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Cassius and Dio
* 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.

Cassius and writing
Further details concerning Sejanus ' fall are provided by Cassius Dio, writing nearly 200 years after the facts in his Roman History.
Cassius Dio states that when Cicero had finished writing up his speech, he sent a copy to Milo in exile.
Cassius Dio, a Graeco-Roman senator, consul and author of a comprehensive History of Rome, writing approximately 75 years after the Pantheon's reconstruction, mistakenly attributed the domed building to Agrippa rather than Hadrian.
The historian Cassius Dio, writing more than a century after the assassination, claimed that Domitia chanced upon a list of courtiers Domitian intended to put to death, and passed the information to his chamberlain Parthenius.
There remains the possibility that the work belongs to neither Cassius Longinus nor Dionysius of Halicarnassus, but, rather, some unknown author writing under the Roman Empire, likely in the 1st century.
Cassius Dio, writing more than two centuries later, agrees, characterising Caesar as attempting to provoke a war to win glory and power, while taking pains not to look like the aggressor.

Cassius and nearly
He is nearly contemporary with Togodumnus, a prince of the Catuvellauni tribe mentioned by Dio Cassius, and the similarity of their names has led some, including Dr Miles Russell of Bournemouth University and the distinguished archaeologist professor Barry Cunliffe of Oxford University, to suggest that they may be one and the same, thereby making the Fishbourne king a son of Cunobelinus and brother of Caratacus.

Cassius and hundred
Finally, Cassius Dio wrote his Roman History over a hundred years after the death of Titus.
On 28 March 193, Pertinax was at his palace when, according to the Historia Augusta, a contingent of some three hundred soldiers of the Praetorian Guard rushed the gates ( two hundred according to Cassius Dio ).
Cassius Dio reported that a group of one hundred men were sent as envoys from Egypt to make their case to the Romans against Ptolemy XII's restoration, but Ptolemy had their leader ( a philosopher named Dion ) poisoned and most of the other protesters killed before they reached Rome to plead their desires.
Cassius demanded seven hundred talents out of Judea, so Antipater split the cost between his two sons.
However, Antipater saved Malichus from death by expending one hundred talents of his own and placating Cassius ’ anger.

Cassius and years
Suetonius wrote his history on Caligula 80 years after his death, while Cassius Dio wrote his history over 180 years after Caligula's death.
Gaius Cassius Longinus occupies Rhodes, and ordered all the other cities of Asia to pay a tribute for 10 years.
The region, however, was not organized as a province until the last years of Augustus ' reign ; in 6 AD, mention is made of its governor, Caecina Severus ( Cassius Dio lv.
On May 30, 2009, Brown had son Cassius with his partner of two years, manager Alicia Etheridge.
Furius Medullinus, BC 488, is only five years later than the treaty of isopolity which Spurius Cassius Viscellinus concluded with the Latins, to whom the Tusculans belonged, the supposition of the Tusculan origin of the Furia gens does not appear at all improbable.
In later years, he had roles including appearing as Cassius in the historical epic film Gladiator ( 2000 ), with Russell Crowe, as well as appearing in the drama film Last Orders ( 2001 ) and the spy film Spy Game ( 2001 ).
During a 5-year period in the initial years of his reign ( 28-23 BC ), as Dio Cassius tells us ( 53. 12 ), Octavian Caesar assumed direct governorship of the major senatorial provinces on grounds that they were in danger of insurrection and he alone commanded the troops required to restore security.
After five years of marriage, Cassius Clare and his wife Catherine cannot bear each other any longer and decide to get a divorce.
According to the account of Dio Cassius ( Roman History, 75. 10-14 ), the city held out against Severan forces for three years, until 196, with its inhabitants resorting even to throwing bronze statues to the besiegers when they ran out of other projectiles.
Cassius Dio refers to him as governor of Pamphylia in the years 13-11 BC ; his province probably included Galatia.
The disease broke out again nine years later, according to the Roman historian Dio Cassius, and caused up to 2, 000 deaths a day in Rome, one quarter of those infected.
Cassius Dio says that Pomponius was consul seven years before the accession of Caligula ; that is, circa A. D. 30 ; but his name does not appear in the consular fasti.
* Cassius, an alias used in the movie " The Double " for a Russian assassin resurfacing after 20 years dormancy to avenge the killers of his family.
Dio Cassius tells a similar ( if rather simplified ) story but places the events a few years earlier.

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