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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The most notorious ancient collector was the Roman magistrate Gaius Verres, the governor of Sicily in the 70s B.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
In 121 BCE, the senators took action to subdue Gaius.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
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 ● Mar. 22, 2023
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 ● Aug. 18, 2022
His full name was Gaius Vitellius Reticulus, but the other cohorts called him Vitellius the Ridiculous.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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