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  GAIUS SUETONIUS PAULINUS - LoveToKnow Article on GAIUS SUETONIUS PAULINUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 42, during the reign of Claudius, he put down a revolt in Mauretania, and was the first of the Romans to cross the Atlas range.
When Caecina had been joined by Fabius Valens, Paulinus advised his colleagues not to risk a decisive battle, but his advice was disregarded, and Otho (q.v.) was utterly defeated at Bedriacum.
After Vitellius had been proclaimed emperor, Paulinus asserted that it was in consequence of his own treachery that Othos army had been defeated.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PAULINUS_GAIUS_SUETONIUS.htm   (211 words)

  
 Gaius Suetonius Paulinus - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Suetonius had gained a reputation as a military strategist to rival Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo and was ambitious to achieve victories as glorious as Corbulo's reconquest of Armenia.
While Suetonius was thus occupied in the west, the nations of the south-east rose in revolt, driven by resentment at the violence of the occupiers and the taxes they imposed.
Suetonius reinforced the army and kept it in the field that winter, ravaging any nations that were hostile or wavering.
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 BBC - History - Gaius Suetonius Paulinus (first century AD)
Suetonius was appointed governor of Britain in the year 58, by which time the area south-east of a line between the Wash and the Severn estuary was settled under Roman domination.
The main force used by Suetonius for pushing his borders forward was that of the Fourteenth and Twentieth legions, centred on Chester.
Suetonius engaged in war against the Ordovices in Wales, and was attacking the Druids in Anglesey at the start of the campaign season of 61.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/suetonius.shtml   (507 words)

  
 PAULINUS - LoveToKnow Article on PAULINUS
He was consecrated by Justus of Canterbury in 625 and escorted ~thelberg, daughter of i~thelberht, to the Northumbrian king Edwin (q.v.).
It was at Lincoln that he consecrated Honorius as archbishop of Canterbury.
In 633 Edwin was slain at Hatfield Chase and Paulinus retired to Kent, where he became bishop of Rochester.
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 The Mediadrome - History
Suetonius while thus occupied received tidings of the sudden revolt of the province.
Suetonius, however, with wonderful resolution, marched amidst a hostile population to Londinium, which, though undistinguished by the name of a colony, was much frequented by a number of merchants and trading vessels.
Suetonius had the fourteenth legion with the veterans of the twentieth, and auxiliaries from the neighbourhood, to the number of about ten thousand armed men, when he prepared to break off delay and fight a battle.
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 GAIUS SUETONIUS PAULINUS
The causes of the Boudiccan revolt are touched upon in Suetonius' autobiography of Nero (chapter xviii), and the full story is narrated in Cornelius Tacitus' Annals (book 14, chapter 29 et.
Now, however, Britain was in the hands of Suetonius Paulinus, who in military knowledge and in popular favour, which allows no one to be without a rival, vied with Corbulo, and aspired to equal the glory of the recovery of Armenia by the subjugation of Rome's enemies.
He was heading for a confontation with the druids on Anglesey when the Iceni and their neighbours the Trinovantes were incited to revolt by queen Boudicca and went on the rampage in south-east England, sacking the colonia at Colchester, the municipium of Saint Alban's and the thriving port and administrative centre at London.
www.roman-britain.org /people/paulinus.htm   (307 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 929 (v. 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The little that is known of Suetonius is derived from his lives of the Caesars and the letters of his friend, the 3Tounger Plinius.
Suetonius does not appear to have been desirous of public employ­ment, for he requested Plinius to transfer to a relation, Caesennius Silvanus, a tribuneship, which Plinius had obtained for Suetonius (iii.
Suetonius became Magister Epistolarum to Ha-drianus, a situation which would give him the oppor­tunity of seeing many important documents relating to the emperors.
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Suetonius was among the leading generals of his time.
Paulinus was recalled soon after his great victory, apparently because he lacked administrative skills, though was a great general.
Paulinus was twice a consul, and later during the civil war lead the armies of Salvius Otho.
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 Paulinus Definition / Paulinus Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Paulinus of NolaPontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus, St. Paulinus of Nola, was born in Bordeaux in the southwest of Gaul about 354, died June 22, 431, in Nola, outside Naples....
Paulinus of YorkSaint Paulinus, (?-October 10, 644), was the first bishop of York.
Paulinus is a significant historic figure who was well known in his time.
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 Suetonius - The Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Nero
In this reign, the conquest of the Britons still continued to be the principal object of military enterprise, and Suetonius Paulinus was invested with the command of the Roman army employed in the reduction of that people.
Suetonius having thus triumphed over the religion of the Britons, flattered himself with the hopes of soon effecting the reduction of the people.
This massacre, however, was revenged by Suetonius in a decisive engagement, where eighty thousand of the Britons are said to have been killed; after which, Boadicea, to avoid falling into the hands of the insolent conquerors, put a period to her own life by means of poison.
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 Gaius Suetonius Paulinus - TheBestLinks.com - Suetonius Paullinus, Anglesey, Boudicca, Consul, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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Gaius Suetonius Paullinus (flourished 1st century CE) was a Roman general.
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 Boudicca and the Druids: Tacitus
Paulinus Suetonius succeeded to the command; an officer of distinguished merit.
Suetonius, in the meantime, was detained in the isle of Mona.
Suetonius, undismayed by this disaster, marched through the heart of the country as far as London; a place not dignified with the name of a colony, but the chief residence of merchants, and the great mart of trade and commerce.
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 Gaius Suetonius Paulinus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, also spelled Paullinus, (flourished 1st century CE) was a Roman general.
Suetonius acted vigorously in suppressing revolt, especially in Wales, but he was campaigning against the druids of Mona when Boudicca razed Camulodunum (circa 60) and he had to race southwards.
Suetonius advanced down Watling Street to choose a battlefield to his advantage.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Gaius-Suetonius-Paulinus.htm   (457 words)

