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- cognate with the Latin Decimius. From this it may be supposed that the Decii were of Oscan extraction, perhaps arising from the Sabine portion of Rome's...
- rather than survive as captives. Examples of devotio, as performed by the Decii Mures, in which soldiers offered and gave their lives to the Di inferi (gods...
- During the tenth century, beyond this gate was marshland called the Prata Decii or the Decenniae. At the end of the Middle Ages, the gate was closed and...
- killed on the field of battle. As the historian Aurelius Victor relates: The Decii (i.e., Decius and his son), while pursuing the barbarians across the Danube...
- Juvenal: A Verse Translation, Edwin Mellen Press. Macleane, Arthur J. (1867). Decii Junii Juvenalis et A. Persii Flacci Satirae. With a commentary. The Oxford...
- notably fulfilled and celebrated in the battlefield devotio of two consular Decii; firstly by the father and later by his son. Edwards 2007, pp. 19–45; Livy...
- the emperor Augustus, 1st century CE. Vatican Museums Tomb relief of the Decii, 98–117 CE Bust of Emperor Claudius, c. 50 CE, (reworked from a bust of...
- re****ure them and ordered them to seize alive anyone who wore the garments the Decii family used when devoting themselves. He sent a man to tell Publius Decius...
- Aelius Decius Tricci**** was a Roman usurper, who revolted against Emperor Elagabalus. He revolted against Elagabalus using troops still loyal to Macrinus...
- the emperor Augustus, 1st century AD, Vatican Museums Tomb relief of the Decii, 98–117 AD Bust of Emperor Claudius, c. 50 CE, (reworked from a bust of...