When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then traveled to Italy and became progenitors of Romans.

Publius Cornelius Scipio, the consul who commanded the Roman force sent to intercept Hannibal, and Scipio Africanus ' father, had not expected Hannibal to make an attempt to cross the Alps, since the Romans were prepared to fight the war in Iberia.

The difference is that Fabius commanded a numerically superior army than his opponent and had no supply problems, and had room to maneuver, while Hamilcar was mostly static and had a far smaller army than the Romans and was dependent on seaborne supplies from Carthage.

Llívia was the site of an Iberian oppidum which commanded the region and was named Julia Libica by the Romans.

After his victory over Syphax, Masinissa commanded his skilled Numidian cavalry against the Romans in Spain, where he was involved in the Carthaginian victories of Castulo and Ilorca ( both 211 ).

The promontory fort of Aleth, south of the modern centre in what is now the Saint-Servan district, commanded approaches to the Rance even before the Romans, but modern Saint-Malo traces its origins to a monastic settlement founded by Saint Aaron and Saint Brendan early in the 6th century.

In pre-Roman times it was known as Sadacia or Sidacia, while the current name derives from the Latin Arenetum (" Place of sand "); the Romans, who arrived here in the 2nd century BC replacing the Celtiberians, built here a fortification to defend the hill, which commanded an important communication hub.

Some believe that Hannibal was present at Magnesia, this is false however because Hannibal, who had commanded the fleet and lost at Eurymedon, had retreated and then fled to Crete for fear that Antiochus would lose and turn him over to the Romans.

At the Battle of the Trebia he commanded the detachment that ambushed the Romans, breaking down their battle array.

Their army was surprised and scattered by Romans forces commanded by Marcus Silanus in 207 BC.

As the Romans entered the harbour with their brand new ships, a part of the Carthaginian fleet, commanded by Hannibal Gisco ( the general defeated in Agrigentum ) and Boodes, was either waiting in ambush ( pro-Roman sources ), or received word of the Roman fleet's position and surprised them.

But the Carthaginians were not going to let this threat pass unchallenged and launched an equally large fleet to intercept the Romans, commanded by Hanno the Great and Hamilcar the later victor of Drepanum ( not to be confused with Hamilcar Barca ).

The Romans were commanded by consuls Publius Decius Mus and Fabius Maximus Rullianus, and amounted to about 40, 000 men: 4 legions, a strong contingent of Roman cavalry, 1, 000 elite cavalry men from Campania, 4 allied and Latin legions and a strong contingent of allied and Latin cavalry.

In the battle, the Samnites, assisted by the Gauls, defeated the Romans, who were commanded by Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus.

Mamilius commanded the army of the Latins against the Romans at the Battle of Lake Regillus, where he was killed in 498 B. C.

Of the Latin cities, only Tusculum quickly sent troops, commanded by the dictator Lucius Mamilius, to help the Romans.

Receiving intelligence of the operation while the Carthaginians were still in the Pyrenees, the Romans sent a force commanded by one of the consuls for the year, Publius Cornelius Scipio, via naval transport along the coast of Liguria to the mouth of the Rhone River, where their unshakeable Greek allies at Marseille were located and the Gauls were all friendly to Rome.

It passed over to the Romans, as with all of Puglia, after the wars with the Greek-Messapian League, commanded by King Pirro of Epiro ( 280-275 BC ).

Most Romans, even some postmen, know it by the old name.

And new vistas of hairshirt asceticism are opened by scholarly monographs entitled: `` Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ear-Muffs '', `` Such a Phrase as Drifts Through Dream '', and `` The New Vocabularianism ''.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

The term allocutio was used by the ancient Romans for the speech made by a commander to his troops, either before a battle or during it, to animate and encourage them.

The Aegean Sea was later invaded by the Persians and the Romans, and inhabited by the Byzantine Empire, the Bulgarians, the Venetians, the Genoeses, the Seljuq Turks, and the Ottoman Empire.

