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The Pompeians, commanded by Lucius Afranius and Marcus Petreius, encamped on a hill south of the city of Ilerda (Catalan Lleida, Spanish Lérida) in north-east Spain on the western side of the river Sicoris (modern Segre). In this way Afranius and Petreius had access to the land for foraging to the east of the river through the stone bridge by ...
The aqueduct was constructed approximately between 68 and 65 BC, the same period as the construction of the Walls of Seville and during Julius Caesar's term as quaestor.It was renovated and partially re-built between 1171 and 1172 by Almohad caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf.
A quaestor (British English: / ˈ k w iː s t ər / KWEE-stər, American English: / ˈ k w i s t ər /; Latin: [ˈkʷae̯stɔr]; "investigator") [1] was a public official in ancient Rome. There were various types of quaestors, with the title used to describe greatly different offices at different times.
Vetus was a descendant of the Plebeian Roman house of the Antistii Veteres.He was probably the son of Gaius Antistius Vetus, praetor in 70, and governor in 69 BC in Hispania Ulterior, [2] under whom Julius Caesar served as quaestor.
Quintus Cassius Longinus, the brother or cousin of Cassius (the assassin of Julius Caesar), was a governor in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain and Portugal) for Caesar. Cassius was one of the tresviri monetales of the Roman mint in 55 BC. He served as a quaestor of Pompey in Hispania Ulterior in 54 BC.
Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War (1.47.4) attested that he was in Gaul in 83 BC. The Tabula Contrebiensis, a bronze tablet, on which his ruling pertaining to boundaries and water-rights arbitration is inscribed, shows that he was in Hispania until at least 87 BC. The reason for these prolonged tenures of office in Hispania is unknown.
Gaius Julius Caesar is a quaestor in Spain. Egypt. Ptolemy XII deposes Cleopatra V, and becomes sole ruler. Greece. ... Caesar and Bibulus are praetors.
For his loyalty and valuable services to Caesar in the civil war, Balbus was awarded, by him, with his admission to the College of Pontiffs, a prestigious religious office. In 43 BC he was entrusted with the office of Quaestor in Hispania Ulterior (Further Spain). He then further accumulated fortune by pillaging and looting the inhabitants of ...