With their consent, he set up a rival emperor, the prefect of the city, a Greek named Priscus Attalus.

He comes to terms with the Senate and sets up a rival emperor, Priscus Attalus, prefect ( praefectus urbi ) of the city.

Taking the advice of Priscus Attalus — the former emperor whom Alaric had set up at Rome in opposition to Honorius at Ravenna, and who had remained with the Visigoths after he'd been deposed — Ataulf led his followers out of Italy.

The forces of Statius Priscus, made up of Eastern auxiliaries and several legions transferred from the Rhine and the Danube, quickly crushed the Parthians and destroyed the town of Artaxata.

According to Dionysius it was Tarquinius Priscus who set the statue up, ' in front of the senate-house near the sacred fig-tree ; it was shorter than a man of average height and the head was covered '.

The cognomen Messalla, frequently written Messala, appears with the agnomens Barbatus, Niger or Rufus, with the nomens Ennodius, Pacatus, Silius, Thrasia Priscus or Vipstanus, and with the praenomens Potitus and Volesus, and was itself originally, and when combined with Corvinus, an agnomen, as M. Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla, i. e. of Messana.

Novius Priscus, Annius Pollio, Glitius Gallus, Rufrius Crispinus, Verginius Flavus, Musonius Rufus, Cluvidienus Quietus, Julius Agrippa, Blitius Catulinus, Petronius Pricus, Julius Altinus, Caesennius Maximus, Caedicia, Pompeius, Cornelius Martialis, Flavius Nepos, Statius Domitius

While he was there, Maximus studied alongside Chrysanthius, Eusebius of Myndus, and Priscus.

In 361, as emperor, Julian invited Priscus and Maximus to Constantinople.

Eunapius states that Maximus and Priscus had no political authority, but also writes that Maximus became arrogantly inaccessible and used his influential position to personally enrich himself.

Before the emperor died on 26 June 363 from a combat injury, he held a last philosophical conversation with Maximus and Priscus.

Decius was forced to withdraw his army to the north at Oescus, leaving Cniva ample time to ravage Moesia and finally capture Philippopolis in the summer of 251, in part with the help of its commander, a certain Titus Julius Priscus who had proclaimed himself Emperor.

To counter Priscus, Honorius tried to negotiate with Alaric.

Alaric withdrew his support for Priscus in 410, but the negotiations with Honorius broke down.

Jordanes also recounted how Priscus had described Attila the Hun, the Emperor of the Huns from 434-453, as: " Short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head ; his eyes were small, his beard thin and sprinkled with grey ; and he had a flat nose and tanned skin, showing evidence of his origin.

Unhappy with Marcellus ' strictness, they tried to elect a legate named Priscus as usurper governor ; he refused, but Marcellus was lucky to leave the province alive.

Thus they arranged for Tarquinius Priscus to be assassinated with an axe blow to the head.

Disgruntled with his opportunities there, Priscus migrated to Rome with his wife Tanaquil, at her suggestion.

Lucretia's kinsman Lucius Junius Brutus ( himself a member of the Tarquin dynasty ) and Lucretia's widowed husband, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus ( grand-nephew of Tarquinus Priscus and thus also a member of the dynasty ) led the revolt, along with Publius Valerius Poplicola, and Lucretia's aging father, Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus.

The first book sketches briefly the history of the early Roman emperors from Augustus to Diocletian ( 305 ); the second, third and fourth deal more fully with the period from the accession of Constantius Chlorus and Galerius to the death of Theodosius I ; the fifth and sixth, the most useful for historians, cover the period between 395 and 410, when Priscus Attalus was deposed ; for this period, he is the most important surviving non-ecclesiastical source.

He negotiates with king Alaric I, who ceremonially deposes Priscus Attalus as co-emperor.

Priscus | Priscus of Panium ( left ) with the Roman Diplomatic mission | embassy at the court of Attila the Hun

In 594 Maurice replaced Priscus with his rather inexperienced brother Peter, who despite initial failures, nonetheless scored another victory in Wallachia.

His ancestors for three generations had been named Marcus Porcius, and it is said by Plutarch that at first he was known by the additional cognomen Priscus, but was afterwards called Cato — a word indicating that practical wisdom which is the result of natural sagacity, combined with experience of civil and political affairs.

