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For example, Alfonso halted his army in pious respect before the birthplace of a Latin writer, carried Livy or Caesar on his campaigns with him, and his panegyrist Panormita even stated that the king was cured of an illness when a few pages of Quintus Curtius Rufus ' history of Alexander the Great were read to him.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are documented by ancient Greek and Roman writers, including Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus.
Quintus Curtius Rufus ( active 1st century AD ) referred to the writings of Cleitarchus, a 4th century BC historian of Alexander the Great, when writing his own History of Alexander the Great:
Literary sources are Alexander's propagandist Arrian ( Anabasis Alexandri 2. 3 ) Quintus Curtius ( 3. 1. 14 ), Justin's epitome of Pompeius Trogus ( 11. 7. 3 ), and Aelian's De Natura Animalium 13. 1.
* Images of the silver coins (" denarii ") made by order of the coinage Triunvir Quintus Curtius in 115-116 B. C.
Quintus Curtius Rufus, the historian, says he was crucified in the place where Darius III had been killed, Arrian states that he was tortured and then decapitated in Ecbatana, and Plutarch suggests that he was torn apart in Bactria after a Macedonian trial.
Iron caltrops were used as early as 331 BC at Gaugamela according to Quintus Curtius ( IV. 13. 36 ).
The Roman writer Quintus Curtius Rufus relates the story in his Historiae Alexandri Magni: " Perdiccas saw that they mutineers were paralyzed and at his mercy.
Hardy wrote quickly, often adapting plays from French, foreign and classical sources ( Ovid, Lucian, Plutarch, Xenophon, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Josephus, Miguel de Cervantes, Jorge de Montemayor, Boccaccio, François de Rosset ).
According to the Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, Batis was killed by Alexander in imitation of Achilles ' treatment of the fallen Hector.
However, he learned to read French, German, Polish, and Italian, and devoted himself to intense study of several military authors including Plutarch, Quintus Curtius, Cornelius Nepos, Julius Caesar, and Charles XII.
His translation from Quintus Curtius, La Vie d ' Alexandre ( posthumously published in 1653 ) deserves notice as an application of the author's own rules.
Both Quintus Curtius Rufus and Arrian refer to Alexander himself meeting with a tribe of fish-eating savages while on his Indian campaign.
Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, writing probably during the reign of the Emperor Claudius ( 41-54 AD ) or Vespasian ( 69-79 AD ).
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Among the famous jurists of the republican period are Quintus Mucius Scaevola who wrote a voluminous treatise on all aspects of the law, which was very influential in later times, and Servius Sulpicius Rufus, a friend of Marcus Tullius Cicero.
* Spring – Salvidienus Rufus marches to Transalpine Gaul to take command of the eleven legions, after the death of Quintus Fufius Calenus.
* Perusine War: A armed resistance breaks out across Italy, the Umbrian city of Sentinum is captured and destroyed by Quintus Salvidienus Rufus.
Sallust, Titus Munatius Plancus and Quintus Pompeius Rufus also tried to blame Cicero, one of the leaders of senators ' opposition to triumvirate, for his support of Milo.
As a result of his success in bringing the Social War to a successful conclusion, he was elected consul for the first time in 88 BC, with Quintus Pompeius Rufus ( soon his daughter's father-in-law ) as his colleague.
Before leaving for the East, Sulla and his colleague Quintus Pompeius Rufus blocked legislation of the tribune Publius Sulpicius Rufus to ensure the rapid organisation of the Italian Allies within the Roman citizenship.
The Camerini frequently held the highest offices in the state in the early times of the Republic ; but after 345 BC, when Servius Sulpicius Camerinus Rufus was consul, we do not hear of them again for upwards of four hundred years, till Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus obtained the consulship in AD 9.
Lucullus was elected Quaestor in winter 89-88 at the same elections in which Sulla was returned as Consul with his friend Quintus Pompeius Rufus, whose son was married to Sulla's eldest daughter, Cornelia.
Other major historical figures who appear and play prominent parts in the series include Mithridates VI of Pontus, Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, Publius Rutilius Rufus, Quintus Sertorius, Marcus Livius Drusus, Jugurtha of Numidia, Spartacus, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, Marcus Porcius Cato, Publius Clodius, Titus Annius Milo, Vercingetorix, Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Antonius, Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Caesarion and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.
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