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Sempronius Asellio

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Roman historian

WritersLived 200 BC to 100 BC · aged 100
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Sempronius Asellio was an early Roman historian and one of the first writers of historiographic work in Latin. He was a military tribune of P. Scipio Aemilianus Africanus at the siege of Numantia in Hispania in 134 BC. Later he joined the circle of writers centred on Scipio Aemilianus.

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Sempronius Asellio was an early Roman historian and one of the first writers of historiographic work in Latin. He was a military tribune of P. Scipio Aemilianus Africanus at the siege of Numantia in Hispania in 134 BC. Later he joined the circle of writers centred on Scipio Aemilianus. Asellio wrote the history of the events in which he was engaged, and thus preceded Caesar in his more famous accounts of his military campaigns.

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Lived 200 BC to 100 BC · aged 100
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