged at the tyrant Maximus because of the murder of her spouse, she summoned the Vandal Gaiseric, king of Africa, against Maximus, who was ruling Rome.

According to Prosper, Maximus was in Rome when the Vandals arrived.

According to Speer himself, it was inspired not by the Circus Maximus in Rome but by the Panathenaic Stadium of Athens, which had impressed him greatly when he had visited it in 1935.