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after slaughtering a colony of "robbers"—in actuality, poor people who had banded together to subsist through banditry after losing their property. Didius lured them in with promises of land to live on, and when the families assembled within the Roman
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indicates that Didius's exceptional cruelty and treachery caused an even greater uprising which his experienced successor,
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suggests that it may have been a political promise from Didius to offer gladiatorial shows, should he be elected
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Titus Didius held office in 103 BC as a tribune of the Plebs. He is noted for attempting to veto fellow tribune
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358:, where he governed from 97 BC to 93 BC. Nearly his entire proconsular term in Spain was spent at war with the
266:(the magistrate in charge of organising such games). It is not known whether Didius was subsequently elected.
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The 97-93 BC campaigns in
Hispania against several Iberian and Celt-Iberian tribes and people
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Biography and Mythology. 1870.
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Denarius of Titus Didius, minted c. 113–112 BC. The obverse shows the head of
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Publius Fonteius Capito minted in 55 BC. The reverse depicts the
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in 89 BC. Shortly following a successful capture of
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639:, American Philological Association, 1951–1952.
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330:In 98 BC Didius was elected consul alongside
155:. He is credited with the restoration of the
294:Two years later in 101 BC, he was elected a
408:for crushing an insurrection in and around
246:, one of the three men tasked with minting
209:in 143 BC. From his filiation given in the
242:Titus Didius first appears in history as
121:The 101 BC campaign against the Scordisci
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47:January 98 BC – December 98 BC
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582:Roman Spain: Conquest and Assimilation
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637:The Magistrates of the Roman Republic
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605:Sertorius and the struggle for Spain
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649:, Cambridge University Press, 1974.
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334:. Along with restoring the
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603:, 27; Philip Matyszak,
396:The famous Roman rebel
58:Aulus Postumius Albinus
729:Ancient Roman generals
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633:T. Robert S. Broughton
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513:Crawford,
488:Crawford,
426:Social War
258:fighting.
256:gladiators
254:shows two
517:, p. 453.
492:, p. 308.
448:Footnotes
360:Celtiberi
356:proconsul
304:Scordisci
202:lex Didia
173:Scordisci
43:In office
607:, p. 17.
597:Plutarch
428:, under
185:plebeian
169:Triumphs
116:Commands
586:online.
424:in the
410:Castulo
402:tribune
376:triumph
364:Arevaci
308:triumph
300:Macedon
296:praetor
252:denarii
231:Deidius
161:command
141:Deidius
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387:Appian
382:castra
368:Termes
348:consul
217:Career
153:consul
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465:JSTOR
438:Sulla
354:as a
248:coins
233:here.
199:(the
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