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    Lucius Cassius Dio (c. 165 – c. 235), also known as Dio Cassius (Greek: Δίων Κάσσιος Dion Kassios), was a Roman historian and senator of maternal Greek...
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    Caesars. Translated by John Carew Rolfe. Loeb Classical Library. Lucius Cassius Dio (1927) [c. 230]. "Book 59". Roman History. Translated by Earnest Cary...
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    epitome of Marcus Verrius Flaccus, De Verborum Significatu. Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (Cassius Dio), Roman History. Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicon. Aelius...
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    him his life and allowed him to retain half his property. Lucius Cassius Dio, or Dion Cassius, a senator, was consul circa AD 205, and again in 229, as...
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    arbitrary and capricious behaviour of the emperor himself. In the view of Cassius Dio, his accession marked the descent "from a kingdom of gold to one of iron...
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    Roman consuls Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Claris Rhetoribus 6. Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Roman History liv. 34.7. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales...
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    Elagabalus is largely known from accounts by the contemporary senator Cassius Dio who was strongly hostile to him, and the much later Historia Augusta...
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    Alexandrinus (Appian), Bellum Civile (The Civil War). Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (Cassius Dio), Roman History. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography...
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  • Pius' reign. Cassius rose to prominence rapidly c.164, under the co-emperors Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius, during the Parthian war of Lucius Verus, serving...
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    Cassius Dio (Roman History, 42.6) say that it was Lucius Cassius who surrendered to Caesar at the Hellespont. In a letter written in 45 BC, Cassius says...
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