Chaos ensued, leading to a year of brutal civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors, during which the four most influential generals in the Roman Empire — Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian — successively vied for imperial power.

In the late Republic, as in the early years of the new monarchy, Imperator was a title granted to Roman generals by their troops and the Roman Senate after a great victory, roughly comparable to field marshal ( head or commander of the entire army ).

Category: Ancient Roman generals

Category: Ancient Roman generals

* 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in the Old St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.

Category: Ancient Roman generals

Category: Ancient Roman generals

Category: Ancient Roman generals

In Hispania, a young Roman commander, Publius Cornelius Scipio ( later to be given the agnomen Africanus because of his feats during this war ), eventually defeated the larger but divided Carthaginian forces under Hasdrubal and two other Carthaginian generals.

Rome had already lost its hegemony over the provinces, Germanics dominated the Roman army and Germanic generals like Odoacer had long been the real powers behind the throne.

Over the next 15 years, an uneasy peace was broken by occasional conflicts between Alaric and the powerful Germanic generals who commanded the Roman armies in the east and west, wielding the real power of the empire.

* Aetius, last of the great Roman generals

* Emperor Honorius sends two Roman generals to deal with the usurper Constantine III in Gaul.

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Unlike most Roman generals of the late republic, Catiline offered himself to his followers both as a general and as soldier on the front lines.

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Category: Roman generals killed in action

Category: Ancient Roman generals

The Crisis began with the assassination of Emperor Alexander Severus at the hands of his own troops, initiating a fifty-year period in which 20 – 25 claimants to the title of Emperor, mostly prominent Roman army generals, assumed imperial power over all or part of the Empire.

In the years following the emperor's death, generals of the Roman army fought each other for control of the Empire and neglected their duties in preventing invasions from foreigners.

** Roman generals

He suggests that the prohibition was a display of the Senate's supreme power to the Italian allies as well as competitors within the Roman political system, such as individual victorious generals whose popularity made them a threat to the Senate's collective authority.

* In the Battle of Ilipa ( Alcalá del Río, near Seville ) in Spain, the Carthaginian generals, Mago Barca and Hasdrubal Gisco, are defeated by the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio.

He then manages to turn the tide against the Romans in Spain, with the Roman generals Publius Cornelius Scipio and his brother Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus killed in separate battles — Publius on the upper Baetis ( Guadalquivir ) and Gnaeus in the hinterland of Carthago Nova ( Cartagena ).

Diocletian's reforms in the region, combined with those of Septimus Severus, brought Egyptian administrative practices much closer to Roman standards.

It was made the seat of the Roman province of Britannia Prima in the fourth century, and some historians would date the pillar the Roman Governor L. Septimus erected to the Roman god Jovian to this period, providing evidence of a sign of pagan reaction under the Roman Emperor Julian.

* The Third Princess: A Septimus Severus Quistus Roman Mystery by Philip Boast

After the defeat and deaths of his brother and father in Thrace in 261, Quietus lost the control of the provinces in favour of Septimus Odaenathus of Palmyra, a loyal client king of the Romans who had helped push the Persians out of the eastern provinces and recovered Roman Mesopotamia in 260.

* Raymond Lovell-Lucius Septimus, Roman occupier of Egypt.

** Argonautica by Gaius Valerius Flaccus ( Roman poet, Greek mythology )

A phrase by his musical collaborator Flaccus for Terence's comedy Hecyra is all that remains of the entire body of ancient Roman music.

* Expedition by the Roman Septimius Flaccus to southern Egypt.

* Aulus Persius Flaccus, Roman poet

* Aulus Persius Flaccus, Roman poet

* The Roman epic poet Gaius Valerius Flaccus dies, having written works that include the Argonautica, describing the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from the mythical land of Colchis.

* Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Roman poet ( approximate date )

Marcus Terentius Varro and Verrius Flaccus were the main sources on the theology of Jupiter and archaic Roman religion in general.

Its cultivation spread into the Mediterranean world by way of Iran from Syria: Pliny in his Natural History asserts that pistacia, " well known among us ," was one of the trees unique to Syria, and in another place, that the nut was introduced into Italy by the Roman consul in Syria, Lucius Vitellius the Elder ( consul in Syria in 35 AD ) and into Hispania at the same time by Flaccus Pompeius.

* Marcus Verrius Flaccus, Roman grammarian ( d. AD 20 )

** Lucius Valerius Flaccus, Roman statesman, consul in 195 BC, censor in 183 BC and colleague of Cato the Elder

* In Rome, Marcus Fulvius Flaccus proposes the extension of Roman citizenship to the northern Italians, but the Senate reacts by sending him off to deal with disturbances around Massilia.

* The Roman consuls, Appius Claudius Pulcher and Quintus Fulvius Flaccus, besiege Capua with eight legions.

The combined Carthaginian forces defeat the Roman force led by Flaccus and Pulcher, the latter of whom will soon die of wounds he has sustained.

* The Battle of Herdonia is fought between Hannibal's Carthaginian army and Roman forces who are laying siege to Herdonia led by praetor Gnaeus Fulvius Flaccus, brother of the consul, Quintus Fulvius Flaccus.

* Lucius Valerius Flaccus, Roman statesman, consul in 195 BC, censor in 183 BC and colleague of Cato the Elder

In its immediate neighborhood were fought two of the most decisive actions of the war: the Battle of Beneventum, ( 214 BC ), in which the Carthaginian general Hanno was defeated by Tiberius Gracchus ; the other in 212 BC, when the camp of Hanno, in which he had accumulated a vast quantity of corn and other stores, was stormed and taken by the Roman consul Quintus Fulvius Flaccus.

Flaccus himself was member of that purist faction who displayed their adherence to the stricter virtues of the ancient Roman character.

Finally, Flaccus knew too that for a stranger like Cato, the only way to the magisterial honors was success in the Roman Forum.

Hordeonius Flaccus was murdered by his troops ( 70 ), and the whole of the Roman forces were induced by two commanders of the Gallic auxiliaries — Julius Classicus and Julius Tutor — to revolt from Rome and join Civilis.

# The grammarians Dionysius Thrax and Dionysius of Halicarnassus class ζ with the " double " () letters ψ, ξ and analyse it as σ + δ. Contra: The Roman grammarian Verrius Flaccus believed in the opposite sequence, δ + σ ( in Velius Longus, De orthogr.

Philo says Flaccus, the Roman governor over Alexandria, permitted a mob to erect statues of the Emperor Caius Caligula in Jewish synagogues of Alexandria, an unprecedented provocation.

Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus ( Volterra, 34 – 62 ), was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin.

Gaius Valerius Flaccus ( Setinus Balbus ) ( died c. AD 90 ) was a Roman poet who flourished in the " Silver Age " under the emperors Vespasian and Titus and wrote a Latin Argonautica that owes a great deal to Apollonius of Rhodes ' more famous epic.