In 163, while Statius Priscus was occupied in Armenia, the Parthians intervened in Osroene, a Roman client in upper Mesopotamia, just east of Syria, with its capital at Edessa.

At the suggestion of his brother Priscus, Philip became the new Praetorian prefect, with the intention that the two brothers would control the young Emperor and rule the Roman world as unofficial regents.

Whilst in Antioch, he left his brother Priscus as extraordinary ruler of the Eastern provinces, with the title of rector Orientis Moving westward, he gave his brother-in-law Severianus control of the provinces of Moesia and Macedonia.

Philip's eleven-year-old son and heir may have been killed with his father and Priscus disappeared without a trace.

In a separate action, Barea Soranus and his daughter Servilia were also condemned to death ; with Thrasea were condemned, but to lesser penalties, his son-in-law Helvidius Priscus and associates Paconius Agrippinus and Curtius Montanus.

The fecundating power of sacred fire is testified in Latin mythology in one version of the birth of Romulus, that of the birth of king Servius Tullius ( in which his mother Ocresia becomes pregnant after sitting upon a phallus that appeared among the ashes of the ara of god Vulcanus, by order of Tanaquil wife of king Tarquinius Priscus ) and that of the birth of Caeculus, the founder of Praeneste.

The first " outsider " Etruscan king, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, founded a Capitoline temple to the triad Jupiter, Juno and Minerva which served as the model for the highest official cult throughout the Roman world.

These games ( the chief Roman festival ) were in honour of Jupiter, and are said to have been established by Tarquinius Priscus on the occasion of his conquest of the Latin Apiolae ; though Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Cicero refer the establishment to the victory over the Latins at Lake Regillus.

After his death, the Romans led by Statius Priscus invaded Armenia and destroyed Artashat in 162 A. D. Archaeological excavations conducted during the Soviet era uncovered a Latin inscription bearing the full titles of the Emperor Trajan that was probably inscribed upon the governor's palace, dating back to the first quarter of the second century.

The summit was the site of a temple for the Capitoline Triad, started by Rome's fifth king, Tarquinius Priscus ( r. 616-579 BC ), and completed by the seventh and last king, Tarquinius Superbus ( 535 – 496 BC ).

Ancus Marcius was succeeded by Lucius Tarquinius Priscus who was killed by the sons of Ancus Marcius.

It seems that Priscus, after receiving the news of the defeat at Beroe, thought that the Goths would spare him and the city.

With the agreement of the Senate he supported the usurpation of Priscus Attalus.

In 414, Constantius attacked Ataulf, who proclaimed Priscus Attalus emperor again.

Priscus mentions that the Huns had a language of their own ; little of it has survived and its relationships have been the subject of debate for centuries.

Our only lengthy first-hand report of conditions among the Huns is by Priscus, who formed part of an embassy to Attila.

Priscus reports that superstitious fear of the fate of Alaric — who died shortly after sacking Rome in 410 — gave him pause.

Priscus describes Attila's clothes as different from those of his men only in being clean.

Having said that, the literary sources of Priscus and Jordanes preserve only a few names, and three words, of the language of the Huns, which have been studied for more than a century and a half.

Roman sources, e. g. Priscus, recorded that Latin, Gothic, " Hun " and other local ' Scythian " languages were spoken.

His grandfather, Bacchius, had a Greek name, while his father, Priscus bore a Latin name, which has led to speculations that his ancestors may have settled in Neapolis soon after its establishment or that they may have descended from a Roman ' diplomatic ' community that had been sent there.

Priscus stated that one of the nations in the Hunnish confederacy was called Akatziroi.

Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, also called Tarquin the Elder or Tarquin I, was the legendary fifth King of Rome from 616 BC to 579 BC.

According to Livy, Tarquinius Priscus came from the Etruria.

Livy claims that his original Etruscan name was Lucumo, but since Lucumo ( Etruscan Lucius ) is the Etruscan word for " King ", there is reason to believe that Priscus ' name and title have been confused in the official tradition.

Upon the death of Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius Priscus addressed the Comitia Curiata and convinced them that he should be elected king over Marcius ' natural sons, who were still only in their teenage years.