Category
page 1Priests from the Roman Republic

Scipio Africanus
Roman general and politician (236/235–183 BC)
Lucius Cornelius Merula
Roman consul in 87 BCE
Archelaus
high priest of Comana Cappadocia
Marcus Licinius Crassus
quaestor 54 BC
Archelaus
father of Archelaus of Cappadocia
Adiatorix
Adiatorix () was the son of Domneclius (or Domnilaus), tetrarch of the Trocmi in Galatia. Cicero reports that he was a high priest in 50 BC, and scholars have reckoned him an adherent of Deiotarus. He belonged to Mark Antony's party, and was put in charge of Heraclea Pontica by him. Shortly before the Battle of Actium in 31, Adiatorix had all the Roman colonists in Heracleia put to death. He claimed he had been given permission to do so by Mark Antony, but modern writers consider this doubtful. After this battle he was led as prisoner in the triumph of Augustus, and put to death with his young