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unusual facts about Aulus


Numerius Negidius

Aulus is a legitimate, if rare, Roman praenomen, and Agerius suggests the Latin verb ago, meaning "to put in motion", as it is the plaintiff who sets a lawsuit in motion.


Aulus Cornelius Palma Frontonianus

Aulus Cornelius Palma Frontonianus was a soldier and Roman statesman who came from Volsinii in Etruria.

Aulus Hirtius

writes that Lucius Antonius, the brother of Mark Antony accused the Emperor Augustus for having "given himself to Aulus Hirtius in Spain for three hundred thousand sesterces."

Aulus Pompeius

Aulus Pompeius (flourished 2nd century BC) was the son Quintus Pompeius tribune of the plebs in 132 BC, who was an opponent to politician Tiberius Gracchus and was the younger brother to the above named.

Chelmsford 123

Aulus, probably a play on Aulus Platorius Nepos, the governor of Roman Britain between 122 and 125, was a rather delicate Roman, who was usually outwitted by the scheming Badvoc, who hadn't had a haircut for twenty-five years.

The series was set in the British town of Chelmsford in the year AD 123, and concerned the power struggle between Roman governor Aulus Paulinus (Jimmy Mulville) and the British chieftain, Badvoc (Rory McGrath).

Marcus Scaurus

Quintus Terentius Scaurus, Latin grammarian, flourished during the reign of Hadrian (Aulus Gellius xi. 15)

Pomponius Graecinus

Pomponia Graecina, wife of Aulus Plautius and probably the daughter of Gaius Pomponius Graecinus

Port de Lers

The Port de Lers (or Port de l'Hers or Port de Massat, 1,517 m.) is a high mountain pass in the French Pyrenees in the department of Ariège, between the communities of Aulus-les-Bains (west), Massat (north) and Vicdessos (east).

William Beloe

He successively brought out translations of Coluthus, Alciphron, in which he was assisted by the Rev. T. Monro, Herodotus, and Aulus Gellius, the preface to which was written by Parr; and co-operated in Tooke's ‘Biographical Dictionary,’ published (1795) three volumes of miscellanies, and in 1793 established, in conjunction with Archdeacon Nares, the British Critic, the first forty-two volumes of which were partly edited by him.


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