One of the neighboring houses is owned by Marcus Lycus, who is a buyer and seller of beautiful women ; the other belongs to the ancient Erronius, who is abroad searching for his long-lost children ( stolen in infancy by pirates ).

Petrarch revived the work and letters of the ancient Roman Senate | Roman Senator Cicero | Marcus Tullius CiceroPetrarch also published many volumes of his letters, including a few written to his long-dead friends from history such as Cicero and Virgil.

Representations of slingers can be found on artifacts from all over the ancient world, including Assyrian and Egyptian reliefs, the columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius, on coins and on the Bayeux Tapestry.

He had Michelangelo relocate the ancient bronze of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius to the Capitoline Hill, where it became the centerpiece to the Piazza del Campidoglio.

These fragments disappointed Romantic scholars as not matching the writer's great reputation, partly because Fronto's teachings, with their emphasis on studying ancient writers in search of striking words, were not in accordance with current fashion ( Italy, where not only Mai but Leopardi enthused over them, was an exception ), partly because they gave no support to the assumption that Fronto had been a wise counsellor to Marcus Aurelius ( indeed, they contain no trace of political advice ), partly because his frequent complaints about ill-health, especially those collected in book 5 of Ad M. Caesarem, aroused more annoyance than compassion ; these adverse judgements were reversed once Fronto was read for what he was rather than what he was not, as already in the sympathetic treatment by Dorothy Brock, Studies in Fronto and his Age ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911 ).

In AD 170, during the rule of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, an ancient tribe called the Costoboci launched an invasion of Roman territory south of the Danube, entering Thracia and ravaging the provinces of Macedonia and Achaea ( Greece ).

The Aventine Hill is portrayed as a rough working-class area of ancient Rome in the popular Falco series of historical novels written by Lindsey Davis about Marcus Didius Falco, a ' private informer ' who occasionally works for the Emperor Vespasian and lives in the Aventine.

* Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus ( 121 – 180 AD, stoic philosopher, Emperor in Latin, essayist in ancient Greek, role model of the last generation of classicists ( Cruttwell )

According to the ancient historian Tacitus, Sejanus was also a former favourite of the wealthy Marcus Gavius Apicius, whose daughter may have been Sejanus ' first wife Apicata.

In this novel Yourcenar recreated the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of Antoninus Pius, his successor and adoptive son.

Ezra Marcus from the University of Haifa said the discovery provided a glimpse of ancient beekeeping seen in texts and ancient art from the Near East.

The Domburg inscriptions to Nehalennia inspired Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn to produce a hasty etymology linking the name Nehalennia to an ancient Scythian, with which he attempted, with the linguistic tools then available, to bridge the already-known connections between the European languages and modern Persian.

Marcus Terentius Varro (; 116 BC – 27 BC ) was an ancient Roman scholar and writer.

His life was habitually included in the ancient biographical collections of leading generals and politicians, originating in the biographical compendium of famous Romans, published by Marcus Terentius Varro.

Today, we refer to many prominent ancient Romans by only their cognomen ; for example, Cicero ( from cicer " chickpea ") serves as a shorthand for Marcus Tullius Cicero, and Caesar for Gaius Julius Caesar ( see Etymology of the name of Julius Caesar ).

His earliest work, entitled Reloj de principes, published at Valladolid in 1529, and, according to its author, the fruit of eleven years ' labour, is a didactic novel, designed, after the manner of Xenophon's Cyropaedia, to delineate in a somewhat ideal way, for the benefit of modern sovereigns, the life and character of an ancient prince, Marcus Aurelius, distinguished for wisdom and virtue.

Ezra Marcus, an expert from the University of Haifa, said the finding was a glimpse of ancient beekeeping seen in texts and ancient art from the Near East.

In ancient sources it is only ever attributed to his consular colleague Marcus Aurelius Cotta after the latter's capture and brutal destruction of Heraclea Pontica during the Third Mithridatic War.

Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus ( or Rullus ), son of Marcus Fabius Ambustus, of the patrician Fabii of ancient Rome, was five times consul and a hero of the Samnite Wars.

