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.

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.

Dio says that, even if they were lined up one deep, they would not have extended the length of Boudica's line.

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.

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

Cassius Dio, on the other hand, tells an alternative version of Boudica's death, simply saying that she " fell sick and died.

Cassius Dio also spoke of Cleopatra's allure: " For she was a woman of surpassing beauty, and at that time, when she was in the prime of her youth, she was most striking ; she also possessed a most charming voice and knowledge of how to make herself agreeable to everyone.

Dio records two of her utterances: " Once, when some naked men met her and were to be put to death in consequence, she saved their lives by saying that to a chaste woman such men are in no way different from statues.

Cassius Dio states that Antonia imprisoned Livilla in her room until she starved to death.

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.

Though many ancient sources wrote that Fulvia was happy to take revenge against Cicero for Antony's and Clodius ' sake, Cassius Dio is the only ancient source that describes the joy with which she pierced the tongue of the dead Cicero with her golden hairpins, as a final revenge against Cicero's power of speech.

Most contemporary historians ( Cassius Dio, Valerius Maximus, and Appian ) claim that she killed herself after hearing that Brutus had died following the second battle of Philippi.

Cassius Dio and the Augustan History accuse Faustina of ordering deaths by poison and execution ; she has also been accused of instigating the revolt of Avidius Cassius against her husband.

Anna appears as a playable character for the Nintendo DS titles, Jump Superstars and Jump Ultimate Stars and is the main playable character in the second mission of the Shaman King world where she fights Dio Brando and Freeza.

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.

Octavian divorced Scribonia in 39, on the very day that she gave birth to his daughter Julia the Elder ( Dio Cassius 48. 34. 3 ).

In 1966, she recorded " Dio, come ti amo " (" God, How I Love You "), which became another worldwide hit.

As part of this album she sang a duet with Antonis Remos titled " Dio Mas " and a Greek version of the French song " Si Tu Ouvres Tes Bras " titled " Iparhi Kai Theos ".

Recently a Spanish scholar has carried out a review of the Greek text of Cassius Dio LVI, 43, 3, in which she emphasizes, first, that the anecdote ( the only ancient reference on Corocotta ) is not in Dio's statements on the Cantabrian wars ( books 53 and 54 ) but in 56, after Augustus ’ s death, cited as an example of his clemency.

Although Dio is the earliest writer to mention them, Ammianus Marcellinus used the name to refer to Germans on the Limes Germanicus in the time of Trajan's governorship of the province shortly after it was formed, circa 98 / 99.

Dio in his Roman History ( Book I ) confirms this data by telling that Romulus was in his 18th year of age when he had initiated Rome.

Finally, although Dio states that Crassus was voted a Triumph in Rome by the Senate, there is no evidence in inscriptions of that year ( 27 BC ) that it was actually celebrated.

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.

Tacitus and Dio agree that Boudica was of royal descent.

Considering Dio must have read Tacitus, it is worth noting he mentions nothing about suicide ( which was also how Postumus and Nero ended their lives ).

Dio was less biased, but seems to have used Suetonius and Tacitus as sources.

" The Sign of the Southern Cross " is a song by Black Sabbath written in 1981 which was sung by Ronnie James Dio.

Pliny claims that division was the work of Caligula, but Dio states that in 42 CE an uprising took place, which was subdued by Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and Gnaeus Hosidius Geta, only after which the division took place.

Dio further suggests that the assassination was improvised, while Suetonius implies a well organised conspiracy.

According to Cassius Dio, the conspirators approached Nerva as a potential successor prior to the assassination, suggesting that he was at least aware of the plot.

Cassius Dio claimed to represent the voices of the Roman street ; Caesar's munus was a waste of lives – and of money, better doled out to needy army veterans.

In 180, Hadrian's Wall was breached by the Picts and the commanding officer or governor was killed there in what Dio Cassius described as the most serious war of the reign of Commodus.

Cassius Dio records that the new Governor, Virius Lupus, was obliged to buy peace from a fractious northern tribe known as the Maeatae.

According to Cassius Dio a gigantic equestrian statue was erected to Hadrian after his death.

The contemporary historian Cassius Dio suggests that Gannys was in fact killed by the new emperor because he was forcing Elagabalus to live " temperately and prudently.

Suetonius attributes the loss of the imperial favour to Maecenas ' having indiscreetly revealed to Terentia, his beautiful but difficult wife, the discovery of the conspiracy in which her brother Lucius Lucinius Varro Murena was implicated, but according to Dio Cassius it was due to the emperor's relations with Terentia.