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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome 7 7 Browse Search
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Apronia'nus (search)
Apronia'nus 3. APRONIANUS, governor of the province of Asia, was unjustly condemned to death in his absence, A. D. 203. (D. C. 76.8.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Geta, P. Septi'mius a brother of Septimius Severus, after having held the offices of quaestor, praetor of Crete, and of Cyrene, was elevated to the consulship in A. D. 203, along with Plautianus [PLAUTIANUS], and appears at one time to have entertained hopes of being preferred to his nephews. He is said to have revealed to the emperor with his dying breath the ambitious schemes of Plautianus, whom he hated, but no longer feared; and it is certain that from this period the influence of the favourite began to wane. (D. C. 76.2; Spartian. Sept. Sev. 8, 10, 14; Gruter, Corpus Inscripp. mxcix. 7.) [W.R]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
e was tormented. But the high fortunes of this second Sejanus were short-lived. having soon discovered the dislike cherished by Caracalla towards both his daughter and himself, and looking forward with apprehension to the downfall which awaited him upon the death of the sovereign, he resolved to anticipate these threatened disasters by effecting the destruction of his benefactor and of his son-in-law. His treachery was discovered, he was suddenly summoned to the palace, and there put to death in A. D. 203. His property was confiscated, his daughter banished, and his name erased from the public monuments on wkich it had been inscribed side by side with those of the emperor and the royal We ought to remark that the treason of Plautianus rests upon the testimony of Herodian, for Dio Cassius rather leans to the belief that this charge was fabricated by Caracalla for the ruin of an obnoxious favourite. (D. C. 75.14-16, 76.2-9, 77.1; Herodian, 3.13.7, 4.6.7; Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 224.) [W.R]