A boy of Cassius Apronianus, a Roman senator, he was born at Nicaea in Bithynia. His confessedly title wwhen Cassius, however he assumed a more 2 list, as his mother's father was Dio Chrysostom. So, though he get on his mother's side of Greek descent, & though, within his writings, he adopted a prevailing Greek language of his native province, he must be considered as a Roman.

Dio Cassius passed a greater section of his life publicly service. He was the senator under Commodus and governor of Smyrna after the demise of Septimius Severus; and afterward suffect consul around 205, as too proconsul around Africa & Pannonia. Alexander Severus entertained a greatest esteem for him, & manufactured him consul for the 2nd instance, by using himself inside 229, though the Praetorian Guards, irritated against him on account of his hardship, got demanded his life. Charted his 2nd consulship, existence advanced inside years, he returned to his native united states, in which he died.

Dio published a Roman history, around 80 books, the fruit of his researches & labours of twenty-both years. It embraced a period of 983 years, extending from either the arrival of Aeneas in Italy, and a subsequent innovation of Rome, to AD 229. Down to the instance of Julius Caesar, he only gives a sum-up of cases; when this, he enters somewhat supplementary into details; & from either the instance of Commodus he is very discreet within on what passed under his have eyes.

I have fragments left of the foremost thirty-six books: however there is a considerable part of the thirty-fifth book, on the war of Lucullus against Mithridates, and of the thirty-sixth, on a war sustaining a pirates & a expedition of Pompey against the king of Pontus. A books that watch, to the fifty-for inclusive, come 100% complete: it handle a cycle from either 65 BC to 12 BC, or from either a eastern campaign of Pompey & a demise of Mithridates to the dying of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. A fifty-fifth book has the considerable gap inside it. A fifty-sixth to the sixtieth, each involved, which comprehend a time period from either AD 9 to 54, are complete, & contain a cases from either a kill of Varus in Germany to the death of Claudius. Of the ensuing twenty books we haveLone fragments & a scrimpy abridgement of John Xiphilinus, a monk of the eleventh century. A eightieth or even survive book comprehends a period of time from either 222 to 229, in the reign of Alexander Severus. A abridgement of Xiphilinus, when okay, extant, commences sustaining a thirty-fifth & continues to the prevent of the eightieth book. These are the super indifferent performance, & was mass produced by choose of the emperor Michael VII Parapinaces.

A fragments of the foremost thirty-six books, when currently collected, come of foursome variety: