Roman Republican soldiers

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace ( ), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."

Vitruvius ( ; ; –70 BC – after ) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled . As the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity, it has been regarded since the Renaissance as the first book on architectural theory, as well as a major source on the canon of classical architecture. It is not clear to what extent his contemporaries regarded his book as original or important.

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (, ; ), was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BC), circa 50s BC. He is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Conspiracy of Catiline on the eponymous conspiracy, The Jugurthine War on the eponymous war, and the Histories (of which only fragments survive) remain extant. As a writer, Sallust was primarily influenced by the works of the 5th

Roman scholar, polymath and author (116–27 BC)

lieutenant of Julius Caesar in Gaul

3rd-century BC Roman historian

late 6th century BC Roman army officer who defended the Pons Sublicius against Lars Porsena's Etruscan army

Roman historian

son of Cato the Elder, jurist

Mamurra () was a Roman military officer who served under Julius Caesar.

Roman knight and mercenary

Roman politician and soldier (died 82 BC)

Roman praetor 49 BC

officer and soldier

roman centurion

military commander

centurions of the Roman Legion under Julius Caesar