* Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 70,

The Alemanni were first mentioned by Cassius Dio describing the campaign of Caracalla in 213.

Cassius Dio ( 78. 13. 4 ) portrays the Alemanni as victims of this treacherous emperor.

The tale of Cassius Dio is also somewhat different.

Others are Suetonius and Cassius Dio.

Another mutiny forced the retirement of Cassius Dio from his command.

His advisers were men like the famous jurist Ulpian, the historian Cassius Dio and a select board of sixteen senators ; a municipal council of fourteen assisted the urban prefect in administering the affairs of the fourteen districts of Rome.

* Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 80

Most of these data have been recorded by Plutarch, Florus, Cicero, Dio ( Dion ) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( L. 2 ).

The Roman historians Suetonius and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC, Augustus prepared a rationarium ( account ) which listed public revenues, the amounts of cash in the aerarium ( treasury ), in the provincial fisci ( tax officials ), and in the hands of the publicani ( public contractors ); and that it included the names of the freedmen and slaves from whom a detailed account could be obtained.

Dio Cassius describes this surprise tactic employed by Aulus Plautius against the " barbarians "— the British Celts — at the battle of the River Medway, 43:

( Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 60: 20 )

In the 3rd century, however, the Greek historian Dio Cassius states that the " Bastarnae are properly classed as Scythians " and " members of the Scythian race ".

* Dio Cassius Roman History ( ca.

Boudica then either killed herself, so she would not be captured, or fell ill and died — the extant sources, Tacitus and Cassius Dio, differ.

Her name was clearly spelled Boudicca in the best manuscripts of Tacitus, but also Βουδουικα, Βουνδουικα, and Βοδουικα in the ( later and probably secondary ) epitome of Cassius Dio.

Cassius Dio says that Roman financiers, including Seneca the Younger, chose this time to call in their loans.

* Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 50

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

The main ancient historians Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio all wrote after the last of the Flavians had gone.

Cassius Dio said that this act " though delighting the rabble, grieved the sensible, who stopped to reflect, that if the offices should fall once more into the hands of the many ... many disasters would result ".

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

Cassius Dio had written an entire chapter on the annexation of Mauretania by Caligula, but it is now lost.

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

While repeating the earlier stories, the later sources of Suetonius and Cassius Dio provide additional tales of insanity.

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

Antony exercised his tribunician veto, with the aim of preventing a senatorial decree declaring martial law against the veto, and was violently expelled from the senate with another Caesar adherent, Cassius, who was also a tribune of the plebs.

As they entered the forest ( probably just northeast of Osnabrück ), they found the track narrow and muddy ; according to Dio Cassius a violent storm had also arisen.

The college began as a one-room schoolhouse that also served as a church on Sundays on land that was granted to Fee by politician Cassius Clay.

Cassius Dio is most likely not only the first author to mention the Alamanni but also the last one to record an actual historical appearance of the Chatti.

Caracalla's reign was also notable for the Constitutio Antoniniana ( also called the Edict of Caracalla ), granting Roman citizenship to all freemen throughout the Roman Empire for the purpose of increasing tax revenue, according to historian Cassius Dio.

Cassius also wanted to prevent Cleopatra from bringing reinforcements for Antony and Octavian.

Cleopatra had also executed her strategos of Cyprus, Serapion, who had supported Cassius against her wishes.

Tacitus charges that Livia was not altogether innocent of these deaths and Cassius Dio also mentions such rumours, but not even the gossipmonger Suetonius, who had access to official documents, repeats them.

There are also rumors mentioned by Tacitus and Cassius Dio that Livia brought about Augustus ' death by poisoning fresh figs.

But to the south, Cassius was defeated by Antony, and committed suicide after hearing a false report that Brutus had also failed.

After the murder of Caesar, Brutus and Cassius ( the two main conspirators, also known as the Liberatores ) had left Italy and taken control of all Eastern provinces ( from Greece to Syria ) and of the allied Eastern kingdoms.

Andraste, also known as Andrasta or Andred, was, according to the Roman historian Dio Cassius, an Icenic war goddess invoked by Boudica in her fight against the Roman occupation of Britain in AD 60.

Haley also interviewed Muhammad Ali, who spoke about changing his name from Cassius Clay.

Cassius also, with no small sense of self-worth, claimed descent from the Seleucid kings .< ref > Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 130, citing Prosopographia Imperii Romani < sup > 2 </ sup > A 1402f.

A. Fabricii Commentarius, by his son-in-law, H. S. Reimarus, the well-known editor of Dio Cassius, published at Hamburg, 1737 ; see also C. F. Bähr in Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopaedie, and J. E. Sandys, Hist.

He also had triumphs as Malvolio in Twelfth Night ( 1931 ), Shylock in The Merchant of Venice ( 1937 ), Angelo in Measure for Measure ( 1950 ), Cassius in Julius Caesar ( 1950 ) ( which he immortalised in the 1953 film ), Leontes in The Winter's Tale ( 1951 ), and Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII ( 1959 ) ( although his 1960 performance as Othello was not a success ).

Cassius also left behind him three sons, whose names have not been preserved.

Some seem to have called for the execution of Cassius ' sons also, but according to Dionysius, they were spared by the senate.

He also published valuable editions of Polybius, Dio Cassius and other Greek historians.