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  Quintus Veranius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quintus Veranius was the name of two notable Roman politicians of the 1st century.
The elder Quintus Veranius was governor of Cappadocia in 18.
In 43, the Emperor Claudius constituted the new province of Lycia-Pamphylia, and appointed Veranius as its governor.
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 QUINTUS VERANIUS
This new legionary base was to house the Fourteenth, who were again reunited after having been deployed in various divisions throughout the Midlands, perhaps at Mancetter and Metchley, certainly at Leighton beside the Wrekin hillfort.
While the Fourteenth secured Veranius' rear, Veranius campaigned in south Wales against the fearsome and war-like Silures tribe of Glamorgan, using the Twentieth from Gloucester.
Veranius, after having ravaged the Silures in some trifling raids, was prevented by death from extending the war.
www.roman-britain.org /people/veranius.htm   (211 words)

  
 The Internet Classics Archive | The Annals by Tacitus
It was decided that vessels of solid gold should not be made for the serving of food, and that men should not disgrace themselves with silken clothing from the East.
Those who were strangers to him, and who, because they were at enmity with others, made the emperor their heir, he kept at a distance.
Quintus Servaeus was appointed to Commagene, then first put under a praetor's jurisdiction.
classics.mit.edu /Tacitus/annals.2.ii.html   (10829 words)

  
 Marcus Vinicius Spatula - A Roman Story - VIII - Chapter 8
But his successor, Quintus Veranius, quickly eclipsed whatever reputation he had gained.
Veranius worked on a principle of swift, clinical attack; it became plain that he intended to apply it to the whole of Britannia.
Though a different kind of tactician from Veranius, Paullinus was set on continuing his predecessor's campaign of expansion and suppression.
www.worcestercitymuseums.org.uk /content/rostory/spat8.htm   (2347 words)

  
 Military History Online
The XIV Gemina were commanded by Quintus Veranius until his death, when he was succeeded by Gaius Suetonius Paullinus, the man responsible for the first invasion of Anglesey and, later, for the defeat of Boudicca.
On the death of Quintus Veranius, sometime around 58-9, Suetonius Paullinus returned to Britain.
Veranius had planned for a two year long campaign in Wales but had died before he had seen its end.
www.militaryhistoryonline.com /conquestbritain/articles/anglesey.aspx   (7374 words)

  
 Detail Page
While he clashed with Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, appointed by Tiberius governor of Syria, Germanicus achieved numerous successes and was hailed throughout the major cities of Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine and even in Egypt.
Cappadocia was organized into a province with the help of the legate Quintus Veranius.
Troubles in Armenia were temporarily eased with the crowning of Polemo of Pontus as its king.
www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=ROME0719   (561 words)

  
 Roman Britain - Revolt in 60 CE
Emperor Nero decided that border difficulties were too great and the whole of Wales should be occupied.
Quintus Veranius started to fight for Nero, but he died suddenly and Suetonius Paullinus took over.
The fighting of the Silures tribe was not strong enough and thus the Romans defeated the borders area.
www.pluralist.freeuk.com /learning/history/boudica.html   (1083 words)

  
 People of Roman Britain
Either Aulus Triarius Rufinus (consul 210), Quintus Aradius Rufinus, or another, is named on the headquarters inscription from Reculver as being incumbent at the time the new shrine was erected.
Quintus Aradius Rufinus is normally assumed to be the correct man but this does not provide a precise date.
Quintus Petillius Cerialis Caesius Rufus, governor in Britain between 71-4, was earlier legate of IX Hispana during the Revolt of Boudica in 60-1.
www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk /Rbpeople.htm   (18520 words)

  
 Tacitus: Annals: Book 12 [1]
Claudius at the same time broke off the connection; Silanus was forced to resign his office, and the one remaining day of his praetorship was conferred on Eprius Marcellus.
In the year of the consulship of Caius Pompeius and Quintus Veranius, the marriage arranged between Claudius and Agrippina was confirmed both by popular rumour and by their own illicit love.
Still, they did not yet dare to celebrate the nuptials in due form, for there was no precedent for the introduction of a niece into an uncle's house.
www.earth-history.com /Roman/Tacitus/a12000.htm   (1535 words)

