The Loeb Classical Library: Roman History, Volume IV : Books 41–45

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The Loeb Classical Library: Roman History, Volume IV : Books 41–45A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus. Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate. He held high offices, becoming a close friend of several emperors; he was made governor of Pergamum and Smyrna; consul in 220; proconsul of Africa; governor of

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the Civil War which ended the Republic and led to the establishment of the Principate

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the nature of Demosthenes' rhetorical art

and comprehensively illustrates both Apuleius' inventive handling of his various models and sources and the exuberant and idiosyncratic Latinity with forms the vehicle for it

and accounts of the events directly leading to the war and of the growth of Athenian power since the Persian Wars which explain why this war between the two great powers of fifth-century Greece was fought — and on the way in which he has treated it

he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea

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The meticulous commentary and full vocabulary

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