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See also:SEGUSIO (mod. See also:Susa, q.v.) , an See also:ancient See also:town in See also:north See also:Liguria the See also:capital of the Cottii (see CoT'rII REGNUM). Here the son of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Donnus, Cottius—who held the See also:rank of imperial See also:praefect over the fourteen tribes over which his See also:father had ruled as king, so that in the inscription he calls himself " M. Iulius regis Donni f(ilius) Cottius praefectus civitatium quae subscriptae sunt "—erected a triumphal See also:arch in See also:honour of See also:Augustus in 9-8 B.C., which is still See also:standing. The See also:style of the sculptures on the See also:frieze is quite barbaric, with archaic elements, and is probably derived from See also:Gaul. His See also:tomb, situated near the See also:city walls, mentioned by See also:Ammianus See also:Marcellinus, has See also:long since disappeared. See also:Claudius restored the royal titles to the See also:family; but, after the See also:death of its last member, See also:Nero made the See also:district into a See also:province, and the town into a See also:municipium. It was strongly fortified and garrisoned, and remains of its walls, including those of a See also:double-arched See also:gate, exist, while See also:inscriptions testify to its importance, one of them mentioning See also:baths erected by See also:Gratian. See also:Constantine captured the town, which offered some resistance to him, on his See also:march against See also:Maxentius.
See F. Genin, Susa Antica (See also:Saluzzo, 1886) ; E. Ferrero, L'Arc d'Auguste a Suse (See also:Turin, 1901); F. Studniczka, Jahrbuch See also:des K. D. archaologischen Instituts, xviii. (1903), I sqq. (T.
End of Article: SEGUSIO (mod. Susa, q.v.)
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