: Lucius Afranius was also the name of a consul of 60 BC.

Lucius Afranius was an ancient Roman comic poet, who lived at the beginning of the 1st century BC.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Metellus and Afranius ( or, less frequently, year 694 Ab urbe condita ).

Theodora, the wife of Constantius Chlorus, is often called Maximian's stepdaughter by ancient sources, leading to claims by Otto Seeck and Ernest Stein that she was born from an earlier marriage between Eutropia and Afranius Hannibalianus .< ref > Aurelius Victor, de Caesaribus 39. 25 ; Eutropius, Breviaria 9. 22 ; Jerome, Chronicle 225 < sup > g </ sup >; Epitome de Caesaribus 39. 2, 40. 12, quoted in Barnes, New Empire, 33 ; Barnes, New Empire, 33 .</ ref > Barnes challenges this view, saying that all " stepdaughter " sources derive their information from the partially unreliable work of history Kaisergeschichte, while other, more reliable sources, refer to her as Maximian's natural daughter .< ref > Origo Constantini 2 ; Philostorgius, Historia Ecclesiastica 2. 16 < sup > a </ sup >, quoted in Barnes, New Empire, 33.

Tigellinus gained imperial favour through his acquaintance with Nero's mother Agrippina the Younger, and was appointed prefect upon the death of his predecessor Sextus Afranius Burrus, a position Tigellinus held first with Faenius Rufus and then Nymphidius Sabinus.

: Lucius Afranius was also the name of a comic poet of the 90s BC.

Lucius Afranius ( died 46 BC ) was an ancient Roman legatus and client of Pompey the Great.

Lucius Afranius was born into a humble family in Picenum.

Afranius was present during Pompey's campaigns against Marian supporter Quintus Sertorius.

Sertorius attacked Pompey's left wing, which was under Afranius ' command.

Afranius held until Sertorius ' attention was drawn away by Pompey's attack into Sertorius ' own left.

After the success of this campaign, however, Pompey was given command in the east and appointed Afranius as his legate for this new campaign.

Despite public knowledge and disapproval of this, Afranius was elected consul in 60 BC, his colleague being Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer.

When Pompey was granted Hispania ( Iberia, comprising modern Spain and Portugal ) as a proconsular province, Afranius, together with Marcus Petreius and Marcus Terentius Varro, governed in his stead, Pompey remaining in Rome to manage affairs there.

Afranius, with his three legions, was in possession of the passes.

Fabius advanced to the River Segre, where Afranius ' force, now joined with Petreius ' legions, was encamped.

Caesar encamped his forces less than a half a mile from Afranius ' camp, which was constructed on a hill.

Afranius found out that a large supply convoy was approaching Caesar from Gaul.

Afranius and Petreius sent dispatches to Rome claiming victory, and announcing that the war was all but over.

When Afranius ' men saw the Caesar's clemency, their mind was made up.

Afranius took no active command at Dyrrachium or Pharsalus, though he was no doubt there.

Other Syagrii Mathisen lists with a connection to Gaul are a great-grandson of Afranius, who had an estate at Taionnacus near Lyons, and a wealthy Syagria of Lyons who was described by Magnus Felix Ennodius as thesaurus ecclesiae.

It was only taken four years later by Pompey's legate Lucius Afranius, after a lot of inhabitants had died from starvation and there had occurred cannibalism.

Sextus Afranius Burrus ( 1-62 ), Praetorian prefect, was advisor to Roman Emperor Nero and, together with Seneca the Younger, very powerful in the early years of Nero's reign.

Afranius ordered Petreius, in command of two legions in Lusitania, to march for the Pyrenees to combine their forces.

** June – Caesar arrives in Spain ; seizes the Pyrenees passes against the Pompeians L. Afranius and Marcus Petreius.

When Sertorius moved his forces to counter this, Afranius led an attack against the Sertorian right.

However, Plutarch ( Pompey 36 ) asserts that Afranius marched against the Parthians, drove them out of Armenia, and pursued them as far as the district of Arbela ( modern Arbil, Iraq ) within the borders of the Parthian Empire.

Book 4: The first half of this book is occupied with Caesar's victorious campaign in Spain against Afranius and Petreius.

After completing training ( which is rather relaxing for the conscripts while very stressful for the Centurions ), the newly formed unit sets off as reinforcements to Caesar who is fighting a losing campaign against a rival Roman faction headed by Caecilius Metellus Scipio in alliance with Afranius and King Juba I of Numidia.

The battle ended with roughly equal casualties, with both Afranius and Caesar counting the battle as a victory.

This attack routed the enemy and Afranius pursued them into their camp.

Despite the unprecedented size of Pompey's corps of legates — he received the right to appoint 24 of these senior adjutants — for his scourge of the pirates from the Mediterranean, Afranius did not number amongst them, as his patron chose to cultivate his links with the Roman aristocracy by appointing only men of distinguished family.

After holding them for several days, the troops guarding them mutinied and killed all the leading republican prisoners, including Afranius.

This opportunistic policy led them to side with Pompey during the final phase of the Sertorian Wars ( 82 – 72 BC ), and they continued to follow the Pompeian cause until the defeat of his generals Afranius and Petreius at the battle of Ilerda ( Lérida ) in 49 BC.

Despite this, Afranius, along with Petreius, broke his word to Caesar, embarked with as many loyal troops as he could gather and sailed for Epirus and Pompey.

Other key figures in the resistance were Titus Labienus, Publius Attius Varus, Lucius Afranius, Marcus Petreius and the brothers Sextus and Gnaeus Pompeius ( Pompey's sons ).

In 64 BC, he sided with the Romans helping Pompey's legate Lucius Afranius when the latter occupied northern Mesopotamia, but it is alleged that he helped to betray Marcus Crassus by leading him out onto an open plain, resulting in 53 BC in the Battle of Carrhae, which destroyed an entire Roman army.

** Julius Caesar goes into Hispania and defeats the legions of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus ' legates, Marcus Terentius Varro, Marcus Petreius and Lucius Afranius, leaving Gaius Cassius Longinus as legate and facing growing difficulties in maintaining local populations obedient to Rome.

That same year she appointed Sextus Afranius Burrus as the head of the Praetorian Guard, replacing the previous head of the Praetorian Guard, Rufrius Crispinus.

Again according to convention he posted his most experienced legions on the flanks ( the first and the third legion on his left with Pompey himself commanding, the Syrian legions in the center with Scipio, the Cilician legion and the Spanish cohorts on the right with Afranius ), dispersing his new recruits along the center.

Diocletian's praetorian prefects — Afranius Hannibalianus, Julius Asclepiodotus, and Aurelius Hermogenianus — aided in regulating the flow and presentation of such paperwork, but the deep legalism of Roman culture kept the workload heavy.

For others with this name, see Afranius.

They were considered by some ancients to be frequently polluted with disgraceful amours, which, according to Quintilian, were only a representation of the conduct of Afranius.

Afranius had written many comedies, as the names and fragments of between twenty and thirty are still preserved.

** July 30 – Caesar surrounds Afranius and Petreius's army in Ilerda.

From 54 to 62, Seneca acted as Nero's advisor, together with the praetorian prefect Sextus Afranius Burrus.