Cassius tried to blockade Cleopatra ’ s route to the Caesarians.

This manoeuvre was finally noticed by Cassius who tried a countermove by moving part of his army south into the marshes and making a transverse dam, trying to cut off Antony ’ s outstretched right wing.

It seems that part of Cassius ’ s army had advanced south: when these men tried to come back they were easily repulsed by Antony.

After seemingly destroying all his enemies and bringing peace to Rome he was assassinated by friends in a conspiracy organized by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.

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

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.

Gaius Cassius Longinus occupies Rhodes, and ordered all the other cities of Asia to pay a tribute for 10 years.

Strabo, Gaius Maecenas and Cassius Dio all reiterate the traditional Roman opposition against sorcery and divination, and Tacitus uses the term religio-superstitio to class these outlawed observances.

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.

In the second century AD the Emperor Hadrian, according to Dion Cassius, was the first of all the Caesars to grow a beard ; Plutarch says that he did it to hide scars on his face.

When Char Aznable attacks the colony, Side 7, all the officers on the White Base are incapacitated, leaving Bright, who is then an ensign, with the highest seniority on the ship, and he assumes command from the wounded Captain Paolo Cassius.

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.

On the authority to mint coins Dio Cassius writes, " None of the cities should be allowed to have its own separate coinage or a system of weights and measures ; they should all be required to use ours.

Cassius Clare, in an awkward position of wanting to please each member of his family, agrees to Catherine's wish, although right from the start it is clear to all members of the family that she will want to see her two sons on a regular basis once the first meeting has taken place.

# Therefore not only all poets, but even all historians and all writers on ancient matters, who have published for posterity his deeds done in Italy, agree he was a man: in Greek, Diodorus and Thallus, and in Latin, Nepos and Cassius and Varro.

Dio Cassius records that tribes from the north breached Hadrian's Wall which separated them from the empire and killed a general ( possibly Marcellus ' predecessor, Caerellius Priscus ) with all his guards, presumably during an inspection of Hadrian's Wall.

In the words of Cassius Dio: " This was the reason why he made all the people in his empire Roman citizens ; nominally he was honouring them, but his real purpose was to increase his revenues by this means, inasmuch as aliens did not have to pay most of these taxes.

As a mainstay of the French Touch ( he started his career in the 1990s together with Daft Punk, Air, Cassius, Bob Sinclar ...), DJ Cam has released six albums, helmed a number of side projects and given countless performances all around the world, helping him to acquire global notoriety.

Brutus had less military experience than Cassius and, even worse, he could not obtain the same sort of respect from his allies and his soldiers, although after the battle he offered another gift of 1, 000 denarii for each soldier.

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 ).

Sergeant 1st Class Cassius Williams instructs Senegal ese soldiers on United Nations | U. N. peacekeeping policies during training for the African Crisis Response Initiative in Thiès, Senegal.

According to Dio Cassius 72. 14. 3 – 4, in about 189 AD, under Commodus ’ reign, a pestilence occurred, the largest of which he had knowledge, in which 2, 000 people died in Rome each day.

The tribes began a joint invasion of Gaul, including the Roman Provincia Narbonensis, which led to the Tigurini ’ s victory over a Roman army under L. Cassius Longinus near Agendicum in 107 BC, in which the consul was killed.

The historians Tacitus and Cassius Dio depict an overweening, even domineering dowager, ready to interfere in Tiberius ’ decisions, the most notable instances being the case of Urgulania ( grandmother of Claudius's first wife Plautia Urgulanilla ), a woman who correctly assumed that her friendship with the empress placed her above the law, and Munatia Plancina, suspected of murdering Germanicus and saved at Livia's entreaty.

However, on the other side of the via Egnatia, Antony was able to storm Cassius ’ fortifications, demolishing the palisade and filling up the ditch.

Then he easily took Cassius ’ s camp, which was defended by only a few men.

Cassius moved to the top of a hill, but could not see well what was happening on Brutus ’ s side.

Brutus mourned over Cassius ’ s body, calling him " the last of the Romans ".

In the next three weeks, Antony was able to slowly advance his forces south of Brutus ’ s army, fortifying a hill close to Cassius ’ s former camp, which had been left unguarded by Brutus.

Plutarch, Cassius Dio and Suetonius state that Octavian killed Antony ’ s son Marcus Antonius Antyllus and Cleopatra's son with Julius Caesar, Caesarion.

* Cassius Dio ’ s Roman History

After that in 67, Nero would order a young freedman Sporus to be castrated and then marry him ; according to Dion Cassius, Sporus bore an uncanny resemblance to Sabina, and Nero even called him by his dead wife ’ s name.

However, Antipater saved Malichus from death by expending one hundred talents of his own and placating Cassius ’ anger.

By year ’ s end, Cassius had travelled to the south and crossed Mesopotamia at its narrowest point and proceeded to attack the twin Parthian cities on the Tigris river, Seleucia on the right bank, and Ctesiphon, the Parthian capital, on the left.

Similarly, John Zonaras only utilized Herodian where Cassius Dio ’ s history leaves off.

When Avidius Cassius rebelled against what he believed was a deceased Marcus Aurelius, he received no support from Arabia, overlooked by some historians due likely to the fact that Arabia hadn ’ t the wealth or political might of Syria.

To fight Vitalstatistix, chief of Asterix ’ s tribe, the Romans enlist a Gallo-Roman Chief, Cassius Ceramix of Linoleum.

Cassius Ceramix ' challenge therefore comes at the worst possible moment, and Asterix and Vitalstatistix desperately attempt to restore Getafix ’ s mind by consulting Psychoanalytix ( original French name is Amnesix ), a druid who specializes in mental disorders.

In this story we see Vitalstatistix ’ ( as yet unnamed ) wife for the first time, fussing over him when he is preparing to meet Cassius Ceramix.

At the end of the year he was given a proconsular command and sent to govern Hispania Ulterior, replacing Quintus Cassius Longinus, who was accused of mismanaging the provice He held this position until 46 BC, where he was confronted by rebellious legions, and the resurgence of Pompey ’ s forces.

He was in Washington, D. C. when the Civil War broke out, and enlisted in Cassius M. Clay and Gen. James H. Lane ’ s battalion which was formed for the protection of Washington during the first month of the war.