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4 unusual facts about Gaius


Duenos Inscription

has proposed to interpret the inscription as a primitive form of matrimonial coemptio different from that presented in Gaius, consisting in a cumulative acceptance that included both the legal aspects concerning the transmission of the dotal assets and the religious ones inherent in the matrimonial cults and rites.

Obrad Stanojević

Gaius noster – plaidoyer pour Gaius, Amsterdam (1989) (in French)

Gaius Noster – Contribution to the History of Roman Jurisprudence, Belgrade (1976)

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 281

It was found with 283, 294, and a number of other documents dated in the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius, and Claudius, and belongs to the same period.


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Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus and Lucius Valerius Messalla Volesus (or Gaius Ateius Capito) become Roman consuls.

Arch of Marcus Aurelius

It is a quadrifrons trumphal arch, surmounted by an unusual octagonal cupola,and was erected (entirely in marble) by Gaius Calpurnius Celsus, quinquennial duumvir of the city, to commemorate the victories of Lucius Verus, junior colleague and adoptive brother of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, over the Parthians in the Roman–Parthian War of 161–66.

Bassus

Saleius Bassus, Roman epic poet during the reign of Vespasian; a contemporary of Gaius Valerius Flaccus

Cornificius

He has been identified with the author of the four books of Rhetorica dedicated to a certain Gaius Herennius (otherwise unknown).

Furtum

It is thought that this was the case during classical Rome, as well: an example of Gaius is quoted in the Digest, and implies so; Sabinus is quoted by Gellius as including such a condition.

Gaius Aquillius Florus

Gaius Aquillius Florus was a consul of the Roman Republic in the year 259 BC.

Gaius Asinius Quadratus Protimus

He was the brother of Gaius Asinius Rufus, son of Gaius Asinius Nicomachus and wife and cousin Julia Quadratilla (or perhaps Asinia Marcellina, descendant of the family of Gaius Asinius Pollio) and paternal grandson of Gaius Asinius Rufus and wife Julia.

Gaius Atilius Regulus

Gaius Atilius Regulus (killed 225 BC at Telamon in battle) was one of the two Roman consuls who fought a Celtic invasion of Italy in 225 BC-224 BC; he however was killed in battle and beheaded.

Gaius Baltar

Gaius Baltar is a fictional character in the TV series Battlestar Galactica played by James Callis, a reimagining of Count Baltar from the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series.

Gaius Bruttius Praesens

Lucius Fulvius Gaius Bruttius Praesens Laberius Maximus Polyonymus (c. 119 – after 180) was a prominent Roman senator and twice consul during the reigns of Roman emperors Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.

Gaius Crastinus

Gaius Crastinus (c. 85 BC – 48 BC) was a soldier in Julius Caesar's 10th legion during his Gallic Wars.

Gaius Fulcinius

Cicero mentioned Gaius Fulcinius in his ninth Philippic, declaring that the reason Fulcinius was honoured was not that he died in bloodshed, but that he died for the Republic.

To honor their sacrifice for the Republic, the Romans later erected half-sized statues of Gaius Fulcinius and his colleagues Tullus Cloelius, Spurius Antius, and Lucius Roscius on the Rostra, in the Roman Forum.

Gaius Iulius Iullus

Gaius Iulius Iullus or Gaius Iulius C.f. L.n. Iulus (fl. 5th century BC) was a Roman consul in 482 BC, son of Gaius Iulius Iullus (consul in 489 BC).

Gaius Julius Bassus

He was the younger son of Gaius Julius Severus (b. ca 25), a Nobleman from Akmonia at Galatia, and paternal grandson of Artemidoros of the Trocmi, a Nobleman at Galatia, Asia Minor (son of Amyntas, Tetrarch of the Trocmi, King of Galatia), and his wife a Princess of the Tectosagii (daughter of Amyntas, Tetrarch of the Tectosagii).

Gaius Lutatius Catulus

Gaius Lutatius Catulus is also the main character of Finnish writer Jukka M. Heikkilä's book Merikonsuli ("The Sea Consul").

Gaius Poppaeus Sabinus

Gaius Poppaeus Sabinus was elected to the consulship, with Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus, in the year 9.

Gaius Suetonius Paulinus

Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, also spelled Paullinus, (fl. 1st century) was a Roman general best known as the commander who defeated the rebellion of Boudica.

Institutes of Justinian

The bulk of this new Institutes is the Institutes of Gaius, much of it taken verbatim; but it also uses material from the Institutes of Marcian, Florentinus, Ulpian, and perhaps Paulus (the other writers of "authority.".

Julia Caesaris

Julia Caesaris (approx. 104 BC – after 39 BC), known in the sources as Julia Antonia to distinguish her from the others, was the wife of Marcus Antonius Creticus and mother of Gaius and Lucius Antonius and Mark Antony, the triumvir.

Literal contracts in Roman law

The details of literal contracts are taken form a brief account in Gaius' Institutes, a considerably different account by Theophilus, brief references in other legal texts and mere allusions in texts by non-legal authors.

Lucius Aurelius Cotta

His sister, Aurelia, was married to Gaius Julius Caesar, brother-in-law to Gaius Marius and possibly Lucius Cornelius Sulla, and they were the parents of the famous general and eventual dictator, Gaius Julius Caesar.

Marcus and Gaius Geminus

When Flavia questions Gaius in 'The Secrets of Vesuvius' about why he lacks a wife, the twin brothers confess that once they both loved Myrtilla,Flavia's late mother, and both strove for her affections.

Marcus and Gaius Flavius Geminus are fictional characters in Caroline Lawrence's 'The Roman Mysteries' series.

Pedius

Quintus Pedius (d. 43 BC), Roman general, politician, great nephew of dictator Gaius Julius Caesar, maternal cousin to first Roman Emperor Augustus

Petronius

in Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked, Gaius Petronius appears as a major character, an advisor to Nero.

Pompeius Strabo

He had a least two children: a son, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey the Great or Pompey the triumvir who married Julia (the daughter of dictator Gaius Julius Caesar) as his fourth wife and a daughter called Pompeia.

Pomponius Graecinus

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

Quintus Aemilius Papus

Valerius Maximus, writing much later, said that there was silver in the homes of Gaius Fabricius Luscinus and Quintus Aemilius Papus, the leading men of their era.

The Cry of the Icemark

For example, Scipio Bellorum's name is a combination of the Roman general Scipio Africanus and Bellum, the Latin for war, and his sons Octavius and Sulla are similarly named after Augustus, born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, respectively.

The Forest House

Gaius is an inheritant of royal blood through his Celtic mother of a southern tribe, the Silures.

However, before her calling, she hears the voice of her heart, and during the magic night of Beltaine, conceives a son with Roman officer Gaius Macellius, son of the high-ranking Camp Prefect at nearby Deva.

Tiberius Avidius Quietus

Quietus had a brother called Gaius Avidius Nigrinus, had two nephews a younger Gaius Avidius Nigrinus and Titus Avidius Quietus and was a great paternal uncle to Roman Emperor Hadrian's daughter-in-law Avidia Plautia.

Watchtower

Rebuilt by King Herod, that watchtower was renamed after Mark Antony, his friend who battled against Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (later Augustus) and lost.


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