01The Caesars were an ancient and aristocratic family, which for eight generations had been prominent in the commonwealth.
Wiktionary 02Habel, 63 ff., believes that up to 51 the emperors bestowed priesthoods on the Caesares, using their special power of commendation; but that these Caesares were forced to wait until a place in a colle
Wiktionary 03To the powerful, the Caesares were flattering, deferential, sincerely devoted, self-sacrificing, loyal, eagerly serving.
Wiktionary 04Constantius Chlorus and Galerius became Caesares in 293; […]
Wiktionary 05Owing to the victories gained in the wars from 295-297, the two Augusti, Diocletian and Maximian, and the two Caesares, Galerius and Constantius Chlorus, took the title of Carpicus Maximus, the last t
Wiktionary 06For within the principia the highest, and focal, point of the whole ensemble is formed by the ‘temple of the standards’, on whose lintel a Latin inscription proudly proclaimed the completion of the wo
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