Sextus in a sentence

Alexander writes that in some circles, Pound's translations made him more unpopular than the treason charge, and the reaction to The Seafarer was a rehearsal for the negative response to Homage to Sextus Propertius in 1919.

As a private citizen, he was probably named Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cornificius and Sextus (or, less frequently, year 719 Ab urbe condita ).

But when he had departed for the camp, she sent for her husband and father, revealing the whole affair, and accusing Sextus.

Conflict with Sextus Antony and Octavia on the obverse of a tetradrachm issued at Ephesus in 39 BC.

During the Sicilian war against Sextus Pompeius in 36, Maecenas was sent back to Rome, and was entrusted with supreme administrative control in the city and in Italy.

Generation of Julius Caesar's father This generation of Julii Caesares has two consuls : Sextus Julius Caesar III in 91 BC, and Lucius Julius Caesar III the next year.

He was well below the usual minimum age of 43, but Octavian had suffered a humiliating naval defeat against Sextus Pompey and needed his friend to oversee the preparations for further warfare.

Horace was probably also with Maecenas on one of Octavian's naval expeditions against the piratical Sextus Pompeius, which ended in a disastrous storm off Palinurus in 36 BC, briefly alluded to by Horace in terms of near-drowning.

In an alternative story he went directly to Tarquinii with two of his sons; the third, Sextus, attempted to resume control of Gabii, but was assassinated.

Lucretia received the princes graciously, and together her beauty and virtue kindled the flame of desire in Collatinus' cousin, Sextus Tarquinius, the king's son.

Octavian forced Lepidus to resign after the older triumvir attempted to take control of Sicily after the defeat of Sextus.

Perhaps the earliest expression of the trilemma appears in the writings of the sceptic Sextus Empiricus (160–210 AD), who wrote in his Outlines of Pyrrhonism: Further, this too should be said.

Sextus and Collatinus, at a wine party on furlough, were debating the virtues of wives when Collatinus volunteered to settle the debate by all of them riding to his home to see what Lucretia was doing.

Sextus Empiricus argued that it was absurd to link human attributes with myths about the signs of the zodiac.

Sextus fled to the east with his remaining forces, where he was captured and executed in Miletus by one of Antony's generals the following year.

Sextus Pompey Parthian Empire Rome's client kingdoms Ptolemaic Egypt The conflict between Octavian and Fulvia caused great political and social unrest throughout Italy.

Sextus took the hint, and put to death, or banished on false charges, all the leading men of Gabii, after which he had no difficulty in compelling the city to submit.

Since Sextus Pompeius had command of the sea on the coasts of Italy, Agrippa's first care was to provide a safe harbour for his ships.

The ab epistulis Sextus Caecilius Crescens Volusianus, in charge of the imperial correspondence, was replaced with Titus Varius Clemens.