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    Autun (redirect from Augustodunum)
    the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to give a Roman capital to the Gallic people Aedui, who had Bibracte...
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  • half-Gaulish name, Augustodunum (modern Autun). In AD 21, during the reign of Tiberius, the Aedui revolted under Julius Sacrovir, and seized Augustodunum, but they...
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    three horns, such as the one from Autun (Burgundy, France, anciently Augustodunum) are related to this deity. The Saturnian moon Tarvos is named after...
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  • Panegyrici Latini (Pan. Lat. IX). Eumenius was born in Gallia Lugdunensis at Augustodunum (modern-day Autun), the civitas capital of the Celtic Aedui. He was of...
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    used in Roman infantry tactics. In the 1st century CE, at the Siege of Augustodunum Haeduorum, armoured Gallic gladiators were defeated by legionaries wielding...
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  • The Siege of Augustodunum Haeduorum took place in 269-270, Augustodunum (modern-day Autun in Burgundy, eastern France). Victorinus had been declared emperor...
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    and Herculians, a corps in the Roman army, was acclaimed augustus at Augustodunum (Autun) with the support of Marcellinus, the comes rei privatae. Magnentius...
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    unpopular; one of his generals, Magnentius, is proclaimed emperor at Augustodunum in the Diocese of Galliae, with the support of the army on the Rhine...
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    throughout Gaul during his tenure as emperor of the West, especially in Augustodunum (Autun) and Arelate (Arles). According to Lactantius, Constantine followed...
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    On January 18 350, the imperial magister officiorum gave a banquet in Augustodunum while his master, Western Emperor Constans, was away hunting. During...
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