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Quintus Veranius Nepos ( d. 57 ) was a distinguished general to whom the Greek philosopher Onasander dedicated his Strategikos, a book on military tactics.
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Quintus and Veranius
In 1993 a Roman milestone was unearthed, the Stadiasmos Provinciae Lyciae in the form of a monumental pillar on which was inscribed in Greek a dedication to Claudius and an official announcement of roads being built by the governor, Quintus Veranius, in the province of Lycia, giving place names and distances, essentially a monumental public itinerarium.
After five years in the post, covering the last two years of the reign of Claudius and the first three of Nero, Didius was replaced by Quintus Veranius.
The next governor of Britain, Quintus Veranius, says on his tombstone that he took the job " although he did not seek it ", which has been interpreted as a barbed comment on Didius.
Quintus and Nepos
His friends there included the poets Licinius Calvus, and Helvius Cinna, Quintus Hortensius ( son of the orator and rival of Cicero ) and the biographer Cornelius Nepos, to whom Catullus dedicated a libellus of poems, the relation of which to the extant collection remains a matter of debate.
The author of the abridged life of Cato which is commonly considered as the work of Cornelius Nepos, asserts that Cato, after his return from Africa, put in at Sardinia, and brought the poet Quintus Ennius in his own ship from the island to Italy ; but Sardinia was rather out of the line of the trip to Rome, and it is more likely that the first contact of Ennius and Cato happened at a later date, when the latter was Praetor in Sardinia.
However, he learned to read French, German, Polish, and Italian, and devoted himself to intense study of several military authors including Plutarch, Quintus Curtius, Cornelius Nepos, Julius Caesar, and Charles XII.
Her mother was a Licinia that divorced her father to marry Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos, in a scandal mentioned by several sources.
Quintus and d
* 239 BC – Quintus Ennius, Latin poet and writer, considered the father of Roman poetry ( d. 169 BC )
* Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur, politician of the Roman Republic and an early authority on Roman law ( d. 88 BC ) ( approximate date )
* Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Roman dictator, politician and soldier ( approximate date ) ( d. 203 BC )
* Aemilius Scaurus M. f. Scaurus ( d. 101 BC ), fought against the Cimbri under Quintus Lutatius Catulus.
His translation from Quintus Curtius, La Vie d ' Alexandre ( posthumously published in 1653 ) deserves notice as an application of the author's own rules.
* Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator ( d. 203 BC ), the general, five-time consul and censor most often called Fabius Maximus.
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