Aelian or Aelianus may refer to:
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Aelianus Tacticus
Aelianus Tacticus (; fl. 2nd century AD), also known as Aelian (), was a Greek military writer who lived in Rome.
Work
Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks, titled ''On Tactical Arrays of the Greeks'' ( ...
, 2nd-century Greek military writer in Rome
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Casperius Aelianus
Casperius Aelianus served as Praetorian Prefect under the emperors Domitian and Nerva. He was loyal to the Roman Emperor Domitian, the last of the Flavian dynasty. After Domitian's murder and the ascension of the Emperor Nerva, Aelianus laid sie ...
(13–98 AD), Praetorian Prefect, executed by Trajan
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Claudius Aelianus
Claudius Aelianus (; ), commonly Aelian (), born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourished under Septimius Severus and probably outlived Elagabalus, who died in 222. He spoke Greek so fluently that he was called "h ...
, Roman writer of ''De Natura Animalium'', teacher and historian of the 3rd century, who wrote in Greek
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Lucius Aelianus
Laelian (; ),Martindale, pg. 492 also incorrectly referred to as ''Lollianus'' and ''Aelianus'',Polfer, ''Laelianus'' was a usurper against Postumus, the emperor of the Gallic Empire. His revolt lasted from approximately late February to early Ju ...
or Laelian (died 269), one of the thirty tyrants under the Roman empire
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Aelianus Meccius
Aelianus Meccius ( Gr. ) was an ancient physician, who must have lived in the 2nd century AD, as he is mentioned by Galen as the oldest of his tutors.Galen, ''De Theriaca ad Pamphil.'' init. vol. xiv. p. 299 His father is supposed to have also be ...
, 2nd-century Greek physician, tutor of Galen
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Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus
Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus was a Roman patrician who twice served as consul, in 45 and 74 AD. He was the natural son of Lucius Aelius Lamia and the adopted son of Marcus Plautius Silvanus, brother of Plautia Urgulanilla, first wife o ...
, adopted nephew of Plautia Urgulanilla, first wife of Claudius; consul 45 and 74 AD
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Aelian (rebel)
Aelianus or Aelian was together with Amandus the leader of an insurrection of Gallic peasants, called Bagaudae, in the reign of Diocletian. It was put down by the Caesar Maximianus Herculius in 285. The rebellion he led with Amandus in 285 was a ...
(fl. 285), leader of the Bagaudae peasant rebels
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Aelianus (comes)
Count Aelianus (; ; died 359 AD) was the chief Roman officer in charge of the defense of Amida during the siege of 359 by Shah Shapur II.
Very little is known about his life, except that he was noted by Ammianus Marcellinus as being a member of ...
, leader of the Roman defensive forces at the Siege of Amida in 359
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