Alexander severus Sentence Examples

It was long supposed that she was a noble lady of Rome who, with her husband and other friends whom she had converted, suffered martydom, c. 230, under the emperor Alexander Severus.

From the time of Alexander Severus the post was open to senators also, and if a knight was appointed he was at the same time raised to the senate.

There exists a series of its coins with heads of emperors from Domitian to Alexander Severus.

The emperor Alexander Severus had images of Abraham, Christ and Alexander the Great among his household Lares.

The narrative is of special value as supplementing Dion Cassius, whose history ends with Alexander Severus.

Herodian has been accused of prejudice against Alexander Severus.

In the reign of Alexander Severus it was made a colony, and in 244, native of the place, Philippus, ascended the imperial throne.

Of these the most famous is Philostratus "the Athenian," author of the Life of Apollonius Tyana, which he dedicated to Julia Domna, wife of Alexander Severus and mother of Caracalla (see Apollonius Of Tyana).

The history of Rome, which consisted of eighty books, - and, after the example of Livy, was divided into decades, - began with the landing of Aeneas in Italy, and was continued as far as the reign of Alexander Severus (222-23s).