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Likely Vitruvius is referring to Marcus Agrippa's campaign of public repairs and improvements. This work is the only surviving major book on architecture from classical antiquity . According to Petri Liukkonen, this text "influenced deeply from the Early Renaissance onwards artists, thinkers, and architects, among them Leon Battista Alberti ...
What family she came from is unknown, [8] [9] as the name Tertulla is a nickname for Tertia, the cognomen for a third daughter in Roman culture. [10]There has been speculation that this Tertulla may be the same as Junia Tertia, [10] but this is highly unlikely to be the case since their ages and marriages seem to be incompatible, as well as the fact that Tertulla was a common nickname in Rome.
Publius Septimius, had served as quaestor under Marcus Terentius Varro, who sent him three volumes of his treatise De Lingua Latina. Vitruvius speaks of him in connection with Varro, indicating that this Septimius is probably the author of two books on architecture. [18] [19] Septimia, the wife of Sicca, a friend of Cicero. [20]
Possibly named Marcus Vitruvius Mamurra (if we follow Thielscher's 1969 suggestion based on an inscription in Thibilis), he was an equestrian who originally came from the Italian city of Formiae. [2] His family must have been prominent there, as Horace calls it "the city of the Mamurrae".
Marcus Vitruvius Vaccus (d. 330 BC) [1] was a citizen of Fondi, and the leader of the revolt of the Fundani and Privernates against Rome in 330 BC. [2]He was a man of considerable reputation both in his own state and also at Rome, where he had a house on the Palatine Hill.
Marcus Licinius L. f. L. n. Lucullus, he was adopted into the gens Terentia as Marcus Terentius M. f. Varro Lucullus, consul in 73 BC, and triumphed in 71. Lucius Licinius Lucullus , praetor in 67 BC, a man famous for his moderation and mildness of disposition; Dionysius records a colorful anecdote about his restraint in the face of insult.
Marcus Cossutius, an eques, and a man of the greatest respectability and integrity, who lived in Sicily during the administration of Verres, and defended Xeno before the latter. [ 9 ] Cossutia , fiancée and perhaps the first wife of Caesar , belonged to a very wealthy equestrian family.
Annia Galeria Faustina the Younger (c. 130 AD, [1] [4] – 175/176 AD) [5] was Roman empress from 161 to her death as the wife of emperor Marcus Aurelius, her maternal cousin. Faustina was the youngest child of emperor Antoninus Pius and empress Faustina the Elder .