This fact compromised Carthage and Rome's finances and eventually decided the course of the war.

Both consuls and other high-ranking members of Rome's leadership condemned Elagabalus, and the Senate subsequently declared war on both Elagabalus and Julia Maesa.

In 32 BC, the Senate deprived him of his powers and declared war against Cleopatra – not Antony, because Octavian had no wish to advertise his role in perpetuating Rome's internecine bloodshed.

The Kingdom of Pergamum and the Republic of Rhodes, Rome's allies in the war, were given the former Seleucid lands in Anatolia.

The war is ended with a hasty peace agreement, owing to a revolt by Rome's Latin allies, who resent their dependence on the dominant city.

Labienus battles the Parisii, and the entire Gallic war becomes more dangerous as the Aedui, Rome's longtime allies, revolt and try to induce other tribes to revolt as well.

The Carthaginians agree to pay Rome 200 talents per year for 50 years, allow Masinissa to rule Numidia as an independent kingdom, make no war without Rome's permission, and destroy all but 10 of the Carthaginian warships.

The patrician senator Quintus Fabius Pictor used Diocles ' as a source for his own history of Rome, written around the time of Rome's war with Hannibal and probably intended for circulation among Rome's Greek-speaking allies.

Thus the law sought to solve the twin problems of increasing the number of men eligible for military service ( thereby boosting Rome's military strength ) and also providing for homeless war veterans.

In 496 BC, against a background of economic recession and famine in Rome, imminent war against the Latins and a threatened secession by Rome's plebs ( citizen commoners ), the dictator A. Postumius vowed a temple to Ceres, Liber and Libera on or near the Aventine Hill.

In the 8th century BC during the reign of Rome's first king, Romulus, the Fidenates and the Veientes were defeated in a war with Rome.

Caesar's adopted heir Augustus ended Rome's civil war and became princeps (" leading man ") of the Republic, and in 30 / 29 BCE, the koina of Asia and Bithynia requested permission to honour him as a living divus.

According to Rome's early semi-legendary history, Rome's seventh and last king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus was the first to go to war against the Volsci, commencing two centuries of a relationship of conflict between the two states.

Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which we have Catiline's War ( about the conspiracy in 63 BCE of L. Sergius Catilina ), The Jugurthine War ( about Rome's war against the Numidians from 111 to 105 BCE ), and the Histories ( of which only fragments survive ).

Again people of the plain sought Rome's assistance, and again Rome went to war against the Samnites.

During the first half of the war Rome suffered serious defeats, but the second half saw Rome's recovery, reorganization, and ultimate victory.

After Rome's great victory at Sentinum, the war slowly wound down, coming to an end in 282.

After beating Alba Longa in war ( by the victory of three Roman champions over three Albans ) Alba Longa became Rome's vassal state.

The need ( as Hobbes saw it ) for the civil sovereign to be supreme arose partly from the many sects that arose around the civil war, and to quash the Pope of Rome's challenge, to which Hobbes devotes an extensive section.

As a successful general, Romulus is also supposed to have founded Rome's first temple to Jupiter Feretrius and offered the spolia opima, the prime spoils taken in war, in the celebration of the first Roman triumph.

Between April 19-26, he attended meetings at Rome's City Hall with other international peace activists, diplomats and academics, to discuss the need for conflict resolution and other more peaceful, nonviolent alternatives to war as a way of solving the worlds many conflicts.

On April 21, 2010, he spoke of his journey from war to peace, forgiveness, and reconciliation before Rome's mayor Gianni Alemanno, and other civic leaders at Rome's Ara Pacis ( Altar of Augustan Peace ), commissioned by the Roman Senate 4 July-13 BC.

However, fearing that withholding Rome's approval would be interpreted as a rejection of the entire council, in 453 the pope confirmed the council ’ s canons with a protest against the 28th.

In the following years, Rome's appeals to the East were based on the unique authority of the Apostolic See and the primacy of Peter, over against the powers of councils as defended by the East ( councils, for example, had endorsed that lofty title which Rome contested ).

The older brother Tiberius was the most distinguished young officer in the Third Punic War, Rome's last campaign against Carthage.

Octavian responded with treason charges: of illegally keeping provinces that should be given to other men by lots, as was Rome's tradition, and of starting wars against foreign nations ( Armenia and Parthia ) without the consent of the Senate.

In power, Tarquinius conducted a number of wars against Rome's neighbours, including in particular the Volsci, Gabii and the Rutuli.

The Roman proconsul and general Julius Caesar pushed his army into Gaul in 58 BC, on the pretext of assisting Rome's Gaullish allies against the migrating Helvetii.

By 431, as a deacon, he occupied a sufficiently important position for Cyril of Alexandria to apply to him in order that Rome's influence should be thrown against the claims of Juvenal of Jerusalem to patriarchal jurisdiction over Palestine — unless this letter is addressed rather to Pope Celestine I.

Crassus used Syria as the launchpad for a military campaign against the Parthian Empire, Rome's long-time Eastern enemy.

After he became emperor of the Western Roman Empire, Maximus would return to Britain to campaign against the Picts and Scots ( i. e., Irish ), probably in support of Rome's long-standing allies the Damnonii, Votadini, and Novantae ( all located in modern Scotland ).

He ignores Rome's domestic problems, including the fact that his third wife Fulvia rebelled against Octavian and then died.

* Continuing successes by Rome's armies against the Samnites forces the Samnites to sue for peace.

Such anxieties were nothing new, and underpinned Rome's traditional strictures against female autonomy.

In the political and social turmoil of the Late Republic, Rome's misfortunes were taken as signs of divine anger against the personal ambition, religious negligence and outright impiety of her leading politicians.

After further investigation of New Rome's history of misconduct, the Ohio Attorney General, on the recommendation of the Ohio State Auditor, concluded that it should be dissolved, though its residents had voted against dissolution in 2003.

The earliest certain cult to dea Roma was established at Smyrna in 195 BCE, probably to mark Rome's successful alliance against Antiochus III.

In 286 the usurper Carausius rebelled against Rome's rule and declared himself the Emperor of Roman Britain.

In 1834 he also challenged Lamennais, who rather than accept what he saw as Rome's reactionary absolutism, publicly renounced his priesthood and published “ Les Paroles d ’ un Croyant ” ( Words of a Believer ,) a vociferous republican polemic against the established social order, denouncing what he now saw as the conspiracy of kings and priests against the people.

Some of Rome's Gallic allies had been defeated by their rivals at the Battle of Magetobriga, with the help of a contingent of Germanic tribes.

They gained everlasting fame from the exploits of Marcus Claudius Marcellus, one of Rome's finest generals, and a towering figure of the Second Punic War, who was five times consul, and won the spolia opima, defeating and killing the Gallic king, Viridomarus, in single combat.