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Publius Quinctilius Varus ( 46 BC in Cremona, Roman Republic – AD 9 in Germania ) was a Roman politician and general under Emperor Augustus, mainly remembered for having lost three Roman legions and his own life when attacked by Germanic leader Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
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Publius and Quinctilius
Rivalry between him and Arminius, the Cheruscan leader who inflicted the devastating defeat at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest on the Romans under Publius Quinctilius Varus in 9 AD, prevented a concerted attack on Roman territory across the Rhine in the north ( by Arminius ) and in the Danube basin in the south ( by Maroboduus ).
* 9 – Arminius ' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
* Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman general, at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, said to have committed suicide ( b. 46
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (, Hermannsschlacht or Varusschlacht ), described as clades Variana ( the Varian disaster ) by Roman historians, took place in 9 CE, when an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius of the Cherusci ambushed and decisively destroyed three Roman legions, along with their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus.
The Roman force was led by Publius Quinctilius Varus, a noble from a patrician family related to the Imperial family and an experienced administrative official, who was assigned to consolidate the new province of Germania in the autumn of 6 CE.
* Vipsania Marcella Agrippina ( born 27 BC ), daughter of Claudia Marcella Major and first wife of general Publius Quinctilius Varus
Segestes repeatedly warned Publius Quinctilius Varus, the governor of Gaul, that rebellion was being planned, but Varus declined to act until the rebellion had broken out.
Publius and Varus
* 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.
* The Governor of Syria, Publius Quintilius Varus, assembles three of his four legions, including Legio X Fretensis, and marched down to Jerusalem from Antioch to restore order.
He and Gaius Scribonius Curio were sent to Africa to fight the province's governor, the Pompeian Publius Attius Varus.
Publius and 46
Cornelia ( around 46 BC-16 BC ) was the daughter of Scribonia and a consular Publius Cornelius Scipio.
After the Battle of Thapsus, he tried to escape to Mauretania, but was caught and killed by Publius Sittius, a supporter of Caesar, in 46 BC.
Publius and BC
The victorious Roman general, Publius Cornelius Sulla, left the Athenians their lives and did not sell them into slavery ; he also restored the previous government, in 86 BC.
Denarius ( 42 BC ) issued by Cassius Longinus and Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther # Death and family | Lentulus Spinther, depicting the crowned head of Libertas | Liberty and on the reverse a sacrificial jug and lituus, from the military mint in Smyrna.
* 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola, Roman consul, celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
Upon the death of her first husband, she married Publius Cornelius Lentulus ( consul 71 BC ), an eminent patrician.
Publius Terentius Afer ( 195 / 185 – 159 BC ), better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent.
Publius Vergilius Maro ( October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC ), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.
In 181 BC, a Roman triumvirate of Publius Scipio Nasica, Caius Flaminius, and Lucius Manlius Acidinus led three thousand families, mainly from Samnium but supplemented by native Veneti, to found a Latin colony at Aquileia as a base to protect the territory of the Veneti from incursions of the hostile Carni and Histri.
The Roman city most likely began as a small military camp, built by the consul Publius Cornelius Scipio in 218 BC to guard a wooden bridge he had built over the river Ticinum, on his way to search for Hannibal, who was rumoured to have managed to lead an army over the Alps and into Italy.
In 62 BC, after Catiline's death, Cicero defended Publius Sulla in court after he was indicted for being a member of the second conspiracy.
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, the most influential conspirator after Catiline, had held the rank of consul in 71 BC, but he had been cast out of the senate by the censors during a political purge in the following year on the pretext of debauchery.
The eldest brother Publius ( born c. 116 BC ) died shortly before the Italic War and Marcus took the brother's wife as his own.
* 114 ( or 115 ) BC – Crassus born, second of three sons of Publius Licinius Crassus ( cos. 97, cens. 89 )
Cyprus became a Roman province in 58 BC, according to Strabo because Publius Clodius Pulcher held a grudge against Ptolemy and sent Marcus Cato to conquer the island after he had become tribune.
* January 18 – Publius Clodius Pulcher, murdered on the Appian Way by Titus Annius Milo ( b. 93 BC )
** Publius Cornelius Scipio, Roman general, consul in 218 BC and later proconsul during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage
* 183 BC – Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, consul in 138 BC, who will have a prominent part in the murder of Tiberius Gracchus by leading a group of conservative senators and other knights in opposition to Gracchus and his supporters ( d. 132 BC )
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