* 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.

He states that both the elder Gaius Julius Caesar ( Julius Caesar ) and the younger Gaius Julius Caesar ( Caligula ) were stabbed 30 times by conspirators led by a man named Cassius ( Cassius Longinus and Cassius Chaerea ).

The only further mention of Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus comes from Cassius Dio, who states that when their sister Cleopatra Selene II married King Juba II, Octavian ( then named Augustus ) spared the lives of Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus as a favor to the couple.

Cassius Dio states that when Cicero had finished writing up his speech, he sent a copy to Milo in exile.

Both Livius and Dionysius erroneously report that Cassius was condemned by the tribes, and for this reason, Dionysius states that he was hurled from the Tarpeian Rock.

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

She states that while she based her account of Hadrian on the two most principal sources, Historia Augusta and Cassius Dio's Historia Romana, her goal was to reinterpret the past but also strive for historical authenticity.

Cassius Dio states that the Romans gave Syphax an estate at Alba, and " at his death honoured him with a public funeral ; and they confirmed Vermina in the possession of his father's kingdom besides bestowing upon him the Numidian captives.

Dio Cassius attributes to Maecenas the invention of shorthand, and states that he employed his freedman Aquila in teaching the system to numerous others.

Cassius Dio states that the Empress Valeria Messalina ( out of her fear, of Pompeius being a rival to Britannicus ) ordered his execution, so that Antonia could marry Messalina's half-brother Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix.

Cassius Dio states that the Roman public was not pleased with Caligula's marriage to Caesonia.

Dio Cassius states of Jewish insurrectionaries: "' Meanwhile the Jews in the region of Cyrene had put one Andreas at their head and were destroying both the Romans and the Greeks.

Cassius Dio states that Caligula intended to make his horse Incitatus consul, but was assassinated before he could do so.

According to Cassius Dio, after her father died, Augustus allowed her and her younger sister Antonia Minor to benefit from their father's estate in Rome.

According to Cassius Dio, Tiberius handed Livilla over to her mother, Antonia Minor, who locked her up in a room and starved her to death.

According to Tacitus, Suetonius, Cassius Dio, Sejanus had poisoned Drusus, not only because he feared the wrath of the future Emperor but also because he had designs on the supreme power, and aimed at removing a potential competitor -, with Livilla as his accomplice.

Ancient sources ( Tacitus, Suetonius, Cassius Dio ) concur that with Livilla as his accomplice he poisoned her husband.