  
 MONA INSVLA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
[Suetonius Paulinus] prepared accordingly to attack the island of Mona, which had a considerable population of its own, while serving as a haven for refugees; and, in view of the shallow and variable channel, constructed a flotilla of boats with flat bottoms.
While Paulinus was smashing the last pockets of resistance on Anglesey, the Iceni tribe in East Anglia were incited to revolt by their queen Boudicca (or Boadicea), and were joined in rebellion by their neighbours, the Trinovantes.
We have learned from Tacitus (vide supra), that the groves on Anglesey were in the process of being destroyed when Suetonius Paulinus had to withdraw from the island because of the rebellion of Boudicca in East Anglia.
www.roman-britain.org /places/mona.htm   (1860 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Boudicca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 60 or 61, while the current governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, led a campaign against the druids on the island of Anglesey in north Wales, the Iceni rebelled, along with their neighbours the Trinovantes, under Boudicca's leadership.
Suetonius conducted punitive operations, but criticism by Classicianus led to an investigation headed by Nero's freedman Polyclitus, and Suetonius was removed as governor, to be replaced by Publius Petronius Turpilianus.
He was a military tribune under Suetonius Paulinus, which almost certainly gave Tacitus an eyewitness source for Boudicca's revolt.
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 History of Roman Literature, A
The birth year of C. SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS is uncertain, but may be assigned with probability to 75 A.D. [2] We may here remark the extraordinary reticence of the later writers on the subject of their younger days.
His father was one Suetonius Lenis, a military tribune and wearer of the angusticlave.
Muretus, however, desirous to give him a more illustrious origin, declares that his father was the Suetonius Paulinus mentioned by Tacitus.
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 Clannada na Gadelica - Gaelic Traditionalist Resource Site
Suetonius Paulinus, commander-in-chief of the Roman troops in Britain, mustered a large force of men, both mounted and infantry on rafts, and attacked the island of Mona in 60 - 61 CE.
Prior to the battle, Boudicca is reported to have driven her chariot around the Celtic forces, with her daughters, reminding the Celts of the Roman atrocities to both old and young, and exhorting the assembled tribes to fight for the freedom they would never have under the Romans.
Suetonius was replaced by Pretonius Turpilianus, who avoided provoking the Britons and thus provided a peace lasting until Vespasian's rule and, later, Agricola's ascension.
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 Paulinus on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
(swētō´nēes pôlī´nes) or Suetonius Paulinus (Caius Suetonius Paulinus), d.
After Nero's death he led the troops of Otho against Vitellius, but the victorious Vitellius pardoned him (AD 69).
Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola.
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 Amazon.ca: Books: Imperial Governor: The Great Novel of Boudicca's Revolt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It is, roughly speaking, an autobiographical history of the revolt as seen by Suetonius Paulinus, the Roman governor and brilliant general whose army ' outnumbered more than ten to one ' crunched the tribal armies of Queen Boudicca into pieces.
The portrait of Paulinus is absorbing, not least because he is a Roman of the Old School and so his personality is on the chilly side.
Paulinus is a first-rate imperial governor, with all that the adjective "imperial" implies.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0304363243   (1250 words)

