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describes him as brave in action, ready of speech, clever at bringing others into odium, powerful in times of civil war and rebellion, greedy, extravagant, in peace a bad citizen, in war an ally not to be despised.
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was seized and put to death. For a few days, Primus was virtually ruler of Rome, and the Senate bestowed upon him the rank and insignia of a consul, but on the arrival of
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and a member of the Senate, from which he was expelled for conspiring to forge a will with
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in October 69, and on the same day stormed and captured
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The Epigrams of Martial, translated into English prose
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Marc Arcis
Toulouse
Roman Empire
Toulouse
Gaul
Nero
Rome
Valerius Fabianus
Galba
Legio VII Galbiana
Pannonia
Vespasian
Bedriacum
Cremona
Apennines
Vitellius
Licinius Mucianus
Domitian
Martial
Tacitus
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Chisholm, Hugh
Primus, Marcus Antonius
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