  
 Sextus Iulius Frontinus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
[37] The matter was debated in the Senate, in the consulship of Appius Claudius and Quintus Caecilius [143 B.C.E.], with Marcus Lepidus as spokesman for the Board of Decemviri.
(8) Gallus', in the consulate of Quintus Veranius and Pompeius Longus [49 C.E.], was Gnaeus Domitius Afer.
Tacitus describes how inviting this spring was to Nero: "He had plunged for a swim into the source of the water which Quintus Marcius had conveyed to Rome, and it was thought that, by thus immersing his person in it, he had polluted the sacred waters and the sanctity of the spot.
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 lycia: people and places
Though badly damaged by the fire that revealed it, the inscription can be identified as a 'Stadiasmus Provinciae Lyciae', erected by the first governor of Lycia, Quintus Veranius (in office, AD 43/44-47/48), by order of the Emperor Claudius.
On the narrow side of the monument, facing all who approached, was a dedication from the Lycians to Claudius through the offices of governor Veranius.
At the top of the long left (west) side Claudius, again via Veranius, was credited for building the roads mentioned in the inscription.
www.usd.edu /erp/Lycia/lycplace.html   (2070 words)

  
 Aulus_didius_gallus info here at en.after-gasoline-alley.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
After five elderliness in the post, enveloping the antipodal two elderliness of the reign of Claudius 'n the inceptive seven of Nero, Didius was replaced by Quintus Veranius.
Quintilian asserts us that, after peculiar elderliness of campaigning for a provincial governership, Didius complained at the province he was offered, even supposing whether refers to Sicily or Britain is unknown.
The concursion governor of Britain, Quintus Veranius, responds on tombstone that he took the gig "although he didn't for it", which has outworn interpreted as a barbed comment on Didius.
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 Roman governors of Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Quintus Petillius Cerialis AD 71 - AD 74
Quintus Pompeius Falco AD 118 - AD 122
Some sources list a further governor, a second Ulpius Marcellus.
roman-governors-of-britain.mindbit.com   (600 words)

  
 Quintus Veranius - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Quintus Veranius - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)
Quintus Veranius Flaccus, governor of Cappadocia in AD 18 and prosecutor of Germanicus's alleged poisoner Gnaeus Piso
This page was last modified 20:29, 24 May 2005.
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There were the excesses of Quintus Tedius and Vedius Pollio; last of all, there was Livia, terrible to the State as a mother, terrible to the house of the Caesars as a stepmother.
No honour was left for the gods, when Augustus chose to be himself worshipped with temples and statues, like those of the deities, and with flamens and priests.
On the next day of the Senate's meeting much was said against the luxury of the country by Quintus Hat
www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/tacitus-annals.txt   (20959 words)

  
 Romans in Britain - The tribes revolt
Maybe it was for this reason that Nero stayed with the British situation.
The next governor was Quintus Veranius, who had received early promotion to this high status.
He had been very successful in his campaigns on the eastern front of the Empire in Lycia and Pamphylia.
www.romans-in-britain.org.uk /his_tribes_revolt.htm   (1877 words)

  
 The history of
He held the Welsh tribes in check and found the Brigantes of northern Britain, Rome’s allies, were splitting between the feuding king Venutius and his queen Cartimandua.
57/8         Quintus Veranius Nepos becomes governor but dies in post.
He fought a war in Britain and ordered a new wall, made of turf, to be built further north – roughly between where Glasgow and Edinburgh are now – by his governor Quintus Lollius Urbicus (c.
www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk /Rbdates.htm   (2358 words)

  
 UQ - Classics and Ancient History: CL222 - Commentary
around 54/55, when a show of filial pietas was essential; that Rome's military strength in Britain probably improved between 54 and 57; and that the appointment of Q. Veranius around 57 actually marked the start of a policy of expansion.
Brigantia posed problems in the first years of his principate, but this had been localised on the borders of the province.
Nero pursued a very aggressive policy from 57 to 60, in the governships of Quintus Veranius and Suetonius Paulinus.
www.uq.edu.au /hprcflex/lt2320/nercom2.htm   (2842 words)

  
 The Annals [of Ancient Rome] by Cornelius Tacitus: book 2
On the next day of the Senate's meeting much was said against the luxury of the country by Quintus Haterius, an ex-consul, and by Julius Fronto, an ex-praetor.
The Senate's favourable bias was an incitement to Tiberius to offer prompt opposition, which he did in nearly these words:-
Agrippina meantime, worn out though she was with sorrow and bodily weakness, yet still impatient of everything which might delay her vengeance, embarked with the ashes of Germanicus and with her children, pitied by all.
www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/tacitusc/annals/chap2.htm   (15444 words)

  
 ARLT :: What the Romans did to Wales
However, that all changed in AD54 when Nero succeeded Claudius.
He appointed Quintus Veranius, a man with experience in subjugating the warlike hill tribes of Asia Minor.
He was dead within a year, but both he and his successor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus mounted a new campaign against the Silurians and their Welsh allies, using, it is claimed, up to 30,000 troops.
blog.arlt.co.uk /blog/_archives/2006/9/22/2349623.html   (1800 words)

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