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Updated: June 29, 2025
'Oh, beautiful! Who are these? asked the widow. 'The one is named Berbix he has conquered twelve times; the other assumes the arrogant name of Nobilior. They are both Gauls. While thus conversing, the first formalities of the show were over. To these succeeded a feigned combat with wooden swords between the various gladiators matched against each other.
The centurion had just said farewell to the last of his cohort, when the prefect, with the legate Quintus Flavius Nobilior, who commanded the legion, and several other higher officers, appeared among them. Macrinus greeted them briefly, and, instead of having the tuba blown as usual and letting them fall into their ranks, he told them to gather close round him, the centurions in front.
Had Cato not reason to make it a reproach against Nobilior, that he took Ennius who, we may add, glorified in his verses the Roman potentates without respect of persons, and overloaded Cato himself with praise along with him to Ambracia as the celebrator of his future achievements?
M. Fulvius Nobilior carried away not less than five hundred and fifteen. After the period of conquest the importation of Greek statues continued at Rome, and in time Greek artists also began to remove thither, so that Rome became not only the centre for the collection of Greek works of art, but the chief seat of their production.
"Indeed!" interrupted the legate Quintus Flavius Nobilior, who had granted Alexander's life to the prayer of the twins Aurelius; and Macrinus also forbade any insulting observations as to the blameless troops whom he had the honor to command. But the Egyptian was not to be checked; he went on eagerly: "Pardon, my lords.
Yet the plundering of temples in this way became of more and more frequent occurrence. Titus Flamininus in particular and Marcus Fulvius Nobilior , two leading champions of Roman Hellenism, as well as Lucius Paullus , were the means of filling the public buildings of Rome with the masterpieces of the Greek chisel.
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