According to Aelius Lampridius, the boy-emperor Diadumenian ( 208 – 218 ) was so named because he was born with a diadem formed by a rolled caul.

According to Suetonius in his De vita Caesarum ( The Lives of the Twelve Caesars ), written in the first century CE, the emperor Augustus sometimes presented old and exotic coins to friends and courtiers during festivals and other special occasions.

According to Strabo, by the time of emperor Augustus, up to 120 Roman ships were setting sail every year from Myos Hormos in Roman Egypt to India.

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

According to legend, he was the first Japanese emperor to drink tea.

According to the Kojiki, this emperor is said to have ruled from the Thirteenth Day of the Eleventh Month of 456 ( Heishin ) until his death on the Seventh Day of the Eight Month of 479 ( Kibi ).

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 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.

According to tradition, San Marino was founded in 301 AD when a Christian stonemason named Marinus the Dalmatian, later venerated as Saint Marinus, emigrated in 257 AD from the Dalmatian island of Rab, then a Roman colony, when the emperor Diocletian issued a decree calling for the reconstruction of the city walls of Rimini which had been destroyed by Liburnian pirates.

According to, the Persian emperor, Cyrus the Great ( reigned 559 BCE – 530 BCE ), permitted the return of the exiles to their homeland and ordered the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem ( Zion ).

According to Tamar's historian, the aim of the Georgian expedition to Trebizond was to punish the Byzantine emperor Alexius IV Angelus for his confiscation of a shipment of money from the Georgian queen to the monasteries of Antioch and Mount Athos.

According to the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493 AD, the emperor martyred the Roman priest during a general persecution of Christians.

According to the chronist Bartholomew of Lucca, he discussed with Rudolph, in general terms at least, of splitting the German Empire into four separate kingdoms-Lombardy, Burgundy, Tuscia and Germany, where Rudolph's kingdom would be made hereditary in addition to himself becoming emperor.

According to the terms of the late emperor's will ( Go-Saga died in 1272 ), in 1274, he would became emperor upon the death or abdication of Emperor Kameyama.

According to a reconstructed inscription found on the site, " the emperor Vespasian ordered this new amphitheatre to be erected from his general's share of the booty.

According to those historians who believe that Olybrius was Petronius ' son, it was in 455 that Olybrius married Placidia, in particular between April 17, when Petronius was acclaimed Emperor, and May 31, when he died ; this would explain the marriage between Olybrius and Valentinian's younger daughter as a move to secure Petronius ' legitimacy as emperor.

According to tradition, in the 3rd century, the Sassanian emperor Ardashir I ( r. 226-241 AD ) commanded his high priest Tonsar ( or Tansar ) to compile the theological texts.

According to John of Ephesus, he was the first heir born to a reigning emperor since the reign of Theodosius II ( 408 – 450 ).

According to Brown and Gilman, usage of the plural to the Roman emperor began in the fourth century AD.

According to a popular legend, the capital was moved when the emperor's advisers brought the emperor to the hills surrounding Nanjing and pointed out the emperor's palace showing the vulnerability of the palace to artillery attack.

According to Jordanes, he negotiated a peace with the new emperor, Theodosius I, that made some Thervings foederati, or official allies of Rome allowed to settle on Roman soil as a state within a state.

According to John Zonaras, the commander of the Praetorian Guard Marcus Aurelius Carus had been proclaimed, more or less unwillingly, emperor by his troops.

According to Edward Gibbon, Valentinian III was a poor emperor:

According to the text: the empress Justina " became known to Marina Severa, wife of the emperor Valentinian, and had frequent intercourse with the empress, until their intimacy at length grew to such an extent that they were accustomed to bathe together.

) According to Suetonius, the Octavian family held some renown there, and Gaius Octavius ( father of the future Caesar Augustus ) defeated a Spartacist army near there ; as a result, the future emperor was granted the surname Thurinus shortly after birth.

According to the Lanercost Chronicle, Alexander did not spend his decade as a widower alone: " he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise.

According to the biography, Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution by Kevin Brown, Alexander Fleming, in a letter to his friend and colleague Andre Gratia, described this as " A wondrous fable.

According to Alexander teachers, " end-gaining " increases the likelihood of selecting older or multiple conflicting coping strategies.

According to Alexander Technique instructor Michael J. Gelb, people tend to study the Alexander Technique either to rid themselves of pain, to increase their performance abilities, or for reasons of personal development and transformation.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, it was Alexander I who inserted the narration of the Last Supper ( the Qui pridie ) into the Catholic celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

According to Alexander Litvinenko, Russian presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin was drugged with the same substance by FSB agents during his alleged kidnapping.

According to Curtius ' History of Alexander, at this point Alexander and a small, mobile force arrived and threw the Persians into a panic, leading Bessus and two other conspirators, Satibarzanes and Barsaentes, to wound the king with their javelins and leaving him to die.

According to legend preserved in the Book of Arda Viraf, a 3rd or 4th century work, a written version of the religious texts had existed in the palace library of the Achaemenid kings ( 559 – 330 BC ), but which was then supposedly ( Arda Viraf 1. 4-7 and Denkard 3. 420 ) lost in a fire caused by the troops of Alexander.

According to Robert Alexander, Ernest Mandel has written that an organisation in Indonesia, the Partai Acoma, was affiliate to the FI from 1959 until the 1965 coup in that country.

" According to a 29 May 1897 diary entry written by her father's distant cousin, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, she was given the name " Tatiana " as an homage to the heroine in Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin.

According to some sources, Serbian king Peter I wanted Tatiana as a bride for his younger son, Prince Alexander.

According to one of them, he had in a dream seen Alexander standing beside him.

According to the mythological Greek Alexander Romance, Queen Thalestris () of the Amazons brought 300 women to Alexander the Great, hoping to breed a race of children as strong and intelligent as he.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Gorky's return to the Soviet Union was motivated by material needs.

According to Pliny, Alexander the Great offered his mistress, Pankaspe, as the model for the nude Venus and later, realizing that Apelles had fallen in love with the girl, gave her to the artist in a gesture of extreme magnanimity.

According to classical sources, he killed his predecessor and relative, Darius III, after the Persian army had been defeated by Alexander the Great.

According to Aelian, the seer Aristander foretold that the land where Alexander was laid to rest " would be happy and unvanquishable forever ".

" According to post office records, Alexander was from Sherwood, Michigan, and this was the town that was named after Sherwood Forest England.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " the term is usually applied to attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the first extensive pogroms followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 ," and the Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789 states that pogroms " were antisemitic disturbances that periodically occurred within the tsarist empire.

According to this source, Gordian served as quaestor in Elagabalus ' reign and as praetor and consul suffect with Emperor Alexander Severus.