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Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial / ˈ m ɑːr ʃ əl /; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman and Celtiberian [1] poet born in Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.
Lucius Valerius Flaccus was Flamen Martialis, and received the consulship in 131 BC with Publius Lucinius Crassus, then Pontifex Maximus. Flaccius wished to undertake the command in the war against Aristonicus in Asia , but his colleague fined him for deserting the sacra entrusted to his care.
Elphinston was a good friend of Samuel Johnson as stated in Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1904, Oxford edition), Chapter IV [1750], and tutor of Alexander James Dallas. "Mr. James Elphinston, who has since published various works, and who was ever esteemed by Johnson as a worthy man, happened to be in Scotland while the Rambler was coming out in single papers at London.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (AD 39 – 65), poet, historian; Publius Juventius Celsus Titus Aufidius Hoenius Severianus (1st and early 2nd centuries AD), imperial officer, jurist; Aemilius Asper (1st and 2nd centuries AD), grammarian, literary critic; Marcus Valerius Martialis (AD 40 – 104), poet, epigrammatist; Publius Papinius Statius (AD 45 ...
A marble monument dedicated to Sol Invictus by Marcus Aurelius Stertinius, procurator of the camp, and two of his brothers-in-arms. Probably third century; from the collection of the Walters Art Museum. The gens Stertinia was a plebeian family of ancient Rome.
Gnaeus Afranius Dexter, a friend of the epigrammatist Marcus Valerius Martialis, was consul suffectus from the Kalends of May in AD 105. He was murdered in early July. [45] [46] [47] Publius Afranius Apthorus, named in a list of donors at Veleia dating to the reign of Trajan. [48]
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Brutus, Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem, Pro Sulla, In Vatinium Testem. Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina (On the Latin Language). Titus Livius , History of Rome. Marcus Valerius Martialis , Epigrammata (Epigrams). Plutarchus, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans.
[1] The first mention of the fetials by Livy occurs in the context of the war between Alba Longa and Rome, during which the Roman king Tullus Hostilius appointed Marcus Valerius as a fetial and Spurius Fusius as pater patratus, for the purpose of binding Rome and Alba Longa by a treaty. [2]