* Social War continues: Pompeius Strabo and Gaius Marius distinguish themselves.

Although he had impeached the turbulent tribune Gaius Norbanus, and resisted the proposal to repeal judicial sentences by popular decree, he did not hesitate to incur the displeasure of the Julian family by opposing the candidature for the consulship of Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus, who had never been praetor and was consequently ineligible.

In the north, the consul Publius Rutilius Lupus was advised by Gaius Marius and Pompeius Strabo ; in the south the consul Lucius Julius Caesar had Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Titus Didius.

* Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus ( c. 130 – 87 BC ), son of Lucius Julius Caesar II and Poppilia

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They had 2 sons Lucius Julius Caesar III and Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus and one daughter Julia Caesaris, who became the first wife of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

Lucius Julius Caesar III ( c. 135 BC – 87 BC ) was a son of Lucius Julius Caesar II, and elder brother to Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus.

* Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo

It is likely that Sejanus ' father Strabo came to the attention of Augustus through his father's connection with Maecenas.

According to the descriptions of Strabo, Dio Cassius and other Graeco-Roman geographers, the lands of Asturias were inhabited in the beginning of the Christian era by several peoples, amongst whom the more important were: From the Cantabrians, the Vadinienses, who inhabited the Picos de Europa region and whose settlement gradually expanded southward during the first centuries of the modern era ; the Orgenomesci, who dwelled along the Asturian eastern coast ; and from the Astures, the Saelini, whose settlement extended through the Sella valley ; the Luggones, who had their capital in Lucus Asturum and whose territories stretched between the rivers Sella and Nalón ; the Astures ( in the strictest sense ), who dwelled in inner Asturias, between the current councils of Piloña and Cangas del Narcea ; and the Paesici, who had settled along the coast of Western Asturias, between the mouth of the Navia river and the modern city of Gijón.

The event created a sensation and was described by Nicolaus of Damascus, who met the embassy at Antioch, and related by Strabo ( XV, 1, 73 ) and Dio Cassius.

Xylander was the author of a number of important works, including Latin translations of Dio Cassius ( 1558 ), Plutarch ( 1560 – 1570 ) and Strabo ( 1571 ).

According to historians, as a result of the linguistic unity of the Getae and Dacians that result from the record of ancient writers Strabo, Cassius Dio, Trogus Pompeius, Appian and Pliny the Elder, contemporary historiography often uses the term Geto-Dacians to refer to the people living in the area between the Carpathians, the Haemus ( Balkan ) Mountains and the Black Sea.

Classical sources not mentioned in the text: Strabo 5. 283 ; 6. 316, 323, 327 ; Ptolemy 3. 12 ; Dio Cassius.

The ancient authors Strabo and Cassius Dio say that Getae practiced ruler cult, and this is confirmed by archaeological remains.

The event made a sensation and was quoted by Strabo and Dio Cassius.

The temple served as a depository for Aristotle, Caesar, Dio Chrysostomus, Plautus, Plutarch, Strabo and Xenophon.

According to Strabo, writing two centuries after the events, rather than being destroyed by the Romans like their Celtic neighbours, " the Boii were merely driven out of the regions they occupied ; and after migrating to the regions round about the Ister, lived with the Taurisci, and carried on war against the Daci until they perished, tribe and all — and thus they left their country, which was a part of Illyria, to their neighbours as a pasture-ground for sheep.

" Strabo ’ s " positive and unequivocal appreciation of Moses ’ personality is among the most sympathetic in all ancient literature.

< p > But Strabo rejects this theory as insufficient to account for all the phenomena, and he proposes one of his own, the profoundness of which modern geologists are only beginning to appreciate.

Ithaca lies farther north than Kefalonia, Zacynthos, and the island that Strabo identified as Doulichion, consistent with the interpretation of Ithaca as being " farthest of all towards the north.

Strabo proposes a very ingenious interpretation of the legends about Achelous, all of which according to him arose from the nature of the river itself.

Strabo, Plutarch and Pausanias all mentioned the Phaedriades in describing the site, a narrow valley of the Pleistus ( today Xeropotamos ) formed by Parnasse and Mt.

As a sign of their obedience, Strabo affirms that they consented to destroy all their wines as Deceneus ordered so.

Both Strabo and Pausanias report that the stench of the river Anigrus in Elis, making all the fish of the river inedible, was reputed to be due to the Hydra's poison, washed from the arrows Heracles used on the centaur.

In his own era, his writings on almost all the principal divisions of philosophy made Posidonius a renowned international figure throughout the Graeco-Roman world and he was widely cited by writers of his era, including Cicero, Livy, Plutarch, Strabo ( who called Posidonius " the most learned of all philosophers of my time "), Cleomedes, Seneca the Younger, Diodorus Siculus ( who used Posidonius as a source for his Bibliotheca historia Library "), and others.

" Mimnermus apparently was also capable of playing all by himself — Strabo described him as " both a pipe-player and an elegiac poet ".

Strabo ultimately concludes, in Book IV, Chapter 5, " Concerning Thule, our historical information is still more uncertain, on account of its outside position ; for Thule, of all the countries that are named, is set farthest north.

Herodotus, Xenophon and Strabo all assert that the Bithyni and Thyni settled together in what would be known as Bithynia and Thynia.

" The most diverse witnesses, such as Strabo, Philo, Seneca, Luke ( the author of the Acts of the Apostles ), Cicero, and Josephus, all mention Jewish populations in the cities of the Mediterranean basin.

Strabo reports that King Artaxias I of Armenia ( 189 BC-159 BC ) expanded his state in all directions at the expense of his neighbors.

A distinct Lydian culture lasted, in all probability, until at least shortly before the Common Era, having been attested the last time among extant records by Strabo in Kibyra in south-west Anatolia around his time ( 1st century BC ).

The geographer Strabo mentions this temple, the third greatest temple after those in Didyma and Ephesus, but considered finest of all for its proportions.

The new town which Strabo saw was remarkable for its temple of Artemis Leucophryeno, which in size and the number of its treasures was surpassed by the temple of Ephesus, but in beauty and the harmony of its parts was superior to all the temples in Asia Minor.

Seleucus is known from the writings of Plutarch, Aetius, and Strabo, all of whom were Greeks, and the Persian Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi.

The Bulgarian historian and thracologist Alexander Fol considers that the Getae became known as " Dacians " in Greek and Latin in the writings of Caesar, Strabo and Pliny the Elder, as Roman observers adopted the name of the Dacian tribe to refer to all the unconquered inhabitants north of the Danube.

Greek geographer Strabo considered the Po Valley ( northern Italy ) to be the most important economically because " all cereals do well, but the yield from millet is exception, because the soil is so well watered.

Both Strabo and Pausanias report that the stench of the river Anigrus in Elis, making all the fish of the river inedible, was reputed to be due to the Hydra's poison, washed from the arrows Heracles used on the centaur.

) This is the last occasion on which we find their name in history ; all trace of the distinction between them and the other Samnites seems to have been subsequently lost, and their name is not even mentioned by Strabo or Pliny.

While the works of almost all earlier geographers have been lost, many of them are partially known through quotations found in Strabo.