Gaius Julius Aquila

Gaius Julius Aquila can refer to a number of people from classical antiquity.

Knight

Gaius Julius Aquila was a Roman knight, stationed with a few cohorts, in 50 CE, to protect Tiberius Julius Cotys I, king of the Bosporan Kingdom, who had received the sovereignty after the expulsion of Tiberius Julius Mithridates. In the same year, Aquila obtained the praetorian insignia.^[1]

Consul

Gaius Julius Aquila was Roman consul in 110 AD, and built the Library of Celsus in honor of his father, Roman senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ Tacitus, Annals 12.15, 21
↑ Carrier, Richard (2016). Science Education in the Early Roman Empire. Pitchstone Publishing. ISBN 9781634310918. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
↑ White, Adam G. (2015). Where is the Wise Man?: Graeco-Roman Education as a Background to the Divisions in 1 Corinthians 1-4. The Library of New Testament Studies. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9780567664174. Retrieved 2017-02-26.

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[1] Tacitus, Annals 12.15, 21

[2] Carrier, Richard (2016). Science Education in the Early Roman Empire. Pitchstone Publishing. ISBN 9781634310918. Retrieved 2017-02-26.

[3] White, Adam G. (2015). Where is the Wise Man?: Graeco-Roman Education as a Background to the Divisions in 1 Corinthians 1-4. The Library of New Testament Studies. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9780567664174. Retrieved 2017-02-26.