GAIUSLICINIUSMACERCALVUS (82-47 B.C.), Roman poet and orator, was the son of the annalist LiciniusMacer.
As an orator he was the leader of the opponents of the florid Asiatic school, who took the simplest Atticorators as their model and attacked even Cicero as wordy and artificial.
Calvus was very short of stature, and is alluded to by Catullus (Ode 53) as Sala-.
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The work is now lost, but from Livy and Dionysius, who both used it, we know that it began with the founding of the city, and that Pyrrhus appeared in book 2.
Livy casts doubt on Macer's reliability, suggesting that he misrepresented events in order to glorify the Licinii (7.9.5), but notes that he quotes original sources, such as the Linen Rolls (4.7.12, 4.20.8, 4.23.2).
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GaiusLicinius (Calvus) Stolo, along with Lucius Sextus, was by tradition one of the two tribunes of ancient Rome that opened the consul to the plebeians.
He was supposed to have been tribune from 376 BC to 367 BC.
Although Livy describes the activities of GaiusLicinius in great detail, it is likely that they are not accurate; much of it is suspiciously similar to events in the age of the Gracchi two hundred years later, and it is quite possible that the annalist LiciniusMacer invented episodes of his family's activities.
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GaiusLicinius (Calvus) Stolo, along with Lucius Sextus, was according to tradition one of the two tribunes of ancient Rome that opened the consulship to the plebeians.
Records indicate he was tribune from 376 BC to 367 BC, during which he passed the Leges Liciniae Sextiae limiting the amount of public land that one person could hold, and regulated debts.
Although Livy describes the activities of GaiusLicinius in great detail, it is likely that his description is not accurate; much of it is suspiciously similar to events in the age of the Gracchi two hundred years later, and it is quite possible that the annalist LiciniusMacer invented episodes of his family's activities.
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Gaius Lucilius was a member of a wealthy equestrian family, and thus could associate on equal terms with the aristocracy, while he was removed from the necessity, which members of the great senatorian houses could hardly avoid, of giving the best of their time and strength to political and administrative duties.
Gaius Helvius Cinna--somewhat doubtfully identified with the "Cinna the poet" who met such a tragical end at the hands of the populace after Caesar's assassination--carried the Alexandrian movement to its most uncompromising conclusions.
Gaius Valerius Catullus of Verona, one of the greatest names of Latin poetry, belonged, like most of this group, to a wealthy and distinguished family, and was introduced at an early age to the most fashionable circles of the capital.
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Calvus' oratical style opposed the "Asian" school in favor of a simpler AtticAn attic is the story in a non-flat roof of a building.
Born of Illyrian peasant stock, Licinius advanced in the army and was suddenly elevated to the rank of augustus (November 308) by his friend Galerius, who had become emperor.
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The ancient Roman emperor Licinius ruled during an era when Christianity was a critical issue within the empire.
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They cherished the epithet docti, "learned." Catullus's friends were the poets C. LiciniusMacerCalvus, Furius Bibaculus, and C. Helvius Cinna; the orator Q. Hortensius, Cicero's rival in the law courts; and the biographer Cornelius Nepos, to whom Catullus dedicated his book of poems.
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Helva, Gaius (or Publius) Veturius (Vetusius) Geminus Cicurinus 498 Quintus Cloelius Siculus, Titus Larcius Flavus (or Rufus) II 497 Aulus Sempronius Atratinus, Marcus Minucius Augurinus 496 Aulus Postumius P.f.
Gaius Fabricius Luscinus ("the one-eyed"), Gaius fils, was said to have been the first of the Fabricii to move to ancient Rome, his family originating from Aletrium (Livy ix.
In 284 BC he was one of the ambassadors to Tarentum, successfully keeping the peace, and was elected consul in 282, where he saved Thurii from the Sabellians.
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Gaius Asinius Gallus was an ambitious (Click link for more info and facts about Roman senator) Roman senator with family connections to the (Click link for more info and facts about Julio-Claudian) Julio-Claudian house.
He was son to (Click link for more info and facts about Gaius Asinius Pollio) Gaius Asinius Pollio.
He was ultimately charged with treason, and, according to Tacitus, starved to death in 33 AD.
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The Law of Citations (426), issued by the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II, named Gaius one of five jurists (the others were Papinian, Ulpian, Modestinus, and Paulus) whose doctrines were to be followed by judges in deciding cases.
The Roman orator, poet, and historian Gaius Asinius Pollio wrote a contemporary history that provided much of the material for the Greek historians Appian and Plutarch.
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Clovis moved the settlement farther south i the mountains, nearer the spring, to escape the notice of Charlemagne and later the Holy Roman Empire.
The only explanation I have for "117 men under GaiusLicinius Marc..." is that the computer was searching for the correct name (and that the guys at Bungie were giving us a hint).
GaiusLicinius was the first magister equitum (sort of right hand man in the court hierarchy) and thus kept the name through history, but there's GaiusLicinius Mucianus who was the govenor of Syria (amongst other things), and also (likely incorrect) GaiusLiciniusMacerCalvus, a poet and politico.