With two legions Silius defeated Sacrovir ’ s rebel forces ( numbering 40, 000 ) twelve miles outside of Augustodunum.

Silius was one of the numerous Romans of the early empire who had the courage of their opinions, and carried into perfect practice the theory of suicide developed in Stoicism ; Punica 11. 186-88 contains a praise of suicide.

The first human settlements date back to more than 700, 000 years, according to the dating of some Palaeolithic hand-made fragments recently recovered ; while the historical sources ( Livy, Virgil, Servius, Silius Italicus ) mention Anagni only once, the city had already been introduced into the Roman orbit.

According to some writers it was founded by Acestes, and named after his wife Entella, a tradition to which Silius Italicus alludes, while others ascribed its foundation to Elymus, and Virgil represents Entellus ( evidently the eponymous hero of the city ) as a friend and comrade of Acestes.

A painting by Joseph Wright of Derby depicting Silius Italicus at the Virgil's Tomb ( Joseph Wright painting ) | tomb of Virgil.

and Cornutus, the Stoic, rhetorician and grammarian, dedicated to Silius a commentary upon Virgil.

Pliny records that Silius especially revered Virgil, celebrating Virgil's birthday more lavishly than his own and treating the poet's tomb as a shrine.

Silius ' style is unlike Virgil in that he does not focus on a few central characters but divides his action up between many significant heroes.

When Virgil and Silius wished to indicate the exceptional quality of Phalernian wine, Methymnaean wine is among the vintages which they say it surpasses.

Virgil and Silius Italicus considered that its territory was not fertile in corn, but rich in fruit-trees ( maliferae Abellae ): the neighborhood also abounded in filberts or hazelnuts of a very choice quality, which were called from thence nuces Avellanae.

After Messalina was executed in 48 for conspiring with Gaius Silius to overthrow her husband, Claudius considered remarrying for the fourth time.

In 21, during the reign of Tiberius, they revolted under Julius Sacrovir, and seized Augustodunum, but were soon put down by Gaius Silius ( Tacitus Ann.

The conspiracy of Gaius Silius in the year after his Censorship, 48, is detailed in the section discussing Claudius ' third wife, Messalina.

In 48, Messalina married her lover Gaius Silius in a public ceremony while Claudius was at Ostia.

Scramuzza, in his biography, suggests that Silius may have convinced Messalina that Claudius was doomed, and the union was her only hope of retaining rank and protecting her children.

Whatever the case, the result was the execution of Silius, Messalina, and most of her circle.

The attempted coup d ' etat by Silius and Messalina had probably made Claudius realize the weakness of his position as a member of the Claudian but not the Julian family.

For Silius Italicus, who wrote as the games approached their peak, the degenerate Campanians had devised the very worst of precedents, which now threatened the moral fabric of Rome: " It was their custom to enliven their banquets with bloodshed and to combine with their feasting the horrid sight of armed men fighting ; often the combatants fell dead above the very cups of the revelers, and the tables were stained with streams of blood.

Epic poems included the Argonautica of Gaius Valerius Flaccus, the Thebaid of Statius, and the Punica of Silius Italicus.

According to Silius Italicus, she was the virginal daughter of Bebryx, a king in Mediterranean Gaul by whom the hero Hercules was given hospitality during his quest to steal the cattle of Geryon during his famous Labors.

* Noricans having joined with the Pannonians in invading Histria, are defeated by Publius Silius, proconsul of Illyricum.

* Revolt of the Aedui under Julius Florus and Julius Sacrovir, suppressed by Gaius Silius.

In summer 16 CE, Caius Silius marched against the Chatti with 33, 000 men.

In 16 BC, having joined with the Pannonians in invading Histria, they were defeated by Publius Silius, proconsul of Illyricum.

* Silius, Officer in Ventidius's army.

* Silius Italicus, Punica 9. 278, Di Indigetes Faunusque satorque Quirinus ; also X 435 f.

Silius Italicus identifies her as Medea.

Cato and Silius Italicus wrote that Sancus was a Sabine god and father of the eponymous Sabine hero Sabus.

At last the Praetorians, having received assurances that they would suffer no punishment – provided they surrendered the actual murderers of Pertinax – seized the ringleaders of the conspiracy and reported what they had done to Silius Messala, the consul, by whom the Senate was summoned and informed of the proceedings.

At 19 he edited the works of Silius Italicus ( 2 vols.

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.

Citizenship became an idealized, almost abstract, concept, and did not signify a submissive relation with a lord or count, but rather indicated the bond between a person and the state in the rather abstract sense of having rights and duties.