  
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Act II: When Paulinus mentions how long he hasn't been sleeping well, it should be since the Kalends (or Calends) of September, not Kalend (By the way, the Kalends of September is September 1st, so he's had the problem for 2 1/2 months.).
Suetonius decribed a famine following the rebellion due to the fact that the rebellion started early in 61 AD and the Iceni had neglected to plant their crops.
Paulinus was on the Isle of Mona on the west coast of Britian when Boudicea finally blew.
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 PAULINUS, GAIUS SUETONIUS (1st century A.D.) - Online Information article about PAULINUS, GAIUS SUETONIUS (1st century ...
PAULINUS, GAIUS SUETONIUS (1st century A.D.) - Online Information article about PAULINUS, GAIUS SUETONIUS (1st century A.D.)
Valens, Paulinus advised his colleagues not to See also:
After Vitellius had been proclaimed emperor, Paulinus asserted that it was in consequence of his own treachery that Otho's See also:
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 LEGION 14 Celts Romans Ancient Greeks Legion Fourteen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Suetonius considered giving battle there, but considering his lack of numbers and concerned by Petilius's defeat, decided to sacrifice the city and to save the province.
Meanwhile Suetonius, described by Tacitus as an officer of distinguished merit, attempted to give his small army a fighting chance and headed north possibley to a pre prepared place of battle.
Suetonius then conducted punitive operations against the Britons, but later criticism by Classicianus led to investigations headed by Nero's freedman Polyclitus, and Suetonius was removed as governor, to be replaced by Publius Petronius Turpilianus.
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 BBC - North West Wales History - Romans on Anglesey
There are no known archaeological remains associated with Paulinus' invasion of Anglesey or of N. Wales in general.
Seutonius Paulinus was a well respected general best known for his (later) crushing of the Iceni and Boudica (Bodicea).
The next step was to install a garrison among the conquered population, and to demolish the groves consecrated to their savage cults: for they considered it a pious duty to slake the altars with captive blood and to consult their deities by means of human entrails.
www.bbc.co.uk /wales/northwest/sites/history/pages/romansmona.shtml   (1184 words)

  
 Boudicca - Wikipedia
Boudicca hastily assembled an army, said by some sources to number as many as 100,000 men, although the numbers were probably much lower.
They laid waste to Colchester, London and St Albans before they were eventually defeated by a numerically vastly smaller yet inevitably far more organised Roman army led by Caius Suetonius Paulinus.
The reports of her death are contradictory: some accounts state that she committed suicide by poisoning rather than be captured, others assert that she died in a Roman prison cell.
nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boudicca   (253 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Imperial Governor (Cassell Military Paperbacks S.): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Londinium's burning...This does for the Roman governor, Suetonius Paulinus, what I, CLAUDIUS did for the stuttering Emperor whose armies invaded Britain in AD43: an obscure historic figure is suddenly centre-stage.
The interactions between the Governor Suetonius Paulinus and the range of minor characters from native Britains to other Roman commanders and officials is well composed and the story is taught even if as in all 'true' historical novels, one knows the outcome.
General Paulinus may not be likeable but he is, in his own way, admirable.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0304363243   (800 words)

  
 Description of the Canarii, by Pliny the Elder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Suetonius Paulinus*, whom we have seen Consul in our own time, was the first Roman general who advanced a distance of some miles beyond Mount Atlas.
Or was Suetonius Paulinus an utterly confused man? Did he actually cross the Atlas?
Suetonius Paulinus, quem consulem vidimus, primus Romanorum ducum transgressus quoque Atlantem aliquot milium spatio, prodidit de excelsitate quidem eius quae ceteri, imas radices densis altisque repletas silvis incognito genere arborum, proceritatem spectabilem esse enodi nitore, frondes cupressi similes praeterquem gravitate odoris, tenui eas obduci lanugine, quibus addita arte posse quales e bombyce vestes confici.
www.historiaviva.org /canarias/canarii_ing.shtml   (566 words)

  
 Boudica
The new govenor of Britian was Gaius Suetonius Paulinus.
Suetonius' first action had been to burn the Sacred Groves, as he felt that the Britians were too barbarous.
Suetonius had been in Northern England, as had Petillius Cerialis, on campaigns of their own against various other Celtic tribes.
www.zodiacbistro.com /boudica.htm   (644 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Imperial Governor: The Great Novel of Boudicca's Revolt: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This highly detailed and well-written novel purports to be the memoir of Suetonius Paulinus, the Roman general who finally - and against huge odds, given the military resources at his disposal - crushed the uprising.
Imperial Governor is the fictionalized story (based on true historical events) of the Roman governor of Britain, Suetonius Paulinus, who must deal with a revolt of the native Britains lead by Queen Boudicca, who nearly succeed in driving the Romans from Britain.
The novel follows Suetonius Paulinus in a first person narrative, throughout his governorship of the British province.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0304363243?v=glance   (1860 words)

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