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  Gaius (name) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gaius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus (or Gaius Vipsanius Agrippa)
Gaius Papirius Carbo, a tribune of 90 BC
Additionally, Gaius Helen Mohiam is a fictional character in the Dune universe; and Gaius Baltar is a fictional character in the television series Battlestar Galactica.
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 Gaius Duilius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gaius Duilius (lived 3rd century BC) was a Roman politician involved in the First Punic War.
Duilius captured several enemy vessels, including Gisco's flagship and was thus the first Roman successful in a naval engagement.
Three Italian warships were named after Duilius: battleship Duilio, of XIX century; World War I/II era battleship Caio Duilio; missile cruiser Duilio, launched in 1962.
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 Learn more about List of ancient Romans in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Gaius Calpurnius Crassus Frugi Licinianus - suffect consul
Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder) - scholar
Gaius Sallustius Passienus Crispus - consul, grandson of Sallust
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 Gaius Duilius - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Duilius, Gaius (lived about 260 bc), Roman consul and military leader, who fought in the first Punic War.
Flaminius, Gaius (died 217 bc), Roman statesman and general, of plebeian family.
Gracchus, Gaius Sempronius, full name Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (153-121 bc), Roman soldier and statesman, brother of Tiberius Gracchus, whose...
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 The Ultimate Gaius (name) - American History Information Guide and Reference
Gaius or Caius was a common Roman praenomen.
Gaius, the jurist (the rest of his name is unknown)
Additionally, Gaius Helen Mohiam is a fictional character in the Dune universe.
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 NOVA ROMA ::: Camenaeum ::: RES PUBLICA
Titus Manlius Torquatus (I) Gaius Atilius Bulbus (I)
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus (I) Gaius Livius Drusus
Gaius Gracchus declared a public enemy; he and 3,000 supporters are executed.
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 Encyclopedia
The attempts of the people's tribunes Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and his brother Gaius Sempronius Gracchus to alleviate the economic distress and help the poorer citizens by agrarian and corn laws resulted in riots in which both brothers met their deaths, Tiberius in 133 bc and Gaius in 121 bc.
In Africa the overthrow, in 106 bc, of Jugurtha, king of Numidia, by the consul Gaius Marius with the assistance of Lucius Cornelius Sulla increased the military renown of the Republic, as did the defeat of the Cimbri and the Teutones in southern Gaul and northern Italy by Marius after his return from Africa.
A stand made at Philippi by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius, two of Caesar's assassins, was crushed by Octavian and Antony, and subsequently the triumvirs divided the control of the empire, Octavian taking Italy and the west, Antony the east, and Lepidus Africa.
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Similarly, having learnt from tradition that of all friendships that between Gaius Laelius and Publius Scipio was the most remarkable, I thought Laelius was just the person to support the chief part in a discussion on friendship which Scaevola remembered him to have actually taken.
Even Gaius Fannius, Manius Curius, and Tiberius Coruncanius, whom our ancestors decided to be "wise," I could never declare to be so according to their standard.
However, it is quite true that Gaius Carbo and Gaius Cato did follow Tiberius Gracchus; and though his brother Caius Gracchus did not do so at the time, he is now the most eager of them all.
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 Vives/The Instruction of A Christen Woman. Name Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Sister of Augustus and widow of Gaius Marcellus; she entered into a political marriage immediately thereafter with Mark Antony, who divorced her eight years later.
Laws enacted during Hannibalic War named for Roman tribune Gaius Oppius; regulating women's clothing, ownership of gold, and transportation, they were repealed in 195 despite arguments by Cato the Elder [K1r-K1v; g3r].
Cultured and upright, he was unhappily married to Sempronia, sister of Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus [c4r].
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 Encyclopaedia :: encyclopedia : Index consulum rei publicae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
73 Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus
59 Gaius Iulius Caesar I, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus
46 Gaius Iulius Caesar III, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus I
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Gaius Duilius saw the Carthaginians coming from the island.
When Gaius was travelling in Italy, he read the town gate at Saepinum which claimed Tiberius and Drusus the Elder had built it in what would be 7 BC.
