Gaius
Americannoun
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?110–?180 ad , Roman jurist. His Institutes were later used as the basis for those of Justinian
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Gaius Caesar. See Caligula
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Experts said they believe the coin was likely discovered more than a decade ago in an area of current-day Greece where Brutus and his civil war ally, Gaius Cassius Longinus, were encamped with their army.
From New York Times
For instance, around the onset of the first millennium, Gaius Julius Hyginus, librarian for Roman emperor Augustus, noted that Betelgeuse was a yellow color comparable to Saturn.
From Scientific American
Her father, Gaius Bolin, was a lawyer and tried to dissuade his daughter from the aggravations of the legal profession.
From Washington Post
The fourth of the 12 Caesars, Caligula — officially, Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus — was a capricious, combustible first-century populist remembered, perhaps unfairly, as the empire’s most tyrannical ruler.
From New York Times
An instrumental dance for Caesar’s would-be first wife, “Cossutia’s Despair,” features unpredictable blasts from the wider ensemble that project her dejection, while a later aria for Nicomedes — “Take Your Chances, Gaius” — has seductive power.
From New York Times
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