* Gaius Marius, together with the consul Publius Rutilius Rufus, initiates sweeping reforms of the Roman army.

Marius and his supporters, as well as many prominent supporters of Publius Sulpicius Rufus, had been exiled from Rome under Sulla's rule, but were still very popular amongst the people.

Gaius Marius serves under Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus at Numantia.

Marius took command ( following the deaths of the consul, Publius Rutilius Lupus, and the praetor Quintus Servilius Caepio ) and fought along with Sulla against the rebel cities, but retired from the war in its early stages – probably due to poor health ( it has been suggested that he suffered a stroke.

In this unsavory episode of low politics, he was helped by the unscrupulous actions of Publius Sulpicius Rufus, whose debts Marius had promised to erase.

* Publius Sulpicius Rufus, tribunus plebis in 88 BC, a distinguished orator, and afterwards a partisan of Gaius Marius.

In the north, the consul Publius Rutilius Lupus was advised by Gaius Marius and Pompeius Strabo ; in the south the consul Lucius Julius Caesar had Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Titus Didius.

Other notable holders of such victory titles include Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, who was replaced by Gaius Marius in command-in-chief of the Jugurthine War ; Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus, who commanded Roman anti-pirate operations in the eastern Mediterranean ( and was father of Julius Caesar's colleague in his second consulate, Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus in 48 BC ), and Marcus Antonius Creticus, another anti-piratical commander ( and father of Caesar's master of the horse, Mark Antony of Egyptian fame ).

Besides Caesar, notable populares included the Gracchi brothers, Gaius Marius, Lucius Cornelius Cinna, Publius Clodius Pulcher, and ( during the First Triumvirate ) Marcus Licinius Crassus and Pompey.

* Publius Licinius P. f. M. n. Crassus Dives, brother of the triumvir, he was slain by the horsemen of Gaius Flavius Fimbria, one of the partisans of Marius, in 87 BC.

The cast includes most of the major historical figures of the late Roman Republic, including: Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, as well as Gaius Julius Caesar II ( grandfather of Julius Caesar ), Julia, Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, Publius Rutilius Rufus and Lucius Appuleius Saturninus.

Much of the narrative is also told in the form of letters between the protagonists-Marius, Sulla, Old Caesar and frequently their friend, Publius Rutilius Rufus-himself a man somewhat torn in allegiance: conservative by instinct, but partisan of Marius by friendship.

* Publius Iuventius Celsus

* Publius Iuventius Celsus Titus Aufidius Hoenius Severianus ( 1st and early 2nd centuries AD ), imperial officer, jurist

* Publius Iuuentius Celsus T. Aufidius Hoenius Seuerianus, consul 129

* Publius Juventius Celsus, Roman jurist

Neratius Marcellus was elected consul ordinarius in AD 129, serving alongside Publius Iuventius Celsus Titus Aufidius Hoenius Severianus.

* 49 BC – Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia.

With this army, he invaded Macedonia and defeated the Roman praetor Publius Juventius in 149 BC.

In Hispania, a young Roman commander, Publius Cornelius Scipio ( later to be given the agnomen Africanus because of his feats during this war ), eventually defeated the larger but divided Carthaginian forces under Hasdrubal and two other Carthaginian generals.

* Noricans having joined with the Pannonians in invading Histria, are defeated by Publius Silius, proconsul of Illyricum.

* In the Battle of Ilipa ( Alcalá del Río, near Seville ) in Spain, the Carthaginian generals, Mago Barca and Hasdrubal Gisco, are defeated by the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio.

In 16 BC, having joined with the Pannonians in invading Histria, they were defeated by Publius Silius, proconsul of Illyricum.

If not, she may have come to power after a revolt of a faction of the Brigantes was defeated by Publius Ostorius Scapula in 48.

Whether the story is true or not, it identifies Drausus as a chief of the Senones, dating Drusus to the consulship of Publius Cornelius Dolabella ( consul 283 BC ), when the Senones were defeated and scattered, for the most part vacating north Italy.

A Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus defeated a Carthaginian force led by the legendary commander Hannibal.

Due to his superior cavalry and his elephants, he defeated the Romans, led by Consul Publius Valerius Laevinus, in the Battle of Heraclea in 280 BC.

The consul Publius Decius Mus was the Roman commander, and his able force, though defeated, broke the back of Pyrrhus ' Hellenistic army, and guaranteed the security of the city itself.

The Third Macedonian War broke out in 171 BC, when king Perseus of Macedon defeated a Roman army led by the consul Publius Licinius Crassus in the battle of Callicinus.

In 38 BC, the Roman general Publius Ventidius, by making extensive use of slingers, whose long-range weapons proved very effective, defeated the uphill-storming Parthian armored cavalry, forcing the Parthians to retreat from all Roman territories occupied since the Battle of Carrhae.

* Scipio Africanus ( Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, 235 – 183 BC ), Roman general who defeated Hannibal, to whom the name Scipio Africanus usually refers

Hasdrubal Gisco force marched to join Mago, who, aided by Indibilis and Masinissa, defeated and killed Publius Scipio, then with the combined armies joined Hasdubal to defeat and kill Gnaeus Scipio as well in a span of 23 days.

He was placed over Drepana, and completely defeated the Roman consul Publius Claudius Pulcher in the Battle of Drepana, 249 BC.

Publius Valerius Laevinus was commander of the Roman forces at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 BC, in which he was defeated by Pyrrhus of Epirus.

After the British resistance leader Caratacus was defeated by Publius Ostorius Scapula in Wales, he fled north to the Brigantes, only to be handed over to the Romans by Cartimandua.

In 51 BCE he stood for election to the prestigious priestly board of fifteen men in charge of the Sibylline Books (< i > Quindecimviri sacris faciundis </ i >), but was defeated by Publius Cornelius Dolabella ( to the amusement of Cicero's correspondent, Marcus Caelius RufusM.

Following the Battle of Caer Caradoc, where governor Publius Ostorius Scapula defeated Caratacus, the Ordovices were no longer a threat to Rome, probably due to heavy losses.

Publius Decius Mus responded with a cavalry charge which, although initially effective, was defeated by the Gallic chariots.

* Publius Licinius C. f. P. n. Crassus, consul in 171 BC, defeated by Perseus of Macedon.

The city of Italica ( Spanish: Itálica ; north of modern day Santiponce, 9 km NW of Seville, Spain ) was founded in 206 BC by the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus in order to settle Roman soldiers wounded in the Battle of Ilipa, where the Carthaginian army was defeated during the Second Punic War.

A fragmentary inscription indicates that Eresos successfully petitioned Augustus in 12 BCE on an unknown matter, while in c. 7-4 BCE Publius Quinctilius Varus, the Roman senator and friend of Augustus later defeated at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 CE, may have visited Eresos on his way to Syria and conferred Roman citizenship on one of the city's prominent families.