Anatolia has been inhabited by many peoples throughout history, such as the Hattians, Hurrians, Hittites, Luwians, Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Assyrians, Mitanni, Scythians, Cimmerians, Urartians, Carians, Commagene, Cilicians, Arameans, Kaskians, Mushki, Palaic, Corduene, Armenians, Romans, Colchians, Iberians, Georgians, Kurds, Seljuk Turks, and Ottomans.

Antoninus in many ways was the ideal of the landed gentleman praised not only by ancient Romans, but also by later scholars of classical history, such as Edward Gibbon or the author of the article on Antoninus Pius in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica:

Troy cannot have been Asagarth, Snorri realizes, the reason being that the Æsir in Asaland were unsettled by the military activities of the Romans ; that is, of the Byzantine Empire.

First mentioned by the Romans in 213, the Alamanni captured the Agri Decumates in 260, and later expanded into present-day Alsace, and northern Switzerland, establishing the German language in those regions.

Underneath the royal class were the nobles ( called optimates by the Romans ) and warriors ( called armati by the Romans ).

Making Antioch his base, he marched at the head of his troops towards Ctesiphon, but a second army was destroyed by the Persians, and further losses were incurred by the retreating Romans in Armenia.

Because Augustine cites part of the commentary on Romans as by " Sanctus Hilarius " it has been ascribed by various critics at different times to almost every known Hilary.

In Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Last Legion, Aurelianus ( here called " Aurelianus Ambrosius Ventidius ") is a major character and is shown as one of the last loyal Romans, going to enormous lengths for his boy emperor Romulus Augustus, whose power has been wrested by the barbarian Odoacer.

The declaration is notable since, according to Livy, it was the first time that the Romans had declared war by means of the rites of the fetials.

In 148 BC, in what the Romans called the Fourth Macedonian War, he was defeated by the Roman praetor Q. Caecilius Metellus ( 148 ) at the Second Battle of Pydna, and fled to Thrace, whose prince gave him up to Rome, thus marking the final end to Andriskos ' reign of Macedonia.

The Romans fared very poorly during the initial revolt facing a completely unified Jewish force ( unlike during the First Jewish-Roman War, where Flavius Josephus records three separate Jewish armies fighting each other for control of the Temple Mount during the three weeks time after the Romans had breached Jerusalem's walls and were fighting their way to the center ).

To place the role of Vitruvius the military engineer in context, a description of " The Praefect of the camp " or army engineer is quoted here as given by Flavius Vegetius Renatus in The Military Institutions of the Romans:

* Attila, age 12, is sent as child hostage to the court at Rome and in return, the Romans sent Flavius Aetius to the Huns.

He becomes the most honored of all non-imperial Romans and political rival of Flavius Aetius.

During this year, he was briefly the most honored of all non-Imperial Romans, until the third consulate of Flavius Aëtius, generalissimo of the Western empire, the following year.

The Romans sent colonists there and contributed new buildings to its cities, especially in the Agora of Athens, where the Agrippeia of Marcus Agrippa, the Library of Titus Flavius Pantaenus, and the Tower of the Winds, among others, were built.

Along with his rival, Flavius Aëtius, he is sometimes termed " the last of the Romans.

The Vandals would rule the diocese until the Eastern Romans under Flavius Belisarius recaptured it in 534.

The Jewish War (, Ioudaikou polemos ), also Judean War in full Flavius Josephus's Books of the History of the Jewish War against the Romans (, Phlabiou Iōsēpou historia Ioudaikou polemou pros Rōmaious biblia ), also referred to in English as The Wars of the Jews and The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem, is a book written by the 1st century Jewish historian Josephus.

Titus Flavius Sabinus was the name of four notable Ancient Romans, father, son, grandson and

It has therefore been settled since the time of the Hittites and many civilisations have owned the land since: Assyrians, Romans ( he Roman city of Flavius may have been located here ), Byzantines, Armenians and finally Turks.