Tiberius, born in Rome on November 16, 42 BC and died at Misenum in the province of<hr>
Naples on March 16, 37, is the second Roman emperor from 14 to 37. He is the adoptive son of Octavian<hr>
and his successor.<hr>
        Sulla, born in 138 BC and died in 78 BC, is a famous general and a Roman<hr>
statesman. He is known for having been a dictator of Rome and for his tyrannical<hr>
tendencies.<hr>
        Dolabella, or Cnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, is a Roman consul from the 1st century BC,<hr>
a supporter of Sulla. He is accused of extortion and abuse of power by Julius Caesar. Well defended,<hr>
he is acquitted.<hr>
        The term Celtiberians generally refers to the Celtic or "Celticized" tribes of<hr>
the Iberian peninsula, currently in Spain and Portugal.<hr>
        The Lusitanians are a people established during antiquity in the southwestern<hr>
Iberian peninsula, a region that would become the Roman province of Lusitania. This area<hr>
covered part of today's Portugal.<hr>
        Ariovistus is a Germanic leader settled in Gaul who covets the lands of the allies of the<hr>
Romans. After negotiations and acts of diplomacy made by Rome, he is driven away by force by<hr>
an army led by Caesar.<hr>
        The Nervians are at the time one of the most powerful Belgian peoples of the north-northeast<hr>
of Gaul. The tribe controls a large part of the important trade route from Amiens<hr>
to Cologne. Julius Caesar considers the Nervians as the fiercest of the Celts, themselves<hr>
considered as the bravest of all Gaul. The Nervians almost beat Julius Caesar<hr>
at the Battle of Sabis.<hr>
        The siege of Alesia is a decisive battle at the end of the Gallic war that sees the<hr>
defeat of a coalition of Gallic peoples led by Vercingetorix against the Roman army of<hr>
Julius Caesar. It takes place between the months of July and September in 52 BC.<hr>
        Vercingetorix, born around 82 BC in the Arverni territory, the current<hr>
Auvergne, and died in the autumn of 46 BC in a prison in Rome, is the leader and king of the<hr>
Celtic people of the Arverni. He federates some of the Gallic peoples in a rebellion<hr>
against the Roman forces during the last phase of the Gallic war of Julius Caesar.<hr>
        The Fabii are members of the gens Fabia, a famous family from ancient Rome<hr>
who claim to descend from Hercules through a daughter of Evander.<hr>
        The Scipios are Roman patricians members of a branch of the Cornelii gens.<hr>
They form a dynasty of generals and statesmen of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.<hr>
        The Metelli, or Caecilii Metelli, are second-class Roman citizens, members<hr>
of a major branch of one of the largest Roman plebeian families, the gens<hr>
Caecilia.<hr>
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