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A P P I A N Appianus) was a Greek official of Alexandria. He saw the Jewish rebellion of A. u.i 6, and later became a Roman (
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citizen
and advocate and received the
rank of he held
eques (Knight). In his older years a He died
the
reign
procuratorship. of Antoninus Pius
emperor of the the
A. D.I
38-161.
Honest admirer
Roman empire though
institutions
of the
republic,
he
'common'
dialect,
wrote,
during
who was ignorant of
earlier in
Roman
the
simple 24 books of 'Roman
in fact conquests, from the beginning to the times of Trajan (emperor A. 0.98-1 1 7), arranged according to races. have fragments of books aftairs',
We
I-V, and of VIII and IX;
we
have lost
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and XVIII-XXIV; books VI-VII and XI-XVII are complete, and are valuable records of military history.
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