id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6136 Velleius Paterculus - Wikipedia .html text/html 2735 268 61 Elsewhere, the same volume calls him Gaius.[1] Some modern writers use the latter name, based on an inscription found on a milestone at El Harrouch in Algeria, once part of Roman Numidia;[2] but the inscription identifies this Gaius Velleius Paterculus as legatus Augusti, an office that the historian is not known to have held, and it is thought to date from the reigns of Claudius or Nero, by which time he is thought to have been dead.[3] The Gaius Velleius Paterculus referred to may be the same man who was consul in AD 60, and a Lucius Velleius Paterculus was consul in the following year; but it is not apparent how either of them were related to the historian.[4] Velleius Paterculus, Compendium of Roman History, trans. ^ a b Shipley, introduction to Velleius Paterculus' Roman History, note 2. ^ a b Shipley, introduction to Velleius Paterculus' Roman History, note 2. ^ a b c Shipley, introduction to Velleius Paterculus' Roman History. Velleius Paterculus: History of Rome (Latin original, English translation) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6136.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6136.txt