* Adherbal: was a Carthaginian commander under Mago in the Second Punic War, who was defeated in a naval battle off Carteia, in Spain, by Gaius Laelius in 206 BC.

** Gaius Laelius, Roman general and politician who has been involved in Rome's victory during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage ( approximate date )

* The Roman general, Gaius Laelius, and Rome's Numidian ally, Masinissa, follow Syphax towards Cirta, the Numidian capital.

* Scipio sends the Roman general Gaius Laelius to North Africa to prepare the way for his later invasion.

* Gaius Laelius, Roman general and politician who has been involved in Rome's victory during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage ( approximate date )

At the Battle of Bagbrades ( 203 ), Scipio overcame Hasdrubal and Syphax and while the Roman general concentrated on Carthage, Gaius Laelius and Masinissa followed Syphax to Cirta, where he was captured and handed over to Scipio.

* Rawson, Elizabeth ( 1973 ) Scipio, Laelius, Furius and the Ancestral Religion, The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol.

After the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio ( Scipio Africanus ) met with victory in the Battle of Ilipa ( 206 BC ), he sent his friend Gaius Laelius to visit Syphax to ratify the treaty with Rome.

However, in the Battle of Bagbrades ( 203 BC ), Scipio overcame Hasdrubal and Syphax and while the Roman general concentrated on Carthage, Laelius and Massinissa followed Syphax to Cirta.

Gaius Laelius — also Caius Lelius — general and statesman, was a friend of Scipio Africanus, whom he accompanied on his Iberian campaign ( 210 BC-206 BC ; the Roman Hispania, comprising modern Spain and Portugal ).

According to some Roman historians, including Polybius ( Book 10 ), Laelius was a friend of Scipio from childhood ; however, his family background is obscure.

Like other superannuated Roman generals, Laelius later served on embassies to King Perseus of Macedon ( 174-173 BC ) and to Transalpine Gaul ( 170 BC ).

The stronger right wing was composed of the Numidian cavalry and commanded by Masinissa while the left wing was composed of the Italian cavalry under the command of Laelius.

According to Polybius, Laelius then commanded the left wing of the army, attacking Hasdrubal's right wing, at the Battle of Baecula ( Bailen ) in 208 BC, where Scipio inflicted a costly defeat on Hasdrubal who then retreated to northern Iberia and Italy.

At Zama ( 202 ), Laelius rendered considerable service in command of the cavalry, which was again placed originally on the left wing with Massinissa on the right wing ;< ref > Polybius.

After reinforcing his leading force, Scipio derived a pincer attack on the flanks of the Carthaginian main camp, by ordering Gaius Laelius to lead half of the remaining heavy foot to the right of the enemy position, and he himself scaling the left.

Polybius, however, never refers to Sophonisba by name in his allusions to her marriage to Syphax, and in his extensive account of Laelius ' maneuvers against Syphax.

Polybius reports that Gaius Laelius, a close friend of the young Scipio since boyhood, " narrated " ( apparently in person ) that his friend, " Having, it is likely, his 17th year " ( age 16 if one does not count the birth year ) and " having entered the field for the first time " ( that is, on campaign or on expedition ) and " his father having assigned to him a turma of top cavalrymen " ( about 30 veterans ) performed his first " remarkable exploit " in the " cavalry engagement " against Hannibal " in the vicinity of the Po.

After several skirmishes, in which Scipio and Laelius set fire to the Carthaginian camp Polybius.

"-( quoted by Cicero, Laelius 17. 64 )

* Gaius Laelius Sapiens ( ca.

When Scipio, acting on the consent which, after much opposition, he had obtained from the senate, transported the armed forces from Sicily into Africa, Cato and Gaius Laelius were appointed to escort the baggage ships.

* Marian Hillar, Laelius and Faustus Socinus: Founders of Socinianism, Their Lives and Theology, in " The Journal from the Radical Reformation.

Published under the cover of a pseudonym at Geneva in 1667, it was supposed to be addressed by a gentleman of Verona, Severinus de Monzambano, to his brother Laelius.

He was finally elected consul in 190 BC with his co-consul being his brother's old second-in-command Gaius Laelius.

The loser was therefore his co-consul Gaius Laelius who was not a rich man, and who had hoped to make his family fortunes in the East.

Later on, Socinianism, named for Italian theologian Laelius Socinus, became its main theological approach.

Influential writers include " Laelius " ( Sir Robert Pipon Marett 1820 – 1884, Bailiff of Jersey 1880 – 1884 ), " A. A. L. G.

During the pursuit, Syphax was threatened with desertion by his army when Laelius and Massinissa's army approached the Numidian battle line.

* Decius Laelius Balbus ( c. 6 BC )

We learn from Horace that he lived on the most intimate terms of friendship with Scipio and Laelius, ( Satire ii. 1 ), and that he celebrated the exploits and virtues of the former in his satires.

* 357 – Battle of Strasbourg: Julian, Caesar ( deputy emperor ) and supreme commander of the Roman army in Gaul, wins an important victory against the Alemanni at Strasbourg ( Argentoratum ).

Honorius, however, refused to appoint Alaric as the commander of the Western Roman Army, and in 409 the Visigoths again surrounded Rome.

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Paul is rescued from the mob by a Roman commander () and accused of being a revolutionary, " ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes ", teaching resurrection of the dead, and thus imprisoned in Caesarea ().

Statue of Augustus in the garb of Roman imperator ( military supreme commander ).

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" was conceited, not only about his own learning but also about the opinions held of him as commander both by the Galileans and by the Romans ; he was guilty of shocking duplicity at Jotapata, saving himself by sacrifice of his companions ; he was too naive to see how he stood condemned out of his own mouth for his conduct, and yet no words were too harsh when he was blackening his opponents ; and after landing, however involuntarily, in the Roman camp, he turned his captivity to his own advantage, and benefitted for the rest of his days from his change of side.

In 527, the first year of Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I's reign, he became the adsessor ( legal adviser ) for Belisarius, Justinian's chief military commander who was then beginning a brilliant career.

A first issue for dispute was that the initial treaty, agreed upon by Hamilcar Barca and the Roman commander in Sicily, had a clause stipulating that the Roman popular assembly had to accept the treaty in order for it to be valid.