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| | Velleius Paterculus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02) |
 | | The Velleii belonged to the Roman equestrian order (the second level of the Roman aristocracy, after the senators), came from Capua in Campania, and had allied itself to the powerful aristocratic clan of the Claudii Nerones. |
 | | When Velleius Paterculus, the subject of this article, was born in c.20 BCE, the Germanic wars were about to begin, and it is likely that the future historian spent his youth in one of the military settlements along the Rhine. |
 | | In 1 BCE, Paterculus was in the company of Caius Caesar, a grandson of the emperor Augustus and chosen as his successor. |
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