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.

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.

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.

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 ).

" 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.

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.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Tiberianus and Dio ( or, less frequently, year 1044 Ab urbe condita ).

In Italian, although to a lesser extent, some analogue words are in use: in particular " ostia " ( host ) and ( more so in the past ) " sacramento " are relatively common expressions in the North / East, which are lighter ( and a little less common ) than the typical blasphemies in use in Italy like " porco Dio " ( pig god ) and " porca Madonna " ( see: Italian profanity ).

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.

According to Cassius Dio, his most stable relationship seems to have been with his chariot driver, a blond slave from Caria named Hierocles, whom he referred to as his husband.

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.

This seems to derive from a misreading of the passage in Dio Cassius in which Boudica releases a hare from her gown:

Most of these data have been recorded by Plutarch, Florus, Cicero, Dio ( Dion ) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( L. 2 ).

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

However, scholars have, in general, taken this as evidence for the existence of a Mahabharata at this date, whose episodes Dio or his sources identify with the story of the Iliad.

According to Cassius Dio, however, after 197 Severus fell heavily under the influence of his Praetorian Prefect, Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, who came to have almost total control of most branches of the imperial administration.

Most of these have been recorded by Plutarch ( Lives of Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Camillus ), Florus ( Book I, I ), Cicero ( The Republic VI, 22: Scipio's Dream ), Dio ( Dion ) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( L. 2 ).

After his liberation, according to Dio Cassius, Caratacus was so impressed by the city of Rome that he said " And can you, then, who have got such possessions and so many of them, covet our poor tents?

Consequently, Dio believes Titus's mistake refers to his failure to have his brother executed when he was found to be openly plotting against him.

According to Cassius Dio, who lived in Rome during the period, Julianus's last words were " But what evil have I done?

Each member of the bloodline has a star shaped birthmark above their left shoulder blade – Dio Brando, the original nemesis of the Joestar family, and his descendants have this distinguishable mark also, a result from Dio's ' theft ' of Jonathan Joestar's body and inheriting the Joestar genes as well.

Despite being known for his powerful singing voice, Dio claimed never to have taken any vocal training.

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.

According to Suda, both his " constitution " () and his " precepts " () were composed in elegiac couplets, but Pausanias also mentions " anapests ", a few lines of which, quoted by Dio Chrysostom and attributed to Tyrtaeus by a scholiast, could have belonged to the so-called " war songs " (), of which nothing else survives.

Three other men of appropriate rank to command legions are known to have been involved in the invasion: Vespasian's brother Titus Flavius Sabinus II and Gnaeus Hosidius Geta appear in Dio Cassius's account of the invasion ; Gnaeus Sentius Saturninus is mentioned by Eutropius, although as a former consul he may have been too senior, and perhaps accompanied Claudius later.

They suggest that later Roman chroniclers such as Suetonius and Dio Cassius were influenced by the political situation of their own times, when it may have been useful to the current Emperors to discredit the later Julio-Claudian Emperors.

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.

Lee claims to have written the main riff to " Don't Talk to Strangers " ( which would later appear on the Holy Diver album ) and that Dio wanted him to play " simple block chords that wouldn't trample on his vocals ".

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.

However Cassius Dio, the Roman historian from whom we have the bulk of our understanding of the revolt, does not mention the change of name nor the reason behind it in his " Roman History ".

As the Chichester inscription supports Tacitus, Cunliffe's interpretation would appear to imply an error in Dio's Roman History or in its transmission, and some, including John Hind, have argued that Dio misinterpreted his sources as reading that Togodumnus had died when he had merely been defeated.

Dio Cassius notes the presence of Germans on the slope of the hill behind the camp, where the Porta Quaestoria, the gate where provisions were brought in, would have been.

Although he was honoured with a consulship by the Emperor Claudius in 46, according to Cassius Dio ( 60. 1 ), and he served his proconsulship as Governor of the Province of Asia, Torquatus did not survive the death of that Emperor, whom the historian Tacitus hints was speeded on his way to Godhood by consuming funghi porcini doused with a dose of poison delectabili cibo boleto venenum — said to have been administered at the instigation of the emperor's fourth wife, Agrippina the Younger.