The ancient Romans further developed the techniques learnt from the Etruscans, as shown by numerous works of literature containing information that is still valid today: De Agri Cultura ( around 160 BC ) by Cato the Elder, De re rustica by Marcus Terentius Varro, the Georgics by Virgil and De re rustica by Columella.

* The Roman Odeon, the most significant ancient monument, is situated in the upper town and was built around 160 AD, during the reign of either Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius.

Adrianus of Tyre ( Ancient Greek:, c. 113 – 193 ), also written as Hadrian and Hadrianos, was a sophist of ancient Athens who flourished under the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.

* Marcus Tullius Cicero, De natura deorum II, 66 ( Latin )

* Marcus Verrius Flaccus ' De verborum significatu is published.

Misunderstanding this sign, the later Greeks and Roman poets made Harpocrates the god of Silence and Secrecy, taking their cue from Marcus Terentius Varro, who asserted in De lingua Latina of Caelum ( Sky ) and Terra ( Earth ) " These gods are the same as those who in Egypt are called Serapis and Isis, though Harpocrates with his finger makes a sign to me to be quiet.

* Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina vii. 19.

Marcus Goodrich, a Navy veteran, author and screenwriter, married De Havilland on January 24, 1946.

By 160 BC, Roman statesman Marcus Porcius Cato ( 234-149 BC ) who wrote De Agri Cultura, notes the recipe for the most popular pie / cake called Placenta.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a 1st-century BCE Roman architect ’ s treatise “ De architectura ,” with various sections, dealing with urban planning, building materials, temple construction, public and private buildings, and hydraulics, remained a classic text until the Renaissance.

Fragments 1 and 3 of the hymn have been preserved by Marcus Terentius Varro in his De Lingua Latina, 7. 26, 27, and fragment 2 by Quintus Terentius Scaurus in his De orthographia.

* Marcus Aurelius, De seipso, seu vita sua, libri 12 ed.

He translated Cicero's De officiis as Marcus Tullius Ciceroes thre bokes of duties ( 1556 ); a Latin paraphrase of Virgil's Georgics ( printed 1591 ) is attributed to him, but most of the works assigned to him by Bale are lost.

There are no remaining Jewish synagogues on Capitol Hill as such ; Reform Jewish Temple De Hirsch Sinai, whose Alhadeff Sanctuary was designed by B. Marcus Priteca, among others, is just south of Madison, and therefore technically on First Hill.

A 1998 film version directed by Marcus Thompson starred Guy Williams as Alonso, Amanda Ray-King as Beatrice-Joanna, Ian Dury as De Flores and Colm O ' Maonlai as Alsemero.

Before the 1967 elections De Groot was replaced by Marcus Bakker.

The agricultural writings of Palladius may be compared to those of Marcus Priscus Cato, Marcus Terentius Varro and particularly Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, whose De re rustica appears to have served as a model for Palladius, to such an extent that the Opus agriculturae has been described as an " abridgement " of Columella.

His 2003 album Squire for Hire possesses a diverse sound, featuring contributions from producers / performers Mark De Clive-Lowe, producer / poet Rich Medina, vocalists, Marcus Begg, Guida da Palma, Bembe Segue, Marlena Shaw and Blur front-man, Damon Albarn.

Title page of Marcus Tullius Cicero | Cicero's De officiis.

De Officiis ( On Duties or On Obligations ) is an essay by Marcus Tullius Cicero divided into three books, in which Cicero expounds his conception of the best way to live, behave, and observe moral obligations.

When the tribune Publius Servilius Rullus introduced his agrarian law ( 63 ), these lands, which had been originally assigned to the Roman people by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, were expressly exempted from sale, which roused the indignation of Marcus Tullius Cicero ( De lege agraria, i. 4, ii.

In Latin, the ablative absolute construction is frequently used to express the date, such as " M. Messalla et M. Pupio Pisone consulibus ", translated literally as " Marcus Messalla and Marcus Pupius Piso being the consuls ", which appears in Caesar's De Bello Gallico.