But Gaius remembered a passage in Cassius Dio that said Tiberius restored a temple to divine twins in the Forum and dedicated it with Drusus name.
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Gaius Fannius and Quintus Mucius come to call on their father-in-law after the death of Africanus.
It was by this kind of flattering language that Gaius Papirius the other day endeavoured to tickle the ears of the assembled people, when proposing his law to make the tribunes re-eligible.
For the power of filling up their own vacancies on the part of the colleges was by this proposal to be transferred to the people.
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 Ancient Rome From the Earliest Times Down to 476 A.D By Robert F. Pennel (1890)- Chapter 13 from Nalanda Digital ...
A bronze column, ornamented with the beaks of the captured vessels, was erected at Rome in honor of this victory of Duilius.
The apathy of the Senate was so great, that at last some private citizens built and manned at their own expense a fleet of 200 sail.
GAIUS LUTATIUS CATALUS, the Consul in command, surprised the enemy and occupied the harbors of Drepana and Lilybaeum in 242.
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Consul with Gaius Flaminius in 217 and a member of the Aemilian-Scipionic political faction in Rome.
Gaius Claudius Nero threw Hasdrubal’s head into Hannibal’s camp.
I’ve invented his being at Lake Trasimene and his ride, with Gaius Laelius, to warn Rome after the ambush there.
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 Etext » books
It was in vain that bribes and threats were employed to shake the courage of the men sent by the Senate; and, on his part, Pyrrhus refused to grant the desired exchange.
The sons, TIBERIUS and GAIUS, grew up under the care of their noble and gifted mother, who was left a widow when they were mere boys.
Gaius with 3,000 of his friends was murdered in 121, and the Senate was once more master of the situation.
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 Roman Captains quiz -- free game
Consul three times, this general defeated the Samnites at the battle of Aquilona in 293 BC, crushed the Gallic Senones in 284 BC and drove King Pyrrhus from Italy at the battle of Beneventum in 275 BC.
What town was the home of Gaius Marius, victor over Jugurtha of Numidia, the Germanic Cimbri and Teutones, and seven times consul?
Publius Cornelius Scipio the younger, conquered two cities that had defied the power of Rome for decades, what were the cities Scipio conquered in 146 and 133 BCE?
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 Chronology of the Great Empires
The Roman admiral Gaius Duilius Nepos commands quinquiremes modeled after a Carthaginian ship found stranded on the Italian coast, and he uses grappling irons and boarding bridges to revolutionize naval warfare and to defeat a larger, more maneuverable Carthaginian flotilla.
Slaves from lands conquered by Rome's legions provide much of the power for Roman agriculture, being able to follow verbal orders even though they are less powerful and less docile than horses, whose efficiency is limited also by lack of metal horseshoes and lack of proper harnesses.
Nobles in the Senate outlaw the popular leaders, and both are murdered with the complicity of Gaius Marius, the general.
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As praetor in 227 BC, Gaius Flaminius was the first annual governor of Sicily (OCD, p.
The brothers Gaius and Lucius Coruncanius had been dispatched by the Senate as envoys.
According to Polybius, one of the envoys responded angrily to the queen, who had him killed on his return voyage.
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 The Punic Wars (264-241, 218-201, 149-146 B.C.)
At Mylae (Milazzo), off the north Sicilian coast, their admiral Gaius Duilius defeated a Carthaginian squadron of more maneuverable ships by grappling and boarding.
Before reaching Hannibal, Hasdrubal was met in northern Italy by the army of Marcus Livius Salinator, reinforced by part of Gaius Claudius Nero's army.
The battle on the banks of the Metaurus (Metauro) River was evenly contested until Nero, with a dexterous flanking movement, cut off the enemy's retreat.
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 Informat.io on Novus Homo
As time went by, novi homines became more and more rare as some plebeian families became as entrenched in the Senate as their patrician colleagues.
By the time of the First Punic War, it was already a sensation that novi homines were elected in two consecutive years (Gaius Fundanius Fundulus in 243 BC and Gaius Lutatius Catulus in 242 BC).
In 63 BC, Cicero became the first novus homo in more than 30 years.
