According to Herodian, the Roman armies suffered a number of humiliating setbacks and defeats, while according to the Historia Augusta as well as Alexander's own dispatch to the Roman Senate, he gained great victories.

According to the Historia Augusta, the Roman emperor Hadrian issued a decree banning circumcision in the empire,

According to the Historia Augusta, he quoted from Virgil while doing so.

According to British legend ( see: Historia Brittonum ) the territory known later as Essex was ceded by the Britons to the Saxons following the infamous Brad y Cyllyll Hirion event which occurred ca.

According to the Historia Augusta, an unreliable source compiled long after the events it describes, a conspiracy was led by the commander of the guard Aurelius Heraclianus and one Marcianus.

According to the legendary Historia Regum Britanniae, of Geoffrey of Monmouth, London was founded by Brutus of Troy after he defeated the incumbent giants Gog and Magog and was known as, ( Latin for New Troy ), which, according to a pseudo-etymology, was corrupted to Trinovantum.

According to Paul the Deacon's 8th century work Historia Langobardorum, the Langobards migrated southward from Scandinavia led by Ibur and Aio, while Saxo Grammaticus records in his 12th-century work Gesta Danorum that this migration was prompted by Aggi and Ebbi.

According to the 4th century Historia Augusta, the emperor Commodus participated in its mysteries but it never became one of the state cults.

According to the Historia Augusta, a usually unreliable source, he was prosecuted for adultery during this time but the case was ultimately dismissed.

According to Nicephorus ( Historia eccl., 2, 40 ), Matthias first preached the Gospel in Judaea, then in Aethiopia ( made out to be a synonym for the region of Colchis, now in modern-day Georgia ) and was crucified in Colchis.

According to the Historia Regum Britanniae written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in around 1136, " the coast of Totnes " was where Brutus of Troy, the mythical founder of Britain, first came ashore on the island.

According to a later continuation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica ( written anonymously after Bede's death ) the king was " treacherously murdered at night by his own bodyguards ", though the reason why is unrecorded.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's fictional Historia Regum Britanniae ( ca.

According to the Historia, at Guinnion, Arthur " carried the image of holy Mary ever virgin on his shoulders ", and put his enemy to flight.

According to Gregory of Tours ' Historia Francorum ( History of the Franks ), when Clotilde had their first child baptised, he died soon after.

According to Historia Norwegiæ, it would have been his wife ’ s native country and hence a power base where he might have expected to muster some support, but the text makes no such claims.

According to the Historia Augusta he abstained from destroying the city after having a vision of Apollonius admonishing him to spare the innocent citizens.

According to Historia Augusta, Numerian was a man of considerable literary attainments, remarkably amiable and known as a great orator and poet.

According to the Latin Historia Norwegiæ, Halvdan was a king " in montanis " ( in the mountains ), which is usually equivalent to Oppland in the Old Norse.

According to Geoffrey in the Historia and much subsequent literature which he inspired, Avalon is the place where King Arthur is taken after fighting Mordred at the Battle of Camlann to recover from his wounds.

According to the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta, his mother was a Roman woman called Fabia Orestilla, born circa 165, who the Augustan History claims was a descendant of Roman Emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius through her father Fulvus Antoninus.

According to the Historia Augusta, his body was never recovered.

According to Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, a history of the English church, there were seven early Anglo-Saxon rulers who held imperium, or overlordship, over the other kingdoms.

According to the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta, his cognomen of " Niger " was given due to the fact that his neck was black.

According to Channing's 2002 memoir, when she left home to attend Bennington College in Vermont, her mother Adelaide informed Channing that her father George, whom Carol had believed was born in Rhode Island, had actually been born in Augusta, Georgia.

According to Notitia Dignitatum, around 420 an Octaviani unit was under the Magister Peditum of Italia ; it is possible that this unit was the old VIII Augusta, which was originally a comitatensis unit, but that had been promoted to palatina status.

According to the ancient historian Sozomen, in his Ecclesiastical History, Pulcheria took a vow of virginity when she became Augusta, and her sisters followed suit.

According to Herodian he had governed provinces, but the list of seven provinces given in the Historia Augusta, as well as the statement that Balbinus had been both Proconsul of Asia and of Africa, are likely to be mere invention.

According to Edward Gibbon ( drawing upon the narratives of Herodian and the Historia Augusta ):

According to Edward Gibbon ( drawing on the narratives of Herodian and the Historia Augusta ), the choice was sensible, as:

According to the 2006 Census the population of the Port Augusta census area was 13, 257 people, making it the second largest urban area after Whyalla on the Eyre Peninsula.

According to the often unreliable Historia Augusta, he had served as military tribune under Valerian.

According to Historia Augusta, he was a military tribune under Valerian, but this information is challenged by historians.

According to Augusta County Sheriff Randy Fisher, the Bloods, Crips, Latin Kings and MS-13 are active in the area.

According to the Historia Augusta, the teenaged Severan heir adopted the name of his deity and brought his cult image from Emesa to Rome.

According to Imperially biased Historia Augusta, Maeonius killed Odaenathus and his son Hairan during a celebration, because of a conspiracy organized by Zenobia, second wife of Odaenathus, who wanted their son Vaballathus to succeed Odaenathus instead of Hairan ( who was the son of Odaenathus by another woman ).

According to a flyer held by the V & A Archives, Princess Augusta was a patron of L. Bertolotto's flea circus.

* Historia Augusta, The Life of Antoninus Pius, English version of Historia Augusta Note that the Historia Augusta includes pseudohistorical elements.

The Historia Augusta, Life of Antoninus Caracalla, relates ( 10. 5 ) that Caracalla then assumed the name Alemannicus, at which Helvius Pertinax jested that he should really be called Geticus Maximus, because in the year before he had murdered his brother, Geta.

* Historia Augusta, Life of Severus Alexander

In the late 2nd century, the Historia Augusta mentions that in the rule of Marcus Aurelius ( 161-80 ), an alliance of lower Danube tribes including the Bastarnae, the Sarmatian Roxolani and the Costoboci took advantage of the emperor's difficulties on the upper Danube ( the Marcomannic Wars ) to invade Roman territory.

* Anonymous Historia Augusta ( ca.

The often-unreliable Historia Augusta states that he served in Gaul, but this account is not corroborated by other sources and is ignored by modern historians of the period.

* Historia Augusta: A history from Hadrian to Carus.

The reasons for his usurpation are unclear and Historia Augusta, the almost sole resource for the events, does not provide a credible story.

Gallienus returned in 263 or 265 and, as even Historia Augusta admits, was entirely successful, finally besieging Postumus in an unnamed Gallic city ; however, during the siege, he was severely wounded by an arrow and had to leave the field.

The two Macriani left Quietus, Ballista, and, presumably, Odenathus to deal with the Persians while they invaded Europe with an army of 30, 000 men, according to the Historia Augusta.

One version has Claudius selected as Emperor by the conspirators, another chosen by Gallienus on his death bed ; the Historia Augusta was concerned to substantiate the descent of the Constantinian dynasty from Claudius, and this may explain its accounts which do not involve Claudius in the murder.

* Historia Augusta ( Augustan History ), The Two Gallieni

Ammianus and the Historia Augusta, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1968.