That is, although Fairchild assembles hundreds of quotations from ethnographers, philosophers, novelists, poets, and playwrights from the 17th century to the 19th century, showing a rich variety of ways in which writers romanticized and idealized those who Europeans considered " savages ", almost none of them explicitly refer to something called the " Noble Savage ".

In sculpture found in Tunisia, there has been a distinct, almost symbolic evolution towards a style which is a representative, idealized perfection of a body, state, etc.

He works almost exclusively with the human form, usually with minimal backgrounds, in an idealized near-photographic realist style.

His original system consisted of the four classical elements found in the ancient Greek traditions ( air, earth, fire and water ), in addition to two philosophical elements: sulphur, ‘ the stone which burns ’, which characterized the principle of combustibility, and mercury, which contained the idealized principle of metallic properties.

In any case, fully understanding an engine and its efficiency requires gaining a good understanding of the ( possibly simplified or idealized ) theoretical model, the practical nuances of an actual mechanical engine, and the discrepancies between the two.

If, however, the cylinders are at some angle to one another, then there is a large volume surrounding the cylinder which the approaching cylinder's center-of-mass cannot enter ( due to the hard-rod repulsion between the two idealized objects ).

The labels on the right refer to the difference of the path lengths from the two slits, which are idealized here as point sources.

The narrow courtyard between the Uffizi's two wings creates the effect of a short, idealized street ; view toward the River Arno

A stream of hits followed Our Dancing Daughters, including two more flapper-themed movies, in which Crawford embodied for her legion of fans ( many of whom were women ) an idealized vision of the free-spirited, all-American girl.

The paintings of Reza Abbasi figure largely in this new art of the book, depicting one or two larger figures, typically idealized beauties in a garden setting, often using the grisaille techniques previously used for border paintings for the background.

There are two extremes in the way the system can interact with its environment: either ( 1 ) the system loses its distinct identity and merges with the environment ( e. g. photons in a cold, dark cavity get converted into molecular excitations within the cavity walls ), or ( 2 ) the system is not disturbed at all, even though the environment is disturbed ( e. g. the idealized non-disturbing measurement ).

Kardec's own introductory book on Spiritism, What is Spiritism ?, published only two years after The Spirits Book, includes a long dialogue between his persona and three idealized critics, " The Critic ", " The Skeptic ", and " The Priest ", which as a whole summed up most of the criticism Spiritism has received since then: of being charlatanism, pseudoscience, heresy, anti-Catholic, witchcraft, and / or a form of Satanism.

She is the only character throughout the play who embraces and appreciates both the real and idealized life and manages to make the two ideas coexist.

During the period when Corot acquired the means to devote himself to art, landscape painting was on the upswing and generally divided into two camps: one ― historical landscape by Neoclassicists in Southern Europe representing idealized views of real and fancied sites peopled with ancient, mythological, and biblical figures ; and two ― realistic landscape, more common in Northern Europe, which was largely faithful to actual topography, architecture, and flora, and which often showed figures of peasants.

The two productions follow the staff of a largely idealized White House, and like many of Sorkin's projects share ideologies.

In practice, the idealized version can only be approximated, for two reasons.

* Boys ' Love, Japanese term for female-oriented fiction featuring idealized romantic relationships between two males

Considering the armament of two nations, Richardson posited an idealized system of equations whereby the rate of a nation's armament build-up is directly proportional to the amount of arms its rival has and also to the grievances felt toward the rival, and negatively proportional to the amount of arms it already has itself.

As a result she has identified two strains within methods of proportioning in sixth century kouroi, where the majority follow the general line of evolution from the foreign model towards an idealized human norm.

Solovyov never married or had children, but he pursued idealized relationships as immortalized in his spiritual love poetry, including with two women named Sophia.

The symbol represents the point at infinity, an idealized point that bridges the two " ends " of the real line.

The three visit first Herzl and then Trumpeldor, two famous promoters of Zionism, and find each to be a far cry from their idealized images.

Picturesque arose as a mediator between the opposed ideals of beauty and the sublime, showing the possibilities that existed in between these two rationally idealized states.

A fair coin is an idealized randomizing device with two states ( usually named " heads " and " tails ") which are equally likely to occur.

Book two shows that the idealized nation of Brobdingnag with a philosopher king is no home for a contemporary Englishman.

Of two of his known works, however, his idealized portrait head of Plato was commissioned by Mithridates of Persia for the Academy of Athens, c. 370 BC, Of it and of an idealized portrait head of Sappho, later copies survive, if the number of surviving copies can be correlated to the fame of the commissions.