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 Informat.io on Punic War
Nevertheless the Carthaginian faction that opposed the conflict, led by the land-owning aristocrat Hanno the Great, gained power and in 244, considering the war to be over, started the demobilization of the fleet, giving the Romans a chance to attain again naval superiority.
Rome did build another fleet paid for with donations from wealthy citizens and the First Punic War was decided in the naval battle of the Aegates Islands (March 10 241 BC), where the new Roman fleet under consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus scored a victory.
260 BC - First naval encounter (battle of the Lipari Islands) is a disaster to Rome, but soon afterwards, Gaius Duilius wins the battle of Mylae with the help of the corvus engine.
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 Lost Battalion Games : Features : Old Salt's Journal : The Ships of Battlegroup : Italy ...
The higher superfiring turrets fore and aft were the ones with only two guns.
The name is modern Italian for the ancient Roman General Gaius Duilius (3rd century B. who defeated the Carthaginian fleet at the Battle of Myle in 260 B. using the corvi (“ravens”) boarding bridges.
Caio Duilio was the name ship of a two-ship battleship class (the other was the Andrea Doria), which was very similar to the previous Conte di Cavour class.
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 Liste des censeurs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
-225 - Gaius Claudius Centho et Marcus Junius Pera
-204 - Gaius Claudius Nero et Marcus Livius Salinator
-169 - Gaius Claudius Pulcher et Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus
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 History of Rome
The First Punic War was waged mainly for the possession of Sicily and was marked by the emergence of Rome as a great naval power.
In 67 BC the statesman and general Pompey the Great, who had fought the Marian party in Africa, Sicily, and Spain, cleared the Mediterranean of pirates and was then put in charge of the war against Mithridates.
Caesar and Cicero brought Latin prose to its peak of achievement, and Marcus Terentius Varro was the greatest scholar of the age.
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 Paras. 1-29. Cicero. 1909-14. On Old Age. The Harvard Classics.
These were the words addressed by Archytas to the Samnite Gaius Pontius, father of the man by whom the consuls Spurius Postumius and Titus Veturius were beaten in the battle of Caudium.
My friend Nearchus of Tarentum, who had remained loyal to Rome, told me that he had heard them repeated by some old men; and that Plato the Athenian was present, who visited Tarentum, I find, in the consulship of L. Camillus and Appius Claudius.
As a boy I often used to see Gaius Duilius, the son of Marcus, then an old man, returning from a dinner-party.
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 Term-Papers.us - Rome
Punic Wars The First Punic War (see PUNIC WARS) was waged mainly for the possession of Sicily and was marked by the emergence of Rome as a great naval power.
The Rise of Caesar In 67 BC the statesman and general Pompey the Great, who had fought the Marian party in Africa, Sicily, and Spain, cleared the Mediterranean of pirates and was then put in charge of the war against Mithridates.
The Empire Octavian received the title of Augustus in 27 BC and began the new regime by an apparent restoration of the Republic, with himself as princeps, or chief citizen.
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 akg-images.co.uk | Gallery | Archaeology | Rome
Dedication to Roman consul Gaius Duilius on the Columna Rostrata (Rostra Column) in Rome.
The "hippica gymnasia", a tournament of the Roman cavalry in richly adorned armour, armed with mock spears, in a watercolour by Peter Connolly.
Statues of Mars and Diana in the Villa Hadriana, built under Hadrian 117-138 AD.
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 Place Names
During a war with Antium, Rome had her first ever sea victory, by Gaius Maenius.
A town on the northern coast of Sicily.
It was off Mylae that Gaius Duilius first defeated the Carthaginians, in honor of which he placed the ships’ beaks on a special column near the Rostra in Rome.
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 Ancient History Sourcebook: Cicero: Old Age, c. 65 BCE
As a boy I often used to see Gaius Duilius, the son of Marcus, then an old man, returning from a dinner - party.
He thoroughly enjoyed the frequent use of torch and flute - player, distinctions which he had assumed though unprecedented in the case of a private person.
And Letters of Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, translated by William Melmoth, rev. by F.C.T. Bosanquet.
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