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Manius Acilius Aureolus ( died 268 ) was a Roman military commander and would-be usurper.
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* Manius Acilius Glabrio is commanded by Domitian to descend into the arena of the Colosseum to fight a lion.
* The Romans under Manius Acilius Glabrio and Cato the Elder cut the Seleucid king Antiochus III off from his reinforcements in Thrace and outflank his position at the pass of Thermopylae in the Battle of Thermopylae.
* Manius Acilius Glabrio then turns his attention to the Aetolian League, which has persuaded Antiochus to declare war against Rome, and is only prevented from crushing them by the intercession of Titus Quinctius Flamininus.
In 191 BC, he was appointed military tribune ( some affirm legate ), under the Consul Manius Acilius Glabrio, who was dispatched to Greece to oppose the invasion of Antiochus III the Great, King of the Seleucid Empire.
In 191 BC, however, the Romans under Manius Acilius Glabrio routed him at Thermopylae, forcing him to withdraw to Asia Minor.
These had been brought to Rome by Manius Acilius Glabrio among the spoils seized from Antiochus the Great after his defeat at Thermopylae in 191 BC, or perhaps from the sack of Corinth in 146.
A temple to Pietas was vowed ( votum ) by Manius Acilius Glabrio at the Battle of Thermopylae in 191 BC.
In 191 BC Antiochus III the Great of Syria attempted in vain to hold the pass against the Romans under Manius Acilius Glabrio.
* Bruttius, an eques, for whom Cicero wrote a letter of introduction to Manius Acilius Glabrio, proconsul in Sicilia in 46 BC.
However, the presiding judge, the city praetor, Manius Acilius Glabrio, was a thoroughly honest man, and his assessors were at least not accessible to bribery.
Manius and Aureolus
* 268 – Manius Acilius Aureolus-Initially a Gallienus supporter, Aureolus turned against Gallienus while fighting against Postumus and his Gallic Empire.
Manius and died
According to the coherent chronology of Cicero, Cato was born in 234 BC, in the year before the first Consulship of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, and died at the age of 85, in the consulship of Lucius Marcius Censorinus and Manius Manilius.
Several other praenomina were believed to refer to the circumstances of a child's birth ; for instance, Agrippa was said to refer to a child who was born feet-first ; Caeso to a child born by the operation known today as a caesarian section ; Lucius to one born at dawn ; Manius to one born in the morning ; Numerius to one born easily ; Opiter to one whose father had died, leaving his grandfather as head of the family ; Postumus to a last-born child ( whether or not the father was dead ); Proculus to one whose father was far away ; Vopiscus to the survivor of twins, the other of whom was born dead.
Manius Curius Dentatus ( died 270 BC ), son of Manius, was a three-time consul and a plebeian hero of the Roman Republic, noted for ending the Samnite War.
She was the daughter of the consul Manius Pomponius Matho, consul in 233 BC ( who appears to have died in 211 BC ), and was married possibly around 237 BC to Publius Cornelius Scipio, second surviving son of the Roman censor Lucius Cornelius Scipio of a prominent patrician family.
Manius and was
Near his lands was a modest hut which had been inhabited, after three triumphs, by its owner Manius Curius Dentatus, whose military feats and rigidly simple character were fresh in the memory of the old, and were often talked of with admiration in the neighborhood.
Messalla was originally assumed by Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla after his relief of Messana in Sicily from blockade by the Carthaginians in the second year of the first Punic War, 263 BC.
* Manius was originally abbreviated with an archaic five-stroke M ( ), borrowed from the Etruscan alphabet ( from which the Latin alphabet was derived ) but not otherwise used in Latin.
As Livy records, two tribunes, Marcus Fulvius and Manius Curius publicly opposed his candidacy for consulship, as he was just a quaestor, but the Senate overrode the opposition and he was elected along with Sextus Aelius Paulus.
Egeria as a nymph or minor goddess of the Roman religious system is of unclear origin ; she is consistently, though not in a very clear way, associated with another figure of the Diana type ; their cult is known to have been celebrated at sacred groves, such as the site of Nemi at Aricia, and another one close to Rome, expedient for her presumed regular meetings with King Numa ; both goddesses are also associated with water gifted with wondrous, religious or medical properties ( the source in that grove at Rome was dedicated to the exclusive use of the Vestals ); their cult was associated with other, male figures of even more obscure meaning, such as one named Virbius, or a Manius Egerius, presumably a youthful male, that anyway in later years was identified with figures like Atys or Hippolyte, because of the Diana reference ( see Frazer ).
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