Occasionally it was good custom to plunder the palace of the freshly deceased Pontifex Maximus. |
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Other terms for even numbers of bells include Minor, Major, Royal and Maximus. |
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Maximus fell into disfavour and Rome sent the largest army it had ever assembled after Hannibal. |
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Maximus escapes, but is gravely wounded and is soon captured by slave traders and taken to North Africa. |
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In the manner of Late Roman politics the instigator of the new troubles, Arbogastes, had been instrumental in bringing down Maximus. |
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The team has already run an F1 car around the Circus Maximus in Rome, and the historic Sultanahmet hippodrome in Istanbul's city centre. |
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There are children in London's better-to-do nurseries who answer to the name of Maximus. |
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One of the sergeants, Maximus, claimed that he saw their spirits ascending to heaven during their executions, and he was then beaten to death. |
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The emperor, Pontifex Maximus, sits on top of the Pantheon, and adjudicates the differences among the doctrines. |
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Now, recall that the way that the Romans set up their control, they set up this system of Pontifex Maximus, in which the emperor was the head of the religion. |
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A second temple was located at the Circus Maximus, near the race-tracks, where he was considered to be the protector of the four-in-hands which joined the races. |
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At the end of gladiator, Maximus Decimus Meridius, played by Russell Crowe, dies. |
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The first couple of times we meet her she seems to be a scheming, untrustworthy person willing to try any ploy to attract the attention of Maximus. |
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The Circus Maximus could seat around 150,000 spectators, and the Colosseum about 50,000 with standing room for about 10,000 more. |
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For his subsequent campaign in Gaul, Maximus drew on a large number of garrison units stationed on the northern border. |
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Welsh historical sources report that Maximus reorganized the defence of Britannia before departing for Gaul. |
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The tale The Dream of Macsen Wledig is a romanticised story about the Roman emperor Magnus Maximus, called Macsen Wledig in Welsh. |
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Following his landing in Gaul, Maximus went out to meet his main opponent, emperor Gratian, whom he defeated near Paris. |
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Some scholars believe Maximus may have founded the office of the Comes Britanniarum as well. |
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Maximus surrendered in Aquileia, and although he pleaded for mercy was executed. |
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Five years into his kingship, Magnus Maximus assembled a vast fleet and invaded Gaul, leaving Britain in the control of Caradocus. |
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Maximus died in Rome soon after and Dionotus became the official king of the Britons. |
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Native British troops were hired to support the usurpation of Magnus Maximus, who is said to have settled them in Armorica. |
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In 63 BC, he ran for election to the post of Pontifex Maximus, chief priest of the Roman state religion. |
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At the Circus Maximus, two armies of war captives, each of 2,000 people, 200 horses, and 20 elephants, fought to the death. |
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The first Greek manuscripts compiled after Maximus Planudes's rediscovery of the text had as many as 64 regional maps. |
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Maximus was recognized as emperor of Britain, Gaul and Spain, and made Trier his residence. |
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On receiving information from Maximus, he excommunicated Ithacius and his associates. |
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Before the trial, Martin had obtained from Maximus a promise not to apply a death penalty. |
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Caepio was prorogued into the next year, when one of the new consuls, Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, also operated in southern Gaul. |
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The earliest Welsh genealogies give Maximus the role of founding father for several royal dynasties, including those of Powys and Gwent. |
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The greater part of the Flavian Palace overlooking the Circus Maximus was undertaken in his reign. |
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Maximus boasted to Ambrose of the numbers of barbarians in his forces, and hordes of Goths, Huns, and Alans followed Theodosius. |
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Gerontius then fell out with his master and elevated one Maximus as his own puppet emperor. |
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A rich senatorial aristocrat, Petronius Maximus, who had encouraged both murders, then seized the throne. |
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In 383, the usurper Magnus Maximus withdrew troops from northern and western Britain, probably leaving local warlords in charge. |
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Many thousands of soldiers were lost in battling attempted coups by figures such as Firmus, Magnus Maximus and Eugenius. |
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In 388, Maximus led his army across the Alps into Italy in an attempt to claim the purple. |
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The College of Pontifices was uppermost body in this hierarchy, and its chief priest, the Pontifex Maximus, was the head of the state religion. |
