Gaius
Americannoun
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?110–?180 ad , Roman jurist. His Institutes were later used as the basis for those of Justinian
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Gaius Caesar. See Caligula
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The most notorious ancient collector was the Roman magistrate Gaius Verres, the governor of Sicily in the 70s B.C.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
For instance, around the onset of the first millennium, Gaius Julius Hyginus, librarian for Roman emperor Augustus, noted that Betelgeuse was a yellow color comparable to Saturn.
From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2022
Her father, Gaius Bolin, was a lawyer and tried to dissuade his daughter from the aggravations of the legal profession.
From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2022
The fourth of the 12 Caesars, Caligula — officially, Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus — was a capricious, combustible first-century populist remembered, perhaps unfairly, as the empire’s most tyrannical ruler.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2021
His full name was Gaius Vitellius Reticulus, but the other cohorts called him Vitellius the Ridiculous.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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