Dio Cassius

British

/ ˈdaɪəʊ ˈkæsɪəs /

noun

?155–?230 _ad , Roman historian. His History of Rome covers the period of Rome's transition from Republic to Empire

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“She was a woman of surpassing beauty, and at that time, when she was in the prime of her youth, she was most striking,” wrote the Roman statesman Dio Cassius, while Plutarch spoke of “a woman who was haughty and astonishingly proud in the matter of beauty”.

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Its inspiration derives from the historian Dio Cassius, who reported how, in the reign of Domitian, "some persons made a business of smearing needles with poison and then pricking with them whomsoever they would".

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The history of the war is given in Dio Cassius, but the best commentary upon it is the famous column of Trajan.

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The autobiography was used by both Dio Cassius and Marius Maximus.

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Dio Cassius relates that Livia, about a.d.

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