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The Via Praetoria on that side might take the name Via Decumena or the entire Via Praetoria be replaced with Decumanus Maximus. |
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Two Orthodox theologians important in the dialogue between the eastern and western churches were Nikephoros Blemmydes and Maximus Planudes. |
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Cunedda, incidentally, is represented as a descendant of one of Maximus' generals, Paternus, who Maximus appointed as commander at Alt Clut. |
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Maximus treated the matter not as one of ecclesiastical rivalry, but as one of morality and society. |
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Petronius Maximus, the usurper, killed Valentinian III in an effort to control the Empire. |
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The now isolated and demoralized troops of Maximus were then easily defeated. |
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The act itself was carried out by a freedman of his named Maximus, and a steward of Domitian's niece Flavia Domitilla, named Stephanus. |
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The battles came to an end in 182 when Emperor Commodus took the victory nickname of Germanicus Maximus. |
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The Roman style of history was based on the way that the Annals of the Pontifex Maximus, or the Annales Maximi, were recorded. |
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The Annales Maximi were a running set of annals kept by the Pontifex Maximus. |
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For them, God is beyond, as described in the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, and others. |
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The five muscles are Adductor Magnus, Gluteus Maximus, Gluteus Medius, Rectus Femoris and Iliacus. |
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Located on the scenic Aventine Hill, the embassy overlooks the ancient Circus Maximus and the ruins of the Forum. |
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The result of this reciprocity is what Maximus calls a theandric quality of human beings. |
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At this time, he began to write on the condition of parties in the church, as well as on the topic of philosophical reform in the lost tract Temporis Partus Maximus. |
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After the victory, Maximinus took the title Germanicus Maximus, raised his son Maximus to the rank of caesar and princeps iuventutis, and deified his late wife Paulina. |
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Even so Maximus restores the esprit de corps of the Roman Legion. |
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Julius Caesar became Pontifex Maximus before he was elected consul. |
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Welsh legend relates that before launching his usurpation, Maximus made preparations for an altered governmental and defence framework for the beleaguered provinces. |
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In 383, the Roman general then assigned to Britain, Magnus Maximus, launched his successful bid for imperial power, crossing to Gaul with his troops. |
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At the Circus Maximus, the turning posts and starting stalls were replaced in marble and embellished, and an embankment was probably added to prevent flooding of the track. |
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A sudden change occurred in 383, when the governor of Britain, Magnus Maximus, rebelled against Gratian, who marched against him but was assassinated. |
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Andragathius, magister equitum of Maximus and the killer of emperor Gratian, was defeated near Siscia while Maximus' brother, Marcellinus, fell in battle at Poetovio. |
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Maximus was defeated in the Battle of the Save, and retreated to Aquileia. |
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The Circus Maximus, for example, was large enough to be used as a stadium. |
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He, in turn, appealed to Gratian, but before anything had been accomplished the emperor was murdered in Lyon, and Magnus Maximus had taken his place. |
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The maps in surviving manuscripts of Ptolemy's Geography, however, only date from about 1300, after the text was rediscovered by Maximus Planudes. |
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Among the most important gods worshipped in Treveran territory were Mercury and Rosmerta, Lenus Mars and Ancamna, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Apollo, Intarabus, and Minerva. |
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According to the writings of Valerius Maximus and Florus, the king of the Teutones, Teutobod, was taken in irons after the Teutones were defeated by the Romans. |
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Gildas, writing in about 540, says that Maximus departed Britain, taking with him all of its Roman troops, armed bands, governors and the flower of its youth, never to return. |
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This was not helped by a lack of defenders and it is thought that Magnus Maximus was responsible for the final withdrawal of most of the Roman troops from Wales. |
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Later both Decius and Gallienus assumed the titles Dacicus Maximus. |
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They partially administered justice in extraordinary cases, and presented games in the Circus Maximus and all public solemnities in honor of the Emperor at their own expense. |
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The priesthoods of the state religion were filled from the same social pool of men who held public office, and in the Imperial era, the Pontifex Maximus was the emperor. |
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The governor of Germania Inferior, Aulus Bucius Lappius Maximus, moved to the region at once, assisted by the procurator of Rhaetia, Titus Flavius Norbanus. |
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In Rome, the office of Pontifex Maximus came to be reserved for the Emperor, who was often declared a god posthumously, or sometimes during his reign. |
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