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Prisca
Roman empress, wife of Emperor Diocletian
Titus Flavius Clemens
cousin once removed of emperors Titus and Domitian
Theudas
Theudas (; ; died ) was a Jewish rebel of the 1st century AD. Scholars attribute to his name a Greek etymology and according to Thayer, is a contraction of Theodore, and Hitchcock, for his part, says it means "flowing with water" , although with a Hellenist-styled ending. At some point between 44 and 46 CE, Theudas led his followers in a short-lived revolt.
Saint Afra
christian martyr
Impenitent thief
Biblical thief
Claudia Antonia
daughter of emperor Claudius by his second wife Aelia Paetina
Proculus
Proculus (died c. 281) was a Roman usurper, one of the "minor pretenders" according to Historia Augusta, who would have taken the purple against Emperor Probus in 280. This is now disputed.
Julia Livia
daughter of Drusus Julius Caesar and Livilla
Marcia
mistress and concubine of Roman emperor Commodus
Lucius Aemilius Paullus
Roman consul in 1 AD
Simon bar Giora
leader of one of the major Judean rebel factions during the First Jewish–Roman War
Arulenus Rusticus
Roman philosopher and politician (35-93)
Maximilian of Tebessa
Christian martyr
Ablabius
high official of the Roman Empire
Publius Petronius Turpilianus
politician (25-68)
Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus
Iberian Roman politician and consul (45 – 136)
Aulus Cornelius Palma Frontonianus
late 1st/early 2nd century Roman statesman, soldier, consul and governor
Gaius Silius
Roman senator executed by the emperor Claudius for his affair with Valeria Messalina
Calocaerus
Calocaerus (Greek: Καλόκαιρος; died 334 AD) was a Roman usurper against Emperor Constantine I, who, in 334, staged a revolt in Cyprus. The revolt was quickly put down, and he was executed along with his commanders, by being burned alive.
Gaius Avidius Nigrinus
Roman senator and consul (died 118 AD)
Lucius Antistius Burrus
2nd century Roman senator and consul
Sebastianus
Sebastianus (fl. 411–413), a brother of Jovinus, was an aristocrat of southern Gaul. After Jovinus usurped the throne of the western Roman Emperor Honorius in Gaul in 411, he named Sebastianus as Augustus (co-emperor) in 412. Coins bearing Sebastianus' image were then minted at Arles and Trier.
Titus Flavius Sabinus
son-in-law of Roman emperor Titus
Gellius Maximus
Roman usurper of the imperial throne (died 219)
Appius Junius Silanus
1st century Roman senator, consul (28 CE) and provincial governor
Lucius Vitellius
Roman consul 48 AD and brother of emperor Vitellius
Annia Cornificia Faustina Minor
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius' daughter (160-212)
Fabius Valens
1st century AD Roman military commander
Alexandra of Rome
4th-century martyr and saint
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus
Roman senator, general and governor (died AD 39)
Achilleus
rebel against the Roman emperor Diocletian in Egypt in 297 AD
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
Roman politician and husband of emperor Caligula's younger sister, Julia Drusilla (6 AD-39 AD) (14-39)
Barea Soranus
1st century AD Roman senator, consul and provincial governor
Barbatio
Barbatio (died AD 359) was a Roman general of the infantry (Magister Peditum = Master of Foot) under the command of Constantius II. Previously he was a commander of the household troops (protectores domestici) under Gallus Caesar, but he arrested Gallus under the instruction of Constantius, thereby ensuring his promotion on the death of Claudius Silvanus. In 359, both he and his wife Assyria were arrested and beheaded for treason against Constantius, possibly as part of a plot by Arbitio, a senior cavalry commander (Magister Equitum = Master of Horse), and another exponent of the forms of sche
Manius Acilius Glabrio
1st century Roman senator and consul in 91 CE
Aulus Avilius Flaccus
eques of Imperial Rome
Ten thousand martyrs
group of legendary saints
Marcellus
Roman officer and usurper (4th c.)
Simeon ben Gamliel
1st century CE rabbi and nasi
Quintus Aemilius Laetus
Praetorian Guard Prefect (died 193)
Flavius Severianus
son of the Roman emperor Flavius Valerius Severus
Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus
Roman consul 51 AD
Vitalis and Agricola
Roman era saints
Callinicus
3rd-century Greek historian, orator, rhetorician and sophist
Haninah ben Teradion
2nd century Jewish rabbi and teacher
Marcus Petronius Sura Mamertinus
2nd century Roman senator and consul
Febronia of Nisibis
nun and saint
Publius Tarutienus Paternus
2nd century Roman soldier, senator and praetorian prefect
Lucius Aurellius Commodus Pompeianus
grandson of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius
Epaphroditos
1st century Roman freedman and secretary to Emperor Nero
Judas Cyriacus
Patron saint of Ancona
Ten Martyrs
Ten rabbis killed after the Bar Kokba revolt
Gessius Marcianus
2nd/3rd century Syrian-born Roman nobleman
Lucius Publilius Celsus
2nd century Roman senator and confidant of the emperor Trajan
Marcus Arrecinus Clemens
1st century AD Roman prefect of the Praetorian Guard and consul
Raban Gamaliel VI
Rabbi and Prince of the Ancient Sanhedrin.
Lucius Arrius Flavius Aper
praetorian prefect under Roman emperor Carus and father-in-law of emperor Numerian
Herennius Senecio
1st century Roman Stoic, quaestor and writer
Clemens
Roman slave and imposter for Agrippa Postumus
Marcus Junius Silanus
father-in-law of emperor Caligula