Licinius in a sentence

Family and background Marcus Licinius Crassus was the second of three sons born to the eminent senator and vir triumphalis P. Licinius Crassus (consul 97, censor 89 BC).

It was of particular interest that Eusebius was nearly persecuted because of his close relationship to the Emperor Licinius while serving as Bishop of Nicomedia during Licinius' reign.

A statement by Pliny the Younger that his uncle was offered 400,000 sesterces for his manuscripts by Larcius Licinius while he (Pliny the Elder) was procurator of Hispania makes it the most certain of the three.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantinus and Licinius (or, less frequently, year 1072 Ab urbe condita ).

Blue areas indicate provinces loyal to Vespasian and Gaius Licinius Mucianus The last and most significant fortified city held by the Jewish resistance was Jerusalem.

Carrié & Rousselle, L'Empire Romain, 229/230 Although this characterization of Licinius as anti-Christian is somewhat doubtful, the fact is that he seems to have been far less open in his support of Christianity than Constantine.

Early in 313, Constantine and fellow Emperor Licinius reached an agreement at Milan that they would grant freedom of religion to the Christians and other religions and restore church property.

He made extensive use of the Chi-Rho and the labarum only later in the conflict with Licinius.

He made more extensive use of the Chi-Rho and the Labarum later, during the conflict with Licinius.

In his absence from Rome (66 BC), he was nominated to succeed Lucius Licinius Lucullus as commander in the Third Mithridatic War against Mithridates VI of Pontus in the East.

Maximinus committed suicide at Tarsus in 313 after being defeated in battle by Licinius.

Maximinus Daia was frustrated that he had been passed over for promotion while the newcomer Licinius had been raised to the office of Augustus, and demanded that Galerius promote him.

San Simeon was also used in the 1960 film Spartacus as the estate of Marcus Licinius Crassus (played by Laurence Olivier ).

Short before of his end Licinius appoints the General Martinianus on 3. July 324 to his co-emeror.

The conference was cut short, however, when news reached Licinius that his rival Maximin had crossed the Bosporus and invaded European territory.

The council agreed that Licinius would become Augustus in the West, with Constantine as his Caesar.

The next recorded munus, held for the funeral of Publius Licinius in 183 BC, was more extravagant.

Therefore, Licinius was prone to see the Church as a force more loyal to Constantine than to the Imperial system in general Timothy E. Gregory, A History of Byzantium.

The tetrarchic system was at an end, although it took until 324 for Constantine to finally defeat Licinius, reunite the two halves of the Roman Empire and declare himself sole Augustus.

This tetrarchy lasted until c. 313, when internecine conflict eliminated most of the claimants to power, leaving Constantine in control of the western half of the empire, and Licinius in control of the eastern half.