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Publius Ventidius Bassus- wow!!!
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So this fellow is led through Rome as a boy as a captured slave with his mother, rises through the ranks in Casesar's army, eventually takes COMMAND of a legion, goes to Parthia and cleans up Crassus' mess (akin to Germanicus several decades later in Germania) and has his own Triumph sponsored by Antony- through the same streets he was led several decades earlier as a boy slave.

The ancient world is beyond comparison with amazing larger than life personalities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Ventidius_Bassus

Would be interesting to discover what ever happened to him.
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(07-19-2018, 06:41 PM)MabCurrahee Chris Wrote: So this fellow is led through Rome as a boy as a captured slave with his mother, rises through the ranks in Casesar's army, eventually takes COMMAND of a legion, goes to Parthia and cleans up Crassus' mess (akin to Germanicus several decades later in Germania) and has his own Triumph sponsored by Antony- through the same streets he was led several decades earlier as a boy slave.

The ancient world is beyond comparison with amazing larger than life personalities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Ventidius_Bassus

Would be interesting to discover what ever happened to him.

Hi,
...maybe this will bring you a further ( …. although not by much, I fear….)

https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/hand...sequence=1

Greez

S.K.
Siggi K.
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