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51Marcus Tullius Tiro — For the town, see Tiro, Guinea. For new recruits into Roman legions, see Tirones. Marcus Tullius Tiro (d. ca. 4 BC?) was first a slave, then a freedman of Cicero. The date of Tiro s birth is uncertain. From Jerome it can be dated to 103 BC,[1]… …
52Ernest Gottlieb Sihler — (1853 ndash;1942) was a Professor of Classics at Johns Hopkins University. Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he was the son of Lutheran missionary Wilhelm Sihler and great uncle to Andrew Sihler. Sihler s professional name was Ernest G. Sihler, but… …
53Latium adiectum — or Latium Novum, as it is termed by Pliny, comprised the territories occupied in earlier times by the Volsci and Hernici. It was for the most part a rugged and mountainous country, extending at the back of Latium proper, from the frontier of the… …
54Satricum — (1) (modern Le Ferriere, but formerly identified with Conca), an ancient town of Latium, situated some 60 km to the SE of Rome, in a low lying region to the south of the Alban Hills, to the NW of and at the border of the former Pomptine Marshes.… …
55Casamari Abbey — The Abbey of Casamari is a Cistercian abbey in the province of Frosinone, Italy, c. 10 kilometers east south east of Veroli. It marks the site of Cereatae, the birth place of Caius Marius, afterwards known, as inscriptions attest, as Cereatae… …
56De Casibus Virorum Illustrium — On the Fates of Famous Men Illuminated recto from Parisian edition (1467) Author(s) …
57Roman military confederation — The Roman military confederation (or confederacy or commonwealth ) is a term devised by modern historians to denote the Roman Republic s system of military alliances with the tribes and city states of the Italian peninsula prior to the Social War …
58Marcus Marius Gratidianus — (died 82 BC) was a praetor and a partisan of the popularist faction led by his uncle Gaius Marius during the Roman Republican civil wars of the 80s. Gratidianus is noted primarily for undergoing a particularly violent death during the Sullan… …
59Quintus Valerius Orca — ( fl. 50s–40s B.C.) was a Roman praetor, a governor of the Roman province of Africa, and a commanding officer under Julius Caesar in the civil war against Pompeius Magnus and the senatorial elite. The main sources for Orca s life are letters… …
60Quintus Valerius Soranus — (b. circa 140–130 B.C.?, [Conrad Cichorius, “Zur Lebensgeschichte des Valerius Soranus,” Hermes 41 (1906), p. 67; American Journal of Philology 28 (1907) 468.] d. 82 B.C.) was a Latin poet, grammarian, and tribune of the people in the Late Roman… …
