Eusebius of Caesarea, including the Praeparatio evangelica and the Demonstratio evangelica as well as the Historia ecclesiastica ( 1544-1546 ), Manuel Moschopulus ( 1545 ), Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( February 1547 ), Alexander of Tralles ( January 1548 ), Dio Cassius ( January 1548 ), Justin Martyr ( 1551 ), Xiphilinus ( 1551 ), Appian ( 1551 ), the last being completed, after Robert's departure from Paris, by his brother Charles, and appearing under his name.

Other Imperial authors such as Horace, the Tiberian authors Velleius Paterculus and Valerius Maximus along with Lucan and Seneca in the 1st century AD and later authors such as Appian and Dio celebrated the historical importance of Cato the Younger in their own writings.

Appian and Cassius Dio describe Fulvia as being involved in the violent proscriptions, which were used to destroy enemies and gain badly needed funds to secure control 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.

Most contemporary historians ( Cassius Dio, Valerius Maximus, and Appian ) claim that she killed herself after hearing that Brutus had died following the second battle of Philippi.

The historian Appian states that he died in battle ; Cassius Dio says he was captured and then killed.

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.

Pinnes is not even mentioned by Polybius, though Appian and Cassius Dio refer to him as the legitimate heir.

* Dio Cassius, Appian, Plutarch, Livy

The significant historians in the period after Alexander were Timaeus, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Appian of Alexandria, Arrian, and Plutarch.

Gaius Asinius Pollio ( sometimes wrongly called Pollius or Philo ) ( Teate Marrucinorum-currently Chieti in Abruzzi 75 BC – AD 4 ) was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic and historian, whose lost contemporary history, provided much of the material for the historians Appian and Plutarch.

There is no scholarly agreement that the oath took place ; it is reported, although differently, by Plutarch ( Poplicola, 2 ) and Appian ( B. C.

Plutarch records that Hannibal ranked Pyrrhus as the greatest commander the world had ever seen, though Appian gives a different version of the story, in which Hannibal placed him second after Alexander the Great.

This is a Hellenism, like sylva for classical Latin silva, reinforced by the fact that our two major sources, Plutarch and Appian, wrote in Greek, and call him Σύλλα.

* See Appian, Punica, 80 n. c., i. 16 ; Valerius Maximus ix. 14 ; Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus, 21.

The significant historians in the period after Alexander were Timaeus, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Appian of Alexandria, Arrian, and Plutarch.

Appian and Plutarch claim that only 10, 000 of the enemy forces survived and escaped to the nearby town.

Posidonius calls him Athenion and makes him a Peripatetic philosopher, whereas others, Pausanias, Appian, and Plutarch, call him Aristion, and Appian calls him an Epicurean philosopher.

* Appian writes Ρωμαικα, known in English as the Roman History, in which he includes the history of each nation conquered up until the moment of its conquest.

Some sources state that on December 6, 53 BC, by chance Clodius and Milo ( each accompanied by an armed escort ) passed each other on the Appian Way near Bovillae.

According to Livy, in the extreme right he posted the Trallian and Cretan horsemen, each body numbering 500 troopers, but most probably, these are the light troops and archers named by Appian to be intermingled among the cavalry.

However, according to Steinacher, the Adriatic Veneti, the Veneti of Gaul and the North Balkan / Paphlagonian Enetoi mentioned by Herodotus and Appian were not related to each other, nor to the Veneti / Venedi mentioned by Tacitus, Pliny and Ptolemy.

He may have relied primarily on one author for each book, whom he did not follow uncritically, since Appian also used additional sources for precision and correction.

Bruun argues that within § 34 of Pro Caelio Cicero powerfully employs “ the oratorical technique of “ personification ” or “ speech in character ” ( prosopopeia ) and for a while pretended, apparently both by gestures and by voice, to be one of Clodia ’ s most famous ancestors, the censor Appius Claudius Caecus .” According to Bruun, Appius proclaims to have spurred three major civic accomplishments, while for each Cicero attempts to point out a reason why Clodia should be ashamed of herself for immorality connected with the Appian works.

There are relatively few sites using these domains, but examples include ESPN ( es. pn ), Appian Corporation ( ap. pn ) and Groupon ( gr. pn ), which each use the domain for URL shortening services.

The Greek colonists from Sparta called the city Taras (), after the mythical hero Taras, while the Romans, who connected the city to Rome with an extension of the Appian way, called it Tarentum.

Both Herodotus and Appian describe the conquest of the city by Harpagus on behalf of the Persian Empire, in approximately 540 BC.

Reports on the city's surrender to Alexander the Great differ: Arrian reports a peaceful surrender, but Appian claims that the city was sacked.

Appian in the beginning of his Punic Wars claims that Carthage was founded by a certain Zorus and Carchedon, but Zorus looks like an alternative transliteration of the city name Tyre and Carchedon is just the Greek form of Carthage.

It was one of the main entries to the city of Rome, since it opened on the Appian Way.

The city was heavily fortified and according to the Greek historian Appian, had thick and towering walls that stood 25 meters high, providing a formidable defense against a prolonged siege.

Regio I took its name from the Porta Capena (" Gate to Capua "), a gate through the Servian Walls which the Appian Way takes to get into the city.

Callixtus was the deacon to whom Pope Zephyrinus entrusted the burial chambers along the Appian Way.

He was buried in the papal crypt of the Catacomb of Callixtus, on the Appian Way in Rome.

Nevertheless, according to Appian, the troops ' fighting spirit improved dramatically thereafter, since Crassus had demonstrated that " he was more dangerous to them than the enemy.

The Appian Way ( Latin and Italian: Via Appia ) was one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic.

The Appian Way was used as a main route for military supplies since its construction for that purpose in the mid-4th century BC.

The Appian Way was the first long road built specifically to transport troops outside the smaller region of greater Rome ( this was essential to the Romans ).

The main part of the Appian Way was started and finished in 312 BC.

A new Appian Way was built in parallel with the old one in 1784 as far as the Alban Hills region.

It is located about some 800 m from Porta San Sebastiano, where the Via Ardeatina branches off the Appian Way, on the site where, according to the legend, Saint Peter met Jesus while the former was fleeing persecution in Rome.

The first place to be referred to as catacombs was the system of underground tombs between the 2nd and 3rd milestones of the Appian Way in Rome, where the bodies of the apostles Peter and Paul, among others, were said to have been buried.

Three Taverns () was a place on the ancient Appian Way, about 18 km from Rome, designed for the reception of travellers, as the name indicates.

It was only after this, according to Appian, that Octavius slinked away unnoticed and was replaced as tribune by Quintus Memmius.

In Roman mythology, Appias was one of the Crinaeae, a naiad who lived in the Appian Well outside the temple to Venus Genitrix in the Roman Forum.

This was Lord Burlington's attempt to symbolise the Appian Way which led to ancient Rome.

It was in these circumstances that the entourages of Milo and Clodius met on the Appian Way at Bovillae ( January 18, 52 BC ).

The date of his downfall is uncertain ; Josephus reckons he was killed around 90 BC fighting the Parthians-and his possession of Antioch was certainly lost to Philip I Philadelphus around then-whereas for instance Appian speaks of him being defeated when the Armenian king Tigranes invaded Syria by 83 BC, but in that case his actions in the meantime remain unrevealed.