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AQUILLIUS, MANIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 250 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AQUILLIUS, MANIUS , See also:Roman See also:general, See also:consul in for B.C. He successfully put down a revolt of the slaves under Athenion in See also:Sicily. After his return, being accused of See also:extortion, he was acquitted on See also:account of his military services, although there was little doubt of his See also:guilt. In 88 he acted as See also:legate against See also:Mithradates the See also:Great, by whom he was defeated and taken prisoner. Mithradates treated him with great See also:cruelty, and is said to have put him to See also:death by pouring molten See also:gold down his See also:throat. Diodorus Siculus See also:xxxvi. 3; See also:Appian, Mithrid. ii. 17. 21; Vell. Paterculus ii. 18; See also:Cicero, See also:Verres, iii. 54, De Offcciis, ii.

14, Tusc. v. 5.

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