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    The Historia Augusta (English: Augustan History) is a late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues...
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    Fündling, Kommentar zur Vita Hadriani der Historia Augusta (= Antiquitas. Reihe 4: Beiträge zur Historia-Augusta-Forschung, Serie 3: Kommentare, Bände 4...
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    was of Thraco-Roman origin. According to the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta, he was born in Thrace or Moesia to a Gothic father and an Alanic mother;...
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  • two versions, one told by Cassius Dio and one contained in the later Historia Augusta. The contemporary historian Dio tells that Aurelius Zoticus was an...
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    Historiae Augustae (Authors of the Historia Augusta). Historia Augusta (Augustan History). Magie, David, trans. Historia Augusta. 3 vols. Loeb ed. London: Heinemann...
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    Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus, 1.4. Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus, 3.4. Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus, 1.5. Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus...
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    assessment. His career before becoming emperor is documented in the Historia Augusta and confirmed in many places by existing inscriptions. He was born...
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    the chapter on the Thirty Tyrants within the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta (and writing under the fictitious name of Trebellius Pollio), whose...
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    the Historia Augusta, he wished to erect a temple to Jesus but was dissuaded by the pagan priests; however, this claim is unreliable as the Historia Augusta...
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    Historia Augusta - Probus, 13.6. Historia Augusta - Probus, 14.3. Historia Augusta - Probus, 14.2. Historia Augusta - Probus, 14.1. Historia Augusta -...
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