They had asked for his help, says Dio, but instead he colonized their country, changed their place names and executed their warriors under a pretext of coming to their aid.

Dio says that she was " possessed of greater intelligence than often belongs to women ", that she was tall, had hair described as reddish-brown or tawny hanging below her waist, a harsh voice and a piercing glare, and habitually wore a large golden necklace ( perhaps a torc ), a many-coloured tunic, and a thick cloak fastened by a brooch.

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

Dio says that at the outset Boudica employed a form of divination, releasing a hare from the folds of her dress and interpreting the direction in which it ran, and invoked Andraste, a British goddess of victory.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

Herodian says that Martialis ' brother had been executed a few days earlier by Caracalla on an unproven charge ; Cassius Dio, on the other hand, says that Martialis was resentful at not being promoted to the rank of centurion.

Dio says he never lost a match nor was struck by an opponent.

Dio Cassius ( 54. 11. 5 ) says that one legion was stripped of its title, Augusta, after suffering reverses in that campaign.

::" Of this Phlegon, as Philostorgius says, to relate fully in detail what befell with the Jews, while Phlegon and Dio mentioned events briefly and made them an appendix to their own narrative.

Dio says that this was because the resistance became fiercer as the Britons tried to avenge Togodumnus, and Plautius needed the emperor's help to complete the conquest ; however, as Claudius was no military man and in the end spent only sixteen days in Britain, it is likely the Britons were already as good as beaten.

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

Dio Cassius says this was to keep them from joining Mark Antony and bringing their armies into the developing conflict.

However the sources do not appear to support this: according to Dio, Togodumnus was killed in 43 in the early stages of the Roman conquest of Britain, while Tacitus says that Cogidubnus remained loyal to Rome as a client king into the later part of the 1st century.

Means says that he prefers " American Indian ", arguing that it derives not from explorers ' confusion of the people with those of India, but from the Italian expression in Dio, meaning " in God ".

He says the Caledonians broke the treaties they had made with Marcellus a few years earlier ( Dio lxxvii, 12 ).

Boudica is said by Tacitus to have poisoned herself ; Cassius Dio says Boudica fell ill and died and was given a lavish burial.

Cassius Dio says that Caligula began an affair with Caesonia prior to their marriage ( in either late 39 or early 40 ).

Cassius Dio and Marcus Velleius Paterculus says that when her youngest child, Julia, was sent into exile for adultery and treason, she requested that she be allowed to accompany her.

Dio Cassius says that Bocchus sent his sons to support Sextus Pompeius in Spain, while Bogud fought on the side of Caesar, and there is no doubt that after Caesar's death Bocchus supported Octavian, and Bogud Antony.

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 Dio says he confiscated sums of money which had been given by the emperor Claudius to leading Britons, declaring them to be loans to be repaid with interest.

Dio 54. 36 says it was about 11 BC, a date accepted by many modern scholars.

The Jewish Encyclopedia also says that Dio Cassius's accounts are most likely embellished: " For an account of the Jewish war under Trajan and Hadrian Dion is the most important source ( lxviii.

Cassius Dio, writing nearly a hundred years after the assassination, includes Domitia Longina among the conspirators, but in light of her attested devotion to Domitian — even years after her husband had died — her involvement in the plot seems highly unlikely.

Cassius Dio reported that Elagabalus would paint his eyes, epilate his hair and wear wigs before prostituting himself in taverns, brothels, and even in the imperial palace:

A report by the Greek writer Dio Chrysostom ( c. 40-c. 120 CE ) about Homer's poetry being sung even in India seems to imply that the Iliad had been translated into Sanskrit.

Dio Chrysostom notes that retreat under fear tends to result in even greater injuries, while attacking before the opponent strikes is less injurious and could very well end in victory.

Other writers, namely Tacitus and Cassius Dio, disagree with some of Suetonius ' assertions, even though their own accounts of Vitellius are scarcely positive ones.

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.

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.

There were reunions and subsequent tours from Van Halen ( with Hagar in 2004 and then Roth in 2007 ), The Who ( delayed in 2002 by the death of bassist John Entwistle until 2006 ) and Black Sabbath ( with Osbourne 1997 – 2006 and Dio 2006-7 ) and even a one off performance by Led Zeppelin ( 2007 ), renewing the interest in previous eras.

Some of the single releases ( such as " Mr. Misery " recorded for Swan ) were labeled as being by Ronnie Dio as a solo artist even if the rest of the Prophets may have contributed to the recording.

Dio never pretended to be one of the kids — he sang as an adult assuring us that we weren't alone in our suffering, and some day we might even be proud of conquering it ".

However, it was only under Hadrian's successor Antoninus Pius that relations improved to the extent that Pharsman is said to have even visited Rome, where Dio Cassius reports that a statue was erected in his honor and that rights to sacrifice were given.

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.

As with Claudius, poison was the means to Torquatus ' end ; the epitomator of Dio Cassius ' ' Roman History ' even tells us that Agrippina sent Torquatus the same poison with which she dispatched her late husband ( 61. 4 ); and Tacitus informs us that the lethal drug was administered by a Roman of the Equestrian class named P. Celer, with the aid of a freed slave named Helius.

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

Some modern translators ( including Penguin's Rex Warner, but not Wood ) change Tacitus to match Dio instead of vice versa, even though Tacitus is the more reliable historian.

Dio Cassius mentions " revels and drinking parties by night in the Forum and even upon the Rostra " ( Roman History 55. 10 ).

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 ".

Plutarch, in his Life of the Roman general Aemilius Paulus, records that the victor over Macedon, when he beheld the statue, “ was moved to his soul, as if he had seen the god in person ,” while the 1st century AD Greek orator Dio Chrysostom declared that a single glimpse of the statue would make a man forget all his earthly troubles.

The ancient historian Cassius Dio writes that Berenice was at the height of her power during this time, and if it can be any indication as to how influential she was, Quintilian records an anecdote in his Institutio Oratoria where, to his astonishment, he found himself pleading a case on Berenice's behalf where she herself presided as the judge.

Cassius Dio claims Nero leapt upon her belly, but admits that he doesn't know if it was intentional or an accident.

" On the possibility of a new Elf studio album, Dio said, " I ’ d only want to do an Elf tour if we could come up with a new album.

The story about Apollodorus ' death demonstrates the persistent hostility felt towards Hadrian in senatorial circles long after his reign, for if Cassius Dio included it in his history, he must have believed it.

Dio Cassius tells a similar ( if rather simplified ) story but places the events a few years earlier.

Apparently, according to an interview with Dio in 2005, during filming of this music video, Ronnie James Dio became friends with Tenacious D frontman Jack Black, who told Dio about his plans to make a Tenacious D film and asked him to perform in the film if anything became of it.

R. J. Dio – " I doubt very much if I would be the first one who ever did that.